Trouble in Dwarves and Doguns 4

I decided to try to drag archer through DaD 4 despite my troubles with parkour. But I manage to do the early one after the scene with Alxelus up in the cage and get up where the button is and it won't let me in the area with the ladder down, giving me a message about a rusty mechanical sound and that I shouldn't go there. I notice the status still says look for Axelus, so I try to get the scene/dialog to retrigger. I try /class. I go back to Maex and /class and pick the quest again. Go back and can't trigger the dialog. Notice something odd about the cage and manage to escape up for a better view..


Hope it's not anopther softlock. Not sure what to try next.

 

/kill /class or keep trying. not much else to do. I dont think it's a common bug so...

 

There are widespread issues with quest NPC spawning right now, especially after relogging. My guess is that you encountered this bug, and now Axelus won’t spawn because of it.
To my knowledge there’s no way to fix this bug except waiting for a patch to do it.

 

By relogging, do you mean using /class? I do that a fair amount to switch between classes. I am especially prone to doing it around parkour. I know this one isn't that hard, and that actually wasn't my reason for switching; I got offered help doing eo on another class (bmonk, who flies most parkour) and jumped at that. But the first issue I encountered, where it wouldn't let me onto that balcony to climb down, is different. There the issue seems to be not advancing the quest. The message seems to be the kind of thing you get when you try to go exploring and try to get into some place that is part of a quest you aren't doing or a step you haven't gotten to yet. I pulled up Olinus' video and it should have said "Free Axelus..." at this point.

I tried looking for Korzim in Maex again to see if maybe getting the interaction that prior step NPCs sometimes do (asking you to do the next step) would help, but that shop/house is empty now.

In one of my other soft locks, the NPCs are all gone. In the passport one in Cinfras, walking back to the bar the dialog started before we got there and then the bartender wouldn't talk to us anymore. After/class, every single NPC that had been part of that quest was gone and never re-appeared (checked occasionally).

I did see the release notes about the one in Blazing Retribution being fixed. Not really interested in going back and finishing that one at this point.

I had never thought about the /class or disconnects being part of the reason I seem to find so many soft locks, or maybe make them worse, as in this case, where the failure to advance the quest has now become another problem.

 

Yes, I mean things like /class, switching worlds, disconnecting and reconnecting - anything that would unload the NPCs, as whatever failsafe is in place to respawn them seems to be broken. That's at least what I've gathered.
The original issue could very well have been from simply missing a trigger (by using movement spells for example), but him not re-appearing and the quest consequently being locked is likely the NPC spawning bug.

 

The original problem might be new. Someone else reported the same issue recently:
https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/dwarves-and-doguns-iv-task-glitch.305580/

It could just be a coincidence that we both encountered it very recently. I didn't use any movement spells to start the parkour after the scene with Axelus in the cage. To complete the parkour, I did escape over to a ledge and then back over to near the jump pad after a fall and I did use leap (an ability that is not a spell) to cross the longest jump. But those things were after it should have changed the status to "Free Axelus...". I didn't initially notice that it hadn't.

I suspect that having my status as "Free Axelus..." and pressing that button would progress the quest with or without the NPC present.

 

Ah, okay. It would be appreciated if you could post a bug report about it then, if you haven't already done so.

 

reported

I am the king of soft locks. I think this makes 5.

 

I got it to advance. Not sure what exactly tripped it, but I had gone and done something different and to come back I got juggled from Cinfras. Not sure if that was what made a difference. Seems weird. NPCs weren't there and I was going to walk out of Rodoroc and suddenly the dialog stared. NPCs didn't appear until the dialog got to Axelus' part and then they showed up. At the end of it, the quest stage updated and I was able to go press the button and continue. Not going to retract the bug report.

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How many have you gotten locked in?

 

I've lost count, but probably at least 100.

 

:skull: how

 

and unable to complete?

this one is no longer a soft lock (unless it is; I managed to get stuck a little further along).