Favor for lady ababelle, find rendezvous spot near soulshriven tower

Verling · July 27

Aliyavana wrote: »

trying this workaround but I don't know what you mean.

Let me try to explain. Quests are divided into groups.

There's a group of request quests from the freelancer boards.
There are, for example, guild quests.
There are also location-specific quest groups, such as Auridon, Stonefalls, Stormhaven and others.

The same quest will move from one group to another and change its name.

katanagirl1 · July 27

MidnightDuel wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

GTK that a "fix" will be available sooner than U51.

Since there is a "letter" involved in the steps to complete the Favor quest, wouldn't this normally be a quick turn-in for characters that have already done the associated quest? The assumption is that the quest is bugged for such characters because there would be no quest to do in Stormhaven when they get there.

It's strange that the the quest is being dropped from the quest log altogether.

Of course this isn't something that would have been easily discovered and reported on the PTS, if at all. There are so many daily Favors quests, which have to be done in order before a player ever gets to this one. This quest has got to be near the end of the Glenumbra Favors too. Virtually impossible to uncover given the short character-copy durations on the PTS, assuming a tester has the time and determination to test it every day for nearly a month.

I am curious as to whether this Favor can be completed if the quest has been done previously. That would help those who haven’t encountered this yet. I did some quests in Shadowfen today so I might be a day behind. Can anyone comment on whether that works? If so, can you post which quest it is?

EDIT: in case it isn’t clear, if we know that quest is bugged, we might be able to skip past the bug by doing the quest beforehand

Aliyavana · July 27

katanagirl1 wrote: »

MidnightDuel wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

GTK that a "fix" will be available sooner than U51.

Since there is a "letter" involved in the steps to complete the Favor quest, wouldn't this normally be a quick turn-in for characters that have already done the associated quest? The assumption is that the quest is bugged for such characters because there would be no quest to do in Stormhaven when they get there.

It's strange that the the quest is being dropped from the quest log altogether.

Of course this isn't something that would have been easily discovered and reported on the PTS, if at all. There are so many daily Favors quests, which have to be done in order before a player ever gets to this one. This quest has got to be near the end of the Glenumbra Favors too. Virtually impossible to uncover given the short character-copy durations on the PTS, assuming a tester has the time and determination to test it every day for nearly a month.

I am curious as to whether this Favor can be completed if the quest has been done previously. That would help those who haven’t encountered this yet. I did some quests in Shadowfen today so I might be a day behind. Can anyone comment on whether that works? If so, can you post which quest it is?

EDIT: in case it isn’t clear, if we know that quest is bugged, we might be able to skip past the bug by doing the quest beforehand

No

Elvenheart · July 27

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

HI All. Thanks for flagging this. We are aware of this issue and believe this will be resolved in Update 51.

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

I just hope that I can get to the quest this time before it’s fixed so I can experience the bug. I’m still upset that I never got to unlock a tree when the lock for the Iverry Estate showed up on a tree in Willowgrove and missed my “I Unlocked a Tree in ESO” tee shirt. 🌳

oddarin · July 27

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I am curious as to whether this Favor can be completed if the quest has been done previously. That would help those who haven’t encountered this yet. I did some quests in Shadowfen today so I might be a day behind. Can anyone comment on whether that works? If so, can you post which quest it is?

EDIT: in case it isn’t clear, if we know that quest is bugged, we might be able to skip past the bug by doing the quest beforehand

The thing is that the last favour is a new quest itself, so you you cant do it before you taken it.

JHartEllis · July 27

Mark your calendars: Aug 10 is Arabelle Handbill Day!

LuC1ll3atTh3Wh33L · July 27

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

so can i hold on to the favor/quest until then? or will it also "magically" self-delete after 24 hour?
tbh im feeling like maybe i should wait altogether until aug 10 to log back in.

Grega · July 27

Verling wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

trying this workaround but I don't know what you mean.

Let me try to explain. Quests are divided into groups.

There's a group of request quests from the freelancer boards.
There are, for example, guild quests.
There are also location-specific quest groups, such as Auridon, Stonefalls, Stormhaven and others.

The same quest will move from one group to another and change its name.

This just sounds like gibberish to me?

