Handbooks question?

I have played GW for a few years and have 7 PvE chars that have each beat atleast 2 campaigns. Will I have to do the storylines again if I want to fill a handbook or can I get a filled one for beating these campaigs previously?

It's not retroactive. Anything you've done on any previous character won't count for anything with these books.

Which is exactly why I came here. It's complete BS!!! I hope someone from ANet reads this! They should make these books exactly like they did when they introduced the EotN books. I had already gone through EotN a few times, and in order to not felt screwed, they added the option to pay to fill out books, if you had already completed the game.

WHY THE HELL HASNT THIS BEEN IMPLIMENTED!? I beat Tyria with 6 characters, 1 on hard, Cantha with 10 characters, and Elona with 10 characters. At this point I feel royaly screwed. They NEED to add the option to pay and fill out the books if you have already completed the content before. The game will easily recognize if you have completed it or not.

And why is it BS? Two days ago, it didn't exist and you didn't feel cheated for not having record books and yet you wheren't whining then.

Perhaps areannet should read this and delete them from the game, then you have no reason to complain.

I totally felt the same

Imagine everyone gaining 100k all of a sudden... that's what would have happened if the books were retroactive.

Seems lame at first... but it would've been worse if they did what you asked for.

Lindsey has already stated that they do not have a record of how many times someone has gone through the mission on each character for each campaign. Remember that the three "main" chapters never had books unlike GWEN that was set up FOR books. So why would there be a log of the number of times you have completed a certain quest.

That doesn't make sense cause you only need to do it once to fill up the book (giving many books if you repeated the mission would be retarded..) and you can clearly see that the game notes the character's progress throughout the missions on the map. Master's and Expert's rewards are kept track off... so the data must be somewhere.

Why would every player in the game getting 100k be a problem ?

There are some players to whom 100k is loose change if the gained or lost it its no big deal.

I have maybe 250 to 300k in cash +100 would be quite nice but nothing I couldn't get by doing a farming stint for a week or so.

My opinion for what its worth is that if every player in the game got it there would be no impact on my game whatsoever.

Should everyone but me somehow get 100 200 500k or even unlimited resources again no impact on my or many other peoples games.

Considering the numbers of people who play pvp the money would be useless.
To the large numbers who no longer interact with other players anyway preferring heroes and henchmen again little or no impact.

It would be nice if the books filled up for achievements already gained as I doubt I really want to take my 3 prime characters through every mission in prophesies factions and nightfall again.

If it doesn't happen I wont lose any sleep over it as its really no big deal, I have had 3 years enjoyment from the game and look forward to a new start in gw2.

Wrong. Millions of gold appearing out of nowhere in short amount of time would drive prices up since gold will lose part of it's value. Now, it may be actually good for the game or it may not... Nevertheless, it would be just a temporarily boost, nothing more.

I don't expect a book for every time I've completed a mission over the past 3 years, but they certainly know if I've done it at least once. There's this little shield symbol over the missions I've completed

I don't care that much, but 1 retro book would have been nice.