Did it for my wife the other day and had no problems from start 'till end. Did not die either with skellies. The friendly also attack skellies. But don't AOE them all because they will turn to you instead. I picked them off 2-3 at a time and went well.

Yes, exactly as described by drkeys above (much more artfully than by me). The other party members would not fight and certainly there was no healing. I did not AOE but picked off one skeleton at a time. When I did that 3 or 4 skeletons would attack and I handled them fine. Then I would pick off one more, rinse and repeat until all of the skeletons were dead.

At that point I assume I should get additional dialogue and/or be able to continue up the stairs into the next room/level of the quest. That does not occur. I'm basically just stuck at that point. I left the dungeon and returned a few times and tried again but I was never able to progress.

Thanks so much for the replies and attention to this. I am loving ESO and see nothing but good for it in the future.

I too am stranded in Rivenspire. I get to final scene in Doomcrag but there is no way I can kill the Gargoyle. There is another quest that's supposed to lead me to the next zone as the follow-up to the earth core quest. And the map shows the entry in various places, including close to me in that Doomcrag area but it vanishes when I go through the door it tells me to.

I'd probably find this all much more fun were I not building a support character for Cyrodiil. He's not meant or built to kill AI monsters. He's meant to heal and support people fighting people. That's what a game is, after all: competition among and between people. Problem is the game is forcing me to interact with robots and a scripted story. If I don't I'm at a growing disadvantage against players who have.

Isn't that a bit like forcing you to have sex with a love doll when there are real life women present? Hundreds or thousands of people in a digital world. Why do you need robots? And why must I listen to their robot stories or care about their fabricated dramas? Actual people will create plenty of drama on their own.

Just let me buy these levels and play the game I wish to play - a game that has a network connection for a reason that makes sense. And let me play a game where the reward is gameplay itself, not some item to reward my having suffered through the experience. It exists in Cyrodiil. But I'm not going to play ping pong for months to earn a level 50 bat so I can play baseball as I originally wanted to from the beginning and have the same chance of hitting the ball as the other players do.

Yeah, I know....I'm a fool for trying yet another MMO *blush*

I had problems with both times I was required to quest here.
The first time, very early on into Rivenspire, the fight against all the Skeletons (Ancient Warriors or something) didn't pop after I killed them all.
I died many, many times in this fight and this may have something to do with it.
It was also very frustrating, after struggling so, that I had to abandon and try again.
The second and successful time I moved further into the room and did not stay close to the back / door and it did pop.

Upon returning much later on, the Second Fight (Gargoyle) did not pop either.
this really got bugged.
Once again I died a few times and I believe one Skeleton disappeared and therefore the Gargoyle did not spawn.
I abandoned multiple times, but no go.
I finally abandoned and left it for an hour and then picked the quest back up and it started in the First Room, where previously if I abandoned and picked up straight away the quest would still be stuck in the Second Room. I did it ok this time.

It seem multiple deaths, which is never a good idea, sort of freaks out this quest.
I'm lucky I did get them done I guess.

Query: There's a hint under the quest marker. Are you tricking the Gargoyles into smashing the Statues? I fell for that, wondering when it was going to end and then finally spotting the hint.

crislevin wrote: »

Just hide behind the statue

Statues, there are 4 of them.

The stupid thing is, I actually killed the blasted thing, and they are UBER hard to solo at 30. Especially for a mage, i suspect, because you can't use any kind of paralysis or knockdown on them, but they do get distracted by pets. So I'd distract it, run away, use that fighter guild crossbow on it, curse it, my pet would explode, drop another pet and run like a bunny. Took FOREVER. OFC, another one spawned in half a second, which was really annoying, so I came here and then finished up in about ten minutes overall, LOL. I suppose you'd call it 30, I lvled during that mess.