In Honor and Service

[Hawq]

I essentailly completed this quest, but accidentally deleted one of the keys to open the lockboxes at the end of the quest. It will not allow me to open the box. I have returned to the various expedition leaders to try to obtain another key, but it wont give me another one. Do I need to restart this quest completely to finish it?

[Snowdonia]

Ewww, now that sounds bad, it's quite possible you do. You could try petitioning first though and see if a GM can help.

[Vhalen]

I just added a fix that will allow you to loot them again if you accidentally destroyed any of the Expedition Keys and are on the stage requiring them to open the chests.

[Hawq]

<p>much appreciated thank you</p>

[feldon30]

Wow! Awesome fix!Any chance of a fix for <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?eq2quest=3156" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Box Mechanimation</a>?Finbert Lintzig doesn't give you the materials back necessary to complete the quest, despite the dialogue saying so. This quest is unfinishable.

[Beldin_]

<cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite><blockquote>Any chance of a fix for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?eq2quest=3156" target="_blank">Black Box Mechanimation</a>?Finbert Lintzig doesn't give you the materials back necessary to complete the quest, despite the dialogue saying so. This quest is unfinishable.</blockquote>Just finished that quest 3 days ago with my swashy and mystic with no problems <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cloudrat]

<cite>Vhalen wrote:</cite><blockquote>I just added a fix that will allow you to loot them again if you accidentally destroyed any of the Expedition Keys and are on the stage requiring them to open the chests.</blockquote>I don't  know about the fix , I guess the body drops for people who screwed up and deleted the needed keys is handy, but for those who like to do HQs in groups it is HORRID.  I just took a guild group to do introduce newer toons to HQS only to find that not only did we need to kill all the little tent groups first in order to get a key drop we also had to each get our own key off the random spawns of the names. With a 10 minute (15 maybe ?) spawn for 4 different names who did not always show up a group of six could literally take days to do this as well as monopolizing the area for a long time. The minimum time to camp just those four so everyone gets a key is 4 hours if they all spawn with no ph in between <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Valentina]

<cite>Aeryal@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Vhalen wrote:</cite><blockquote>I just added a fix that will allow you to loot them again if you accidentally destroyed any of the Expedition Keys and are on the stage requiring them to open the chests.</blockquote>I don't  know about the fix , I guess the body drops for people who screwed up and deleted the needed keys is handy, but for those who like to do HQs in groups it is HORRID.  I just took a guild group to do introduce newer toons to HQS only to find that not only did we need to kill all the little tent groups first in order to get a key drop we also had to each get our own key off the random spawns of the names. With a 10 minute (15 maybe ?) spawn for 4 different names who did not always show up a group of six could literally take days to do this as well as monopolizing the area for a long time. The minimum time to camp just those four so everyone gets a key is 4 hours if they all spawn with no ph in between <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>Well, the 'fix' is supposed to be a backup.  In Honor and Service is supposed to auto-give you (ie. popup reward window) each key as you kill the named, completing the task.  That's how it has worked until last week, when it was broken.  The backup fix (which allows you, once you've killed all named, to go back and kill the 4 rares again, and loot a single key off the corpse) was not intended to be the only way to complete the quest.  Unfortunately, thanks to this quest having been broken last week, that is now the case.I think the fix is as fine for what it's supposed to be -- a means to finish the quest in the event of accidentally doing something silly like destroying one of the keys.  But the quest itself needs to be fixed to once again auto-grant keys to each person as they complete the task steps by killing the requisite named.

[rebyenliv]

<p>Anything special you need to do, to get this starter from him.  Im evil and he won't even give it to me. He just banters telling me "Your not quite ready yet" but I'm 80 I think I can handle his quest <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Thanks</p>

[Valentina]

<cite>rebyenlives wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Anything special you need to do, to get this starter from him.  Im evil and he won't even give it to me. He just banters telling me "Your not quite ready yet" but I'm 80 I think I can handle his quest <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote>Not that I know of... I've done it as a Freeport citizen and a Gorowyn citizen without issues.  He does have a somewhat extensive dialogue tree, and you have to follow it quite a ways until you get the dialogue option to ask about whether there were any great dwarven battles... and then, a few lines later, tell him you want to honor and serve.Beyond that, I've never had any problem, (until they broke the quest, naturally).