Guild Wars 2

Guild: Forge Fire Society [F.F.S]
Server: Sanctum of Rall
Playstyle: PvX

Forge Fire Society was born out of the idea that all play styles could unite under one guild banner. We’re led by council, not a single guild leader. Each council member heads up his/her own house, which represent various play styles.

House Ardens is a care-free, PvX house that is focused on all aspects of the game.
House Ferro is a house of people dedicated to PvP, and organized gaming
House Ustura is for players who are interested in all aspects of GW2, and love to share knowledge and collaborate
House Semotus is our house for those who love GW2, but cannot always be available to play due to unpredictable real-life shedules.

The guild is actively recruiting strong advocates for community. We’re looking for people who will be more than just a name on a roster, but a part of our strong bonded group.

We offer:
-Comprehensive website/forums
-Ventrilo server (large capacity)
-24/7 Gathering and Magic find bonuses
-No restrictions on guild vault items (unless still in trial membership)
-All members may activate guild buffs (want a banner where you are? go for it!)
-Helpful, experienced players

for more information and to apply, please visit http://forge-fire.net

here’s my contribution: the sweetest sight after a few hours

This is a failure for sure. And I feel that a fix is possible, but doesn’t meet Anet’s requirements for it to be worth the man-hours necessary to fix it for the amount of players they perceive as both Affected by the issue, and unwilling to continue their story quest when it isn’t what they wanted.

Most people will eventually give in and do the story they didn’t ask for, begrudgingly.

I got the order I asked for, but since my girlfriend did not, we are not able to adventure together in the same story, and she doesn’t want to continue doing story quests, so I won’t be either.

Thread was moved to suggestions, but at this point it should still really be considered a BUG in the game that Anet refuses to address because it doesn’t affect enough people for them to care… sad really.

and now thanks to you arenanet, we cannot complete straights of devastation because the point of interest which REQUIRES your storyline to be completed. This is stupid Anet… you shouldn’t force this bug upon us, it isn’t good customer service at all. My girlfriend is really frustrated and almost doesn’t want to play anymore.

My girlfriend has said she refuses to do her story because it isn’t what she’s chosen. Out of solidarity, I am not doing my story either… it will forever hinder our characters, but I understand her convictions on this matter. This is her first MMO, and therefore her first character ever… there’s something special in that, and it shouldn’t be tainted like this.

awesome! thanks for the update.

there is more to do, and apparently you’re supposed to activate all of the chains in the next room. However, we did that last night and nothing really came of it… so i believe it is bugged, yes.

Xhaiden, go play something else then… perhaps something with a $40 cost for the box and a $15 a month cost for the rest of your life playing the game, instead of a $60 cost, and some carrots dangling that have NO EFFECT on your ability to play the game effectively. Please take your cries to the cry threads, and let us revel in the fact that this game takes EFFORT and TIME and DEDICATION like any good hobby should.

This game puts some things out of reach, and other things RIGHT IN YOUR FACE… the choice is totally your’s and you need to grow up, or move on.

it’s upsetting to hear people say “just give us stuff, don’t make us work for it”… go play another game then. I don’t want my favorite game to become a place where nobody has to work for anything… next thing you’ll say everyone should get legendaries, and jedi powers… grow up.

so our’s must be bugged then. it appears that there are torches next to all of our chains but the skelk is invulnerable no matter what we tried.

It is on the West side of Wyrmblood lake. We’ve been in here a while now and have no clue what to do. Here’s what we know so far:

1. the first room is all dark with skelks that are invulnerable. They do not like light, so if you put torches on the various braziers it will drive them to hide/despawn. (note: you can pick up torches to do this, but it will only last 2mins, so make sure to replenish so you don’t get caught on a ledge with nothing).

2.For us, the Priory member we’re supposed to be helping is dead, we don’t know if this is intentional… but he can’t be rezed.

