Guild Wars 2

This is ridiculous… I’ve tried this quest so many times because we were TOLD BY ARENANET that it was fixed multiple times and it wasn’t. At this point everyone on this quest should just be able to skip it so we can actually play thekittenstory.

Bugged. Can’t complete. Went through it 3 times today.

Its still happening. No progress because the researchers do not follow. It’s frustrating because it’s such a long quest.

That really sucks! It happened to me as well.

I’m really sorry for those of you who are still experiencing the bug and I don’t want to rub it in, but it just worked for me on the first attempt after the latest (18/9) patch. The only thing I did differently, and I doubt it made any difference, was NOT revive the first single Asura researcher encountered just outside the fort.

Trahearne ‘died’ (needed reviving) 2 or 3 times. I did clear the cave completely before fighting the veteran mob attacking the 2nd research team, but I’d tried that before and still got the bug. So whatever was changed fixed it for me and my thanks to Arenanet (not actually sure whether that’s the developer or publisher) for getting it at least partially sorted out.

Still not working for me.

Nevermind. If you don’t res that first researcher it works out.

Human Warrior Level 69

I see their will be a patch to fix this, figured I would make a post anyway. Having issues with the research team following me out of the cave. The team is still where the champion was fought and won’t move. I cleared the cave and even outside but still noting.

As far as I can tell the original bug still exists even after the patch. Trehearn inevitably dies at some point. After reviving him the researchers simply stand there. I can get Trehearn to follow me to the exit, but it’s blocked and nothing else happens. Logging out resets the whole thing, so now I have a repair bill and the prospect of going through that again.

Just tried it again still having issues with npc’s getting stuck and not following so you cant finish this bugged out quest

Same here, npc’s are just sitting at camp and not moving an inch. this is why i hate the story mode, half the missions are bugged. No point…

I have rescued the second research team and cleared the path to the quest marker at the southern waypoint, however the npcs refuse to follow, and I am unable to continue quest

So am I…
here some more information about that:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-Story-Forging-the-Pact-bug-blocking-progress/page/7#post183325
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/story/Forging-the-pact/page/2#post183743 (Edit: I see you found your way to look there..)

Same here. The second team refuse to follow

Vrenzee.6734:

OK, I finally able to clear it. After trying so many times, here’s what went well for me:

1. Ignore the first dead Asura.
2. Clear all the mobs on the path of the first green circle.
3. Then ignore all the mobs and keep running to the 1st research team (on the hill).
4. Help 1st research team fight undeads.
*5. When it’s time to move, walk S-L-O-W-L-Y + in the middle of the path > making sure all research team is moving and following you.
6. Go into the cave after whisper agent clears the barricade.
*7. Clear ALL mobs inside the cave including southern exit BUT DO NOT GO NEAR the abomination that fights the 2nd team.
8. After southern exit is cleared, help 2nd team defeat the abomination.
*9. When it’s time to move, walk S-L-O-W-L-Y + in the middle of the path toward the southern exit.
10. After Trahearne summon his minions, go back and exit from the cave entrance.

(*) < Important step.

It doesn’t matter whether Trahearne died, or left behind, because he will spawn next to you. Goodluck!
-v

I followed these instructions exactly (doing this quest for the upteenth time by now) and to no avail. Everything seemed to be going ok, but for whatever reason a risen grub respawned after talking to the agent to trigger the escort to southern entrance quest. Maybe you’ve encountered this guy before, the one that moves back and forth at super speed and only through luck (at least with a shortbow, it keeps saying “out of range”) are you able to hit/kill it. After that the research team stopped following me and I proceeded to quit for the remainder of the night.

This is getting ridiculous.

After hearing so much about this buggy quest it worked fine for me when I did it bout an hour ago. Trahearne died twice but it didnt bug … so i dunno

ps. i ressed the first researcher but nothing happened, so i dont think thats the cause.

So, it worked. We did not revive the first researcher, but that was not the point. I think we could figure out what was happening.. after you cleared the whole cave, you go back to the group with the second researches fighting the abomination and THEN you have to get the aggro of this researcher group (or at least the person who owns the instance) and must slowly pull them away from where they are staying, because without any reason they also want to stay and go back there even if they already followed you for a millimeter. You have to pull very slowly (he mostly walked backwards) and often – when they just want to run back – go back a little to get their aggro again (and again and again), but finally that worked.

If you fail to get their aggro after/ while killing the abomination they will not follow you.

The big question is: why do we loose the aggro? why do they want to stay there or return to that place?
can you fix that? so they would follow you more easily and don’t want to run back.

9/20/12 0530 est The quest is still bugged. Second time in 3 days I have tried the quest. Once alone, once with a guildmate. Both times, got into the cave, talked to the NPC’s, fought and killed all the mobs down to the exit which is blocked. The NPC’s however stay at the top of the cave and don’t move. Talk to Trahearne he says he can help if I cover him. But nothing happens. My guildmate who finished the quest some time ago says Trahearne is supposed to summon some golems or something and they destroy the barricade, but nothing happens and the quest can’t be completed.

I tried it again and got it to work. However now the very next quest is bugged in the exact same way…grrrr

Just got through it after bugging out a couple of times. Seemed to me that the main issue is going slow enough so that the researchers follow you.

20th sept still bugged
Took me about and hour and a half of hard fighting (im lvl 59) just to get to a point in the cave where none of the research team would follow me, thanks for wasting my time and wasting the 5+ silver it cost me in repairs.

