Alright,
My first try on forging the pact was more or less pretty smooth. Once I finished I got my reward and headed out. When I logged back in I saw I had to do the entire quest again. I didn’t know why and I lost my reward, I think I was rolled back or something. So I gave it two days as I really hated doing the quest and reattempted today.
My first try today (second total) the quest got bugged with the glitch where the explorers will not follow you. Okay, annoying. So I gathered up a group of people also having trouble with the quest or wanting to do it. Again, SAME bug with a group of 4 people. We restarted and made sure Trahearn did not die, and we succeeded on our second try.
I got a pop up asking if I wanted to stay here (Forging the Pact) or move onto Tower Down (or something like that). When I read this I thought that if I accepted it I would immediately start the next quest – something which I did not want to do. So I clicked the “stay here” (or something like that) button. Then I found out I got no reward.
So I asked my party members if they got their reward, and they did. Okay, it didn’t give me a reward. No big deal. I exit only to find out it wants me to do it a FIFTH time. No progress, no nothing.
ArenaNet, please let me skip this quest. Why would I purposely want to do this long and difficult quest again? Not only that, I get no reward for it apparently. I have finished TWICE, and have attempted this quest four times in total. Please, just let me skip to the tower defense quest. There is no way I can keep Trahearne alive meaning I’ll have to look for another party, which will take long. Even with a party we had difficulty keep Trahearne alive (and we need to keep him alive otherwise the quest bugs out).
Proof:
http://i.imgur.com/8ra6q.jpg – You can clearly see I targeted Dzhudin Stormbreak the boss and the quest is finished.
http://i.imgur.com/ELySg.jpg – Me being forced to do it again.
Before you blame me, look at it this way:
-I’ve completed this quest twice. Once solo, once with a party.
-The first time I got rolled back. I am sure of this as I don’t remember their being a pop up the first time I completed it. This was not my fault in any way what so ever.
-The UI for the progression stage was very ambiguous in its meaning the second time. I have never seen a screen like it before. This was my first time seeing such a screen as I cannot remember any other prompt in my personal story which forced me to redo a quest.
-If I have to do this quest again, I will likely end up doing it again 2-4 more times because of the major glitch in the quest which causes the explorers to stop following you.
