Guild Wars 2

I consider this a bug, but after spending time on these forums I notice a lot of posts pertaining to personal story bugs getting attention in this subforum and so I’ll put it here for now.

The Norn story quest The Stone Sheath is buggy as heck. You have to obtain an item underwater, which acts like an environmental weapon that you pick up (a rock, a keg, etc.) and replaces your weapon skills. You then need to take it outside of the water to a drop off point. However, anytime you leave the water you lose the weapon altogether when your terrestrial weapon skills pop back up.

The only way to successfully complete it seems to be to very carefully inch forward towards land while underwater and manually drop the weapon at a point where you can get out of the water and pick it up again. It took me several tries because I was concerned I would go too far and lose it for the 4th time.

Then after successfully getting it out, the NPC doesn’t seem to recognize you’re at the correct location. I ran around the drop off location for some time before the NPC finally registered that I had reached the correct spot and allowed me to continue.

I did try to report this via the in-game bug feature, but there is no Sub-Area which remotely fits the type of bug it is so I wasn’t sure how to even do that.

If it’s helpful information, I was playing an Engineer, not a thief.

Same I’m an engineer. Could you just make the Sword an inventory item. Surely that would fix the problem. It would sadly get rid of the skills but it would allow us to complete the quest.

Thank you!

/15 Charr

I am having this “losing items” bug also with my asuran mesmer. Ofcourse not in your personal story, but anywhere in the map

I was working on world completion, and some quests require you to pick up stuff and it would just randomly drop all the time.
1 quests that sticks out in this was the one in Timberline falls “Help the Priory’s excavation (57)”
Because in the server isle of janthir, the golems i needed to help where bugged out, the only thing i could do was put weapons in chests, however 75% of the time i would never make it to a chest, the item just disappeared from my hands.

I also had this problem, and it was with an engineer. I also resolved it the same way, by dropping the weapon very close to the water’s edge, and then getting out and picking it up again.

It is not a quest particular to a race, though, unless my character is actually a norn wearing a charr costume ; )

Also had this problem and I’m also an Engineer. I’m noticing a pattern.

Same issue. I’m playing an engineer also.

i had this bug too. i think it’s due to the mission objectives.

there’s one objective named “Escape with the scabbard” and another one named “Pick up the scabbard”. If one gets the former before the later one, it bugs out(for me at least).

The way it worked for me was: pick up relics, even if you already know where the scabbard is, wait for the “Pick scabbard up” objective to pop up, pick it up, escape and done.

oh, and i’m also an engineer ^^

yup cant get out of the water!! so annoying serioulsy

@Skolops thank you, thank you, thank you!
I was being driven insane by the sword bug, and your workaround of dropping the sword while swimming but in land pickup area worked first go!
For what it’s worth: Also an engineer, and getting bugs that I simply don’t get on my guardian.

Getting the same bug where the sheath vanishes when I step out of the water. Also playing as engineer.

Engineer here, tried this quest three times and it will not complete. I cannot advance my story.

Another engineer here. I have the exact same problem. I cannot finish this quest.

Yep, Asura engineer here. I’ve run this twice now and the sheath simply vanishes when I leave the water at the exit area where I’m supposed to escape. Quest cannot be finishd as is. Please get this rectified ASAP!!!

raykor.6723:

Engineer here, tried this quest three times and it will not complete. I cannot advance my story.

You can actually, see workaround posted in this thread.
Get to the edge of the water, intetionally drop sword very close to transition point, step out of water until walking animation kicks in, you should still be in range of the item to pick it up. Pick up, move 10 yards inland, quest completes properly.

It’s a bummer, but it only adds a minute of inching by until you find the correct point where animation switches, and then you can drop and pick up the item around there.
I got it done like that.

Stone Sheath is still bugged as of the October 1st patch. Sigh.

I’ve had a similar bug/issue doing the a heart in Timberline Falls, “Help the Priory’s excavation of the ruins” where you have to pick up items and bring them to a box. Sometimes the items would just disappear while running or just as I’m about to get to the box. I had swiftness on (from signet of rage) and I assumed it was because I was running over bumps on the ground that gave me some small air-time that caused the item to disappear, but just a guess. I just walked really slow to get it to work.

