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[Campaign] "Bearing Arms" Quest is Broken
ciopenhauer
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Well, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to fix this quest. It's in Realm of Malabog. Whenever you open the pods, the guy just doesn't fall so you can't arm him and progress through the quest. Abandoning the quest, relogging - all didn't work. I could do the quest fine on my other alt, so I have no idea what's wrong. The other quests worked fine.
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Update: I've found that by switching instances, I can get it to work. But it quickly fails, and then I have to switch instances again. It seems that once it fails, the guardian won't drop again in that instance.
Agree .. found empty pods for 15 mins then switched instance and found full pods everytime.
Thanks.
Yes, I considered it might have an RNG element in it, and it's hard to prove it doesn't; but from what I saw, it definitely looks like a bug. Once one didn't have anything in it, none of the subsequent ones I opened ever did, unless I changed instances. And then the first one opened in a different instance always worked.
I suppose if the pods weren't intended to always have a guardian in them, and the behavior had less pattern to it, then it might make some sense. But none of the dialogue hints at that, and the creatures standing around pods that prove to be empty have chatter beforehand that implies it has something in it. I think the designers' intent is that every pod is full -- basically, they're big fly-traps that have closed on a victim. If it were intended that not every pod would satisfy the quest counter, then I think it would make more sense if they dropped a dead skeleton of a guardian instead of opening and absolutely nothing being there.
The issue is the re-spawn rate of the daily quest objectives. As more players start to hit the zone you'll notice if another play interacts with the spawn and gets their daily that the object is not accessible till it re-spawns.
The pods on the other hand will close but the elves have not spawned yet. A trick I figured out to fix the issue was to open the pod and wait for the pod you opened to close and then you can open and get elf.
As for the wolf daily you just have to wait till it re-spawns which creates a serious issue when majority of the community gets to this zone. If you think flowers are bad just wait for this zone as the re-spawn timer is long.
Note to the Devs: Over the next few days or a week or so, you have an opportunity here to clean some of these issues up before the majority of players get to it, and thus get ahead of the "complaints curve".
If you attack before the mage can say anything, the pod will be empty.
From testing, rushing in has netted me maybe 1 in 14 pods with a guardian, and waiting about 3 in 4 with a guardian, so there seems to be some truth to this
This doesn't work. this quest is completely bugged... relog/changing instance/etc... tried everything...
This expansion is already a big reapoff with the stupid daily quest delay, so on top of that it seems designed by newbie programmers who can't script 2 events without race condition or a lame QA/QC group without a clue how that can break games...
Keep going Cryptic, and in 3 months, the game would have gone from a 90% to 30% in most review articles/// (I would make it 5/10 right now since the nightmare patch thursday...
Clearly the weekly patch IS NOT ENOUGH... fix the **** thing!!!