It really does seem that every day im running into new bugs now, be it quests, green quests or missing nps for skill points.
I know this game is still new but couldn’t all this kitten have been ironed out in a beta like most other games manage to do.

I feel like banging my head against my monitor, everytimes there is some sort of update I try this quest, I am totally sick of this quest, can’t a GM just let us pass this quest, at least for me I’m wasting at least one hr everyday for the past 10 days or so trying to get thru this. I tried other people’s suggestion… nothing works!! GGGRRRR!!!!

I’m having the same problem,
done this quest 3 times already…..

Just tried 9 times with all the solutions everybody mentioned. Still bugged. Things getting unreasonable. *sigh

Tried this today and still bugged. I tried the workaround mentioned above, clearing the cave and then going back and killing abomination but it didn’t work for me.

Same for me, this is day 2 of trying to get through it. Frankly the frustration is making the game not fun. I cant do the storyline for money, I cant finish mapping straights of devastation without the story line, I cant buy or sell on the Trading post because its down again. So any suggestions on how I am to buy better gear if it is going to take me months making gold selling junk items to random merchants? And I really Dont want to do this one again.

Just ran this mission and ended up getting bugged at the end when I get the second group to escort out. They all stand there and don’t move, except for Trahearne.

Anet, I <3 you, but please work harder and faster on these bug fixes while giving them proper QA/testing. Don’t make me regret my cupcake money.

Last night I went to do my storyline in the game I could not finish it due a bug. Everyone was alive all throughout the time. I was stuck.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forging_the_Pact

This is where the bug is Escort the researchers to the southern exit with Trahearne. Get to the southern exit and the exit is blocked no way out. So I have no way to continue with the storyline.

Please get this fixed.

Thank You.

Last night I went to do my storyline in the game I could not finish it due a bug. Everyone was alive all throughout the time. I was stuck.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forging_the_Pact

This is where the bug is Escort the researchers to the southern exit with Trahearne. Get to the southern exit and the exit is blocked no way out. So I have no way to continue with the storyline.

It is not fixed at all I wasted a lot of time and had to deal with lots of respawning mobs after killed them all.

It was bugged for me as well, the researchers wouldn’t follow me and the exit to cave was blocked, please fix it soon

still bugged for me, 9/20/12, I’ve ran this quest like 6 times now… just let me skip it to continue my story already.

Just tried 2 times. Not working.
After wasting 1h yesterday on the Magg escort and having some other kind of escorts aggroing all the kitten map problems, I guess you should just erase all escort quests.

Or get another QA team.

Did you all clear the whole cave before the abomination?
And did you try to get the researcher group fighting the abomination a little bit away from their place where they are usually standing and after the abomination is killed talking to them and going very slowly backwards to hold the researchers group aggro?
That did for us the difference and only the last part did take about 10-15 minutes because the group wanted to run back that often..

Still not working, cleared everything, and the researchers don’t follow. Any idea about when it will be fixed? I am following the guidelines of the quest by the book. It doesn’t make any sense you needing to do “special tricks” not explicitly written in the quest to make it work.

I give up. I think i like to punish myself so i tried this 4 times. I even pulled the abomination away from researchers bu they ran back anyways. Eveytime i try to walk slowly two grubs pop up resetting the researches again.

I don’t think i want to repeat this mission any time sooner. I had enough for today. Very lousy if you ask me that players can not progress through personal story.

wish i came and looked on here before trying it myself….dying multiple times on the way as trahearne didnt help sometimes, and now the researchers wont follow me through the cave…but whatever i guess i can look forward to playing mists of pandaria more at least that wont be riddled with bugs

Still bugged. There’s an event in this area and a renown heart that are bugged outside the instance as well as the story quest. I think the entire area is just bugged.

I will check back later and see if we get any updates.

Same issue, still bugged.

Same thing for me, bugs out at the second research team and they won’t follow me south out of the cave with Trahearne. All 3 times I’ve done this no one but Trahearne will follow me after the dialogue with the second team, then the next step will not trigger because the research teams you’re escorting are not with you and neither are the 3 order’s representatives.

I also just noticed that one of the first team’s group never made it out of their camp. Krew Apprentice Pekk was still standing in the camp that gets sieged by undead when it bugged. I don’t know if that’s important or not…

73 mesmer, tried 4 times and this is still bugged as of today. fix your game anet.

Did you notice the explosion of the cave barricade before entering the cave? The first researcher group has to act there.. (I am still wondering if in our first try, that did not happen..) But there is no cutscene, they just talk..

At the south end where the exit is blocked, he said he can call for help if i protect him but nothing happens and the south end remains blocked.

The party has stayed at the top of the cave I guess awaiting us to unblock the south end, Everything in the cave is dead, thought that would trigger it.

If I go back to where I came in everything outside has respond. So useless to try to go around without unblocking the south end.

Still bugged. I request that a skip option is added for this quest as you seem to be unable to fix it.

That sounds fair enough!

I had to do this mission 6 or 7 times before the NPCs decided to play along. Yay!

Now the same bug is occurring on the mission after it.

Maybe it is like a virus and once you are affected and have it happened to you, it will stay with you forever? Just joking….

Well, I feel sorry for you. We did the following quest today and it worked fine.
I am not sure why this is happening again..

Still bugged and I’m getting bugged with high level areas where the developers need to focus more on such as this quest not completing for me and dynamic events in some areas being frozen and unable to finish.

I also don’t feel that we should keep doing the quest over and over again just because the developers did not sort out the high lvl content story quest, dynamic events, etc. A player should be able to play smoothly without interruptions or bugs like these.