Guild Wars 2

Buzz.2840:

I am getting annoyed with this. I have completed it once on my ranger. But I have not been able to complete it on my warrior. I have attempted it multiple times solo and grouped.

Instead of having players run around trying to find these “lost” npcs, why not fix the broken code and put a different trigger in to progress the mission.

To add insult to injury and pour salt into the wound I am not able to finish my zone completion because I can not get the last POI until this broken mission is complete.

Unless they’ve changed it somehow you can get the poi without finishing the quest. I got the poi over a month ago when I couldn’t even get the very first cut scene to trigger. Have to go down into the water and wiggle your way into the spot that will update it for you (don’t come up out of the water trying to get it, stay at the bottom)

Also on a side note, thank you to the people that posted saying that you had to do it multiple times to get it to work. It made me say “what the hell” and I tried it again this morning with absolutely no problem which shocked the crap out of me.

Good to hear that for you. Although I logged in this morning and tried this first thing, and it did not work. Never skipped anything since I had never got a chance to see any of the cut scenes or cinematics in the past, since they never triggered. Mr. Vaughn are you going to give us any insight as to whether or not this is being looked at since, it seems many people are still having problems? Maybe the whole quest just needs to be re-coded.

Hell I would just like to be able to complete the stupid thing. Too bad if you even can complete it they give you crap rewards.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

As posted above:

1 – Try the story solo. This seems to only pop up when doing it with multiple players.

2 – Look around the gate, it seems to be a nefarious zombie that’s hiding out under/around the ramp leaing into the fort.

Ok, so even though we shouldn’t have to do any of this……especially after over a month of waiting for a fix on the crappiest quest ever known to an MMO….I tried this solo. I was excited that after this long I had finally been special enough to get my cut scene with Trahearne. The logging camp went fine, then after the first wave at the gate it stops. I ran the whole zone looking for mobs. Dropped AE’s in spots where I thought they could be stuck. I AE’d the whole front ramp leading into the keep, and the ramps inside the keeps itself to include the ones going into the water. Absolutely nothing happened. But like I’ve said in previous posts, if you can’t reproduce it in your test server, there are probably thousands of us that can reproduce it for you, or you could test it yourself on the live server. I have the sentiment of many others though, how can you only test a quest solo, when we are suppose to have the ability to do it with a group if we want to? We should be able to do these quests how they are designed. Now I’m to the point where I would rather just not worry about this quest anymore at all, and it shouldn’t be that way.

shadowshift.5320:

I got the bug with the Defend the Front Gate when I initially tried to do it after the patch with 3 other guildies. After going to HoM to reset the instance and going back into the personal story instance solo, I was able to progress and finish this part of the personal story. I would suggest to try running it solo, if you haven’t yet, to see if it’s an issue with trying to do this in a party.

I got farther with a guildie than I did solo. His bugged at defending the front gate. I still get stuck waiting for my cut scene.

Still stalls out on me and won’t give me a cut scene with Trahearne. Is this still going to be in the patch notes tonight, or was this the “for reals” fix you were talking about in your previous post?

Thanks for getting back to us on this again. Hopefully it will be (for reals) fixed this next time. Sorry to say, but this has turned me into the pessimist.

Still bugged for me also. Did Striking of the chains , wet works, intercepting the orb, all solo. I did forging the pact co-op before those 3. I still get stuck with trahearne not talking to me. We’ve been waiting for this fix for a month. We’ve answered all of your questions, and you said you had the problem fixed then we had to wait 2 weeks for a patch deployment that didn’t fix it. If it works on your internal servers, maybe you need to come to the live servers and watch it fail, like the rest of us have. Fix it please, I would like to get on with my story quest. I’m trying not to be really upset about this, but after all the other stuff you have “fixed” in the game and made more important than something that is actually halting progress, it gets somewhat frustrating.

Have any links for light armor looks for asura? I’ve been trying to find some cool sets but have come up short

It looks like I picked “The suffering of others”. Thanks for letting us know that you found the problem, but it just sucks having to wait that long for the fix to be put out, considering the amount of time its been broken

Now I remember what you are talking about with the picking of the greatest fear … although I dont remember which one i picked. Can you tell me what the options were? If I saw them all I might remember which one I did.

