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PTS Update 47 - Bug Reports for The Writhing Wall Event

ZOS_Kevin
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Please report any issues you run into while testing The Writhing Wall Event. In general, we prefer you to use /bug in-game but if you’d rather submit a report here, please give us as much information as possible, including screenshots and/or video if applicable. Thank you!
Edited by ZOS_Kevin on 8 July 2025 20:17
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  • erebus_79_ESO
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    Took the event quest from the crown store: Support the Fellowship. I'm prompted to talk to Skordo. When using the map to find Skordo, it tells me to go to Stirk Island...There's no wayshrine there to travel...that's not where i need to go. Skordo is in fact on Solstice at the camp south of Sunport. When using the "Show on Map" tool....the location needs to be fixed.


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    Edited by erebus_79_ESO on 8 July 2025 23:50
  • Aliyavana
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    the quest text should be updated to state that you can access stirk from the rivenspire mages guild. also, the wayshrine on stirk is not unlocking for me when i get there
  • erebus_79_ESO
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    Is Orinde Glenuvon (Daily Job Broker) supposed to award Necrom Reward Coffers? That's what I got when I turned in the vitrified souls
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    Edited by erebus_79_ESO on 8 July 2025 22:39
  • erebus_79_ESO
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    Aliyavana wrote: »
    the quest text should be updated to state that you can access stirk from the rivenspire mages guild. also, the wayshrine on stirk is not unlocking for me when i get there

    No information on where precisely to go, no hint when the quest is active either. I took the quest from the crown store.
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    My mage guild portal only goes to Eyevea...not Stirk (oh, that was on another toon that hadn't done the prologue quest). So prologue is necessary to get the Stirk portal
    Edited by erebus_79_ESO on 9 July 2025 21:36
  • LonePirate
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    For the Pact Creature Fat quest, the creature density is too low in the zones and about 75% of the time, the creatures did not drop any fat. Given the slow respawn rates for creatures and the player competition, more fat will need to drop from the creatures and/or the chance of it dropping needs to increase from its current low drop rate and/or a smaller quantity of fat should be needed instead of 15 in order to complete the quest.
  • Freelancer_ESO
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    Defending the North Siege Camp didn't count towards the quest Protecting the Besieged for me.

    The quest Crossing the Wall appears to cease to progress at the objective Stop the Ritual. Is this a bug or where it's supposed to end as Phase Three isn't available?
    Edited by Freelancer_ESO on 9 July 2025 00:48
  • Margravigne
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    In the Fissure Ruins' Ritual Chamber during 'Crossing The Wall', Mannimarco is completely ignoring me.
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    I've slain the Maldrith Rebuker multiple times:
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    I've exited and re-entered the door, logged off/logged back in (all that does is reset the Rebuker's instance), and fired arrows/skills at Mannimarco; nothing changes except that the Rebuker's corpse eventually disappears.

    Mannimarco just stands up there waving his arm and reknitting the Wall's energy, and the sheild remains up around the Soul Shrine.
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    I can enter the shield, but I can't interact with anything to progress this quest.
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  • Margravigne
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    I've left Part 1's questline untouched on Live, so I could run it first (on a copied character who's completed the relevant prior content) and see how these flowed together, and Prince Azah has a new line he really wants us to say at every possible opportunity:
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    There may be a couple of other instances I missed, but it's "What do we do next, Prince Azah?" the remake, with a line that doesn't even belong in this part of the questline, since it references something we don't acquire until the Colored Rooms.

    EDIT: Running another copied character who's done some of DC, but not Coldharbour or Summerset, and the line doesn't show up during part 1 (yet), will post screencap when I encounter it.
    Edited by Margravigne on 11 July 2025 23:49
  • Margravigne
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    The conversation with Darien in the Regent's Study will loop indefinitely, if you have completed at least Coldharbour or Summerset and gained the extra dialogue path/s:
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    EDIT: Replaced image with a more relevant one, and I'll make a clip of the dialogue loop to upload tomorrow

    Edited by Margravigne on 11 July 2025 13:22
  • Margravigne
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    When heading from the main seige camp to Vinutilmo Palace to speak with Darien in the Regent's Study, everyone including Darien is still hanging around where we left them at the end of Part 1:
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    This is despite Darien now also being in the Study with the map marker leading to him.
    Once we leave the Study with him following us, we can briefly have two Dariens:
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    (Everyone is still in the throne room/main hall of the palace at every playable stage up to the Fissure Ruins, which I can't progress past yet)
  • WhiteCoatSyndrome
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    I grabbed the siege repeatable on Solstice, completed the camp (technically twice as the first time I got to the camp just in time for the last boss) and the quest did not update.

