Guild Wars 2

The Order of Whispers Personal Story chapter “An Apple a Day”, which is unlocked at level 40, does not progress upon completing the objective “Defeat Commander Landon and the Ministry Guards with him.” When you kill Landon and his goons the game will not mark your objective as completed, your NPC buddies will do nothing but stand still afterwards. Interacting with any of these NPCs does nothing. You’re pretty much stuck here. Leaving the instance just puts you back to the beginning of the chapter.

Please fix soon!

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yup just had this happen to me as well

I had this happen just now. I was doing it solo.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Were either of you grouped with other players, or were you running the instance solo? My first guess would be it’s not scaling correctly. (The objective wants you to kill X+scale soldiers, but it’s only spawning X soldiers.)

I was playing this chapter solo; I can vaguely recall there being about 6-8 ministry guards + commander guy being spawned then. I hope this helps!

yup I was playing solo as well. I made sure to get a hit on each of the enemy characters before they died, and searched the area a few times. I restarted the event and repeated the process but it still failed to trigger the end

I have the same problem. I tryed to play solo, searching the area, guest other worlds and play in group and still nothing. No progress at all.

This has happened to me twice now. Going for a 3rd try. Also only hit the boss both times.

5 mobs plus the commander…. killed mobs first and took my time on boss… success!!

Happened to me twice as well. I think I’ll leave it for a while and see what happens

I have a similar problem at the LS S2 Story “Caithe’s Reconnaissance Sqad”, where the objective “Defend Caithe’s squad from the attacking Mordrem” (or something like that) isn’t fullfilled. After completing the rest of the mission, I get ported out normally, but because of this open objective, the whole story counts as not completed and I have to redo it. Did it just two times now, both bugging the same way.

I had a similar problem on “Cathedral of Silence”. I’d done various personal story episodes earlier in the day, before the patch; this was the first I’ve tried after it.

At the objective “Secure the Altar of Grenth”, I cleared out all mobs around the altar, fought and killed both veteran mobs. At that point, normally, the story moves on; this time it didn’t. I led Priestess Rhie in to the green star – nothing happened. I ran around all over the place multiple looking for a mob or a spawn that I might have missed, because I know that even one mob you haven’t yet killed will stop it progressing. No sign of anything. I even cleared out the other end of the cathedral, which I know I haven’t had to do in the past. Nothing. Now – Rhie had died at one point and had to be rezzed, which was another thought I had for a possible cause – but whatever, I was unable to progress it, and came here looking for any bug reports on it. Going back for another try once I can summon the enthusiasm.

Edit: Second try, the story progressed correctly. Rhie had died that time as well, so that’s not a show-stopper.

Happened to me twice as well. Don’t kill him too fast, just let him say all the lines:

During the fight:
Ministry Commander Landon: These spies have had a terrible influence on you. Especially ones like this filthy, crippled charr and his flunky.
Lightbringer Tybalt Leftpaw: My name is Tybalt Leftpaw, Lightbringer of the Order of Whispers, and that’s Agent to you!
Demmi Beetlestone: Landon, you dog, tell my father that you failed. I’ll never let you capture me alive.
Ministry Commander Landon: I die… for Kryta.
It should work then.

I can’t progress any personal story mission (on different characters) that is in an instance.

I have this problem as well, have tried a few times and no matter how much I kill Landon and the ministry guards.

Looks like I’m not alone

this “defeat x foes” or “defeat all foes in _ area” seems to be broken in personal story instances, and dungeon instances, as both seem to have done the same thing and events will not trigger

might as well check into “living world season 2 – gates of maguuma” as well.

the objective “defend the eastern pass” doesnt seem to update even after killing the boss golem, and talking to the npc to advance the quest. cant continue thru the story

I just spent some time trying to bypass the “An apple a Day” particular bug on my thief, and after 4 or so tries it seems I’ve found a way. As thief is mainly a single-target class, I was having difficulty killing all the guards one by one before the commander reaches 25% (it seems that’s when the bugging starts), so I set up some traps. One or two guards still were not killed by me directly. They were tagged by me though.
And it worked.
So perhaps it’s enough to tag all of them, not kill.

This right here. I tried hitting each one at least once and the cutscene followed once Landon was down.

Dunno if you fixed it already, but I’m sure I didn’t kill every soldier, 2 died suddenly, but I got through anyway.

yup seems fixed for me too