Guild Wars 2

Last night some friends and I were working on achievements in the Bitterfrost and needed to complete the elixir to head up to the Bitter North. We gathered our items, purchased our stones and went to the hot springs. I used the hot springs, my character commented on the spell and I had the buff. My two friends used the hot springs and got their items taken away and didn’t receive the buff.

Okay it was a glitch, we went back got the items needed, went back. Long story short a second friend got the buff, the third one had their items taken and no buff. So in short, he lost 20 winterberries, a fair amount of time, and still didn’t receive the buff.

So is this happening to others? Is there a fix on the way? It seems to me this should be automatic and if you have the items and it takes them, you should be buffed period. Why some are getting it and some aren’t is beyond me.

I thought maybe he had inadvertently regressed his story, but he hadn’t. We had completed the story arc in a few days and he didn’t reset it, and the second friend hadn’t either. So I am at a loss to understand the difference and the cause of it.

It appears to be happening to some people, but I can’t identify a common pattern. In /map last night, nearly everyone responding to one person’s frustration had no issues. All of those who had issues (other than the original ‘poster’) resolved them without too much trouble.

So if there’s a bug, it’s a narrow set of circumstances. It might be confined to characters who started the story before yesterday’s patch and/or who got halfway through making the elixir before it.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It appears to be happening to some people, but I can’t identify a common pattern. In /map last night, nearly everyone responding to one person’s frustration had no issues. All of those who had issues (other than the original ‘poster’) resolved them without too much trouble.

So if there’s a bug, it’s a narrow set of circumstances. It might be confined to characters who started the story before yesterday’s patch and/or who got halfway through making the elixir before it.

My assumption is that the fix didn’t give back the recipes if they were previously removed by restarting the story. Those that had the recipe will no longer lose it when they restart the story. Those that newly acquire it will not lose it when they restart the story.

Yes, this happened to me too.After reading about the firestone bug I bought 3 the first time.Finished the story. Wanted to do some achievements later so I made a new elixir / did not get the buff. Went to do some events, did the nearby heart just in case thet is the problem and made a new elixir, using up my last stone.Did get the buff, 2h before reset.
Have not checked jet if I can buy another stone but all this is very annoying and poor work , anet messing up key elements of the game- again.

Ayrilana.1396:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It appears to be happening to some people, but I can’t identify a common pattern. In /map last night, nearly everyone responding to one person’s frustration had no issues. All of those who had issues (other than the original ‘poster’) resolved them without too much trouble.

So if there’s a bug, it’s a narrow set of circumstances. It might be confined to characters who started the story before yesterday’s patch and/or who got halfway through making the elixir before it.

My assumption is that the fix didn’t give back the recipes if they were previously removed by restarting the story. Those that had the recipe will no longer lose it when they restart the story. Those that newly acquire it will not lose it when they restart the story.

While that sounds plausible to me, some people in yesterday’s /map insisted that they had restarted the story. Since I was busy fighting much of the time, I didn’t have time to walk them through all their steps (they were mostly too frustrated to discuss it). It wasn’t that many people; just enough that I can’t entirely rule out the possibility that there’s still a bug (or two).

That said, I can’t rule out the possibility that people weren’t paying attention either: I have been helping others who clearly expected to get Suet etc when they bring a new toon to Bitterfrost, regardless of the story step.