baelydon.9604

Now almost February of 2023... and this is STILL bugged? WOW. I catch a fish, it goes in my bag, and then what? Double clicking on it while standing next to Aurene, standing on her head, or inside of her... nothing happens except I get some materials. OH, and THERE IS NO FISH ON THE BEACH! HOWEVER... As Dangerosive.6973 stated... if you fish as soon as you get off the boat, while Taimi is making fun of you for being arrested, the quest progressed for me. You'll know it's working, if you end up standing on the beach with the fish in your arms. If there's no fish in your arms, don't waste your time trying to feed Aurene. When the quest says it progressed, wait for Caithe & Marjory to go into the cave, follow them with the fish in your arms. DO NOT TALK TO MARJORY despite the quest telling you to... just, stand there and let Aurene finish talking about when she was younger blah blah blah... Marjory will continue to have the green star over her head even when all is said and done. Eventually, you'll see the exit icon in the lower right corner of your screen and the quest will STILL show you need to talk to Marjory... you can't though, it won't do anything... So just exit and BOOM, you're onto the next quest!

There's a handful of items with missing names now... various weapons, consumables, armor. Clicking on a nameless item just ends up loading endlessly.

If you find anything out one way or the other, please let me know! If I can find the time, I have several other characters that have also not yet progressed that far as well. I could try running through on some of them and see what happens as well. To clarify though... no completion/reward window had popped up inside the instance nor outside of it after I exited it. I did notice the white box + green star dialogue box over Rytlock's head and thought maybe I needed to talk to him to complete the mission. I was able to interact with him like normal & start the dialogue, saw other players running around, and chat had remained fluid both during & after my instance. After talking to Rytlock, I simply logged out to the character selection screen & then immediately went right back into the game on him just as quickly—which is when the completion/reward window appeared. (Sorry, wasn't sure if I had explained myself clearly, so just in case I thought I'd reiterate. And I'm not saying it couldn't have been a disconnect either, only that I didn't notice anything else unusual... aside from the completion window not showing up.) Thank you! If I do get a chance to run through this on another character, I'll at least update with what happens. It's probably just a one time fluke though, that's usually how it goes. 😉

First, I did the whole scrying pool thing, came out, and nothing. In the upper right corner of my screen, it said "Darkrime Delves" & "Complete!"... but that was it, nothing, no completion window, no progression, no prompt to "view in journal"... nothing. So on a hunch I simply logged out and right back in again, and instantly got the completion window, accepted my reward... AND THEN... ...Taimi in a cinematic talking about how we've killed 5 elder dragons, etc etc etc... the prologue to "Convergence" for End of Dragons!!! Something I've yet to get to. Thanks for the spoilers ANet! Completing Ch. 2 of Icebrood Saga jumped me forward to the EoD expansion. (And yes, I own/unlocked ALL available content already, including all of IbS, so it SHOULD have immediately prompted my journal, to begin Ch.3/"No Quarter" of IbS, instead of skipping ahead to the next expansion! It's not only confusing as all getout, but it's also frustrating to have parts of the game spoiled like that. (Despite my having been playing for ~7 years, this is my first time playing beyond PoF). I'm sure some players will understand, and inevitably some won't. Again, just thought I'd put this out there. PS. Opening my mail was a mistake as well... because the 2 letters I had mentioned the Char civil war and other events I had yet to experience first hand. Thanks! But I prefer the endings of stories to be, you know... at the end.

It is now November 2022... and this is STILL not fixed? It's obviously random and doesn't affect everyone, suggesting it's likely a client-side issue... I tried doing this on two different alts now just today alone, and each time... cutscene with no characters, no audio, no nothing. I alt-F4'd out of the game on each alt, restarted the quest, still nothing. Eventually I had to just give up and "skip to the end". This really sucks, because I just came back to the game after several years away, and I wanted to play through the entirety of the story for all races again because I've practically forgotten everything.

Well, I finally did this part of the story late last night on my Warrior/Sellbreaker... I died a good 2+ dozen times, had to WP back to the main town a couple time to repair my armor... as I don't have any repair canisters anymore, or to simply take a break... because I started to get tired of doing this. Some issues: 1) Canache or Rytlock will simply run off at random mobs, and they run VERY VERY far away. Eventually, usually, they come running back, and with them... half the map. 2) Mobs will aggro from extremely far away. I mean... really far away! 3) Some mobs that aggro from far away become "immune", although they have no boons that make them immune. Sometimes, these mobs 'rubber band' but not in the lag kind of way... they run to me then run away, then run to me, then run away.... back and forth, and each time they run away, they become immune and insta-heal to full. 4) After dying-dying and choosing to start from a checkpoint, no matter how far you get, you start from the beginning, minus all the NPC's you've already killed. Everything else is supposedly 'reset'. Well, I made it to the last area, where you fight all the officers and then ultimately the boss. I died all the way back there and restarted or reset to the checkpoint. As per various times in the past, I'd take this moment to collect myself, use the bathroom...whatever, so I did. I came back not even 2 minutes later and found myself dead, at the checkpoint, with pretty much EVERY npc on top of me. Ok, reset to checkpoint and DON'T go afk. Within ~10 seconds of respawning, every single mob from the very far back of this instance came running to me, when I'm standing all the way at the very beginning. This happened 3 times in a row, I died so quickly that I felt I had no choice but to exit the story and restart it from scratch, it was the only way to get those mobs to actually fully reset! 5) Near the end, you have to kill all the officers, and >then< the last boss is suppose to spawn. Well, The boss kept spawning about the same time as the 1st, sometimes the 2nd officer died. This left me with a decent sized group of veterans and adds, plus the boss to fight. Yeah nope.... too many. For some reason, as soon as that 1st or 2nd "officer" (veteran) hit the ground, ALL of the remaining mobs ran to the center of that round platform, my character and Ritlock/Npc had their little "what is that thing" moment, and then I got stuck fighting ALL of them combined. Again... yeah nope. I died more times on that part alone than anything else COMBINED. So, after many failed attempts and several FULL resets, as in exiting the instance/story, and then restarting it from scratch... I got lucky... I managed to kill all of the officers, aside from the very last one and 3 adds, before the boss spawned. **That part right there, I had tried this from different angles, trying to stay as far away from the platform as possible, I tried different skills (have to love warriors for their knock downs and push backs!) to keep mobs anchored so they wouldn't run away... it didn't seem to make any difference, they just like running to that platform before the objective is finished. I tried pulling mobs with my rifle, didn't matter, the mob I shot somehow grabbed any nearby mobs, even if those mobs were more than 1200.. units? Yards? Meters? Fack inches? lol (whatever the unit of measurement is in this game?) I gave up on trying anything than my normal weapons, because it just didn't make any difference. I eventually was able to clear this and finish it.... but it seemed like that was pure luck more than skill as the issues happened in a different sequence this last time, and in the right sequence that I only died 4 times but still cleared everything. I recorded the entire last attempt, it took me 30 minutes or so and had 4 deaths... I'm not going to post it however... I tend to swear a lot, and editing is just not worth my time. I'll record it on my next toon, but without a microphone attached! :) Lastly, if someone claims to not have had any of these issues, awesome! That doesn't mean that those of us that have had issues, are "doing it wrong". That doesn't help.