Craglorn: The Missing Guardian final phase boss bug (soloing)

Juponen

I enter the Reinhold's Retreat chamber where the big bad snake holds Hara. Some adds spawn, I kill them and activate crystals. Another wave of adds and I activate crystals.

Suddenly, nothing happened.

Some lazy laughable aoe's appear now and then but no more enemies, let alone the boss.

I figure that this is some sort of spawning problem and retreat back to the previous chamber to reset. Big mistake, I suppose.

When I come back - nothing. No snake, no Hara, no crystals, no nothing. Just the quest marker on the map and nothing to interact with. Stuck as can be. Relog - nothing.

Wasn't the Craglorn main quest line supposed to be solo-able nowadays without artificial hindrances? Just forgot to test things?

I read that others have had problems with this quest as well and some have succeeded by abandoning the quest and doing it all(!) again. I, however, shudder at the thought of having to do the mind-numbingly dull&tiresome Madleena fight again. Not challenging, not fun, just plain awful timesink.

I suppose I could make a mouse click macro to spam 5000 light attacks while I watch a movie or something but with my luck I end up banned instead of real botters and cheaters...

Juponen

Happy to report a happy ending

I revisited the ruins today just to check..and it had re-setted!

First, the Madleena fight was now a quickie as she didn't get stuck into her near-invulnerable channeling mode and then the final fight now worked as it should and I was able to complete the quest.

Something strange was going on yesterday (server load??) but now all worked.

The gods of binary can be fickle.

Qbiken

It was supposed to be "more solo-friendly". Not all missions are soloable, and it was never meant to after the changes to the Craglorn questline. Almost all are soloable, but a few quest still requires a few people (not sure which ones though)

Juponen

Well, at least the Stargazer main quest line(s) certainly is perfectly solo-able, I finished it after this one bug was cleared.

Yes, one certainly prefers and probably needs to have some allies at the overworld anomalies where you need to charge the three "finders" but technically you can solo those too. Not that different really from any of the more challenging world bosses that some claim to solo while most players need allies.

mrrwfranklinub17_ESO

Greetings. I am soloing the The Missing Guardian quest and I am in Reihhold's Reach. I am at the Apex Stone room with the Serpent and hostage, and as the above person mentioned, I had to fight a few before the stones on either side became active. I activated one of them, and then ran to the other side to activate it, and it was hit with snake venom and stopped working. I went back over to the other side and another NPC spawn was hanging in mid air trying to attack and could not.

To see if it fixed it, I exited the room and came back in. As the person above mentioned, that was a big mistake. Now there is no serpent, no hostage, and no stones. I exited all the way out of the instance, and went back in, and still nothing.

Any idea's on how I can proceed with this quest line?

Thanks

jmrathbun

I also encountered a bugged Madleena Blackvein. I used my entire ultimate without hurting her and died twice from the adds. Please fix!

jmrathbun

Left the room and reentered. Same result. Controls were not working well at all: lots of flashing buttons but very poor response... couldn't switch weapon sets or hit mobs. Couldn't get my clannfear into the fight. Ugh!

jmrathbun

Exited instance and reentered. Instance was not reset. Same BS behavior from target. Says "Target is immune" to all my abilities. Knocking down the adds doesn't help. Died again. This is the opposite of fun!

jmrathbun

293 G repair bill... more than I usually spend in a week!

jmrathbun

Tried one more time after this morning's patch. Dungeon was reset. Works fine up until I engage Blackvein. She interrupts her speech and repeats from the beginning, then freezes with her staff overhead, apparently launching some sort of spell. Her adds were active and she registered a few hits, then my abilities all froze up... couldn't even switch action bars or revive my pet. Then adds froze in place. I made it to the door but had to force disconnect, after which I left the dungeon in disgust. This is near the end of a LONG quest chain, of course. My specs follow:

OS Windows 7 Professional SP1

CPU Intel Core i7-4790K

FAN CM Hyper 212 EVO

MOBO ASUS Z97 PRO LGA 1150

GPU Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980

RAM Crucial Ballistix 8GB

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HDD Western Digital Blue 1 TB

CASE Corsair Carbide 200R

PSU Corsair CX600

ODD Samsung 24x SATA

Monitor: LG 24GM77

Keyboard: Steelseries Merc Stealth

Mouse: Steelseries GW2

Speakers: Philips SPA 2210

Microphone: Blue Yeti

Uverse Router: Motorola NVG510

Ping 23 ms

DL 12.91 Mbps

UL 0.98 Mbps

Firestrike 1.1 score = 11,588 (graphics = 13,883; physics = 11,748; combined = 5127)

Mystrius_Archaion

jmrathbun wrote: »

Exited instance and reentered. Instance was not reset. Same BS behavior from target. Says "Target is immune" to all my abilities. Knocking down the adds doesn't help. Died again. This is the opposite of fun!