I also did the Krait orb , and Apatia was captured and I said I would come back to get her later. I don’t know what the greatest fear is you are talking about though, I dont remember doing that. I’ve been stuck for well over a week now.

“At this time, dungeons should one of the most efficient ways to level and get gold, and it is not our intention to make them feel like a grind.”

Since it wont let me quote this post (its from Jon Peters), and since there is a typo in this post, was it suppose to read {At this time, dungeons should NOT be one of the most efficient ways to level and get gold} ~or~ was it to be {At this time, dungeons should be one of the most efficient ways to level and get gold} From what you folks have done with the dungeons I’m going to go with the first one, if it truely is the second one, well then you’ve kinda shot yourselves in the foot with the nerf.

Steven.8027:

Xaia.2304:

So now we have:
1. No gold from dungeons
2. No exp from dungeons
3. No fun from dungeons
4. No drop from dungeons
5. Ugly skins from tokens
6. more deaths because of dungeon difficulty after patch
nothing to do here.

So you think the skins from tokens are ugly. So.. you were doing dungeons for gold. You were running dungeons, which you don’t consider fun and the drops from which you don’t want, so it must’ve been a significant portion of your gold income.

Get a grip.

He said “now” not then. And even the developer said that doing dungeons should be the best way to make money and get xp.

Steven.8027:

jiverooster.7134:

JonPeters.5630:

it is not our intention to make them feel like a grind.

then why did you make gear cost a trillion of 1 token for 1 dungeon

I’ll take this one.

Because you don’t need them, you want them. If you want them, you work for them. Plain and simple.

I’ll take this one. It’s pretty obvious you don’t need anything in this game really. Everything is wanted. Working for an item is fine, but at a loss of fun and money, not so much. I don’t mind the dungeons being hard at all, but make it worth doing. Otherwise the developers have wasted time on things that no one will do. Which I don’t think is their intent.

The idea of universal currency isnt a bad idea, considering there are dungeons that some people won’t even step into because the gear sets don’t have the stats they want to use (IE: I have no reason to do Twilight Arbor, unless I want the skins, because none of the armor sets have the stats I want)

When you asked me days ago if I did forging the pact multiplayer, does that mean that you folks went back and did that quest multiplayer to see if you could re-create my problem? If that is the case, I’m assuming that you didn’t have the same problem that I did? It’s strange that so many of us would have this problem, and it not crop up anywhere else. When you guys look to re-create bugs .. do you use the live servers that we play on, or others that you use to internally test?

Does anyone know if this Forging the pact fix they are putting in tonight will fix the problem we are having with this quest? It seems that it has been broken for 2 weeks and still no fix. Really haven’t been upset with most of the bugs in this game. But this one is making me a bit irritable since I would like to finish it.

Yes, I did it with one other person.

No I am not leaving the area. All the times I have done it tonight I have been in range of the NPC’s. I try to speak to Traherne and he gives me no dialogue, the story does no progress, and the green star disappears from over his head, just like before it was fixed. I am always close enough to be able to start a dialogue.

Character name: Relica Darkstorm
Race: Asura
Class: Mesmer
Order: Order of the Vigil
Level: 80

I am still having the same bug that was happening before the fix. I walk in and listen to the conversation that Traherne is having with the 2 NPC’s next to him, then when that dialogue is over, the green star above his head disappears, the quest text in the upper right corner of my screen grays out and nothing happens. I don’t get the dialogue I am suppose to from Traherne. I’ve tried running past him, I’ve tried standing back till the dialogue with the NPC’s is complete. I’ve also gone in with 1 other person and gone in alone. Still the quest will not progress. What am I doing wrong after this has been said to be fixed?

I am having the same exact problem. Tried yesterday no go. Tried today after maintenance, and still doesn’t work, but it worked for my husband that did it at the same time. We couldn’t go in together either. Please fix this we can’t progress!!