Chose Priory, ended up in Vigil
It’s not a bug, but intended. If you accept the progress of someone else’s storyline, the game will place you on their track so you can continue to play with them for the remainder of the arc. At the end of the level arc, you will be placed back upon your own storyline track.
You can use Google to find the Dev (Jeffrey Vaughn) response about this, if you so desire.
Good luck.
It looks like you’re right – I found a number of posts from Jeffrey which do indeed state that I should revert to my own story after the current chapter ends. Thank you for the information
Kinda annoying, since it means I’m going to miss the main part of the Priory storyline, and it absolutely wasn’t clear when accepting the story credit that this is what would happen. Also somewhat frustrating that support didn’t know this – I have specific statements from two different GMs that I’m permanently part of the Vigil from now on, which directly contradicts what Jeffrey has described should happen. I guess the only thing to do at this point is to play on and see what happens.
If anyone else is interested, posts from Jeffrey Vaughn discussing this issue can be found at:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-in-personal-story-1
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Stuck-in-wrong-storyline-Please-help
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Order-of-Tyria-switched-from-Vigil-to-OOW
Here we go again… once more a badly implemented mechanic has mislead someone… I wonder when they will realize that this bad design choice is more confusing than helpful… But well, since it’s at the core of the game and basically it’s there since release and based on other bad design choices that confuses more than help (looking at you NPE..), I would not hold my breath in that hope… (although I believe that simple change to that prompt could lessen the issue…) :/
(edited by shadow.6174)
Update: as per Jeffrey’s posts as pointed out by Inculpatus cedo, at the end of Chapter 4 I did indeed revert to the Priory storyline. Upon completing Minister’s Defense, the final Vigil story step, I returned to Vigil Keep to meet Almorra Soulkeeper and made my selection for the next arc (investigating the minor races), making sure to do so in my own story instance and not alongside my friend. The next quest step was to meet up with “my mentor” out in the field, and when I arrived I was met by Sieran, the Priory mentor, so it appears my original choice is being properly respected now that I’m out of Chapter 4. I’m also unable to buy from the Vigil weapons/armour dealers, so it looks like I’m back on course.