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What do you do once you encounter a bug which stops you doing a quest?
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Came upon my first bugged quest and wondering what you're supposed to do when it happens? Tried abandoning it and redoing it to no luck..do I just skip it and potentially miss quests/parts of the story? It's pretty darn frustrating especially in a game like this where a lot of stuff seems linked.
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Depends on the bugged quest.
Most of the time a quick relog will fix it.
If it's a properly broken quest, just skip it and come back after maintenance.
If it's a main story quest, you're in trouble (though they fixed most of these).
OR, and this is one that bothers me, if it's not a bug and it's just a poorly designed quest.
For example, Motes in the Moonlight used to "break" if more than one person at a time interacted with the quest NPC. Well, in an MMO, that's obviously going to happen, so whoever coded that quest made a mess of it (they did fix this one). The work around for this was to log on at an unusual time to see if the area was empty and just finish the quest really quickly before someone showed up. That's how I ended up finishing this one, randomly logged in at 10am one day, no one there, quest done.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Rage quit like everyone else.
Edit: I'm half joking.
My theme song.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
This.
Where have you been Xzen!?!My theme song.
I usually just ignore it, then finish it at a later date when I'm snagging soul shards and lorebooks before I leave the zone for the next.
I haven't had a quest that was bugged 2 days in a row, so either maintenance does reset/fix quest chains, or they're actively squashing bugs piecemeal as opposed to only when a patch goes through.
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
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Relogg - than start thinking.
It fixed like 90% of my bugs.
I try relogging to see if that fixes it than just move on if it doesn't. I have two quests in my log right now I can't complete and I just set foot in Coldharbor. I consider myself a bit of a completionist so overall I don't think there are that many bugged quests in the game. There are a few that people where complaining where bugged that I think were just not clearly laid out or required doing some prior step that people missed that once I looked around a bit more I was able to advance.
For instance there was one quest where you had to click 4 stores in order that people thought was bugged. What it really was is the four stone key uses one of the stones twice so instead of being 1, 3, 4, 2 it was 1, 3, 4, 1 and a lot of people thought it was bugged. Once I started to look at the lights above the stones instead of the stones themselves I figured out what was going on but even after solving it there was a long line of people jumping around trying to figure it out.
Smash my head against the wall, get a rant-thread on mmorpg.com started, pray at my "Angry-Joe-Shrine" and tell everyone on reddit how shit everything is.
Nah, ok, ill just pass on to another quest, maybe try to relog and get into another phase and start a beer.
Hodor!
Waited a few hours, came back on and was able to do it. I was shocked at the amount of hate this game was getting but starting to understand a little bit why so many people are hating at the game. It completely ruins your momentum and would be ridiculously frustrating if it was a story quest. Thanks for the advice all.
Ingame:
Do other quests?
Fish?
Explore/discovery?
Harvesting/gathering?
Crafting?
Trading with other players?
Look if it's a known bug on the official forums or (ingame chat and ask around)
And sure plenty of linked quests, but also plenty of other things to do ingame.
I have run into 1 none working quests, took 2 day's before there was a fix. Went back to complete it and the story link on that quest continued. But keep in mind that this is easy for me to say with very limited playtime.