Thanks for wasting my time, ZOS

frogthroat

Trying to level up Undaunted for the last two characters and thought I do pledges and missing dungeon quests. I mistakenly used the dungeon finder and queued to Blessed Crucible. Got in and... the group was already past the first boss. I guess someone quit and I am the replacement. What this did now was:
1. I could not pick up the quest. No 25 undaunted for me. No skill point.
2. I could not complete the pledge and collect 100 undaunted because even after killing the final boss, I still have this:


Great coding. Thanks. Give a bonus to your QA team.

That was absolute waste of time.

Elvenheart

Shouldn’t this be “Thanks for wasting my time, group that lost a member and opened up the queue for another member after already defeating the first boss?” This has happened to me on occasion too, and when I pop into a group halfway through the dungeon already, I respectfully apologize and say I have to do the full run for the quest and drop back out. I do agree there should be better ways for us to get credit in situations like this so this doesn’t have to happen.

frogthroat

Not the fault of the group for using the tools provided to them by ZOS. Of course that function should exist. But I should still be able to pick up the quest and complete the pledge if I join half-way via finder. The finder should help you, not punish you randomly for something that someone else did.

Also, usually if you go to the dungeon again, the pledge resets. This time not. I queued again, got in and once we did the first boss, my pledge was ready. So if I were that kind of a person, I could have just dropped out there and leave the others to deal with a missing player. Which would have meant the next person getting in can't finish the pledge and has to queue again... and then the next one...

But anyway, those were nice guys so I stayed until the end.

playsforfun

frogthroat wrote: »

Trying to level up Undaunted for the last two characters and thought I do pledges and missing dungeon quests. I mistakenly used the dungeon finder and queued to Blessed Crucible. Got in and... the group was already past the first boss. I guess someone quit and I am the replacement. What this did now was:
1. I could not pick up the quest. No 25 undaunted for me. No skill point.
2. I could not complete the pledge and collect 100 undaunted because even after killing the final boss, I still have this:


Great coding. Thanks. Give a bonus to your QA team.

That was absolute waste of time.

Maybe something like they have in trials where the last boss drops a quest starter item & you just use it at the end, the only problem with this concept is if you are a new player you completely miss the whole quest but for new chars that have already done the on other chars it's great.

Ordinator199

Omg end of the world right there.

Quests should've been fixed to advance in base game dungeons as they do in dlc dungeons.
But I guess no time to go do simple fix like that since base dungeons generate no profits really.

warsulxan

don’t understand why they won’t change the Undaunted quest requirements for old dungeons to work like newer ones — simply complete the dungeon.

Gagoimaliu

I haven't done a single dungeon quest in almost a year since whenever I try to read the dialogue it feels like I'm holding back the entire group. It has happened to me that I join a group midway or they skip an optional boss, in that case, I just queue again, it's not a huge deal, takes maybe 10-15 minutes to finish a dungeon

Lokiator

This is the precise reason that I stopped doing PUG Undaunted pledges from the base game. It's not worth my time to risk running them multiple times just for 2 keys.

BTW - My personal "record" is having to run a single dungeon 4 times to complete a pledge. I joined at the 2nd or later boss three times in a row before getting a fresh instance.

SeaGtGruff

(1) I can't imagine why anyone would drop out of a group during Blessed Crucible, unless they got kicked.

(2) I solo Blessed Crucible all the time, at least on Normal. I tried soloing it on Veteran once, but couldn't clear the final boss due to issues I was having with blocking.

(3) If you're on PCNA or PCEU, send me a whisper sometime and I'll duo it with you.