I was a Warrior.

For what it’s worth, when I was experiencing the bug and venting in guild, a bunch of people me-tooed, and they were ALL other engineers and two mesmers, so all classes that I would assume have some differences in the weapon swapping routines.

The quest is still bugged for me too and I’m also an engineer. I eventually completed it when I followed what the OP did.

quest still bugged and engineer. the scabbard disappear when I get of the water.

I am also experiencing this issue for my personal story as a Sylvari Engineer.

Have this bug too when stepping out of the water. Human Engineer.

As Aicha said, I too have this problem as a Human Engineer. Happened to me more than once as I tried doing this story instance a couple weeks ago too. Happened again just now. I got past it by inching closer and closer to the shore, dropping the scabbard, then getting on land and picking it up. Stupid way to have to finish the quest, but worked (though the quest is certainly bugged).

Same with me as soon as I leave the water the scabbard vanishes.
Human engineer

Same here.

Human engineer female

ya its still happening just as others describe, im a Sylvari engineer. Going to try Skolops work around now will let ya know if it still works

tyvm Skolops the work around went fine after a couple of goes

Charr engineer here, and yeah, still bugged!

yep. been bugged on my Engi for about 2 weeks now. Tried it last night and still bugged. I’ll try the creeping method tonight.

Asura engineer here, definitely still bugged, and very frustrating.

still bugged for engineer, cant even find item to pick it up again..restarted instance, same problem. Poof as soon as i get out of the water.

Also encountered this bug on my Sylvari Guardian. I can find and pick up the bundle but when taking it to the designated area nothing happens. Tried dropping/picking up, talking to whats-her-face, restarting, but nothing worked.

Hi, I just wanted to mention that I’m a necromancer, and when I did this quest, I had the scabbard in hand, then underwater, I changed into a virulent cloud. Then my scabbard was gone, and what I had in the skillbar were the virulent cloud skills only.

But when I didn’t change into a cloud, I was able to successfully complete the quest with no further issues

I got hit by the Steal bug. use stolen skill, scabbard gone
please fix

I am having this same bug with my engineer. It’s not super reassuring when the forum moderator spells it enginner – i’m just saying, there’s an apparently lack of attention to detail here. i’ll give the “drop my quest item before exiting the water” solution. bugs are fun.

Sorry, just a bit frustrated. I shouldn’t make fun of typos or insinuate that it carries over into game quality. i’ll just try to get past this quest and carry on

Just completed this on my norn engineer and yes, it was bugged. The scabbard disappeared as soon as I exited the water. After finding the suggestion in this forum post I was able to finish by dropping the scabbard close enough to the edge that I could pick it up once I’d climbed out of the water and onto dry land.

= Part 1
The bug has not been fixed – 2012-November-11.

I have tested 3 times with an engineer, and lost the scabbard all 3 times.

Here is how you test:

1) Get the scabbard
2) Get into combat (may no be necessary)
3) Swim to surface (while in combat – may not be necessary)
4) Dive again.

==== Part 2
If you reenter the story quest after triggering the bug, you can not get the scabbard again. When you pickup the first dwarf artifact, step 2 completes, but step 3 does not start. You have to restart guild wars. I only tested this once, I see no reason to do it again.

I just tried to complete the story quest again. I restarted guild wars 2 and selected the same character and started the story quest.

I swam towards the area, killed two pirates and got downed. When I got downed, the 2nd step of the story completed, even though I had not collected any artifacts yet. Step 3 did not activate, is not available. The quest is stuck. See the screenshot.

How can this happen?

Edit 1: There is an attachment option, but it doesn’t work. The attchment is nowhere to be seen in the post. You can browse for the attachment, but you can not upload it – there is no upload button – only a browse button. Honestly: What is going on here?

Edit 2: When I edited the letter the 2nd time, the attachment appeard. Lol.