It also seemed to be bugged when I was there an hour or two ago. I got my first two bags when I arrived, but then it seemed like the spawns dried up. I was there long enough for the boss to spawn again and then some, and I saw maybe 3-4 quest markers pop up in all that time (which were of course snapped up immediately by other people who needed them). I camped one of the spots where I'd already gotten one, and it didn't respawn at all. Other people were saying they couldn't get their third bag, so it wasn't just me.

Nevermind the dragons, what's really going to kill Elsweyr is a rice shortage.

I got two but when I reached for the third it said someone is using that and it disappeared.

I didn't have any trouble getting mint earlier but maybe I just got lucky.

I always have a problem finding the one pixel in one of the altars. It's been a problem since it came out.

Alternative solution: Group up with as large a group as you can find, then between the lot of you, you only need to find 3 sacks for the group instead of 3 per player.

Can confirm it's bugged. I was grabbing rice while another player who arrived about the same time as I did was also picking up rice, and when they grabbed their 3rd I was still on my 2nd and all the spawned bags disappeared. I tried /reloadui and re-logged. Ended up abandoning the quest and picking up again. When I returned to the WB I was able to grab 3 bags of rice. No other players appeared to be picking up any rice that time.

There have been 2 other incidences of this happening with other quests:

In N Elseweyr the daily delve quest that sends you to Predator Mesa to collect and smear blood on totems--yesterday I could not collect blood from any "beasts" in the delve to complete the 4th totem. There was another player there doing the quest along side me and I saw them do the last totem and then leave while i was running around waiting for things to respawn and vainly killing them again, unable to collect the blood for the totem. Abandoned quest. It was past the reset by that time so I couldn't go back to pick it up again.

In Western Skyrim, the daily WB quest for the Shademother will also sometimes not allow you to cleanse the 3rd pool you need to complete the quest if there are other players also cleansing the pools. Only fix I finds that works is abandoning quest and trying again.

Given the pattern I suspect there are other dailies that bug out like this and that it's more than merely that specific WB or delve. If I had to guess on my own experience, it's an issue with the game instancing players and not being able to keep straight who's completed all the objectives and who hasn't when there's more than more player in the instance doign the same objectives.

jle30303 wrote: »

Alternative solution: Group up with as large a group as you can find, then between the lot of you, you only need to find 3 sacks for the group instead of 3 per player.

I had the this happen to me at the Shademother WB doing the daily with a group. Couldn't get credit for the 3rd pool while everyone else in my group did and there was no pools for me to cleanse. Had to abandon, pick up the quest again and do it solo. So grouping does not appear to be a reliable fix for the problem

dear god. YES. it took me more time to get the rice then to finish endeavors, farm a few dragons and finish the quest in northern Elsweyr. at this point if/when I get the rice quest again, I'm just going to do the delve instead. I prefer to do world boss quests during the event since its when world bosses get the most people killing them so its easier, but with the rice... Delve would be easier. sigh.

Oh, is that what's going on? Really? Why on god's green earth would they not make the rice sacks player-unique? [snip]

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Sadly, only workaround I found is to be in large group. Then you get rice in seconds.

cyclonus11 wrote: »

I also experienced this. There are 3 rice bags sitting next to each other, and several others sitting around - I pick up one, and ALL of them immediately disappear. It isn't other players picking them up. I then had to wait several minutes for them to respawn. Also - it only happened after I picked up my second bag.

I have noticed this with Iratan the Lightbringer (the aegis boss); there will be several pointers for the arrows or dust and when I pick up one, multiple others disappear. However, there are still enough left over for me to complete the assignment.

I've had mixed results. The first one I did was borked. The second one I got was too. Then the third and fourth were fine. The fifth was messed up again. All the ones since then have been good.

Something tells me it's related to the logout/queue bug. Meaning that if I wasn't so close to the threshold (whatever the christ it is), it would have spawned. And the times it did, opposite.

Who knows what defines that.

The first two bags of rice seem to be instanced to the player and are easy to get. The third one is borked. Took me over half an hour and returning to the location multiple times to finally get the third one. This is obviously a bug. I was surprised they didn't fix it in Monday's patch.