Guild Wars 2

My situation:
-i did fractals the 1st time yesterday[i’m lv1]
-finished the story TWICE
-joined a l6 6 group and finished all the matched [killed maw]
-i got 6/7 for monthly fractal
but…
-i’m still lv 1
-the game forces me to do the story!
-i am still 0/1 for daily fractal

I’ve just started doing the mists too and I’d done the story once, but I cannot progress past level 1 either, no matter how many I seem to do….

This is after a current total of 7 completed different fractals but still no change, so I’m having the SAME issues as Orion apart from the “story loop bug”

Do you finish the story?

Or do you bail out before the final dialog and reward?
There is a reward after getting back to the start room, delayed by dialog.

I’ve done the story through and through, I’m just stuck in a loop doing level 1 fractals with no end in sight, which is pretty infuriating.