The quest disappears when you reach stormhaven. Are you saying, if we walk back to Glenumbra, with empty journal, a quest will reappear? Cause there is no quest or change its name. It literally disappears, and upon returning to Glenumbra it is there a available to be picked up

SilverBride · July 27

The quest just deleted for me, too.

Grega · July 27

@Verling im curious to know exactly how your friend turned in the quest that wasn’t in the journal to begin with?

Considering also no one else came forward saying “I was able to complete the quest”

katanagirl1 · July 28

oddarin wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I am curious as to whether this Favor can be completed if the quest has been done previously. That would help those who haven’t encountered this yet. I did some quests in Shadowfen today so I might be a day behind. Can anyone comment on whether that works? If so, can you post which quest it is?

EDIT: in case it isn’t clear, if we know that quest is bugged, we might be able to skip past the bug by doing the quest beforehand

The thing is that the last favour is a new quest itself, so you you cant do it before you taken it.

OK thanks, I didn’t know it was a new quest, I thought it was an already existing quest like the others.

EDIT: typo

aussie500 · July 28

Last favor is an old quest far as I can see, and my main character did it years ago, how hard is it to test if after reading the second piece of paper, the arrow appears above the chest to hand the quest in?

I doubt they fixed it and I am not waiting till the next update, my solution was to just send another character who got the kill a WB in Rivenspire, quest. I will leave the mail for my main character to read and see if the quest changes tomorrow for my main character. I will find out on my alt accounts, when they get the stuffed up quest if it is actually a new quest, since they would not have done it before. I really doubt it is a new quest.

aussie500 · July 28

Nope it was kill a delve boss the second character picked up, either way it is doable.

Grega · July 28

So do these quests just randomly continue indefinitely, they aren’t finished at 20?

aussie500 · July 28

Grega wrote: »

So do these quests just randomly continue indefinitely, they aren’t finished at 20?

They are going to start repeating eventually, but I have not reached that point yet, preferring to just do them on one character per account. Unless ZOS stuffs up the quest.

Grega · July 28

Verling wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

HI All. Thanks for flagging this. We are aware of this issue and believe this will be resolved in Update 51.

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

My guildmates completed this quest today. If you're careful, the quest disappears from requests after moving, but appears in the location's quests. After completing it, you can turn it in at the board.

I'll be doing it tomorrow, checking everything out, and reporting back.

Ok I’m there now, walking around “careful”. quest disappeared, like for everyone.

How does it reappear? I’ve combed over every inch of “quest location”

oddarin · July 28

aussie500 wrote: »

I really doubt it is a new quest.

If it like other two "last favours" - then it is new. For Holgun we needed to track missing courier and for Urcelmo - to find some Mage's Guild missing stuff, and while doing that things we needed to interract with some new items in old locations, read some new letters and notes, that cannont be done without having those quests. The same with Lady Arabelle's quest - yes, she asked us to go in old location, but the quest's environment is new and we cant do anything with it witout having that mentioned quest. From what I can manage to discover - we probably should track the trace of dead bodies to the tower, read glowing book there and go somewhere else (some said something about portal mark somewhere around but i myself didnt located it). But anyway nor book nor portal are active and we cannot interract with it, so we cannot move further

Edit: clarification

Grega · July 28

aussie500 wrote: »

Grega wrote: »

So do these quests just randomly continue indefinitely, they aren’t finished at 20?

They are going to start repeating eventually, but I have not reached that point yet, preferring to just do them on one character per account. Unless ZOS stuffs up the quest.

Actually since today is 21st day - I can confirm they do not. Per character, you get 20 quests, and when you finish, it’s over, permanently. You have to make a new character to do 20 daily quest line chain again.

allochthons · July 28

TheGrognard wrote: »

All I know is if this was a Crown Store bug in favor if the Player? That 💩 would've been fixed in under an hour. Prove me wrong.....🤬

The crown store is a completely different code base than the game. Store software, whatever the Crown Store is using, is standard, and has been codified for decades. And I would bet it's 3rd party software, although obviously I don't know for sure.

The game is a custom 10-year old pile of spaghetti code.

Comparing them is useless, and disingenuous.

AcadianPaladin · July 28

Today should have been Lady Arabelle's 20th but the bug would not let me complete it. I guess I'll try again after the Aug 10 fix.

