Dungeon quests dissapearing when friend enters?

Amidumaru · January 2016

Grinded to level 47 and was going to do a 4 man party to get quests in dungeons done. I was the party leader and the quest was available to pick up. I invited my lvl 47 grinding buddy and my 2 level 48 friends. When the lvl 48 people entered the quest was no longer available. We tried rezoning and reforming the party. We tried relogging.

We did fungal grotto quest fine, but the spider place and the other place both had no quest to start.

So...what gives?

Magdalina · January 2016

It's weird and could be a bug. Or it could be someone else picked up the quest - if a party member picks up the quest in a group instance you'll get a " <blah blah blah> event is starting that will grant you <blah blah> quest. Accept?" popup. If you decline, you'll still be able to pick up the quest like usual(which is what I usually do because I actually wanna read all that NPC dialogue by myself), if you accept, the quest will automatically be added to your journal without you actually talking to the quest giver. You may want to check your quest journal - are you absolutely sure that wasn't the case here?

If you don't have the quest in the journal AND the quest giver isn't offering it, well. Sounds like a bug, /bug it and hope it fixes itself eventually because ZOS probably won't bother.