Guild Wars 2

This looks awesome, just one question.
What is the purpose of the carrion axe and torch?
+170 power is that useful for the build?

Meerkatjie.7402:

I got stuck in the prologue. I joined a group starting the prologue and we managed to get all the way through but at the end (where it tells you to start learning gliding) it took me back to the Silverwastes Prologue mission rather than the Verdant. The mission looked the same except there were no people to talk to or anything to trigger the portal back to Verdant. I had definitely progressed through the story since it was telling me to master stuff. In the end I had to portal to some other place then back into Silverwaste and then I could get through the portal to Verdant.

Have you found a solution? I’m also stuck.
I got to the part where it tells me to learn gliding but I had to leave so I closed the game. When I logged back on that character, I was back in the silverwastes prologue mission and the portal to verdant brink was blocked.
I can’t return to verdant brink to continue the story.

Edit: Going to another map and then returning to silverwastes and going through the portal worked.