If you could change one thing

kill rurik when we first see him by althea. that'll change the proph storyline by alot.
join the charr.
marry olrun (no not really, if it was jora then it'd be a different story).
the great destroyer wins. (gw2 will happen alot sooner)


im gonna come up with more l8er.

Rurik kills the king and force marches the Ascalonians across the shiverpeaks, he abandons the prisoners leaving a small "suicide" contingent to hold off the Char while they make their escape. One of the people left behind would be you of course.

Rurik would not die in the peaks, he would in fact betray the DDwarves to the SSummit in exchange for safe passage. Arriving at Kryta, news of his ruthless behaviour pleasing the Murrsat they offer him safe haven and an alliance against the furred barbarians.

rather than a pissy little crybaby Rurik could have been a man willing to sell his very soul in order to "save" his people, and in doing so become the greatest menace in Tyria.

kind of a fusion between factions and prophesies. Factions would have been the straight up (much more realistic and entertaining) story of the civil war in Cantha spilling out, drawing you in and leading to your team overthrowing THAT empire in order to make place for the "Noble" Ascalonians.

no "god" killing none of this crappy "im evil because i like destroying stuff" characters.

In GoM, Shiro and Lich show us as allies who have been betrayed by Abaddon, thus they help us to do.. something o.O and in the end battle, they both sacrifice and turn out to be some sort of good guys. Or at least for Shiro, I always liked him and that would propably soften the we-kill-god thingy.

but it says his succesor so who knows maybe he never "got Down" and had a son,he could appointed appointed like a person from his cabinet or w/e emperorers have while he was on his death bed

Most, if not all of the Emperors (one is uncertain) are related. And considering the fact Kisu probably has a concubine or two like his father i doubt he wouldnt have offspring.

true but u can't overlook it though

He does. He still does as she says, but he kills her.

Anyway, I'd betray Kormir and my heroes to worship Abaddon and become a margonite. I'd then continue where Varesh left off, going on to help Abaddon kill the other gods.

Guess who likes Abaddon.

I would have made Gadd get corrupted somehow and had an epic boss battle against him.

I would have Adelbern like stabbed in the back by a Charr right after he tells Rurike to leave. Never liked that bitter old man O.o

Pshh...so much for ONE change. I'll post some of my own then.

Rurik = king, Togo be brought back as an undead (like Rurik was), SHIRO NOT FALL FOR THE TRICK AND DIE, Margonites and Abbadon reunite with the 5 Gods...

When I first played GW, until Rurik's death, I swore I thought he would become king at his father's death by a charr.

Change Koss's hairstyle?!?!
no effing way
And i would have Rurik come with u the whole Proph campaign, then the Lich Lord kills him and uses Animate Undead Rurik.

Change Koss's hairstyle?!?!
no effing way
And i would have Rurik come with u the whole Proph campaign, then the Lich Lord kills him and uses Animate Undead Rurik.

If I could change the storyline I would do the following:

Prophecies:
After the lich had unleashed the Titans, the Mursaat would shallow their honour and form an alliance with the player in the titan quests, in the end presenting us with their magical knowledge for saving their race (Spectral Agony!!!!!!)

Factions:
You are once again defeated by shiro in Imperial sanctum. He feeling powerfull again, heads towards the Jade sea and Echovald forest to kill the heirs of Archemoros and Viktor as revenge (yeah i know he conjured the jade sea, and that was terrible for both kursicks and luxons, but knowing shiro, he would be happy with just that :P) The luxons and kursicks would unite to defeat this common foe. I imagine the cutscene... Shiro on a hill next to Maatu keep the luxon armada and the Houses of the Echovald marching towards him, he then tries to summon his Shiro'ken, but WHOPS! he's no longer an envoy so he cannot control the bound spirits of the dead, the other Envoys use his bound army to defeat him alongside with the resurrected players, with the aid of the Luxon-Kursick alliance, freeing the bound souls afterwards.

Nigthfall:
I'm pretty with NF story, tweak would be either make Kormir more respectable and brave, or make a god out of Dunkoro's son (Why the hell not? if kormir can be god why can't he?)

Just imagining Shiro pwning mobs of Luxons and Kurzicks would be an epic cutscene. Forget the Envoy's using Shiro's army or us being there, just wanting the blood getting spilt by shiro is a good enough ending for me. And when he gets killed finally, a Second Jade Wind!

proph:
Adlebern dies, Rurik charges after charr and is killed. You become king of Ascalon and exodus to Kryta, then story stays the same.

factions:
Shiro isn't evil, is actually a revolutionary wanting a better government for Cantha. He comes back from being assassinated to have you finish his wants, which you complete. Kurzick/Luxon are united with you, and you march on the palace and kill the emperor. Shiro takes over his body and creates a better government.

nightfall:
at GoM, with shiro being not evil, the lich has a re-raised rurik and an undead adlebern as his minions. adlebern is an axe warrior of some sort with a fiery bladed axe, and rurik has his fiery dragon sword. give them some insane monster skills to combat you with to make them on par with shiro in the current storyline. adlebern ends up being an avatar of abbadon, and his being killed by the charr actually started the problems in Elona. At the end, kormir doesn't become a god either, that was just dumb.

and, to top it off, the Great destroyer ends up being glint's baby, and by killing it Glint raises the other dragons to start GW2. the ritual takes the 200 years or whatever the difference from GW to GW2 is.

If you bought Factions from a video game store, there's a cinematic (in real-life graphics) of Shiro when he assassinates the emperor (and the jade wind wich subsequently follows). So he did spill a lot of blood there... Its on guildwars.com if you want to download it.

I have the CD, and I have the cinematic downloaded on my computer, I was actually thinking about that cinematic when I was reading that.

Keep Gwen more of a mystery and on the sideline, rather than sticking her right into the plot. I think there's a virtue to that sort of modesty, in not trying to discover and explain everything but forcing people to wonder.

Kill off Kormir she does like 1% and gets to be god. now that's unfair. anyway "god of truth" wow that sure helps alot to pray to. (mabye if you have a true or false test)