Guild Wars 2

So I started GW2 by purchasing HOT, leveled a necro to 80, finished the storyline (ending with Victory or Death). Then I get the mail about going to talk to someone in Lion’s Arch (whose name I forget) about a summary of Living World 1. She was located at the Durmand Priory Dig Site.

I was super pumped to jump straight into HOT storyline, because honestly the storyline is the most exciting part of GW2 for me and I look forward to exploring the personal story options with alts.

But after I listened to the summary of LW1, I got nothing. No next step, no green blip. I spent some time googling and found out where the HOT storyline is supposed to start – went there and didn’t find the instance entrance.

Any thoughts? Do I need to buy LW2 to access HOT storyline? That doesn’t seem to make sense. Is there some milestone that I need to reach other than being level 80 to unlock the HOT storyline?

Any help would be appreciated – I’ve looked all over and couldn’t find anyone with the same problem.

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So I started GW2 by purchasing HOT, leveled a necro to 80, finished the storyline (ending with Victory or Death). Then I get the mail about going to talk to someone in Lion’s Arch (whose name I forget) about a summary of Living World 1. She was located at the Durmand Priory Dig Site.

I was super pumped to jump straight into HOT storyline, because honestly the storyline is the most exciting part of GW2 for me and I look forward to exploring the personal story options with alts.

But after I listened to the summary of LW1, I got nothing. No next step, no green blip. I spent some time googling and found out where the HOT storyline is supposed to start – went there and didn’t find the instance entrance.

Any thoughts? Do I need to buy LW2 to access HOT storyline? That doesn’t seem to make sense. Is there some milestone that I need to reach other than being level 80 to unlock the HOT storyline?

Any help would be appreciated – I’ve looked all over and couldn’t find anyone with the same problem.

SOLVED: You have to start the story from your Hero Tab. Wish someone would point that out or make it more clear!

Seems like you need to go to the red fort in silverwastes to start HoT. I’m sure there are others with a better memory than mine.

Open your Hero panel, click on the Story icon. It lists the available stories along the left. More than likely, your personal story is still selected. Click on the HoT story. I forget – maybe you have to click something like “Begin this story?”

You should get the green star after that.

Does HoT start with a letter in the mail? If so, make sure your mailbox is not full. Not very likely but I’ve seen it in the past.

HoT story does not start automatically. Open hero panel, go to Story and pick HoT, make sure it is active. Next, go to Silverwastes map, there should be marker next to Red Bastion to enter the story instance.