Aylish · July 28

I was kinda surprised today when I went to the favor boards and there were no quests.
I thought they would just restart, maybe random and without the letters. Most of the Favors were so generic (bring some cheese, kill Zombies,…) that I expected some of them would return.
I‘m kinda disappointed. The rewards were partly cool (I dropped some missing leads) and now it‘s just over.
20 days and the feature disappears?!

AcadianPaladin · July 28

Aylish wrote: »

... 20 days and the feature disappears?!

I'm under the impression that new questgivers will be periodically cycled in. I'm guessing perhaps with the next big update? Anyway, I figured I'd take my time and just work one questgiver a day. I guess that extends the current 20 days to 60.

Grega · July 28

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Aylish wrote: »

... 20 days and the feature disappears?!

I'm under the impression that new questgivers will be periodically cycled in. I'm guessing perhaps with the next big update? Anyway, I figured I'd take my time and just work one questgiver a day. I guess that extends the current 20 days to 60.

You can also do them on other characters

Aylish · July 28

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Aylish wrote: »

... 20 days and the feature disappears?!

I'm under the impression that new questgivers will be periodically cycled in. I'm guessing perhaps with the next big update? Anyway, I figured I'd take my time and just work one questgiver a day. I guess that extends the current 20 days to 60.

They said something about the current three quest givers being the first ones.
Though, I‘m sent to kill the same world bossed every few days again and again. I can still join completing dark anchors although I already stopped the planemelt (twice). Why not repeat the favor quests. At least the generic looking ones?

ESO_player123 · July 28

Grega wrote: »

Verling wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

HI All. Thanks for flagging this. We are aware of this issue and believe this will be resolved in Update 51.

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

My guildmates completed this quest today. If you're careful, the quest disappears from requests after moving, but appears in the location's quests. After completing it, you can turn it in at the board.

I'll be doing it tomorrow, checking everything out, and reporting back.

Ok I’m there now, walking around “careful”. quest disappeared, like for everyone.

How does it reappear? I’ve combed over every inch of “quest location”

@Verling The suspense is killing us. Could you please ask your guildmate for exact steps that they did to complete this bugged quest.

James-Wayne · July 28

Dalsinthus wrote: »

It’s wild that U50 and season 1 were released in this state - bugged quests, buggged drops, and problems everywhere you look. Part of the argument for the new model is that content would be released in a more polished state but that’s clearly not happening.

I think you'll find the introduction of a seasonal model is to space the content out more and has nothing to do with providing higher quality.

The way this system was built no one could have tested the full 20 days properly so we can only rely on ZOS to either test or provide the right PTS tools so players can QA.

Grega · July 28

ESO_player123 wrote: »

Grega wrote: »

Verling wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

HI All. Thanks for flagging this. We are aware of this issue and believe this will be resolved in Update 51.

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

My guildmates completed this quest today. If you're careful, the quest disappears from requests after moving, but appears in the location's quests. After completing it, you can turn it in at the board.

I'll be doing it tomorrow, checking everything out, and reporting back.

Ok I’m there now, walking around “careful”. quest disappeared, like for everyone.

How does it reappear? I’ve combed over every inch of “quest location”

@Verling The suspense is killing us. Could you please ask your guildmate for exact steps that they did to complete this bugged quest.

I have a feeling them or we or all of us are being trolled by that guildie.

LordDragonSlayer · July 29

I want to know why wasn't this resolved before being released?

TheAgentNZ · July 29

LordDragonSlayer wrote: »

I want to know why wasn't this resolved before being released?

Kevin mentioned this bug didnt show up in internal testing, on page 1

jjjozo · July 29

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

HI All. Thanks for flagging this. We are aware of this issue and believe this will be resolved in Update 51.

We were able to squeeze this fix into U50 Inc. 3, happening on Aug. 10. However, this does need to go live and tested for us to verify the fix worked as intended. This issue only showed up on the Live Server and not our internal environments. So that is why we need to verify on the live server.

I completed Stonefals and Glenumbra today,
but Freerunners Skywatch quest is still broken.

I took the quest and went straight from Skywatch to Stormheaven.
It still autodeletes itself after arrival to designated Soulshriven wayshrine in Stormheaven.