Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: I don’t think what I’m going to be reporting is genuinely a bug since I think it’s actually my party’s and my fault, but I’d like to share the issue anyway so as to inform everyone.

Initially I thought this was a bug, and it could well have been because of its nature, but looking back and talking to my friends, the issue stemmed from the varied choices we made throughout our personal story.

During the story “A Light In the Darkness” I made the choice of fearing “being dishonored by comrades”. While my 2 other partymates chose the other 2 options respectively. Friend A chose “Forcing someone to suffer”, while friend B chose “leaving someone to die”. In effect, my path was supposed to pair me up with SYSKA, friend A with APATIA, and Friend B with TONN.

This is where all the trouble started due to partying.

Friend A did “Forging the Pact” alone, while I joined friend B with his, progressing my story with it. What this did was attach my story to friend B’s. My next quest hooked me up together with TONN.
After this part all 3 of us started doing our Stories together. Since we currently had 2 branches (APATIA, and TONN) there wasn’t any trouble yet, just us enjoying the stories. This all went well until “The Battle of Fort Trinity” which was a little bugged but doable. With the quest not starting we just kept repeating the story until Trahearne talked to us, and the second bug we noticed was the Risen Knights never stopped spawning, but it seems Anet put a temporary fix in the game where the story ignores this to progress the game.

We finished friend A’s part for “The Battle of Fort Trinity” and in effect was asked if we wanted to progress the game. Friend B was being lazy and accepted, this lead both of my friends into the next part of the story which was about Apatia, which had its roots in friend A’s earlier decision. Me being curious about what comes next for Tonn, decided to redo the battle of fort trinity to see what happens, but the next part of my Story was related to Syska, based on the roots of my decision way back then.

This is a little annoying if you aren’t aware of the reasons for the bug. I thought my story just bugged out and since then I’ve refused to do it hoping for an eventual fix. It was only recently that I learned the reason for it and have decided to sharing it just to see if it makes a difference. At first, we weren’t even aware that the greatest fear choice actually affected part of the story because the branch out came later on. We stupidly assumed it was race-dependent because friend A was human while friend B and I were Charr.

Anyway, I hope I helped inform some people from our personal experiences. If this helps Anet fix and improve how the Personal Story branches out that’s even better.

Some Guardian friends have mentioned it works flawlessly in sPvP. I always thought that the skill was working as intended but started doubting after my friends told me about the PvP experience.