Bugged Story Quests Need Priority

[RobXIII]

I've read the above sticky about increased GM response time, and while that is understandable given the circumstances, you really NEED to prioritize bugged storyline quests. When we get stuck here we cannot progress past it. I've now come across my *third* game stopping story bug in the quest 'Now's The Time'. The quest guy despawns, then respawns behind a green force field in his instance (after you confront the Doctor)

Previous to this I was stuck on the still broken 'disable the traps' quest. After no response for 2 days I cheated and changed the category to 'IM STUCK' (yes it teleports you once), and finally got a response.

TL;DR: Story quests need to take priority with both your patches and in the interim, your GM staff. Tks!

[snakebite6x6x6]

^ +1, I am stuck on disable the traps....so i traveled to the other continent...and am now stuck on Now's the time...

I entered a GM ticket....still waiting for a response....a friend of mine had to wait 6 hours for Disable the traps. He was able to climb the vine outside of the Now's the time quest...but he had to use the high elf racial....I'm a Kelari though...and my racial is useless

Bugs happen in all pc games...but those that stop your progress should absolutely be given priority...


Guess I'll go play an alt for a bit....meh

[RobXIII]

A small but funny update, this quest worked on my warrior, so I remembered you escaped out a secret back entrance onto some vines.

I go out behind the area, spend a while cheesily climbing some vines (hint you cant do this without racial or warrior leap), and get to hand in the quest! I'm so proud of myself ;)

Only... the NEXT STEP IS BUGGED TOO!;\ The guy is still just sitting there, too funny...

[Golladan]

They should really have added a timeout for that quest. Seems I broke it on Deepwood and now nobody can progress.

[xanduin246]

They should really have added a timeout for that quest. Seems I broke it on Deepwood and now nobody can progress.

Unless you broke it days ago it wasn't you, I've been waiting for a GM for about 2.5 days now I think.

If it was you, then I expect payment in the form of Nutella within 3 days.

[Golladan]

Unless you broke it days ago it wasn't you, I've been waiting for a GM for about 2.5 days now I think.

If it was you, then I expect payment in the form of Nutella within 3 days.

Saturday after confronting the doctor I followed him up and got to him. The barrier wasn't up at that time so I was able to talk to the guy and complete the quest, then get the followup quest Chaos Unleashed. He ran forward, Salvarola appeared, he cowered, and that was all. Nothing else would happen.

Barrier came up behind me so I couldn't go back. After messing around (abandoning quest, relogging, going past Salvarola and noticing the quest would fail), I just went through the hole and down the vines. Couldn't get backup either way(can't go up vines, and barrier is still up). Placed a ticket, which still has had no answer. After that nobody has been able to reach the guy because the barrier has not gone down. Unless the barrier came down at some point and somebody else broke it again.

[Semele]

Still bugged.

[RobXIII]

(can't go up vines, and barrier is still up).

You can, though I'm not sure if it's possible without flying leap or similar skill. Sounds like before the barrier bugged out, the script failed for you anyway ;\ Really disappointing.

[xanduin246]

You can, though I'm not sure if it's possible without flying leap or similar skill. Sounds like before the barrier bugged out, the script failed for you anyway ;\ Really disappointing.

I got up the vines with nothing but a 50% sprint, which all callings have available in some form.

Anyway, do I need to stay online to have a quest petition answered? Been waiting 3 days but it's kinda hard to stay logged in when you can't do anything. I can't leave the area because I advanced it to the escort part, and that part auto-abandons if you leave the area for too long. So I don't want the GM coming and telling me he can't help because I don't have the quest. At this point I'm pretty much just not playing and waiting for either an e-mail from a GM, or it to be hotfixed.

[Amarayna]

Not sure WTF is going on with Trion, but now I'm bugged on TWO story line quest, I've requested help from a GM and so far I've been totally ignored ........ come resub time this will come to mind and I will give this some heavy thought as I remember how I was treated.

[Roziak]

So to get disable the traps finished i need to make a ticket to the GM?

Think i did as many others when i got stuck on disable the traps. Went to the other continent, did the story quests there. Then i reached Ardent Domain finished the story quest there aswell, but this time i didnt get a follow up. Anyone else had this problem?

Im level 56 if that matters.

[Temo]

Not sure WTF is going on with Trion, but now I'm bugged on TWO story line quest, I've requested help from a GM and so far I've been totally ignored ........ come resub time this will come to mind and I will give this some heavy thought as I remember how I was treated.

Unsub threat number 15? :P

Anyway, Elrar has already stated that coming hotfix will include lots of fixes to quests, so people should be able to progress on their quests now.

Elrar also stated that wait times were longer, up to 3-7 days, so there's not much the GMs can do at this moment. Hopefully the upcoming hotfix will drop the wait times due to less people being stuck on quests.

[Czar]

To me... Communication is the key. I understand, they're slammed or whatever... I get it. Understandable. I'm glad they're working on it. But somehow, they need to make sure people get the message. "It was on the forums" just doesn't cut it. I can't be the only one who infrequently comes to the forums.

Honestly, I get tired of wading through the negative trash on the forums to find the nugget of information I need.

If you file a GM deal in game, then you should get an "In-Game" response... Automated or not...

"Thanks for the X complaint. It is in a que to be addressed. WE WILL RESPOND. We're slammed right now but your issue will be addressed. Sorry for any trouble and thanks for playing RIFT."

Trion... Feel free to use this.

[xanduin246]

To me... Communication is the key. I understand, they're slammed or whatever... I get it. Understandable. I'm glad they're working on it. But somehow, they need to make sure people get the message. "It was on the forums" just doesn't cut it. I can't be the only one who infrequently comes to the forums.

Honestly, I get tired of wading through the negative trash on the forums to find the nugget of information I need.

If you file a GM deal in game, then you should get an "In-Game" response... Automated or not...

"Thanks for the X complaint. It is in a que to be addressed. WE WILL RESPOND. We're slammed right now but your issue will be addressed. Sorry for any trouble and thanks for playing RIFT."

Trion... Feel free to use this.

I don't know about other shards, but Elrar personally came to Deepwood yesterday to explain the situation and let us know the details of today's hotfix.

[ItsKarmah]

I was stuck in the Ardent Domain storyline quest (Brother Vance has disappeared, so it cannot advance). I checked, don't think this patch fixed anything about it. Anyone else who had the quest bug out get it to work again after today's patch?