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poisoncloud
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I run Ghost Stories in a squad. After clearing the mobs and killing the boss, I couldn't collect the final reward chest, it wasn't available for interaction. Since it did not get fixed with waiting, I left the instance and my char have lost the quest: it is neither in the journal nor at Harper in PE.
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I had similar problem, killed the boss, then saw that I only had killed 4 mobs out of five, went back outside and the trail now led me to the right group. Of course after that it didn't occur to me that the reward I needed to collect was in the crypt so I went back to the graveyard, realised my mistake, went back in and had to kill the mobs again.
After completing Grave and killing the Dragon, I went to do Ghost on my quest list but door did not glow/activate.
So I enter a party LFG ghost, door did glow/activate...after killing the boss, chest was unavailable.
I submitted a bug report.
***now Ghost Stories is not even on the Harper (in PE) quests chain that i can accept again in later hours for my CW (it is not even on my list of to do quest). It is however on my DC (and my DC was able to complete Ghost Stories).
Yes..Ghost Stories is from the Harper in PE. I did pick it up from her for my CW and DC. My DC was able to do it all and I was able to do it on my CW but with issues i mention in the original post.
My CW went back to the Haper in PE, but there is no Ghost Stories grey out with timer for tomorrow. Ghost stories is not in CW my active quest list.
I m loosing out on two type of seals because i could not open boss chest at the end of Ghost Stories.
Any advises to sort this out are much appreciated.
Luckily for my char, the quest was back today after reset at Harper in PE.
You know when you go in to meet the boss.. you get the little cut scene as you reach the sarcophagi. Well there is a kill counter. You need to keep the fight between that point and the gate that leads to the chest.
I was playing around (solo) on the spiral stairs.. having a laugh. I'd lead the mobs to the top, jump off, shift to dodge fall damage. Some would jump and take damage, others would stand there like dummies, and I'd go back up, stealth half way up, and smack 'em around.. repeat. Was great fun. (Yes, I am easily amused.)
When only the boss was left, I just took him out, cuz he sees straight through stealth. Unfortunately, the game registered no kills on the playing field.. and told me NO.
I logged out while in there, came back in. Bossman respawned. I killed him in the right place.. but no other mobs came, so not enough kills to trigger. I left by the front door and came in again.. same thing. Boss respawned, no mobs, no joy. So I had to drop it.
So no more spiral stair antics for me! lol
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
It's the brief delay during the check that the game runs to generate the daily lair quest that messes people up. But it needs to run that check first to see if you're level 60 and qualify to get a lair, and then to determine which lair based on which area your Common Cause is in that day.
Edit: Also, if you complete Ghost Stories (etc.) in a group and then go turn in your Common Cause, the game won't offer you any more lairs because you don't have Common Cause active for it to generate one.
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For me it wasn't just the chest, it was the 'completed' marker that wasn't awarded. (I know what I suggest {and firmly believe} to have been the problem in my own case does happen in the game, confirmed with devs in a previous bug. Oddly enough, in the building before this one in the regular Neverdeath quests- Where you could kill some of the mobs before entering the room if you were ranged.)
So I'll bet that there are people falling victim to both issues.
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It's interesting that there would be a hidden counter for killing the support mobs in the Ghost Stories boss fight, because I've never noticed that as an objective, just kill the 5 spirits and then kill the boss. It's not that I disbelieve you, but that it's a much more obscure reason for not getting the chest than simply not having the quest active but still completing the instance while grouped up.
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Ok, it may be possible that I am making an incorrect assumption. I may be wrong, but if so, then I have no clue what caused mine. Because I've done this dozens of times without issue, but the one time I killed them all on the spiral stairs it bugged.
In Champs Online, They have this train-yard smash.. I guess it's a grab these days, maybe.. but it failed if you killed anything from the bridge. But yeah that is a timer related thing (and absolutely is X kills in 2 minutes.) I based my conclusion on my own bug report that got patched in here. (I'm sure others reported it too, not saying I am in anyway responsible.) But that too, could be as you say. The encounter may not have started before the cut scene. I took it to mean that I was not in the room when they died.
So again, I might be barking up the wrong tree, but I can't imagine why it happened in that case. Such is the nature of bugs, I guess.
Either way.. being the ONLY thing different that I did.. I, for one, right or wrong, am going to take my own advice on this one and fight them in the main area.
Edit- Response to post above me.. That wasn't an option for me. But that could be down to any number of factors so I can't say whether that is possible or not.
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
I'd say that the majority of the time if you get no chest, it's because you don't have Ghost Stories as a quest in your journal so you wouldn't be able to drop it. You might be able to pick up up from Boward prior to turning in Common Cause. You might need to be at a stage where Common Cause isn't ready to turn in, with at least one quest incomplete. Finishing the Ghost Stories instance even without the chest active does fulfill the objective for Common Cause, since it's killing the boss that finishes it in that case, not looting the chest.
Remember that if you drop Common Cause and have already turned in any of the other quests that would be required to finish it that day, you won't be able to do them again. I've even run into an issue with a lair not generating because I had forgotten to turn in the previous day's (just the XP turn-in) and the game treats it as a daily so I wasn't eligible to take another even though it would have been a different one.
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