Most instances in the game don't reset if you just quickly leave and re-enter. They need a considerable reset time, over 5 minutes. I found this out with trying to reset black sacrament missions. You give them a good 10 minutes while you can be logged in or out, playing another character may help, and it will likely reset.

The other option is a full abandon and redo, but the original poster of this thread likely just gave it more time as I say above and it reset on its own.

jmrathbun

Came back today and managed to get Madleena down, although her behavior seemed peculiar and buggy. Then went after the serpent. Couldn't seem to damage him so I left the room and checked a walkthrough to see what I was missing. When I came back, serpent was missing, ditto crystals I had been playing with... not that they did any good!

I suppose I'll give it another try tomorrow but this BUGGY QUEST needs a rewrite. It's the first one like this I've encountered up to level 25.

jmrathbun

I finally decided to give this one another try today at level 41. It went MUCH better at this level than it did earlier.

Most of the quests I've done up to now with my sorcerer have been easy or mildly challenging. I die less than once per hour of play. This one was a bear, reminiscent of the early days of the game.

I would suggest taking another look at the way it scales to the player's level.

akand0

This quest bugged out on me also. I left the dungeon, waited a half hour while I played another toon, came back and it worked.

Deptacon

This is till bugged.Same problem. Enemies stopped spawning so couldnt finish the serpent. Left and came back and now the serpent and Hara are gone. Will come back later today or tommorow and see if it reset and try again.

Deptacon

Deptacon wrote: »

This is till bugged.Same problem. Enemies stopped spawning so couldnt finish the serpent. Left and came back and now the serpent and Hara are gone. Will come back later today or tommorow and see if it reset and try again.

After waiting about 5 hours and coming back, location had reset and I was able to complete the quest without abandoning and starting over

Gan Xing

jmrathbun wrote: »

Tried one more time after this morning's patch. Dungeon was reset. Works fine up until I engage Blackvein. She interrupts her speech and repeats from the beginning, then freezes with her staff overhead, apparently launching some sort of spell. Her adds were active and she registered a few hits, then my abilities all froze up... couldn't even switch action bars or revive my pet. Then adds froze in place. I made it to the door but had to force disconnect, after which I left the dungeon in disgust. This is near the end of a LONG quest chain, of course. My specs follow:

Same, but i exited the room and reentered... that sorta did the trick... kinda had to wait a bit tho

uzbachchi

Quest is still bugged on PS4 NA as of this evening. I killed the lamias, used the stones, then nothing happened but repeating poison AOE. I couldn't fight the serpent or advance the quest, just run around the chamber dodging poison while I tried to research the issue on my phone. I left the room, came back and serpent & crystals were gone. I guess I'll try again another day. But it would be nice to have this fixed.

Deanathrae

Still an issue, though it worked the third time I tried it.

Juponen

So, the bug is still there?

Ah well, what did I expect?

I suppose the function of this forum is not to make the staff aware of bugs but to share workarounds with other players.

Fair enough, suppose.

Rittings

Hard to believe that this is STILL bugged!! WTH??? [snip]

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Umbro100

Rittings wrote: »

Hard to believe that this is STILL bugged!! WTH??? [snip]

Just to let you know, I was doing the quest and guess what - it is still bugged, got her down to 50% health and then nothing, she is frozen in animation. Left, went back, now she is at 100% and invulnerable.

hard to believe this is still not fixed

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Iman_Oldie

Still a bug.
"Stop the Serpent and Free the Thief's Apex Stone" in Reinhold's Retreat.
Nothing spawning ....
I think I found part of the problem with this quest.
There is a voice-over telling you to activate two crystals but no similar text or description of what to do in the top right-hand corner of the screen. So if you miss it you may not know what to do and you have to do it several times.
Basically a quest design issue.
I went back to the "swirling pool" and entered the delve again and finally completed it.

Kungfu

LMAO
**SEVEN YEARS LATER**
Same issue

That's sad y'all.

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

As this thread was originally created in January 2017, we decided to close it down. Please feel free to start a new topic on this subject if you wish to discuss it further.

Thank you for your understanding.