"Endless War" seeds not working

UberTester · May 2014

Quests still bugged

Victus · May 2014

Yeah cancelling and picking up the quest is not helping. Trying rebinding the E key and that hasn't worked yet either. :S

Edit: also disabled add-ons while re-binding E, did not work.

Hotrockets · May 2014

mathias.forsmarkb16_ESO wrote: »

It worked for me when i was transformed to a skeleton and use the seeds

Tried turning into a skeleton first, did not work for me

Hotrockets · May 2014

Razzak wrote: »

Sunbite wrote: »

A CS rep suggested I rebind E to another key. Which I did and the quest then worked. Of course, it might have been coincidence, but I completed it when the area was heavily populated with real people and bot multi-boxers with no issues at all.
Might be worth a try?

Will try that today, but I have to say I am confused as to why that would work. The problem I am having is that there is no animation after I press "E", so why that would be connected to a key begin used, is beyond me as it's clear that pressing "E" does use my seed.

This did not work for me either

tinythinker · May 2014

Sunbite wrote: »

Razzak wrote: »

Will try that today, but I have to say I am confused as to why that would work....

Exactly as I felt - I was very sceptical. So I was completely surprised when it worked. Prior to that I had no animation yet the seeds disappeared. A couple more things I should add that might have had an influence:
I had cancelled the quest then picked it up again, zoned out without doing anything for the quest, exited the game, gone to work and returned to the Cliffs after a few hours. (I had logged out the night before which did not make a difference but may have logged out in the Cliffs zone so this time was slightly different)

I took the other mages quests first - before even talking to Julien but hadn't done anything in their quests

Very shocked and pleased when it worked. I did tell people in zone chat (EU) and was then told it was silly because all people had to do was group for it to work. And I'm reading grouping doesn't always work either.

The good thing is the CS rep told me ZOS were working on a fix for the quest.

I tried 1) re-accepting quest, 2) exited game, 3) used a new binding for "e", 4) talked to the other two mages first, then 5) tried the seed quest. No go. Any or all of those may have been spurious correlations, or the work-arounds may work or not based on some other unknown variable. Glad that you managed to get through the impasse, though

Edit: Maybe "zoning out" was the key

Taresha · June 2014

Not working for me with any of the suggestions. It didn't work even once. I abandoned the quest 4 times by now, but no luck.

Gothic · June 2014

This quest is still messed up. None of the suggested tactics worked for me (Killing a second wave on respawn before trying, using the skeleton illusion for the other step of the quest, or rebinding the "E" key).

This makes my inner completionist a sad panda.

Sou1defiler · June 2014

At least 3 relogs, 2 quits, umpteen abandonments, tried all the pre mentioned workarounds... and still nothing. Please fix this Zeni, it's extremely frustrating to see people around you perform the quest but when you try to plant a seed the interaction dialogue suddenly greys out and then nothing. Then you run out of seeds. And completionist? Oh I wouldn't worry about that... Chances are Zeni will suddenly wipe out your quest achievements. (Still waiting to get my Stonefalls to Eastmarch completionist achievements back)

Razzak · June 2014

I was wondering if maybe sun would go super nova or something similarly disastrous if they actually deemed us worthy of some kind of response.
Numerous reports, threads and posts and not even a beep from their side. Is it pathetic or just sad?

denicolad16_ESO · June 2014

Razzak wrote: »

I was wondering if maybe sun would go super nova or something similarly disastrous if they actually deemed us worthy of some kind of response.
Numerous reports, threads and posts and not even a beep from their side. Is it pathetic or just sad?

Disastrous - Losing all their subs.

Maybe they will fix it today. At least I hope. This is the only thing I have left to complete in Cold Harbour and I'm VR2 now.

Gothic · June 2014

While the patch notes only made mention about the seeds now working on bodies that have turned to ash... it appears that this quest is no longer bugged, ash or no. Killed six mobs, was able to use six seeds and got credit for all of them.

Still no plant animations or whatever was supposed to happen, but after trying this quest about 10 times, I'm just happy it's over, and I don't have the unfilled map icon mocking me anymore.

swids2010 · August 2014

Bump because still not fixed 5 people in chat asking about it right now.

Ashtaris · August 2014

That's surprising that this bug has crept up again. I know about a month or so ago it wasn't working, ZOS fixed it so that I was finally able to finish it with my DK, and then more recently with my Sorc character. Looks like whatever fix they did at the time perhaps didn't get rolled into the latest update?

Haqikah · August 2014

I can confirm (not that that is needed) that this bug has returned. No animation, however there is a short cooldown (as the 'Use Strange Seed' gets greyed out) but nothing happens. So no quest progress.
I am not certain if there is a limited quantity of seeds, though as I still have one after trying this far more than 20 times.

