Encyclopedia "Big dot" missions

[andymon]

I know the guys from my guild are going to the right place but if u are getting excellent bark then you are in the wrong area (think down). I did this straight after the patch, had to recharge the pendant and do the sunset thing again. went to the site, got the mats - sorted. The amber is only around in the Spring as far as i can tell. I believe the mission is bugged as I went to the exact same space i got the mats last time in the same season with the same weather conditions and nothing was found.

Does not make sense at all. Lets face it most peoples prospect is good enough to cover the entire mission area - it's tiny.

[usinuk]

...but it seems to me that until someone at Nevrax is willing to even admit there's a problem, this rite will remain unfinished for many people.

This is what I'm frustrated about as well.

I've got close to 300 harvesting levels now and pretty much every meaningful harvest stanza in the book. Yet on my first bug ticket, I was told by a particular guide "Oh, other people have completed this one. You're clearly not doing this right or maybe you don't have the right stanza." That kind of attitude really got me steamed, especially since I had run through about 30 different stanzas over three or four sunsets (using some of the same techniques that I did when PR was completely bugged) and gone so far as to clear the mission just to make sure that wasn't a culprit before ticketing it. I then pointed out there were one of two possibilities for a bug - either there was a bug with the mats, or this was a level 200 mission (for level 20 mats!) and shouldn't have been given to me. (The guide claims they sent the bug in, but I suspect it was with the comment that it was incredibly low priority since I was stupid enough to do the mission wrong.)

My second ticket seemed to be better received, but that kind of fanboi moronic defense has no place in this game. (I was particularly amused by the "oh, don't worry, they're fixing everything just as fast as they can" line as well.) If you don't acknowledge and test bugs, nothing is ever going to get fixed. This thread shows for a fact I'm not the only one who is either really stupid or really frustrated. Both are unacceptable.

My gut is that the comment about this being very similar to PR mats being depleted after a few pulls is likely dead on. They haven't fixed the excellent-mats-outside-of-PVP-zones-depleted bug, and I strongly suspect this falls into this category. I will try the mission post-server reset in a few days when it's spring and see if it works then.

[dam23]

I got the 2 mission mats (spit and spice) and q200 excellent beng to pop up, got what i needed and went off to see the prospector, however all she wanted was the necklace back to recharge and not the mats and so I ticketed it.

After the patch the area now gives me nothing, I was even there with a guide showing them, all I got in response was "Well ppl have done it", most useful when guides dont believe their own eyes.

Now 2 other ppl have said they got the same, I will try it again tonight to see if the server changes lawrence has made has fixed it.

Odd, I had *none* of that pop, only excellent bark (beckers iirc)
Care to show me someday where you dug? I might have been 10 meters way from it, who knows.

[dam23]

(The guide claims they sent the bug in, but I suspect it was with the comment that it was incredibly low priority since I was stupid enough to do the mission wrong.)

Wow, world conspiracy against you eh o_O ?

My second ticket seemed to be better received, but that kind of fanboi moronic defense has no place in this game. (I was particularly amused by the "oh, don't worry, they're fixing everything just as fast as they can" line as well.) If you don't acknowledge and test bugs, nothing is ever going to get fixed. This thread shows for a fact I'm not the only one who is either really stupid or really frustrated. Both are unacceptable.

Actually, yes you do seem frustrated here.
And the fact that your ticket wasnt acknowledged doesnt mean they're not aware of the bug. You know, you're the only one posting bug tickets...

I will try the mission post-server reset in a few days when it's spring and see if it works then.

gl

[usinuk]

Actually, yes you do seem frustrated here

Hey, you know...if there's lousy customer service, there's lousy customer service. Couple options for it if you don't care. You can either go on and slam other people for pointing it out, or you can hide under a rock if you'd like to ignore it. Guess you're doing both. I don't do either, and while I can accept perpetual unfixed bugs (which you have to if you've stuck this game out this long) I don't accept an attitude that says this situation is ok. Being told that a bug doesn't exist when it clearly has been demonstrated is mediocre customer service - at best.

Oh, and if you're getting bark you're over 40m away from the target.

As you said, GL.

[xenofur]

unless jolt is doing things completely different from mdo, that guide was a volunteer player, as such the best course of action would have been to contact the next higher person in the command chain, i.e. a SrG or GM and talk about the whole matter with them

[usinuk]

unless jolt is doing things completely different from mdo, that guide was a volunteer player, as such the best course of action would have been to contact the next higher person in the command chain, i.e. a SrG or GM and talk about the whole matter with them

Which is exactly what I did.

[mikkel]

There are two things to mention about that mission:
1) @excellent bark: well, I've found that source some time ago, too. But it is about 40-100m away from the place the pendant leads to.
2) There is currently one bug (at least on the german server). One day after last patch all "go to place xy" missions stopped working! No single mission step that requires you to visit a certain place will ever be finished on the whole server. So even if you are on that hill at sunset the next mission step will never be activated.
So we will have to wait for the next patch....


To get all the Rites you will need at least +30 global fame (or something around that). Normal mission are available as soon as you have positive fame, but not the rites.

[magick1]

2) There is currently one bug (at least on the german server). One day after last patch all "go to place xy" missions stopped working! No single mission step that requires you to visit a certain place will ever be finished on the whole server. So even if you are on that hill at sunset the next mission step will never be activated.

The "goto" bug is active on the EE server too.
Strangely it first showed up after a server reboot or crash, forgot which.

[petej]

Just completed the Matis harvest rite , I had been frozen out by having my pendant discharged and not being able to exchange it for a charged one. I still couldnt exchange it but I ran about on the hill top and hey presto it recharged itself and the mission proceeded to the go to spot step , found the mats np ,exchanged them and bobs ya uncle done (atlast )