    Also for the daily that directed me to pick up vitrified souls for the Altmer lady, the boss in the delve it pointed to didn’t drop any vitrified souls despite being a ghost.
    Aliyavana wrote: »
    the quest text should be updated to state that you can access stirk from the rivenspire mages guild. also, the wayshrine on stirk is not unlocking for me when i get there

    Davon’s Watch has a boat too, but I agree it is not pointing the way to Stirk very well and I also ran into the issue with the Wayshrine not unlocking.
    Is Orinde Glenuvon (Daily Job Broker) supposed to award Necrom Reward Coffers? That's what I got when I turned in the vitrified souls
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    Also ran into this.
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  • Margravigne
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    Defending the North Siege Camp didn't count towards the quest Protecting the Besieged for me.

    @Freelancer_ESO - Did you get credit on the 'Siege Camp Vanguard' achievement for the incursion, or the Tactician/Liberator one?

    I have the 'Protecting the Besieged' Daily active, which wants me to defend a camp:
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    But although I have all three of the other Siege Camp Achievements, I haven't been able to earn the Daily yet either:
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    I don't know exactly what's required to earn it, but reading the description of this particular Daily in my Quest Journal, I suspect it involves preventing the camp's occupants from being slain, and that might require a number of people to be ready and waiting for the incursion to emerge?

    EDIT: I've now spent a couple of hours on the siege camps, and checked off 13/21 of the unique bosses, but still haven't 'completed' any of the locations according to the map markers, nor have I met whatever the requirements are for the Daily.
    I do remember gaining an achievement at either the North or Sunport Camp, with any luck it's included in my recording of the nearby delve, so I'll take a look and see.
    Edited by Margravigne on 9 July 2025 16:11
  • Freelancer_ESO
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    Defending the North Siege Camp didn't count towards the quest Protecting the Besieged for me.

    Did you get credit on the 'Seige Camp Vanguard' achievement for the incursion, or the Tactician/Liberator one?

    I have the 'Protecting the Beseiged' Daily active, which wants me to defend a camp:
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    But although I have all three of the other Seige Camp Achievements, I haven't been able to earn the Daily yet either:
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    I don't know exactly what's required to earn it, but reading the description of this particular Daily in my Quest Journal, I suspect it involves preventing the camp's occupants from being slain, and that might require a number of people to be ready and waiting for the incursion to emerge?

    I don't recall.

    I did the North Camp 2x and didn't get credit then, I did the Sunport Siege Camp and got credit for it.

    That was why I assume that the North was bugged.

    It's possible the requirement for the defense is more specific. I'll have to try doing it more to see if I can narrow it down better.
  • Margravigne
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    Are the Siege Camp incursions supposed to be active during SOTWC Pt1's questline?

    I ran into one on my way to do the Li-Xal Pass stage with Gabrielle, on a copied alt (not a template, which would have had the quest technically completed, I think?).
  • Freelancer_ESO
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    I just did the Central Siege Camp and had two NPC survivors and I didn't get credit.
  • Margravigne
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    I still can't figure the 'Defender' criteria out either.

    I think the times I received credit for 'Vanguard' were when I arrived onsite before the Soul Reapers / mobs spawned in, so maybe we just need to be there before they activate for those ones?

    And be camped there in sufficient numbers to engage all the mobs at once (so no-one dies) to earn 'Defender'?

  • erebus_79_ESO
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    I did the North Camp 2x and didn't get credit then, I did the Sunport Siege Camp and got credit for it.

    That was why I assume that the North was bugged.

    It's possible the requirement for the defense is more specific. I'll have to try doing it more to see if I can narrow it down better.

    I did the southern most and didn't get credit for the "daily" quest. I wonder if you only get credit if you actually trigger the soul reapers during the defense. I don't think I was able to trigger the soul reapers because someone else triggered it. I doubt that should be the case that if someone else triggers the soul reapers, you don't get credit.

    The north one, i didn't get credit. I solo'd the final boss after it had been abandoned and soul reapers cleared.