3. we’ve tried lighting all of the braziers and checking if the chains can be interacted with, but none of them become interactable.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x211/MAUL0r/diorama.png

not my most proud work, but i did enjoy how my charr dressed as a jungle worm turned out
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x211/MAUL0r/charr.jpg

the problem with the guesting is fixed.

they have tools for making NPCs, and the NPC could be called “Order Squire” there… i thought of something that would be fine in 10seconds. The hard part would be migrating affected players to the order they actually chose… this would be (on the back-end) a shift in data. While im not familiar with their database structure, i’m guessing it is an entry with a value that tells the game which quest tables to access when progressing through the game. This is again, a very plausible fix, and I do not think it is unreasonable to at least research how many players are sitting, waiting, to see if it would be worth the investment to fix it.

I for one am waiting, as is my girlfriend.

I recently read the post from Anet refusing to fix the story bug for people who were unfairly forced into orders they did not choose. This is a HUGE disappointment, however, I do see the inherent problem with this…

A) if you have quested deeply into the order you were forced into, you now have rewards and story stuff that would make it extremely tough to swap you over.
B) this could likely lead to abusing customer service.

I get it, I see the issue… but I think it would be good of you to at least ASK if the people affected have continued with their personal story once they noticed (IE: didn’t even complete the first quest in their incorrect order).

This is the case for my girlfriend, who once she was aware that she was in Vigil when she wanted Shadows, stopped playing her story all together, and she and I have been waiting ever since for a resolution.

Let me be absolutely clear, we completed the choice, but have gone no further (this should be fixable).

Suggestion: Provide an NPC for one month which allows ONLY players who are passed the choice step, but have gone no further to switch their order. I think you’ll find that MANY people are in this state, and it would not be a difficult solution… it could even just be a “reset player to the choose your order quest” npc.

to quote the official description of the personal story:

Whether the stakes are epic or personal, we want players to tell their own story within the game environment, so we’ve provided them the tools to do just that.

Unfortunately, this bug has left many players feeling that this claim is no longer valid. I won’t be playing my story with my girlfriend, which is what we wanted, and even if she completes it, she will spend the entire time annoyed by the fact that she is ascending the ranks of The Vigil, not The Order of Whispers as she desired.

We’re already 80, and have been sitting on the first quest in our order storylines for weeks, and now Anet casually tells us that it is impossible to fix? That’s not the kind of community focus that I have come to enjoy about this game.

The same thing happen to my girlfriend. Today’s patch did not correct this.

Please provide an NPC to re-choose your order if you haven’t moved on from that step of your story (the step directly following your choice of order).

UPDATE: no change for my girlfriend and I. I chose Order of Whispers and she was in the instance with me. She ended up with Vigil.

It has been this way for several weeks.

Please provide an NPC to allow people who are on the first step of their order quest to either reset back to the story step where they make the choice, or to simply change their minds. It is OK if once they do the first step that they’re locked in IMO… they’re already receiving rewards for that order.

this would not be an exploitable situation, and would allow someone to easily correct being put into an order they didn’t originally want.

Kingslayer.1784:

1. Character affected: Tengi
2. Character grouped with and not affected: Ziranya (also the group leader)
3. We both have been doing the personal story together since the start of the game.
4. We were both on the step called: The Trap
5. This is where my personal story screwed up and went to step: Suspicous Activity (48)
6. Ziranya personal story correctly went to step: Stealing Secrets (i don’t know the quest level)
7. As the leader Ziranya picked Order of Whispers, as I was not able to pick as I was not the leader. This the point it did seem to screw up or right after this.

I am including some screen shots from both of our characters so you can see what our story lines look like:

Ziranya – Party leader and correct personal story line:
http://dbsicee01.infor.com/images/gw001.jpg
Tengi – Party follower and screwed up personal story line:
http://dbsicee01.infor.com/images/gw001a.jpg

same issue with my girlfriend and i.

Character affected: Bright Wanderer
Personal story chosen by instance host: Whispers (30)
Order given to non-host character: Vigil

I was hosting an instance on the same step as my girlfriend and we both wanted to choose whispers as our order. I chose it and she accepted progression (since there was no “this is the vigil” text on the quest title), and ended up in the Vigil story. We wanted to share our story quests, and now we cannot. Is there a way to fix this? for now, we’ve stopped story questing until we hear back.