Guild Wars 2

I’m currently doing the Sylvari story and around the early 20s mark, I was given a decision to battle the risen over at Over Lake Haven using ether an army or golems.
I chose golems and headed over to the place to do battle. After a conversation with the priority, my first instinct was to head over and bust undead kitty. Yet I saw no golems and was struggling quite a bit with battling the risen, downing a lot but succeeded with beating the quest being defeated only once.
I assumed that the golems failed, but then my priority buddies started praising how well the golems worked. I was about to smack them across the face before noticing some glowing blue thing next to them and thought “Oh, maybe I was supposed to do something here first.”
Ether way, my character is now a badkitty with just a touch of madness, needing minimal help in an epic struggle against zombies while forgetting that those priority kittens were supposed to give me back up.
So was this a bug, incompetence on my part, or a mix of both?

There should have been some priory NPCs over on a hill who will launch the remote-controlled golems at the undead. You’re then supposed to control the golems through the battle, though you do have the option of just running in and fighting them yourself. Perhaps you missed the NPCs?

Also, it’s “Priory”, as in “The Durmand Priory” not “Priority” :P