    How is it that I've done a few siege camps but my map completion says I didn't?
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    Edited by erebus_79_ESO on 9 July 2025 16:16
  • BoloBoffin
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    I did two siege camp defenses without credit. I then went back to the event camp and ran through all the "optional" dialogue with the NPC who gives the siege camp repeatable quest. On my next siege camp defense, I got credit and could turn in the quest. So, I think that's the bug there: the "optional" dialogue isn't right now. I'll check it again tonight.

    I also got the Necrom chest, not a golden Writhing Wall chest for that repeatable quest line.
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  • Margravigne
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    I did the North Camp 2x and didn't get credit then, I did the Sunport Siege Camp and got credit for it.

    That was why I assume that the North was bugged.

    It's possible the requirement for the defense is more specific. I'll have to try doing it more to see if I can narrow it down better.

    So in reference to the above and some earlier posts I'm not requoting, I checked my quest recording and I earned Siege Camp Liberator and Siege Camp Tactician at the North Camp, so I don't think it's bugged, but I'm not sure if either of those are because I got the destruction credit for all 3 Soul Reapers?
    I joined the incursion towards the end of the first SR's mini-boss fight, so I don't know how long it had already been active, but there were no surviving NPCs and I don't think I earned anything towards the Vanguard achievement on it.

    Here's a link to an unlisted upload of the encounter, maybe someone can make more sense of things than I can with it: https://youtu.be/ZO-iZLHIJIQ
    It's a rough cut from a longer recording (I was enroute to a quest delve, so please excuse my lack of prep / set-up and my non-existent stamina regen; I wasn't expecting this encounter and it was my first Seige Camp battle).

    These feel like an upgraded version of the Dolmens, and other than not having a clue how I'm supposed to earn the Dailies, I'm a big fan so far. Having the escalating waves for each of the three Soul Reaper nodes, and the modular set up with them spaced far enough apart to allow you to solo them one at a time before the final boss spawns are great, and the variety of bosses/mechanics keeps it fresh, so there's a lot more variety to the battles than the Dolmens have.
  • Freelancer_ESO
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    I did it again on another character at the Sunport Siege Camp and I got quest credit again even though the character I did it on only actually killed the last boss. (I'd killed the rest on an alt but, the alt wasn't tanky enough for my terrible reflexes to solo the main boss so I had to change chars)

    One visual difference I would note from the Sunport Siege Camp vs the others is that the flames at the fire are yellow not Blue prior to the last stage.
  • Margravigne
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    Running this on a copied alt who's only midway through the DC Zone / Main questlines, and hasn't done any DLC yet.

    Decided to start with the Wall Event's Prologue via the Crown store, and it directed me to meet Skordo on Stirk. Okay, but at this stage on my character, I have no access to Stirk, because the 'permanent' portal in Rivenspire's Mage Guildhall only becomes available after completing the Solstice Prologue (at the end of Justice for the Fallen), so that really needs to be a prerequisite for this new Prologue quest.

    But meanwhile I run through the first one, get to Stirk, and I now have two Skordos, because the Stirk Fellowship Camp for the Wall Event is already active while the scene with the Ambassadors plays out. Also, the map marker for Skordo on the Map indicates a spot in what was the AD's camp, while on the Compass it points to the DC's old campsite, which is where that version of Skordo is waiting:
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    Skordo as seen from where my blue marker is in the pic above:
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    This is going to confuse the heck out new players who sign up just in time to take part in the Wall Event, and have no way to get to Stirk without completing prior content.

    As for players who've completed the relevant content and can just take the Rivenspire Portal, tabbing to Maps from the Questlog in our Journal should show that location, rather than where Skordo is on Stirk, until we've used the portal to travel to the island.

    Skordo has a lot of newbie-focused dialogue, which is great for someone who hasn't played the relevant content, but I hope characters who've been there and done that get something more tailored to past achievements. Since I hadn't started the Solstice Prologue before starting Support the Fellowship, I don't know whether his lines telling me about Merric's death and the formation of the Fellowship are tied to that, or if we're going to be treated like goldfish-brained idiots regardless.
    Based on the dialogue in SOTWC pt1, it's probably the latter.

