Question - Progression Bugs (1 Viewer)

[Vrakenor]

Hi All,

Just a quick question about Progression Quests that are bugged. A little background (context). I have been going back to previous expansions because some of them I have never done or been too before and also to get the Hunter achievements done for the bags and AA's. Anyways I figured since I was here I might as well do the Progression quests as well, for the AA's.

I have been in EOK and I got everything completed up to this quest: Rocks Boom for Twigslam in Frontier Mtns. The problem starts with NOT being able to pick up a ground spawn item to complete the quest. Namely a Hyper-condensed Coal that you get from a basket in a cave. I get to the cave and click on the basket and it comes back with a message that "You have already picked this item up", so I check my inventory, nope not there, I check my other characters, nope. So I start searching on line for an answer. Come to find out, this has already been reported as a bug in, get this, in 2014. Sheeeesh. I did the obligatory submit a ticket and was told that there was nothing they could do and to submit a bug report. Gahhhh!. Stupid Daybreak. 10 years old bug and not a fix in sight. I even asked them to just put the item in my bags so I could just complete the quest for heavens sake. NO CAN DO asshole. And since this is a progression quest you can't go on to finish the progression for the whole damn expansion. This is one of those quests that is REQUIRED to get follow on quests. So, yes, I can still do the Hunter stuff for bags but not the rest. I have quite given up on completing the expansion as a result.

So my question here is: Is there any other expansions that have this same problem where one quest is bugged and not completable and totally cock blocks you from completing the progression of the expansion?

I would prefer to avoid them if there are. This is just one of those little things that kind of stick in your craw ya know? It makes me think to myself; why do I bother, and then I say to myself; well what else are you going to do? Lol, nothing...

Vrak

 

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Hi All,

Just a quick question about Progression Quests that are bugged. A little background (context). I have been going back to previous expansions because some of them I have never done or been too before and also to get the Hunter achievements done for the bags and AA's. Anyways I figured since I was here I might as well do the Progression quests as well, for the AA's.

I have been in EOK and I got everything completed up to this quest: Rocks Boom for Twigslam in Frontier Mtns. The problem starts with NOT being able to pick up a ground spawn item to complete the quest. Namely a Hyper-condensed Coal that you get from a basket in a cave. I get to the cave and click on the basket and it comes back with a message that "You have already picked this item up", so I check my inventory, nope not there, I check my other characters, nope. So I start searching on line for an answer. Come to find out, this has already been reported as a bug in, get this, in 2014. Sheeeesh. I did the obligatory submit a ticket and was told that there was nothing they could do and to submit a bug report. Gahhhh!. Stupid Daybreak. 10 years old bug and not a fix in sight. I even asked them to just put the item in my bags so I could just complete the quest for heavens sake. NO CAN DO asshole. And since this is a progression quest you can't go on to finish the progression for the whole damn expansion. This is one of those quests that is REQUIRED to get follow on quests. So, yes, I can still do the Hunter stuff for bags but not the rest. I have quite given up on completing the expansion as a result.

So my question here is: Is there any other expansions that have this same problem where one quest is bugged and not completable and totally cock blocks you from completing the progression of the expansion?

I would prefer to avoid them if there are. This is just one of those little things that kind of stick in your craw ya know? It makes me think to myself; why do I bother, and then I say to myself; well what else are you going to do? Lol, nothing...

Vrak

Yes. Off and on there are quests that get bugged and prevent you from continuing, as per eq tradition.

LS had a broken quest in progression for a couple of months

 

[Redmonkey]

There is always the chance of any task/mission bugging out. But there is a higher chance of the error on the side of the players.

I show I completed this one just last year so it is still doable.

When you were looking for the coal did you use your "find" key, outputfile inventory and check the gate? Failing all that I see the quest is repeatable so I would drop it and try it again.

