Molag Bal Quest Bugged - Complete show stopper, characters stuck

Ecco · June 2014

Yes, I'm aware that there is another major thread on this topic, sorry to clutter up the forums with a duplicate thread. But I haven't seen any developer input there and there is in fact reference in that thread to a bug tracker designation of this bug priority as "Medium". The title of that thread, "Quest - God of Schemes" does not, in my opinion, adequately characterize the severity of this problem for everyone who has it and so, on the off chance that developers have not seen that thread, perhaps they will see this one.

Summary. The many affected by this bug (including both my wife and I) cannot complete the Main storyline quest regarding Molag Bal. We are 100% at a full stop here and cannot advance or exit our characters from this situation. We can't play. That seems like a very "High" priority to me.
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That is all.

Zavana · June 2014

Same here, bug priority "Medium" doesn't cut it

This bug is such a big bottleneck, it blocks almost the whole veteran content.

Actually, zenimax's handling of this situation will have great impact of my further subscription.

BunkerPants · June 2014

Any update? Still don't see alot of movement and I am still at an all stop....

DMuehlhausen · June 2014

It's not game breaking. Game breaking would be everybody is affected. Also every day when I log people are commenting how they were able to finish it.

Beachcomber · June 2014

I tried and tried for several days and it is just not enjoyable and I am out of options? Just too difficult - please give us a break

Beachcomber · June 2014

I am a nightblade with healing staff and bow - able to grind him down to 50 % after 20 min but run out of healing potions quickly - his health seems to be stuck right there. magical attacks - no effect.

blauschwinge · June 2014

I dont understand where he is "Broken"
Is it the issue with the stuck in hand, falling down etc, or can you simply not beat him? If its the second case, I do admit he can be challenging with some builds, but only if you go in unprepared, take some Potions along, grab Healing Skills, craft some decent gear or ask someone to make you decent Set gear.

I beat him with a Templar Alt recently (which is like Nightblade pretty crappy in DPS atm) with no problems at all, and I highly attribute it to a nice Armor Set I crafted for myself. Crafting in ESO is gorgeous and I can really recommend it.

fromtesonlineb16_ESO · June 2014

Folks, the OP was posted 3 weeks ago and was referring to another long thread about how the script to this fight was BROKEN and caused the fight never to start.

I assume the posts beginning 9 June think the OP was complaining about the fight difficulty, he wasn't, he and many others no doubt would LOVE to have been able to post how hard it was but when the quest script was terminally broken they couldn't even start it.

/thread

Ecco · June 2014

Right, thanks, this was NOT a complaint about difficulty, it was a complaint about impossibility due to broken scripts. Devs got on it right away and fixed it by the time we got tired of WS and came back to ESO. All is good again. But I have to admit, it was mind boggling that the main quest line to kill the ultimate game boss was broken and the devs released it this way? I can imagine scenarios how that could happen, but it's still pretty scary.