Guild Wars 2

Return of the Green"

I completed the LS2 Episode 1 on 7 level 80 characters and I went back with two of them to get the achievements.

First Character: My Thief main I ran through the story with first and solo. Second time for achievements I was partnered up. Finished all but two of the achievements. Now in the upper right hand corner of the UI it indicates that LS is still active and that I should “Check your mail.” Not overly concerning but weird and I suspect not right. That character’s map shows three purple icons for the instance markers now.

Second Character: My Ranger second character. Ran through the story with a partner and we traded off starting the instances. Ran back through two of the instances (first and third) solo to get the final two achievements. Got a warning on the second one saying that my progress would not be recorded (or something like that). At the time I thought it was strange since I’d previously completed it. Now I have the green box in the upper right corner telling me that I should “Meet your allies in Tangle Root.” Plus, on the map the first instance marker is now green, while the others are purple. I suspect if I were so inclined I could re-enter the instance and get rewarded again for completing part 1 of the story, but after 10 runs of it I’ve no interest in doing that (not to mention that might be considered an “exploit”).

Buggy stuff but not critical I guess except for the last.

If you finished the full story on a character, ending with talking to the miner after exploring Scarlet’s room, then you have the option to restart the story from the beginning. Once you open your mail for the second time around, it starts your progress from the beginning, but you can access the other instances at any time (hence the purple stars on the map). If you go to an instance out of order, you’ll get that “This is not your current story step” or whatever message. But you wouldn’t get the full reward again if you went back and did it again on the same character; you’d just have the chance to do any achievements and just replay it.

Did that for both characters. Yes everything seems to have worked reasonably well for the first character, other than the the green LS box hanging around in the upper right corner of the UI.

For the second character something is amiss. I ran through the second time and at the start all of the instance markers were purple. Now that I completed the third part again, the initial instance has a green marker and I have a different message.