The best Living Story experience I've had in a long while.

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I think this is one of the Best Living Stories so far. I am looking at this as just the prologue and did not expect much more than meeting the main characters. This is what we often had in the past. But this is an entire map with events, achievements, and the new mini raid thingy. The Story kept me drawing me in even with all the events as distractions. The character building is very good. I don't see any one dimensional characters. (Not out of the principle ones.) As a GW1 Prophecies player, I never thought I would think of the flame legion with anything other than hate. The Story and main missions had a good balance of moving the plot forward while building character depth. It is even better if you listen to the conversations as you travel. As silly as it seems, try not using a mount and expose yourself to the interactions of random NPC visitors. I think Anet should be congratulated on this first leg of the LS.