Giants give no progress sometimes in Mountain of Flame

robai

Possible bug 1: Giants sometimes give no progress at all (no idea when it happens, probably during map lag, but it's not very rare, it happens like 10% of time).
Possible bug 2: usually a Giant gives +18% progress (for comparison, BHE gives the usual +10%). The amount is probably too high, but I do like it a lot (at least it compensates the bug 1).

robai

Killed 2 Giants (Commanders) and got no progress for Taming the Fire quest:


I was on tank (Barbarian/Sentinel), then changed loadout to Dps (Barbarian/Blademaster) and the next Giant gave me 15% progress.
I could be wrong, but it looks like lower dps toons have higher chance to encounter this bug.
Later my Cleric/Arbiter also got 0 progress for Taming the Fire quest from one Giant.

So, it's not a rare bug.

Any plan to fix this annoying bug?
Now I understand why some players don't want to do Giants. Below is another reason.

Giants sometimes drop items, but they drop on the ground and you have to pick it up manually from the ground: got 4 Pants (2000 IL) and couple fashion items this way.
This is such a stupid design, because it's so easy to miss such rewards.
Please never do such important drops on the ground, those should go to your inventory automatically, like you get stuff from HEs using Ctrl+F.

salidor

its the usual mobbing of (solo) tank and healer in campain stuff.

You need to be in group with an solid DPS to get activity from giants low dps also dont get activity (i once had a 30k dps in my group) or use your dps loadout (if you dont be a paladin like me :x).

jana

Feel lucky I have never gotten anything from killing the giants and you should not have to be in a party to get it either.

plasticbat

jana#2651 said:

Feel lucky I have never gotten anything from killing the giants and you should not have to be in a party to get it either.

Which giant did you refer to? Do you mean commander? Commander is the one who gives you currency and once a blue moon drops something to pick up. Also, progress of a quest. You don't need to be in the party to get all three of them. You need to be in a 'group' of people to join force to kill the commander unless your character is very powerful and can solo it. Even that it will not be efficient and it will take a long while.

robai

Just saw today's patch notes:
https://www.playneverwinter.com/en/news-details/11570699

Unfortunately the bug about "Commanders sometimes not giving any progress for Taming the Fire quest" isn't fixed yet.
At least an explanation about whether it's an actual bug or WAI (working as intended) would be nice.
In case it's for some reason WAI (it would be a really bad design though), it would be nice to know the exact mechanics in this case.

robai

This bug is not fixed yet.

jana

It isnt fixed yet, unless your in a party you wont get credit for it, which makes no sense because they are a lot of work to defeat by yourself, I can't always do it, but when I do I should get the credit on the battle pass etc that was earned.