(PC - NA) Litany of Blood: Missing targets?

Niyogi

Hi there, my husband and I have been trying to complete The Dark Brotherhood quest, Litany of Blood. We have been having issues locating a few of the target NPCs. I've checked guides online for locations and names. I've even set my nameplates so only the nameplates of neutral NPCs show up and gone hunting that way and neither of us has been able to locate these NPCs. We've tried coming back at different times and always do circuits around the towns and have even tried camping known locations to no avail. Are the npcs bugged right now?

Thus far we have been unable to locate:
Sihana - Vulkwasten
Dablir - Rawl'kha

I'm @Niyogi in-game if you happen to see them and I'm on. Thank you.

Niyogi

Gideelar - Stormhold

KlumzyKitty

At least I'm not the only one. I didn't have any trouble with Sihana, but I can't seem to find Caraleth in Marburk as well as Dablir in Rawl'kha. I fell like they have to be bugged because I've looked everywhere.

Niyogi

I've gone back today after the maintenance and tada, I found them all. I definitely think they were bugged somehow.

coyotlgw

OK, so I had been following several of these threads as I thought that the Quest was broken, will cross-post in hopes that I can help more folks, if I may.

I completed this Quest successfully with two different characters on the PC NA Server within the last couple weeks. The targets do spawn, but there are a few twists...

Reading several guides I noticed that they do not all agree on location. I noticed that some targets were easy and right where I expected, but some were killed far away from where I was told to look... always the same city but different spots. I think most of the guides are right, just targets wander a lot more then expected. As an example, Bulag (Rivenspire) was only juggling where expected once and by the time I relogged with the right character she was gone... both characters killed her when she was walking off to the east outside the castle entrance. Dinor (Stonefalls) was on the other side of the Mage's Guild and Hakida (Windhelm) was behind the bank the first time, but the second character only found her after several long nights and even then she was in the graveyard behind the Fighters Guild

The other thing that helped was that I started hunting after 23:00 MST on weeknights, when far fewer folks were playing. I really think that even with instant respawns you would have to start the search over, so they have a chance to wander more. This came to me after I had located three targets in a row woh already had a fellow assassin sneaking behind them to make the kill. Rather then interrupt I would watch the kill ad then try to go find the spawn, but that was only successful once (Alix Edette in Wayrest needs to quit moping on the docks and get out more... too easy to kill )

Again, hope this helps