Auridon Quests Bugged

Grand_Wazoo · June 2014

Having quested my way through Auridon recently with a new character, I've encountered two quests that are bugged: Silent Village and Eye of the Ancients. In Silent Village, the bears that are in the area are unresponsive and cannot be targeted or attacked (to weaken a bear and bring it to the mage). In Eye of the Ancients, the Captain you must defeat to retrieve a welkynd stone does not have a stone to loot (I've killed him six times, but no welkynd stone). Both bugs I mentioned are quest breakers, so I guess it's time to move on to the next area and wait for a fix.
As a side note for the Developers...the game enhancements from the last patch are awesome...keep up the great work, and try not to take all the whining from forum trolls too seriously!

Devolus · June 2014

I was trying to get Eye of the Ancients to work for about an hour and a half last night. I noticed that a Welkynd stone get placed in your inventory after speaking with Scout Lorumel. Which is the Captain's stone as you are able to receive the stones from the Mage's house and the tavern just fine.

Devolus · June 2014

You can see the result of my finding here:
http://imgur.com/a/xjxbY

jopsomer · June 2014

I got 3 stones in my pack as well, but it still doesn't let me progress to the next step, so this is not a work-around for completing the quest...

Devolus · June 2014

Currently no workarounds according to my ticket replies:

We are sad to hear this troubleshooting did not help you in completing this quest!

I will pass this information on to a higher tier of customer support, so we can take a look into this quest and fix this annoying bug in a future patch.

I am sorry to hear that this bug has affected you. I am attempting to work out a work around on this quest. When you have the time, can you re-accept the quest for me? Please let me know when you have it again.

I dropped and re-accepted the quest and final response:

I do apologize for all the frustration this issue is causing for you - I did investigate your second ticket on the issue, and I closed it as a duplicate. In it, I do see that you mention whether or not we can remove the quest item from your inventory for you; unfortunately, we cannot.

At this time, the quest is broken and there do not appear to be any work-arounds that reliably fix it - you have already tried what steps we have! I show that you've submitted a bug report on the issue, for which I would like to offer my thanks. Those bug reports go straight to our Dev team, and they provide our team with the information they need to both be made aware of and find the underlying causes for issues such as this.

Magdalina · June 2014

One step forward 2 back. They break more stuff with every patch...good thing I already finished Auridon, I wonder what they broke in Greenshade.

Grand_Wazoo · June 2014

I also abandoned my quest, "Eye of the Ancients" and did the job over again to find the same result...three stones in my inventory and no progression to the next step. (I forgot to check my quest inventory prior to my original post, and sure enough, it was there)
The quest, "Silent Village" remains bugged with the bears in the area unresponsive...with no response to my bug reports I am left to checking back from time to time to see if a fix has been implemented. I'm sure the Developers have bigger fish to fry trying to keep the PVP crowd from freaking out, so I'll just move on to Grahtwood and enjoy killing everything in sight.

pborerb16_ESO · June 2014

Silent Village worked fine for me (no problems with the bears) when I did this quest a few days ago, before the recent patch, so this must be a new issue caused by the patch.

fromtesonlineb16_ESO · June 2014

I created a thread about this a couple of days before this one,. only one person added to it:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/114137/several-quests-just-disappeared-from-my-log

Basically, a GM came to try to help me and after round 45 mins we gave up, the Captain just won't drop the Stone.