mamapapaxp.9203

Agree with all sentiments. I have, for the first time ever, leveled a character to 80 with no boosting - just following my personal story path and completing maps along the way. I have maxed the new 'xp' bar, having just acquired the fiery power core to a big bomb to use in my story's next chapter and now, with every single mob I kill this damnable pop-up is driving me crazy. I am new to GW2 but not MMORPGs and will not be dictated to when and where I must go if I can experience the 'history' and lore of the game world more naturally. I want to meet characters at the appropriate time and place and BE a part of the world's history. I do not want to be directed to the Jungles of Maguuma to go meet with an old friend i've never met and have them talk about 'that time we slew a dragon, eh? Shame about your old partner getting his head bitten off...' only to then go and meet with my partner back in my 'old' storyline, feeling guilty about now sending him into battle against said dragon. WTF?! No. I may have paid for the expansions, (only because they were on offer and you can't pass up a good deal,) but I would rather go back to WoW than be shown this level of contempt by the devs. If i'd have known in advance, I would have saved myself the purchase price and time wasted leveling. To clarify, I have no mount, no glider, only 3 Elite skills trained - which are not yet in use - and 9 Central Tyria Mastery points earned through playing. (Of course I can do nothing with these points, according to the Masteries tab, until I go to the Heart of Maguuma or the Crystal Desert and complete expansion story material.)All other Skills & Specializations are fully trained. I have completed Chapter 6 of my story and am about to do 'Breaking the Bone Ship'. I have gone nowhere near LW, HoT or PoF content and have no intention to do so; an OG player would not have had access to that content yet, and I want to experience the stories in order, as closely as the current game version allows. Could anyone clarify exactly how I might try the macro from 7 posts earlier? Is it a windows macro or some kind of in-game macro? It looks like my only hope to keep playing the game!

March 23rd 2020, bug persists. Rather than try the lengthy solution of killing everything first, I tried the method first posted by Roshtaak.3129:Started the dialog with Tonn, immediately ran through all bats, spiders, bugs and Risen until reaching first base. (I had to Benny Hill a few Risen in circles round the base of the tower before Tonn appeared, but appear he did and dutifully blew it up.Still ignoring all the Risen and/or Krait, I ran straight to the second tower. Tonn appeared almost instantaneously this time. I left him setting the charges and laughing at his own jokes while I ran the gauntlet back along the beach and through the caves.I then tried to avoid combat on the last slope, getting to the third tower, (failing miserably) but noticed as I got closer to the tower that Tonn had re-appeared again and was trying out new material (it was still bad, he should definitely stick to demolitions.) As soon as the last tower was down, the last phase triggered and three minutes later when the last wave (concluding with the pair of Krait from the water) was cleared, Tonn finally got serious and the scenario was complete! At. Long. Last.Roughly five minutes in all...