Guppet · August 2014

Yep I have the bug too, its back.

METALPUNKS · August 2014

There is a way around this. When you first go into that area where you pick up the seeds walk straight on that road, stop when your about half way. You'll know because you'll see the lake to your left and you should see that your about in the middle of it but still on the road. Then there a enemy that spawns directly to your left and where your standing. He takes about a minute but if you kill him and do the seed thing right before he does you'll get credit. Spent hours and this is the only thing we found that worked.

fromtesonlineb16_ESO · August 2014

It's unbelievable how many broken things get fixed only to break again later.

/shakeshead

Morvul · August 2014

this is the workaround I managed to come up with the last time this quest was broken:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/105837/the-endless-war-seeds-quest-alternative-workaround

no idea if the same procedure will help this time around...

angel59 · August 2014

fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »

It's unbelievable how many broken things get fixed only to break again later.

/shakeshead

I agree. I encountered this same bug a few months ago on my main. It is ridiculous. This is the only company I know that fixes something and then brings back the original bug. I am really beginning to wonder about the competence of the development team. I know programming an MMO is complex, but how does a team do this, unless they don't maintain proper control of their builds.

I guess I can expect the Molag Bal fight to bug out next. This would be consistent with the last time I went through Cold Harbor.

Agobi · August 2014

Still bugged....only thing im missing to complete...planting the seeds

Get on it already effeffs!

ZOS_TristanK · August 2014

Our team is investigating the issue with planting the seeds. In the mean time, the steps listed in this knowledge base article may help. If the workaround listed there doesn't get you past this point in the quest, please reach out to our Support Team. Be sure to let them know what time you'll next be logged in and they'll be happy to help.

Sakara · August 2014

Yup, i'm getting 'item is not ready' when i try to plant a seed. What's crazy is i had no problem when i did this quest months ago with another character!

Gillysan · August 2014

I commented in another post, in case it helps. Did it 3 days ago.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1205949/#Comment_1205949

coeurdepirate · August 2014

I just had the same issue and somehow managed to make it work. I created a pile of dead bodies, waited for respawn and used E while I was in fight. Maybe that works for some of you, too.

GeraintMawr · August 2014

Look at the date yes August 30 and still not working. Sporadic for me. 2/6 and nothing happening for ages. Then I tried a heritance soldier way out away from everybody else on the quest. Used the seeds as soon as I got him and it worked. Went to 6/6 on the next three. All done by attacking heritance first and, important bit I think, away from all the other questers. Always used the seeds as soon as the heritance soldier died and at the feet of the other opponent.

Good luck! Having said all that when I played this pre 3, as a covenant Mage it worked perfectly. Win the battles, use the seeds, on to the next.

Ezlic · September 2014

Here is the workaround that actually worked for me:

It is simple, but a little time consuming, and is as follows:
1.Kill an enemy.
2.Wait for the enemy to respawn. Sometimes they respawn within a minute, sometimes it's after five minutes, this seems random and is sometimes a little irritating.
3.While in combat with the new enemy, target the OLD enemy's body, and press E to plant the seeds.
4.Repeat the process for the other 5 seeds.

Bear in mind that the enemy you're planting the seeds in MUST be the dead version of the same enemy you're currently fighting. Doesn't work if you just pick on another enemy.

Epona222 · September 2014

I did manage to get through the quest, but OMG it was tedious, it took me about 3 hours to get all the seeds planted, constantly waiting on enemy respawns (and if one of the respawns starts attacking you before you hit E to plant the seed, you cannot then do so as you are flagged as being in combat, so you have to fight them and then wait for the next respawn - yawn).

Fortunately when I was there, there were a whole number of other people in a similar boat, but we all took it in turns to block when the enemies spawned to make sure the enemies stayed alive whilst people were planting, and keep them from attacking people planting seeds, and thanks to an awful lot of player co-operation made sure everyone there got all their seeds planted. Massive +1 to the ESO community, it was kind of awesome the way everyone pulled together (although it should not have been necessary).

No quest ought to be this frustrating. I hope that it is a bug and that it will get fixed soon. If it's like that by design, then please Zenimax have a rethink, as that was the opposite of fun

Gillysan · September 2014

I did it on the second character before the big patch and finished it in about 20 minutes. E took several tries and I even died 4 times. It took me 20 minutes because some dude was grinding mobs in the area. >.<

I don't wait for a respawn, I just grab another living human NPC from nearby. When I was finished I must have had about 15 corpses to loot thanks to that dude grinding mobs.

Screenshot is from my first character doing this which I have posted on other threads. Note the spot I use on the minimap, there are some human camps of NPC's in that area.