AHHH! Unable to progress in storyline - literally impossible

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....

Yeah, this is a wellknown problem.

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

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.

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

And yea, delete and restart.

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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

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

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

Somehow I doubt this will work.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

The bounties have two limitations, both limitations were known since day 1 of the preview. Limitation one is sunspear rank, limitation two is your level vs monster level. i.e. if the highest level monsters of the species in the bounty are too love for your level to gain XP from them, the scout will not give you the bounty. This is why you can take the skale and insect bounty in Issnur Ises but not the Plant and Corsair ones. So, getting too high in level was a mistake if you still needed the two quests that require you to achieve a specific rank in the Sunspear track.

I honestly do not see this as a situation ANet even needs to address. No offense to the original poster. The two restrictions on bounties make sense. If the allowed level 20 chraracters to take bounties killing level 2 monsters, think of the abuses.

Splatter, if you message me IG, I might be able to take you to Jokanur Diggings, and Blacktide Den. I'm not sure, though, it's only a guess. Just add me to your friends list and whisper me.

this just tells you that you shouldnt be ferrying your way around.

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I love how people criticize the way I choose to play, and comment on how this is such a well-known problem. I had never heard about it, nor read about it in these forums, so I posted this to warn other people who might choose to take the same route i did.

But, as Ensign confirmed, there is no way for me to continue with that character, so i deleted him and started over...no big loss.

the simple solution is stop the consulate docks ferry (for max armour).

its clearly not supposed to happen, its an exploit.

and it messes up the game.

just say no to ferries.

Ferry to Docks is no more an exploit than running to droks.

The only people that can do it are people that have other characters that are well into the game. It is totally useless to the first time player because they wont have the money or the materials needed to benefit from it.

I don't see any harm in it. The best fix would be to set the bounties on sunspear level as mentioned before, or add enough quests to the game to cover the required sunspear promotions without doing any bounties.

First, other people being ferried to the docks did not screw up my paragon as he played through the game normally.

Second, you can get into Blacktide Den the back way (go through the First City and enter through there) unless they changed that. If you are level 20, then there's not much reason why you shouldn't be on-par with the foreigners coming in. If they don't need that stuff, then I don't think you should either. I don't know why people think it screws up the game by doing stuff like that. It's not like they can do the Docks mission (as it will not let you until you progress there). Adding new quests would seem ok, but yes the easiest for them is to prevent people from ferrying I suppose. Who knows, maybe there's someone that thinks Elona sucks and just wants to take their dervish over and do Tyria or Cantha.

Ignore the holier then thou 'ferries are the devil's work' people, as they must still be playing through the game for the first time and find its plot absolutely enthralling.

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