Curse

Splatter Mcnasty · Dec 26, 2006, 07:17 PM // 19:17

I started a Dervish over the weekend. As soon as I got into Kamadan, I got a ferry to Consulate Docks, bought max armor, then got a ferry to Lions Arch. From there, I did Mhenlos Quest, to get over into Factions. In Factions, I did all the quests in Kaineng Center (3k xp reward each!). After doing every single quest in and around Kaineng Center and Marketplace, I then went back to Prophecies and worked my way through the desert and ascended.

Keep in mind that I had not yet received a 2ndary profession, because I left Nightfall as soon as I was able so that I could level up faster. Here is a screenshot of me in the Fissure of Woe, right after I had ascended in the desert (notice the lack of a secondary profession)

After that, I went back to Nightfall and began doing all the quests for Sunspear promotion points. I have done every single quest, but am unable to reach the rank of Second Spear (175 sunspear points) because the quests only give you a total of 145 points. The reason why I cannot progress in the story any further is because none of the Sunspear Scouts will give me bounties! They tell me that I am too high level and to go elsewhere to kill things more appropriate to my level...

So as of right now, I am locked out of 2 towns (Blacktide Den, and other one south of the Cliffs).

ANet: If you ever read this, you need to do the following: add a few more quests in Kamadan which have Sunspear promotion point rewards, or stop the ferrying so that nobody else hits this wall....

I wish there was some way for me to move ahead in the storyline, but it looks like my only choice is to abandon Nightfall on this character and play through Prophecies and Factions, or just delete him and start over....

random.name · Dec 26, 2006, 08:20 PM // 20:20

Yeah, this is a wellknown problem.

Nilator · Dec 26, 2006, 08:32 PM // 20:32

Shouldn't you just farm some points BEFORE you leave?

natuxatu · Dec 26, 2006, 08:43 PM // 20:43

Still no game especially a MMORPG should make you stuck in your tracks. They should fix at least one of the things he did to stop this from happening.

Apparently it's well known but I haven't heard of it before... that sucks.

Antheus · Dec 26, 2006, 08:44 PM // 20:44

What's with this powerleveling mentality? In Guild Wars of all the games.

And yea, delete and restart.

Antheus · Dec 26, 2006, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by natuxatu

Still no game especially a MMORPG should make you stuck in your tracks. They should fix at least one of the things he did to stop this from happening.

Apparently it's well known but I haven't heard of it before... that sucks.

From OP:

"As soon as I got into Kamadan, I got a ferry to Consulate Docks, bought max armor, then got a ferry to Lions"

That is an exploit. If you exploit, you can get stuck. You're not supposed to get ferried at level 2 to another continent.

At least GW gives you a nice option to skip the content if you're power player, but it doesn't change the fact that you're illegally bypassing the storyline.

This isn't gamebreaking, so they allow it. But it's not supported.

If anything, vote for removal of ferrying, not for falling into a know issue when bypassing the required storyline.

Overall, more players benefit from this, than the unfortunate few that feel the need to be level 20 before leaving the island.

sage tank · Dec 26, 2006, 09:06 PM // 21:06

Just delete the character, learn a lesson in try to cheat your way through. If you are going to cheat, at least learn to cheat the right way

Carinae · Dec 26, 2006, 09:32 PM // 21:32

Triple check wiki. There are a lot of quests, you only need 2-3 more....

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Quests_...tfall%29#Istan

natuxatu · Dec 26, 2006, 09:50 PM // 21:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antheus

From OP:

"As soon as I got into Kamadan, I got a ferry to Consulate Docks, bought max armor, then got a ferry to Lions"

That is an exploit. If you exploit, you can get stuck. You're not supposed to get ferried at level 2 to another continent.

At least GW gives you a nice option to skip the content if you're power player, but it doesn't change the fact that you're illegally bypassing the storyline.

This isn't gamebreaking, so they allow it. But it's not supported.

If anything, vote for removal of ferrying, not for falling into a know issue when bypassing the required storyline.

Overall, more players benefit from this, than the unfortunate few that feel the need to be level 20 before leaving the island.

I know I don't support ferrying at all. That's why I specificly said they should fix ONE of the tings he's doing.. though I didn't specificy.

Karlos · Dec 26, 2006, 10:45 PM // 22:45

If you go to Issnur Isles or Mehtani Keys you can take bounties even if you're level 20. My level 20 characters from Tyria and Cantha are able to take those bounties.

Keira Darkwind · Dec 26, 2006, 11:29 PM // 23:29

You can't access those areas without having beat Jokanur Diggings, I believe.

Ensign · Dec 26, 2006, 11:36 PM // 23:36

There are exactly 165 Sunspear Points worth of quests that you can get before you can do the Jokanur Diggings mission. You need 175. Really annoying.

MercenaryKnight · Dec 27, 2006, 02:05 AM // 02:05

Do consulate docks mission in someones party, go to the other side and try to find sunspear farming bounties there to be able to get them back from main island quests.

Or join a prophecies/ factions char and do the new mission at champions dawn which gives you 4 points each one you slay. I got like 600 sunspear points re-doing the mission 2-3 times.

Mark Nevermiss · Dec 27, 2006, 02:50 AM // 02:50

Somehow I doubt this will work.

some guy · Dec 27, 2006, 03:21 AM // 03:21

Guess Anet never thought about people doing this skipping arround thing, send a letter to them, they will probaly fix this soon.

sevendash · Dec 27, 2006, 03:33 AM // 03:33

Skipping around doesn't matter. I have a lv12 going for Survivor in Kamadan, and I don't have any other cities mapped. No ferries, never even been in a team with another person. Luckily I farmed a good 60-70 points before reaching 8, so I should be okay, but this is very much possible to run into without using any exploits, and should get fixed.

Crom The Pale · Dec 27, 2006, 06:37 AM // 06:37

the simplest fix would be to set the farming based on your sunspear rank.

ie: you can collect points for lvl 1-3 on the first few maps and for rank 4-5 you have to farm in the keys, on the main land anything up to torment lands would be for lvls 6-7 and tormanet should last until maxed sunspear rank.

Ultimate Shogun · Dec 27, 2006, 07:15 AM // 07:15

This same thing happened to me with my ele. Hes stuck in Istan. he needs 12 more points to get any farther. I cant farm and i did every quest possible. I would delete him but that night when i leveled him up in factions i went and got my fow armor...

Jeff Highwind · Dec 27, 2006, 07:22 AM // 07:22

I rolled Yuki specifically to be a survivor. Despite grabbing a ferry to the Docks, I did all the Istan quests well before ferrying to Tyria and Cantha. The glitch can be avoided if you get ferried to Docks but you have to be REALLY cautious.

Nickhimself · Dec 27, 2006, 09:25 AM // 09:25

Sorry, but this really is your fault. Why weren't you able to just wait until the story moved you to where you needed to be, rather than be extremely impatient?

I mean, seriously. This game is easy enough as is...there's no reason to power level.