Personal Story - Gone from UI

#1 - Sept. 9, 2014, 6:59 p.m.

After today’s update (Sept. 9) the next step of each of my Character’s personal story is no longer displayed on the UI in the top right corner of the screen, nor does the little green emblem showing the next personal story location seem to show up anywhere on the map. This has me stumped at what I’m supposed to do for the next step of the personal story.

Is there an option somewhere I need to re-enable so that the personal story prompt will re-appear in the top right as was the case prior to the patch?

Jeffrey Vaughn

#2 - Sept. 9, 2014, 7:03 p.m.

From the update notes:

Personal story steps have been more clearly broken up into chapters that unlock every 10 levels so that each chapter can be played through immediately once it’s unlocked.

You might have been on a story step that is now in a chapter that isn’t unlocked yet. It’ll be visible once you reach the correct level.

Jeffrey Vaughn

#6 - Sept. 9, 2014, 7:23 p.m.

Every 10 levels a new storyline is unlocked. Previously the story steps would look like:

L3, L5, L7, L9,L10 for a storyline.

Now they’re:

L10, L10, L10, L10, L10.

They end at the same level, but now require you to be L10 to do the entire storyline. Previously, a lot of players found it very frustrating to have to interrupt the story steps to level up constantly to keep up.

Jeffrey Vaughn

#10 - Sept. 9, 2014, 8:06 p.m.

No, you don’t have to repeat any story steps.

Jeffrey Vaughn

#13 - Sept. 9, 2014, 8:45 p.m.

One comparison might be a half hour TV show that comes on every week, versus a DVD boxed set of an entire season that comes out every 6 months or so. Previously the story steps were set up so each one was about 3 levels apart, which meant that a single storyline had a lot of breaks in between steps (if you wanted to do each step at the level it specified.) Now there’s a bigger gap between storylines, but each storyline is playable without level breaks.