Is Gwen Broken?

Hamfast

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2007

I started a new character in Pre-Searing, having not visited in at least a year.

I have given Gwen a shower of flowers, and she has not asked me for the Small Girl's Cape or Flute that I bought for her yet. A couple of my Guildies are having the same problem.

Since Eye of the North came out, have they changed the requirements for getting her to fork over a Tapestry Shred? Asking around in Local chat, some people HAVE gotten theirs, and they say all you need to do is give her the usual. But like I said, she never asks for the stuff I bought her - just the flowers.

Do I need to choose my secondary Profession first? Or complete a certain Quest?

(Sorry if this is a repeated thread... I skimmed a few pages back and didn't see anything.)

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

Nope, I started 2 new chars in Pre over the past few weeks and they went the same way: Fetched her broken flute from the river bank and gave her 3 or 4 Irises (4 for my first char, 3 for the second). She needed no flute nor cape. Gwen is cheap.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt
...Fetched her broken flute from the river bank ...
Could be the problem - the OP never mentioned the broken flute.

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

There's the ancient bug still around that if you party up with someone who have already bought the flute, cape and all that stuff for Gwen, it counts as if you had already done that too.

I'd recommend getting the Tapestry Shred before partying up with anyone, just in case.

Mortal Amongst Mere Gods

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

Riding the spiral

W/

If you didn't do the quest to get her Broken Flute from near the skale down the river, that may be why. Otherwise, I'm not sure. Maybe she's pissed that you didn't save Ascalon in the end. XD

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Oh thank god, i thought It was just me. I bought taht stupid cape, and that stupid flute and she wouldn't take them! i kept giving her flower, after flower and she wouldn't give me the stupid tapesty shred.

Meat Axe

Meat Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Brisbane, Australia

R/

If you have flowers in your inventory, she will just keep taking them until you have none. So if you have more than 3 or 4 flowers, drop the rest and see if that works.

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

The tapestry thread is not needed for anything anyways.

In GW:EN all you need is one of the following to access her special quest.

Tapestry Shred
Tatered Cape
Broken Flute
Red Iris Flower(which are abundant in GW:EN)

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Crom The Pale
The tapestry thread is not needed for anything anyways.

In GW:EN all you need is one of the following to access her special quest.

Tapestry Shred
Tatered Cape
Broken Flute
Red Iris Flower(which are abundant in GW:EN)
Not true. The quest "Then and Now, Here and There" can only be obtained with the Tapestry Shred.

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rathcail
Not true. The quest "Then and Now, Here and There" can only be obtained with the Tapestry Shred.
Cape works too, I think. Cant remember. You are correct though in correcting Crom in that you do need more than just the Irises to get both quests from Gwen.

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aera Lure
Cape works too, I think. Cant remember.
The quest dialogue for Then and Now, Here and There specifically mentions you giving the Tapestry Shred back to Gwen.

Fire and Pain is the one that accepts several different items to start the quest.

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mortal Amongst Mere Gods
If you didn't do the quest to get her Broken Flute from near the skale down the river, that may be why. Otherwise, I'm not sure. Maybe she's pissed that you didn't save Ascalon in the end. XD
we were already punished for that... please, don't bring that up again, such BAAAAD memories of that horrific day..... *shudders*

Vinraith

Vinraith

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2006

You don't even need the cape. Fetch her broken flute, then give her the real one, then give her 4 red iris flowers and you're done. It takes all of 15 minutes if you know what you're doing (that's making a new character, getting the tap shred, getting a mesmer secondary and passing to post-searing where you can stick it in storage)). Tap shreds aren't customized either, I found all this out by farming them for my old Proph characters after GWEN came out and it became apparent that I needed them. I've personally always found little Gwen profoundly annoying, so I was not in the habit of buying her things (or allowing her to tag along at all) in the old days.

VinnyRidira

VinnyRidira

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

Ridirian Guides

W/Me

I set up a pre char and partied with a guildie and could not get a shred. I then restarted and got the broken flute, bought a flute and gave her 3 or 4 irises to get the shred. Went post and gave it to the char I wanted to get it for. Went back in again and did it again for my other prophecy char. simple.

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

oh man! I trash all those long time ago ... GRRRRR

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Still no :
"Dude, she's a mesmer.
In PvE.

/endthread" - reply ??!?!??!


/faints

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by upier
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Still no :
"Dude, she's a mesmer.
In PvE.

/endthread" - reply ??!?!??!


/faints
She's also a mesmer in PvP too.

Hamfast

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mortal Amongst Mere Gods
If you didn't do the quest to get her Broken Flute from near the skale down the river, that may be why. Otherwise, I'm not sure. Maybe she's pissed that you didn't save Ascalon in the end. XD
No good. Gwen is the one who gives the Quest to cross the river and go get the broken flute, right? She's never offered that Quest to me. (Or if she did, I zapped through it and promptly forgot it. Hardly a Quest worth remembrance...) I searched around the other side, and there's nothing there of course.

The only person I have teamed up with in Pre-Searing was one of the Guildies I mentioned who is also having the same problem. And that was just long enough to get my RES Signet. Is it possible HE teamed with someone that already had the Shred, so HE ran into the old bug that made his game think he completed it too? And then passed the bug on to me? OOP! ACK! THPPTT! That would suck.

When I look at Gwen, she IS wearing a cape already... does she always have one? Or does she start without one until you buy one for her? I can't recall if I did the RES Signet before talking to Gwen for the first time.

I've already got both Gwen's Flute (x2) and the Rose Focus. Mainly I'm trying to help out some Guildies who would like their own. Getting her to cough up a Tapestry Shred is harder than the GW:EN Quest she gives!

Shakti

Shakti

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Home...

Vier Reiter [Vier]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamfast
ssed the bug on to me? OOP! ACK! THPPTT! That would suck.

When I look at Gwen, she IS wearing a cape already... does she always have one? Or does she start without one until you buy one for her? I can't recall if I did the RES Signet before talking to Gwen for the first time.

I've already got both Gwen's Flute (x2) and the Rose Focus. Mainly I'm trying to help out some Guildies who would like their own. Getting her to cough up a Tapestry Shred is harder than the GW:EN Quest she gives!
yup, you have the Gwen plague. If you see her in cape before you've given it to her, you were once partied with someone who had. Happened to me on 2 occasions before I realized what was up (this was waaay before GW:EW though. Only way to get a shred then is reroll and do it BEFORE you party with ANYONE, sorry. You can always keep this char and try again with another

Vamis Threen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

E/Mo

She shouldn't be wearing the cape.... meaning you have partied with someone who already (was thought to have) fulfilled the requirements. Whoops. Start again. But like Vinraith says, it shouldn't take more than 15 mins to repeat.

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakti
this was waaay before GW:EW though.
This really is the oldest bug I know, as it happened to my very first character back in January 2006. I suppose Anet thought it's not that important to fix.

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vamis Threen
She shouldn't be wearing the cape.... meaning you have partied with someone who already (was thought to have) fulfilled the requirements. Whoops. Start again. But like Vinraith says, it shouldn't take more than 15 mins to repeat.
Oh, that's just a pain in the ass. That's why I hate Gwen. She's a nuisance in pre, and a whiny angst teen in GWEN. Seriously, most hatable character ever.

arsie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2007

N/

I once had a character that must've given Gwen every single red iris flower in existence, and still she didn't put out.