Guild Wars 2

Hey there. My friend is experiencing an odd bug, in that having selected the Order of Whispers, and accompanied me on my mission connecting me with a contact with the Priory, is now being sent along the Priory quest line.

He has stopped playing at that point, because this is obviously an error, and being a new player, I have stopped playing the personal story, too, so that I don’t get too far ahead of him and become unable to call on him for help.

He has contacted support, who has not attempted to fix the issue, instead only saying the devs are ‘working on the issue’ and to keep an eye on the forums, where neither of us were able to find any posts relating to this issue despite some vigorous googling.

Is there a known fix or work-around?

Yeah unfortunately it’s not a bug but a weird and confused “feature” that I still don’t get the purpose. The linked thread shows more about it.

Having looked at the linked thread, my friend and I pressed forward through the erroneous missions, being sure to accept the end of ‘Mightier Than The Sword’ separately. We then took two different quest lines, he took the Skritt, and I took the Quaggan. I completed my story, I accompanied him on his, and he is new being sent back to the Priory for ‘On Red Alert’

If being able to derail your missions is, seemingly, ‘working as intended’ for GW2, then surely his being directed to On Red Alert is a bug. Jeffrey Vaughn stated in the thread he linked that ‘[t]hings will return to normal next chapter, as long as you don’t complete the end of chapter story step with someone in another Order and accept their progress,’ which we were careful to avoid.

Is there ANY way to correct this at this point? I have hit Level 50, and my friend has spent gems on this character, so restarting his character at this point would be a literal waste of time and money.

I was going to post on that thread but since it’s closed now… I just wanted to express I disagree with the post made by Gaile Gray at the end. I have came through that request while doing the new LS, a popup showed asking me if I would accept my friend’s progress.

From what I saw that question is easily missed and misread, the text is written like those tiny contract clauses and hardly seen if you don’t look closely. Also, it’s completely non-sense to put you on another storyline just to keep you with a friend. If I want to help them in their storyline I should be able to choose doing so whenever THEY invite me to do so and not putting me in their same storyline just because I was part of it once. For the current LS it’s a good thing since we both would have the same storyline, but it’s non-sense in PS as the storylines are different in the most of cases.

Just look how many complaints about this “feature” was already reported. Doesn’t it ring a warning that something needs to be rethought and the feature isn’t being so much user friendly as it should?