Guild Wars 2

This quest requires that you fire a cannon at a ship to sink it, whilst at the same time fighting off hordes of undead.
I simply cannot get the cannon to do any damage to the ship.
I target the ship, press button 1 , there is a loud bang and a flash, but the ships health bar
doesnt move.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for responding.
I cannot see any obvious animation of a shell being fired from the cannon.
It simply makes a bright orange flash accompanied with a bang sound, then goes thru a reloading phase.
Do I have to somehow load the cannon?
I am targeting the ship with the mouse cursor which provides a green targeting type icon which I can move around the ship.
Ive tried aiming everywhere on the ship, but the result is the same .
Alternatively, is it possible to go back in the storyline so that I can choose an alternative way forward.
Thanks.

Finally got the quest to work.
Had to completely log out of the game , and then restart the instance.
That got the cannon firing properly.
Even then had to try the storyline 4 times to actually get all the way through.
2nd attempt, the cannon worked fine and I killed all the undead assault, but then the quest stopped with no more undead coming, but the quest indicating that I had to kill more undead.
Went everywhere I could go in the instance and killed every Risen I could find but the quest still indicated there were more to be killed, but I simply couldnt find them.
I could see some, but attempting to get to them gave me the “you are leaving the Instance message” so couldnt kill them.
3rd time , things went better and I killed all the couriers, but the Mouth Boss didnt appear.
4th time all worked.
Glad to see the end of that quest.

Your experienced is not that different than what mine was. I have taken only one of my characters all the way through to the Arah Story dungeon to complete the line.

I do NOT plan on doing that again on any of my other characters due to all the awful bugs and issues I experienced and heard of from other players in any of the other story lines. Once is quite enough, thank you very much.

If all the story lines did NOT merge near the end to follow the exact same line (with only minor choices), I would play them all. It is not only monotonous and boring but full of holes and wacky bugs that show up one time but not the next, only to have a different bug instead. I list no specifics because they already have been mentioned by other players throughout the bug forums.

I even got tired of submitting bug reports from inside the game as I never really saw an appreciable difference until a patch came out (many without notations on what was fixed). But I never did find out if any of the multiple attempts I made before success actually were fixed due to a patch either.

Started playing again and this bug is still in. After all this years I still can’t finish my personal story. That’s frustrating!

I have tried this story line about 12 times today and i cant attack the ship. have restarted the quest. restarted the game client and nothing seems to fix this. just says ship is out of range.

Same problem with Liandrin.8520 and yeah i also tried several times.

Yup! Having the same issue. Just says it is out of range. I figured I would get through the main story before starting any of the expansion content buuuuuut… Yea

Yes same issue for me last night.
The cannon only fires to the end of the shadow of the cliffs in the water. The range of the cannon follows this curvature of the cliff-line shadow exactly.
Once the water is clear between the shadow and the ship it goes to ‘out of range.’

Please fix this ASAP.

Same issue here… fix it pls

yeah broke for me too, please fix

This is apparently a very common problem because it’s the same for me.

Yep. This is definitely broken,. Everyone is complaining about it on /m chat too.

Recently reach this part of the personal story and now I’m having the same problem. Would be great if it was fixed.

U must fix this, or else how can we finish our personal stories?

I’ve tried it several times, still a no go for me.

yup I can now join the club of people that can’t finish their personal story because of that bug, it is super frustrating >:O!

Same, issue here the targeting does not recognize the ship and instead tries to aim for the ocean floor. hence “out of range” error.

just tried this a few times… with fast ground and with normal targeting. this is definitely a clipping plane glitch.
i made sure the ship was highlighted when i tried to fire… and i was still out of range.
the ship was outlined in red (targeted) … health bar shown..
out of range.

Did not succeed as well yesterday, tried a dozen times. Please see to this prob.

Under options:
Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range

Works fine now

Thanks to Ten More Minutes.5204 it works !!

Ten More Minutes.5204 … THANK YOU, probably the only targeting option I had not tried yet … quest completed successfully!

Ten More Minutes.5204:

Under options:
Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range

Works fine now

Thanks that worked.

thanks, going to try now