This is how you check the gate to see if your item is in any house:

Go to the gate in the lobby that leads to the neighborhood

Click the gate and then click the "my items" button at the top

Now you will have a listing of every neighborhood you have an item in.

Zone into each one, go to the eye/spring. click "my items" again

Now you will have a listing of every property you have an item in.
Even if you are not the owner or co owner.

This will show if it is in your guild hall or someone else's guild hall also.

Then go to that plot or house and look at the items in it to see your item(s)

 

[Vrakenor]

RedMonkey

Thanks for that concise list of things to try. I tried the drop the quest thing and reacquire it again thing first before I even submitted a ticket. Then I tried to pick up the item with all my toons, no help there and it came back with the same message about how I already had it.

I tried all your suggestions, all the while holding my breath that it was in my guild house under my items. Alas I turned blue for no reason at all lol. It wasn't in my Guild House, and I even tried checking with all 6 toons. I even exited the GH and ran around the plot lol.

Anyways thanks again for the effort. This damn game just makes me ask "Why does it have to make things sooo hard?

Vrak

 

[Algar]

A few months back there was an issue in cotf for a couple of months... couldn't throw the pumpkin bomb thing and you were stopped cold on the second quest of the expansion. (it is fixed now).
Had to skip doing the expansion. Kinda lame. Sorry it's happening.

 

[Redmonkey]

Glad you at least tried because your original question was what other quests might have similar bugs and many times it can be cleared up regardless of posts saying otherwise. And I know those lists from clicking on the gate and outputfiles are a pain to check thru but it's one way to cover all possibilities, like friend's houses etc.

Not sure if you have done all the EOK quests yet but a lot of players have issues getting quests in EOK especially the ones in Lcea. This is almost always an issue of the quest window not open enough, or the update spot is just a fraction off where players look. Easy to fix. Just a heads up.

Puzzled by "running around the plot" the output files for guild, real estate, inventory etc and all those would cover those areas without physically looking.

 

[Vrakenor]

Redmonkey

Lol, the whole "running around the plot" was nothing more than "hopeful thinking" on my part, please disregard. The Outputfile was really the easiest part. Loaded it in Notepad++ and did a search, easy.

I didn't have any trouble with Lceanium quests, got them all done, same with Scorched Woods. I had to redo the quest with the guy at the top of the giant fort, but that was my bad. Fixed it by dropping quest and restating from scratch. I do realize that a lot of times it is the user's fault, not talking to the right NPC, wrong dialog/miss spelled dialog, not reading the quest and following what it says to do. But the game itself doesn't really help and the support team doesn't seem to want to help at all. <shrug> products of a 25 year old game.

I am actually relieved that there don't seem to be many other known bugged progression quests out there. I just started looking at RoS as my next place to quest in. I have never seen this new content and am quite enjoying it. It has really made me slow down and see the sights, so to speak. I have to keep reminding myself that this game, in particular, is more of a marathon than a sprint. And that the actual reason to play is to enjoy it, and not see how fast you can get to the end.

But as far as EoK quests are concerned, is it true that there are actually 2 different progression paths in EoK? One for Scorched Woods/Chardok, and one for Frontier/Droga? If there is then I am saved lol. I will research further to find out.

Again, thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

Vrak

 

[Vrakenor]

Well after further research I found this out:

There are indeed 2 paths of progression to EoK. One is Scorched Woods/Chardok and the other is Frontier Mnts/Droga.

However you HAVE to complete BOTH before you are allowed to do the 3 Kor-Sha pre missions and then Kor-Sha itself.

So, needless to say, if you can't complete both paths for whatever reason, then it is senseless to continue on. It's kind of disappointing really, after spending so much time here already and not being able to complete the whole thing. All because I can't loot one stinking item...sheesh. <shrug>

So I am going to finish the Rares in Droga (good timing with the bonusses huh?) (already have all the ones in FM done) and get the bag and then on to RoS. Hopefully I have better luck there.

Vrak