URT Hero Quest: Saving Silverlake ** SPOILERS/Bug hunt**

[Naiya]

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

[TheKnight]

The name of this quest is a movie reference.

M.

[Truly]

I did this quest on my ranger.

I snared the dazed farmers and led them back to the mill. I killed them in the mill and then picked up all the parts. There was one part that I couldn't see until I moved my toon. Rinse lather repeat.

I then put the parts in the mill and then the feed barrel. Was able to finish it with no problems. Hope this helps.

Truly

[Naiya]

Originally Posted by Truly

I did this quest on my ranger.

I snared the dazed farmers and led them back to the mill. I killed them in the mill and then picked up all the parts. There was one part that I couldn't see until I moved my toon. Rinse lather repeat.

I then put the parts in the mill and then the feed barrel. Was able to finish it with no problems. Hope this helps.

Truly

do you recall if there were more than 4 pieces per farmer? if so - this could be the issue...

[Truly]

Sorry, I don't recall how many parts per farmer.

Truly

[Naiya]

ok - tried on an Thestran human bard (16) and a dwarven paladin (16) same thing - here are some interesting things we DID notice though

1.) At the back of the farm, there are some "Crazed Farmers" these farmers, when you use the wand on them, COUNT as being freed, but the spirits are never separated (we killed them anyway)
-- Could this be an issue where the "Crazed farmers" are counted but should not be? We didn't have any difficulty separating "Posessed Farmers"

2.) Dust drops are a PITA in a team enviro. The drops seem to complete one member first, than the next, in sequential order. While we got some cool things for killing so many, if we were more than a duo - OMG the pain!

3.) No matter what the farmer looks like (gender/hair color) when you target them, when you apply the dust, they are a blond male and then when you get them to the mill - they are brunette male
-- Not sure if this matters at all

here are some other things

• /camp helped none of us - and I've done it 5 times on each of my toons
• All of us have only the faction gained during the random fighting in the area. None of us did faction griding or killing outside of the quest

Sophie is still pretty pristine. Niaya and Taggy went to the other greaves quest and got those (killing a few hundred skeletons/zombies is somehow cathartic).

If you need a test monkey or would like to look at test logs from yesterday, I've done everything I can think of, in almost two separate ways to make this happen. Niaya and Taggy never got stuck or died either (unlike Sophie) which eliminates that variable