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Where is the Foreign Merchant in the Protector's Bounty quest?
odnnauq
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I rode to all 3 locations and there are people there and there are no merchant. Is it bugged? This is cruel.
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All the current nine (9) instances in Whispering Cavers are bugged out. The merchant has arrived at his destination but does not respawn at the point of origin. Five instances in Blacklake District ditto as well as at least seven (out of the fourteen existing) in Ebon Downs. That is not a few. Especially when you consider that it takes two minutes to change instances due to the cooldown, this quest is currently undoable.
Finally got an epic mount
but they do have problem with merchants, loots appear little too slow, not enough time to gather my loot and it just take off too soon, it move little fast than it was suppose as last year, as i remember from last year it was on track and amount of time pause to give folks to collect loot rewards.
now i am sick of catching up, PLEASE make it slow down just a bit, since loots pop too slow.
I ran the quest last night.
Blacklake: In two different instances, the foreign merchant was not at the starting location. when I check the map, the merchant's icon was at the end spot. But when you go to that location, the merchant isnt even visable.
Whispering Caverns: Only tried one instance, but it had the same result as Blacklake, the merchant's icon is on the map but at the finish.
Ebon Downs: Only tried one instance, but this one was working. When I checked the map, I saw the merchant's icon, and it was moving along its path towards the finish.
So I was able to complete the quest, and escort the merchant all the way to to the finish.
But I did notice as someone above mentioned, the merchant after being accosted by bad guys, starts moving again pretty quickly, just like Linu did in the Maze Engine quest at The Chasm.
If working correctly, someone has tonuse Protection Orders to start them again. You get the orders from the inital box you open but they are a random drop from the box after that. With enough people in the instance, someone should always be able to restart the merchant.
The bug is alleged to be deliberate on the part of some players. I won't elaborate for obvious reasons.
The nice thing about doing it in a group at your guild is that the boxes will keep piling up, but you won't have to burn through all yours to get another scroll. And you'll get many more boxes on each trip with the merchant. I ended up with 35 in under an hour with some guildies.
Then today, a guild mate and I did the mission in our stronghold, and I backtracked to pick up the loot that I'd dropped. There was another merchant standing there waiting patiently, which neither one of us had spawned.
PANIC!
It completes for me in strange ways sometimes, like just standing around at the entry point of Blacklake with no merchant in sight, but you can make run after run with the merchant to earn some extra boxes or reknown.