Guild Wars 2

So I’ve had this issue on one of my characters since HoT launch, and was hoping it would get fixed before I really wanted to progress my thief, but it hasn’t been remedied thus far, so I’m taking to the forums to seek help.

I finished the introductory steps in the Silverwastes “Check in with Marjory and Kasmeer” and “Enter the Pact staging area.” I was in a party with a guildy and we were both doing the step where we have to guard the little outpost against the Mordrem, and we got the complete message. As soon as we did, he jumped through the portal into VB to trigger the next portion of the mission, and I got the dialogue box asking me if I wanted to join him in completing the mission. I accepted and entered into the next phase of the personal story in VB, but my LS didn’t update. I exited out of his instance of the mission to go back and see if I could get my log to update, this turned out to be a mistake, because now my log will not update, and I cannot purposefully lose progress to reset everything by toggling the HoT LS on and off. It hasn’t bugged on any of my other characters, they were able to progress the story just fine thankfully.

As for symptoms of the bug, my LS progression arrow points me into the Silverwastes zone, like the game still expects me to finish something in the Silverwastes, but as soon as I enter the map, the arrow disappears, and I get no markers anywhere, even on my world map, as to where I need to go to get to the next step. I can get into VB just fine, unlock masteries, etc. but as far as progressing the living story itself goes, my thief is unable to access the next step due to some in-game bug.

If someone feels I left out some detail, please let me know, I tried to include everything of importance. Also, if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, or if a Dev could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading guys, happy hunting!

You can’t accept someone else’s progress for the beginning of the HoT story, and progress your own story. The Devs were clear about that. Can your character replay the first instance after Silverwastes? If so, that would get the story back on track. If not, I guess you will have to wait for a ‘fix’.

Good luck.

I’ve tried to go back and replay it, but it seems stuck in some sort of limbo that doesn’t allow me to either restart the event or finish it again. I completed it the first time and got the message to go into the little Pact alcove next to the fort, but that was when I jumped into the instance with my guildie.
So it looks like I’ll be waiting for a dev to fix it then unfortunately.
Thanks for the quick reply!

I meant the first story part, rather than the prelude. If there is nothing for you in Verdant Brink, then yes, you will have to wait for a ‘fix’.

You can read some Dev posts about it in the HoT sub-forum, I believe.

Good luck.

I’m in the same limbo and I have read of others who are in the same shoes. I really do hope we get some attention. Thanks for creating this post since we need some exposure to this problem. gw2 support tried to help me with different procedures (deleting gw2 cache) but it turned out to be hours of troubleshooting which did not fix the issue.