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Realm of Malbog Bugs! 1/2 of the quests are broken
jarlsburg
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I hit the Realm of Malbog and half of the quest are broken.
1. Bearing Arms - The plants barely ever give you a guardian. I was stuck opening plants for 1 hr and 20 min just to complete this one. There was no one else in the area doing the quest, all of the plants were just empty. That is way too long for a daily. I have done it multiple times with different characters and it is always the same.
2. Patching Things Up - Now that more people are in this area there are no trees to put sap on. I do not know what the respawn timer is, but it is a long one. I waited and waited by a tree and the Dryad never re-popped and the wound on the tree never appeared. The mobs did a few times, but nothing else. I had to change instances MANY times just to complete this one.
3. The War Makers - Does not give a blade when you complete the quest. Kind of makes doing the quest a waste of time.
I guess it is not a big deal as long as they fix everything sometime soon. I need a ton of sparks and I only need about 27 blades so I can just skip the bad quests until they are fixed and just keep getting the sparks.
I put in bug reports for all issues.
1. Bearing Arms - The plants barely ever give you a guardian. I was stuck opening plants for 1 hr and 20 min just to complete this one. There was no one else in the area doing the quest, all of the plants were just empty. That is way too long for a daily. I have done it multiple times with different characters and it is always the same.
2. Patching Things Up - Now that more people are in this area there are no trees to put sap on. I do not know what the respawn timer is, but it is a long one. I waited and waited by a tree and the Dryad never re-popped and the wound on the tree never appeared. The mobs did a few times, but nothing else. I had to change instances MANY times just to complete this one.
3. The War Makers - Does not give a blade when you complete the quest. Kind of makes doing the quest a waste of time.
I guess it is not a big deal as long as they fix everything sometime soon. I need a ton of sparks and I only need about 27 blades so I can just skip the bad quests until they are fixed and just keep getting the sparks.
I put in bug reports for all issues.
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The servers were running slow as hell yesterday to the point where two of the shards were showing as offline to some server status apps.
2. if there are tons of people in an instance doing the same thing you're trying to do, change instances.
3. this has already been reported multiple times in the bugs section. i've only had this quest once since i unlocked the area, so i'm only missing one blade.
i'm loving the new stuff. keep it coming, cryptic.
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You can tell when this happens when you are standing near the plants and you hear the suction sound play (the same sound it makes when you open the plant). You can actually hear this sound from pretty far away, happening to multiple plants. Once you find 1 plant that is working, then you can just sit there making sure that you kill the redcaps and the guardian is near the plant, and wait 3 minutes for the mobs to respawn/plant to suck the guardian back up. That plant will always work until someone comes along and bugs it. If you heard the sound play, then all nearby plants have reset so just proceed as normal.
2. Today was the first time I saw these bug out, I chalk it up to more people getting access to the area. haven't figured out if they are bugging or just on extremely long respawns.
3. agreed waste of a quest. Not sure if this was an oversite or intentional delay to make boon grinding take even longer, since you can just buy the sparks to eliminate that delay. Have had this quest twice so far so i'm behind basically 1 day.
4. You didn't mention but another quest here is bugged as well, it's the one where you place meat for the portal hounds and then tame them. The bug is the previous players "meat" remains on the ground, even though the mobs respawn and the area appears "clickable". clicking it does nothing. The meat is visible from a distance so you don't need to engage the mobs to tell if it's bugged or not. Not sure what is bugging this either, probably just an incorrectly long cooldown like the dryad trees.
If you read my post you will see I said I changed instances MANY times. I also changed instances many times when trying to get the Bearing Arms quest to drop elves even though I was pretty sure no one else was there. During my trips through various instances I even came across one where all the pods were open when I got there and they never closed. I waited quite a while and they did not close. I also ran through the entire area multiple times and they were all still open. My educated guess is something is not quit right.
I just tested Bearing Arms on the preview server and it seems to be working fine so they might have fixed it. Every pod I opened dropped an elf. I did not give any of them weapons so I could keep opening pods. Then I went back and reopened all the same pods again and got elves again each time. I gave two elves weapons and waited for their pods to close a third time and reopened them after waiting a few more minutes and got elves again so I think you are supposed to get an elf every time. Also they respawn pretty fast now so there shouldn't be too many issues when this goes live.
You posted yours while I was composing my post. I just finished testing it out and I drug the elf half way across the map with me. He finally caught up and killed the mob and then he stayed there. About a min before the mobs respawned he ran back to his plant, so if that was what bugged them out I think they fixed it. I reopened the pod and he dropped out again.
I am not 100% sure if this is what bugged them though because I did this quest before it went live and I am pretty sure I did not get an elf from every pod. At the time I just thought it was a RNG thing and didn't put any thought into how bad that would be in a populated instance. I only did the quest 1 time though so I am not positive. After I ran through them all once I stopped playing on the test server.
Also, the other day on the live server I stood by an elf that dropped and waited for the respawn. I saw him jump back in his pod and before I could reopen it I got stuck in combat with a pat. When I killed the pat and the mobs at the plant no elf dropped out. After that I started opening the pod immediately every time I waited for the elf to go back in. You have a few seconds before the respawns will attack so I was able to get it to work.
Edit...Just for the heck of it I drug the elf across the map and then got him killed. The pod still dropped an elf when it respawned so I think everything is working on the test server.
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I also guess it's because of the amount of players rising around. Never had it the first few times when nearly nobody was in that area. I think number 2 is ment to be as it is, I had it from day 1 that not all the plants contained a guardian. Nothing changed about those rates, although it can be annoying from time to time. Yesteday though I had 4 with a guardian in there in a row, so lucky me. Number 3 happens to everybody also I believe.
The least I expect from cryptic is to compensate each single player with it. Because I am short of the blades now as well, believe I got like 42 seedlings, 21 charms and 19 blades.
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So in many instances the tree wounds just wont appear, the only solution is switching instances hoping that you find one that is not broken (which takes time and is not really an acceptable solution).
Same problem is with the quest where you have to free the guards, the flower trap is empty and again - hunt for a working instance.
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See these prior threads on the same problems: [Campaign] "Bearing Arms" Quest is Broken and Awful Sharadar Quest Respawn-Rates
If this continues I see no reason to continue running quests in Malabog's Realm.
FIX IT PLEASE!!!
thanks in advance, cryptic.
Okay, so I have 3 toons that have the Realm of Malabog open on 2 different accounts), all on the Dragon Shard. I have gone in with each of them, same thing - no active Dryad-Trees to heal. Tried switching instances, relogging. No change. Really annoyed because this sets back the questing in this area by a day (or more, depending on when they fix this). I've reported the bug in-game as well.
omg lmfao!!
Everyone had to hang around waiting for those 2 to respawn.
Up until today, i haven't experienced that problem either...