#this character will be a male human thief to remake my OG thief from 2015

[rata-novus]

okay i’ve been mulling this over for a good six+ months, and especially after rushing through the “return to” achievements and then going through EoD slowly, i’ve finally made the decision that Soon(tm) i’m going to make a new character (male human thief) and follow these self-imposed rules:

no mounts until the story naturally brings him to those maps/story steps. this means no griffon until completing PoF, no skyscale until finishing season 4, etc.

no gliding until after the first story step of HoT.

no elite specs until after the first story step of the appropriate expansion. the only caveat being the Icebrood Saga, where it will be dealer’s choice between core thief, daredevil, and deadeye. i know ~technically~ you needed PoF to play IBS but thematically and story wise i view it as a standalone experience. also i NEED him to use the fishing rod staff skin from Bjora. NEED.

no armor/skins that wouldn’t have existed during that point in the story. that means when he’s level 80 and hasn’t moved onto season 1/2/HoT, he could use Incinerator, but not HOPE. he could use cultural armor etc., but not bladed armor. the ONLY exception i’m making to this is the angler vest from EoD. my reasons being: i want part of his backstory to be as a fisherman along the divinity dam. also, fishing nodes exist in starter maps so THEREFORE fishmonger vendors SHOULD TOO which means he would be able to buy the skin before stepping foot into Cantha.

world bosses, metas, and JPs, oh my! i want him to do any jumping puzzles, map metas, and world bosses on maps the story and/or map completion naturally takes him to. unless its a meta no one does (looking @ you Serpent’s Ire). i’ll be keeping an old-fashioned list to cross these off as we go.

dungeon story as the personal story would naturally take him there. i generally hate instanced group content as fully fledged level 80 with badass gear, the idea of doing it at LEVEL 30 sounds. bad. so i MIGHT instead just watch a full/no commentary video of the story paths at the appropriate times instead. :/

[edit] no skipping dialogue/cutscenes/vistas [/edit]

[edit2] no skipping ahead map/story wise!!! [/edit]

??? more later ?????

basically, i want to level this character and move him through the world and story as if he were doing it in real time as the expansions, living world, etc. content was being released.

for the past three or four years, every time i level a character for keeps, i use  my scrolls and tomes and if that’s not enough to get them to 80, as many XP boosters as i can and kill yellow enemies to get as much XP as possible as fast as possible. it’s been far too long since i’ve leveled a character “the old fashioned way” and i kind of miss it. hence these “rules”.

another, smaller, reason for doing all this is that i don’t have a single character out of (soon to be) 43 permanent characters who has done ALL the story. in fact, i’ve only finished the personal story ONCE, in 2015, and i haven’t redone PoF since its release. this will be even more fun as i (we) will be able to experience season 1 in a linear fashion as well. idk i just really love the idea of having at least one character that’s done it all, you know?

i’m going to make this character soon, so hopefully there will be a smooth transition from the personal story to season 1 as it releases!