First, Let me just give kudos to whomever designed this quest line. i firmly believe that the URT are a bunch of bubbling idiots... with really good gear. But you get kudos because now every time I get a mission from them, the first ting i ask is "Who am I killing THIS time?" at least I remember this quest line :P
Now onto the quest. Most of us know this quest is bugged, and most of us know the bug appears inconsistently. In an effort to help people narrow down the problem, i wanted to see if we could share experiences of what worked and what didn't to see if we can get this bug isolated
Everything below is after completing steps 1-3
Sat 4/28 and Sun 4/29
Quest did not complete for Dwarven cleric (started level 16) (Sophestra)
Each of the farmers in the field has a different name/type. The non-aggro ones are "Dazed" while the aggro ones are either "Possessed" or "Crazed". Since the mission says go to the crazed farmers and bring back three dazed... I tried the following
- Killing 3 Random farmers
- Killing 3 Dazed farmers
- killing 3 Crazed farmers
- Killing 3 Possessed farmers
(*when I say "Killed" I mean "Lured them to the second floor of the mill, killed them and then ground their remains into food for the livestock"... just to clairify)
When none of those worked I also dropped the 4th mission "To the mill" and tried again. Still no good.
As a last ditch effort, I tried to abandon the whole thing (I want those greaves darn it!) and picked it up again. I got the mission and everything up to "to the mill..." was complete. Even doing it again from here failed.
I also tried
- Killing them as fast as possible (in case there was a time limit)
- Not grinding the meat until all were dead (in case it was a "someone finds it" thing)
One thing I did notice, on the first phase of this mission - when you ahve to tear the souls from the farmers in an attempt to free them, I found a farmer that would not separate and I was able to use the rod 6 or 7 times and it counted each time as a "freeing" of a farmer.
I also noticed that if you are in the mill and targeting nothing, you can summon a dazed farmer out of the aether (by clicking on the dust) - but I think that is a different bug
Has anyone who has successfully completed the mission done anything different? If you have not successfully completed the mission, did you try something I didn't? The more information the better.
Not being able to complete this mission is blocking two others that I want to hit so I'm willing to bust butt and sit here testing until this bug is found and killed