    Skordo directs you to Razum-dar, who's only 25m away:
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    But checking the questlog in your Journal and tabbing to Maps shows his location on Solstice instead:
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    This is despite this character not having found any of the alliance representatives on Solstice yet:
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    Edited by Margravigne on 9 July 2025 18:49
  • Margravigne
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    I did it again on another character at the Sunport Siege Camp and I got quest credit again even though the character I did it on only actually killed the last boss. (I'd killed the rest on an alt but, the alt wasn't tanky enough for my terrible reflexes to solo the main boss so I had to change chars)

    One visual difference I would note from the Sunport Siege Camp vs the others is that the flames at the fire are yellow not Blue prior to the last stage.

    I tried the Sunport Camp, joined during the SR stage, and somehow managed to check off whatever it was that was needed for the "Protect the Besieged" Daily, too. This is the only site so far that's granted me the Daily, and now that I've picked up a new one, I'm going to recheck that. There is nothing in the quest description specifying a location:
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    And the bonfire remained its natural colour the entire encounter, even during the end-boss fight, no sign of blue/green necromantic flames at all.
    Edited by Margravigne on 10 July 2025 02:17
  • GeneralEU
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    Note near Hezsatari canlt be pick up.
  • Margravigne
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    I did it again on another character at the Sunport Siege Camp and I got quest credit again even though the character I did it on only actually killed the last boss. (I'd killed the rest on an alt but, the alt wasn't tanky enough for my terrible reflexes to solo the main boss so I had to change chars)

    One visual difference I would note from the Sunport Siege Camp vs the others is that the flames at the fire are yellow not Blue prior to the last stage.

    I tried the Sunport Camp, joined during the SR stage, and somehow managed to check off whatever it was that was needed for the "Protect the Besieged" Daily, too. This is the only site so far that's granted me the Daily, and now that I've picked up a new one, I'm going to recheck that. There is nothing in the quest description specifying a location:
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    And the bonfire remained its natural colour the entire encounter, even during the end-boss fight, no sign of blue/green necromantic flames at all.

    I have noticed over the past few days that sometimes a Siege Camp's bonfire will have the blue/necro flames while a different Camp is the active incursion site, is this to signify anything, or just a bug?

    There are currently two active incursions, at the North and South Siege Camps, and the bonfire at Central has necromantic flames despite not being active:
    EDIT: Is the second active incursion introduced as part of the Wall Event's Phase 2 escalating things per Skordo's dialogue, rather than a bug? If so nevermind :)
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    Edited by Margravigne on 12 July 2025 04:53
  • wenchmore420b14_ESO
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    In the Fissure Ruins' Ritual Chamber during 'Crossing The Wall', Mannimarco is completely ignoring me.
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    I've slain the Maldrith Rebuker multiple times:
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    I've exited and re-entered the door, logged off/logged back in (all that does is reset the Rebuker's instance), and fired arrows/skills at Mannimarco; nothing changes except that the Rebuker's corpse eventually disappears.

    Mannimarco just stands up there waving his arm and reknitting the Wall's energy, and the sheild remains up around the Soul Shrine.
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    I can enter the shield, but I can't interact with anything to progress this quest.
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    This. Same thing happened with me.
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  • GeneralEU
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    Also in this Phase 2 i can't talk with Skordo. In camp and in Stirk. When he wanted talk with me again...
  • erebus_79_ESO
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    While fighting at the central siege camp...
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  • erebus_79_ESO
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    https://youtu.be/K1UkM4t9qp0
    Soul Reaper Device in Central Camp just spawns the same 2 mobs over and over...endless loop and can't destroy the device
    Edited by erebus_79_ESO on 12 July 2025 22:45
  • WhiteCoatSyndrome
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    There are currently two active incursions, at the North and South Siege Camps, and the bonfire at Central has necromantic flames despite not being active:
    EDIT: Is the second active incursion introduced as part of the Wall Event's Phase 2 escalating things per Skordo's dialogue, rather than a bug? If so nevermind :)
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    Also seeing two incursions at a time.
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  • Margravigne
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    @WhiteCoatSyndrome I think the double-incursion is intended as part of Phase 2, since the Camps' Crafting dailies have doubled from 6 to 12 as well, so maybe it's to convey things are escalating?
    It would be nice if Skordo or another NPC mentioned it for confirmation, or we had some way of being advised of the changes each new Phase introduces so we don't miss out on getting involved in something.
    Edited by Margravigne on 14 July 2025 01:36
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