traveling to friend ... cadwells ... patchy question

Elsterchen

Hi there, reading the patch notes I was wondering wether some people are indeed able to quest in zones they should be able to enter for the first time during cadwells silver/gold. Well, i know, this is not what is writen in the patch notes: ..."Fixes & Improvements

Quests & Zones
Main Quest

Cadwell's Silver and Cadwell's Gold: You will no longer become blocked from completing these quests if you jump to a friend or otherwise teleport to Silver/Gold zones before you actually interact with the Light of Meridia.
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... but for me it surely sounds like that. :-D

And since I am not willing to abuse my characters role I will not be able to finish cadwells quests and like the opportunity to visit and explore the missing region, too. However untill now I was not able to transport there, so could the devs pls make sure that travelling to players in zones you can't enter on your own works for everyone, pls?


Adding to this I would like to know if the time for the removal of cadwells quests has been stated yet.

Leandor

My understanding of these patch notes is, that they supposedly fix a "minor" bug that came into fruition if and only if you:

1. finished the respective quest chain (main quest line for silver, silver quest line for gold).
2. Talked to Cadwell and turned in the "finished region" quest
3. and lastly travelled to a friend/guildmate/groupmember before you interacted with the "Light of Meridia" that actually starts the next region quest.

In this case, the quest marker on the light of meridia disappeared and rendered you unable to do the respective overall zone quest.

This fix has nothing to do with the actual gating of alliance zones by means of cadwell's "experience XX" quest lines or the removal of veteran ranks.

NewBlacksmurf

Not sure about your original question but I've not seen or heard from any dev talk about removing Cadwell stuff
Don't think the removal of VR has anything to do with Cadwell zones.

Elsonso

This item in the patch notes confused me. As far as I know, it is not possible to travel to a player in a Cadwell zone outside of Cadwell's permission. Maybe it works with friends if the friend is there. I have only tried it with guild mates.

Rosveen

I don't think that's how it works. As you said, you can't port to these areas before starting Cadwell's. So what I think is happening here is people talking to Cadwell and starting the quest and then moving to the new alliance via teleport rather than the Light of Meridia as they should. That means you still need to complete the prerequisite objectives for starting the quest.

Enodoc

Rosveen wrote: »

I don't think that's how it works. As you said, you can't port to these areas before starting Cadwell's. So what I think is happening here is people talking to Cadwell and starting the quest and then moving to the new alliance via teleport rather than the Light of Meridia as they should. That means you still need to complete the prerequisite objectives for starting the quest.

Yeah that's what it sounds like to me as well.

Elsterchen wrote: »

Adding to this I would like to know if the time for the removal of cadwells quests has been stated yet.

Veteran Ranks are being removed, Cadwell's quests aren't.