Guild Wars 2

Play a lot together with the wife, we do story together.
The new trait system only unlocks the trait for the instance owner, not for the people in the party. Tryed it twice today, both times i (instance owner) got the trait and she did not. the story linie is the same so that is not the problem.

So please fix this bug fast, dont feel like wasting skill points to get thing that skould have been unlocked.

And on another note, The MegaSavingServer is also broken, when it dont put the wife and i on the same map when we are in party (have 3.500+ hours played together in same party and guild) so if it cant figure that out it is clearly not working and just another reason why the servers should have been merged instead of this community breaking boken wannabe system.

Just curious. Did you ‘Accept’ the story progress at the end of the Instance? Even if you are both on the same story step, you must ‘Accept’ to get credit for it.

Yes, we are not new to the game this is our 20th toon, so we know how it is done.
And the 3.500+ hours played together should give a hint that we know a bit about the game

I have over 3000 hours, as well, but I have only ever once done a story step with my SO and accepted the results. Hours played are not always a great indicator of game-mechanic knowledge. =)

For instance, I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to get into a PvP match. Lol.

The 3 skill that did not unlock for her but only me (instance owner) was:
Leg specialist -Story step: A light in the Darkness
Dogged March- Story step: The Battle for Claw Island
Forcefull Greatsword – Story step: Forging the Pact, had to purchase it because it is needed for her warrior build.

Just ran another test trying to get the (warrior) Trait “Merciless Hammer” that are rewarded for the level 70 story mission called “The Battle for Fort Trinity”
Wife was the Instance owner so i could stream it and record it, gave the same bug where only instance owner get reward and party member does not.

Recording of the mission and proff of the bug (15 minutes video) http://www.twitch.tv/calcanius/c/4128552

So Be carefull not to do to many story missions together with friends, so you dont need to purchase the Traits you should have gotten as reward for gold and skill points.

Our group is having the same problem (only the instance owner is getting the trait unlocked). This has happened for the story steps: “Battle for Claw Island” and “A Light in the Darkness”

I am having the same problem; I just did the Claw Island Story unlock, and it unlocked for the instance owner and not for me.

Also having this issue when progressing the personal story in a group. Battle for Claw Island so far gave completion to the instance lead and not remaining party members.

Would it be possible to have the skill trainers be able to check your personal story progress and offer those traits for free?
Ex: If my character speaks to the trainer and is on the level 60+ portion of the personal story, the claw island trait would be available for unlock at no fee. Possible?

Just out of curiosity: did something change with those story steps? I can’t recall anything about traits being unlocked related to the story. I played those story steps with a mesmer and I can’t recall any special trait being unlocked. Could someone enlighten me about this please?

Still exists as of this writing.

‘Forging the pact’, party members other than the leader do not get awarded the trait.

I got this bug, too. My husband opened all of our story steps. He unlocked the traits and I didn’t. I did progress with him through each story step.

Happened to me aswell with Claw island story and A light in the darkness story

Sorry but again, what trait are you guys talking about? I have done “Forging the Pact” and “Battle of Claw Island” and others successfully and I can’t recall anything about traits. Wiki also doesn’t say anything about traits so I’m getting confused about this. Could someone clarify it for me please? I wonder if I also have missed something then.

shadow.6174:

Sorry but again, what trait are you guys talking about? I have done “Forging the Pact” and “Battle of Claw Island” and others successfully and I can’t recall anything about traits. Wiki also doesn’t say anything about traits so I’m getting confused about this. Could someone clarify it for me please? I wonder if I also have missed something then.

Here you go: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trait_guide

Trait Line 2

X Complete the story step “Forging the Pact.”

Trait Line 3

II Complete the story step “The Battle for Claw Island.”

Hmm, thanks. I didn’t know that so I never realized that. I’ll check if I got these traits too, although I did those parts before feature patch and from what I recall I have the most of traits unlocked. Thanks again.

I did “Forging the Pact” with my husband and he was the instance owner and I didn’t get the trait. And it has been 5 days since I did the story (he got the trait) and I accepted to continue to the next step of story.
I sent a support ticket in-game and got no answer yet and I need the trait (and don’t wanna have to spend skill points or gold to buy it if I can get it free)

http://i.imgur.com/7jw1R63.jpg

I am missing the following traits even though I have done the story mode sections for them:

Forceful Greatsword
“Forging the Pact”

Leg Specialist
“A Light in the Darkness”

I did all my story mode sections so far in a group.

Please either enable these traits on my character, or give me the gold and skill points necessary to purchase them myself. Not having Forceful Greatsword really gimps my warrior.

So… more than one month and still no answer. I had to stop doing Personal Story steps with my wife too because of this error and it appears that I’ll have to wait longer to it.
For those who are encountering this error, did it happen in other story steps or just “Battle of Claw Island”, “Forging the Pact” and “A Light in the Darkness”?

Quite sure it was only those 3 story missions that gives trait, it is however very disapointing that the only response we have gotten is pretty much “you are doing something wrong” considering the evidence of it being a repeatable bug, and by being able to replicate the bug it is not likely that we are doing it wrong (video attached in one of my post above, showing that all is done correct).
This is very anoying for all of us who enjoy the company of others when doing our quest.
So please fix and/or give us some responce other than “The test i ran everything was fine, so you are all doing it wrong”

having the very sam eissue with my wife on light in the darkness.

Could we have an anwser about it?
Or we just have to use gw2 as a solo or offline game? Yet i m pretty chilled about trying to unlock those skills since i dont really want keep playing without my wife.

My friend and I did all story missions together until level 55. We noticed that he had not unlocked the traits, although I had. I was party leader, and we both had the same story line (he accepted progress when completing story mission).

The story missions in question are: “The Battle of Claw Island” (lvl 50) and “A Light in the Darkness” (lvl 55). There might be problems with all of them, but we quit doing story missions after we discovered the bug.

He sent in a ticket explaining the situation, listing his account name, character name and story missions (and even the traits in question if I’m not mistaken). The only reply he received before they closed his ticket was that some traits might not be unlocked until level 30. They closed the ticket after that. He also replied to this thread (and linked it in his ticket), but still nothing.

At the time we did the story missions both of us were far above level 30, and even above level 55, which was the highest lvl requirement for the story.

The problem is easily solved – he could simply buy the traits for gold. However, this should also be easily solved by GW2 support. If support had simply checked his character level (or his reply to the ticket, where he informed them of it), this issue would have been solved (at least on a case-by-case basis).

I understand that you might not be able to fix this right away, but closing the ticket without acknowledging the issue provokes me greatly. The reason I am writing this and not my friend is because he has essentially stopped playing the game after this.

Odd… I just did those with My partner she was instance owner and I got them unlocked for me..

You sure you doing all the steps and on same story line ?

( I did let her leave instance first each time if that helps)