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highonwater
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So I'm level 57 and I'm in the Mount Hotenow Caldera. I am currently doing the missions Watching it Burn and The Fire Lords. I'm supposed to place 3 scrying spheres and kill 3 fire giant generals. I'm pretty sure my quest trail is completely bugged out, as is the map, because it keeps directing me to go straight into walls. I have been trying to figure out a way back to the questgiver (Surveyor Baera) for about 20 minutes but I keep hitting walls even when not following the quest trail.
I don't know if this is a bug or if you meant this zone to be weird like that but it is extremely frustrating.
I don't know if this is a bug or if you meant this zone to be weird like that but it is extremely frustrating.
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Who did the QA? cos they must be blind... got so fed up of this quest that I dropped it & jumped into the lava to get out of the area...
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lol Hopefully not too far in the future because those of us with the problem are stuck...and /unstuck won't help this one
Speaking of the map. The map shown when you push M does NOT match the actual terrain in the zone. It looks like someone decided to change the layout but did not bother to update the map to match it. This is part of whats leading to so much confusion.
Yeah, when i ran that it was a pita. Not being able to follow the trail, map being "off", and never quite knowing what level things were on, with those giants around, made me hate that zone. Though, i've never been a huge fan of those zones that are so narrow in path, i prefer the more open zones where i don't have to follow things so closely. Sad how the higher end zones all seemed so closed in with narrow paths.
When I found that the trail and maps were off I simply started exploring and memorizing the area. The giants are not a problem if you pay attention to where you are and how far they are. Everything takes a second to recognize things as a target based on your distance from them. If you go straight through a group they will attack right away, if you skirt the edge of the group they pause and look at you and if you go by fast enough they never attack you.
Its amazing to me that so many players don't realize this simple behavior. I have to wonder if its because they played WoW first. I've never played that game though so I don't know how enemies behave there. I just know that the games I learned on worked this way and failure to learn resulted in death and a 20+ minute run to get back to where you were. Does not take too many of those runs for you to learn caution and the ability to analyze the range of enemies.
If the game didn't give you a map, this wouldn't be considered an issue. But now we have a game that gives you a map, and places you on it, and it's like trying to navigate London with a hand drawn map of Barcelona.
The work arounds suggested (ignoring the map) doesn't address the problem - it's common sense, and I rather doubt anyone who's played the map has simply thought "well, the map and quest trail doesn't work - I'd better make sure I use the map and quest trail."
Starting from the Quest Giver (Surveyor Baera), go down the incline due south of the camp fire.
To find where to place the Globes, you need to find three of the Giant generals:
First globe:
Behind General Moktar (Quest Trail doesn't work).
Second globe:
Behind General Demok (Quest Trail works from General Moktar)
Third Globe
Behind General Kroma (Quest Trail sort of works from General Demok)
This kind of reminded me of looking for quest points in WOW. They didn't have shiny little paths
Okay so I found the places to put the orbs, but when I try to use them, it doesn't give me the option to. When I highlight over them it doesn't give me the "press F to ..." So what do I do?
I've changed instances, logged off for an hour, dropped the quest, left the zone for another, & I still have nothing to interact with to carry on the quest & finish the caldera chain!
And I do not expect my GM Ticket ever to be read by a human, just closed in 3 weeks time, like all the other bug reports!
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