Guild Wars 2

Thank you Death by Chickens. Will have to give that a try later today. The big green arrow always led me to believe that you should leave the spawning risen behind and make your way up the hill.

Helping my partner with this and the last group of Asuran with Krew Leader Dobbs won’t follow us out to the escape star so all that play for nothing. We are both engineers if that makes any difference. I know the latest update said it was fixed but not in our case. Tried talking to everyone there, looked for any other interactions and killed every critter between them and the star. No dice.

I had this same problem tonight. I was unable to get the researcher NPCs to follow. It’s obvious this is a still a major bug that needs to be addressed.

Same, tried it 3 times. The researches stop and Zrii and the Crusader kept running back to the camp.
Cannot complete so Personal story has ground to a halt.

On my successful run:

I ran through the first mobs,
updated the quest at the first green circle,
ran to the arrow,
update dialogue activated,
barricade dialogue activate,
over the barricade,
up the hill and run to the back,
undead destroy barricade,
npcs teleport to me,
killed the waves coming in, (first actual fighting I did)
down the hill, thief npc destroys door,
clear path all the way to 2nd research group,
made sure to lure the miniboss around to get all the original npcs up with the research team,
then I made sure Trahearne was next to the researcher I had to talk to,
talked to npc, Trahearne says 2 lines of dialogue afterwards,
continue the mission, all npcs finally following me,
cleared to the blocked way, quick conversation,
cleared back to outside, killed mob and boss, victory

I’ve done it as Death by Chickens says, but it still bugged for me
the worst is that it is a very vey long quest in itself, and to start all over each time they dont follow is a VERY big kitten!

so it IS still buggy.

This is still bugged, HUGE FAIL on Anet’s part. Basically I have a toon that cannot advance past this. I’ve tried it how everyone has advised to do it, yet I can’t get past it on my warrior. What’s odd is that my Engineer got past it on the first try, and he ran by as many mobs as he could without killing them.

I don’t think I’m going to bother with this quest again, it’s just too long to trudge through and keep failing. I’m a bit disgusted at this point and am probably better off walking away and playing another game for a while and recover.

Come on Anet. I can deal with all the other bugs in the game which don’t get fixed, but at least they are DE’s and such that I can skip. This is story mode which you really don’t want to skip. At least can a dev post a comment or update on this?!?!

Well my partner and I saw they had fiddled with this story in the Oct 7th patch, so tried it again. Much better run this time. No spawning groups coming up before the last group was dispatched. more reasonable spawing rates allowed us to move on through the story quicker and actually accomlish the mission. It was actually a lot of fun this time and I wasn’t stark naked at the end of it. NPCs would help with rezing if one of us were down and the other was up to their butts in alligators. I think they finally got it fixed, took out the grind, and still left in the excitement, danger, and FUN.
Go Anet!

there are two threads about this
I just wanted to thank for the fix here too in case all the dev team sees is my complaint!
It worked perfectly for me now, thank you!

Ok, I have been trying to complete this story since yesterday. I have now tried 7 times ankittenep getting “Connection Error.” It then closes my whole game client out. I only get this error in the story and it happens every single time I try it. It’s always when I am either fighting the risen zombies or at the scene where they are going to blow up the cave entrance. It is extremely frustrating after doing this 7 times now. It’s a long story as it is…I hope this helps. I really am now stuck on my personal story because of this bugs in it. /sigh