Guild Wars 2

At the moment the Orrian part of the personal story seems to consist more of waiting for patches than anything else. Recent issue:
The quest “Conscript the Dead Ships” gets stuck at the objective “Clear the final Dead Ship of Risen” due to a complete lack of Risen. Additionally you still (or again?) get dropped off on this very ship instead of the boat with the rest of the squad after the cutscene, but that bug is harmless when compared to the new one that completely blocks mission progress.
Maybe the problem that the enemies on the final ship never spawn has something to do with the fact that Elli and her hologram spaz out on the second to last ship (both permanently running in small circles near the not-so-undead-anymore Captain Yejj) and can not be made to cross the plank to the last one (which is quite likely a condition for spawning the enemies). Resetting the mission does not help, the outcome stays the same.

I have encountered the same problem.

I have the same problem

Thanks for the answer. My load times are a bit sub-par, but not so spectacularly long that you could say they fall out of the expected range. Later today I will try this quest once more on minimum settings and see if that changes anything. Maybe this is related to Elli spazzing out and the plank not spawning any Risen, too. You never know before you try.

EDIT: I was curious and so I postponed some other things to try this out immediately. As I see it those issues are very likely related. On minimum settings I was still not able to spawn on the boat but at least I spawned on a ship much closer to it.
The only problem after that was that the Risen from the first ship all spawned directly on the plank which was not really a problem since that way they were all nicely clustered to be chopped into mincemeat. The last ship was no problem at all. Merri Sunbower immediately found the undead arm (which she did not on previous tries) which triggered the Risen Hylek ambush and I could complete the quest nicely.

I have the same problem

I have the same problem on Dragonbrand. I tried it twice today. Very frustrating. Soooo close to the end of the story!

Definetely related to load times – if you load too slow, the first cutscene does not play and the story stucks on the last ship.

If you have this problem I advice you to lower your visual settings and retry until the first cutscene (before the first ship) plays correctly.

Same problem here. I submitted a bug report in game. I also have pretty bad load times. I will try this on low settings later on and see if it lets me continue.

Setting everything to low didn’t solve the problem for me.
I always get to last ship and nothing more happens.
I hope this is getting solved as I can’t finish my personal story.

I have my settings on the lowest and I still get 5fps, I guess Ill just have to wait for a patch….

Hello.
Im currently on the same q and ive tried 2 times already… all gangplanks are up after fighting but after the gladiator ship’s veteran the holo girl is panicing and running in circles and crusader wont move along with me on last ship…i can see a dead hand on the deck but since 2 npc’s arent with me q wont start…last part of 79 lvl 3 bars…..

Here is a screenshot →

Yup, though Agent Zott followed me when I tried the last 4 times.

Zott is somewhere next to me too…the other 2 are mind wrecked though….

Freezing on the last ship has happened for me as well. Elli seems to be stuck (or just not moving) on the third ship, so the last ship does not trigger when I board it.

Screenshot attached.

I tried this one again, tonight. Same thing at the end, Elli gets stuck, walking in circles in the back right corner of the ship (similar position to the screenshot), and the fourth ship event does not trigger.

Third time is a charm. This time, I managed to kill the Asura captain away from the rear of the deck. Elli still stayed on the third boat, but the captains wife was able to investigate the arm, and trigger the last event.

Hmm, I will have to try keeping the fight towards the bow then, see if that helps me :/
Thanks!

If anyone is still following this post, I believe that the OP is correct in saying that staying away from the stern of the 3rd ship at least helps in getting the quest unbugged, The first time I managed to do the quest without Yejj dying back there was the first time it didn’t glitch for me.