Phantom Sea Overland Quests - Feedback and Bugs

Kaitheel · 10-07-2014, 12:33 AM

Please post all feedback and bugs that you may encounter, while testing the Phantom Sea quests in this thread.

Be sure to give as much specific information as possible, such as: the quest name, the NPC who gave the quest to you, the last step that you were able to accomplish, your location (/loc), what your journal currently says, and what you are attempting to do in order to fulfill it.

This will help us reproduce, diagnose, and resolve the issue as soon as possible!

Thank you all for your assistance, and have fun!

~ Kaitheel

ElectricPotato · 10-09-2014, 04:20 PM

[100] Caustic Collection
Crystal exploding rate seems very high. I may need more feedback in the crystal explosion red message if I didn't do something right to harvest them, or the quest journal.

EDIT: All attempts after the first have been explosions. Got a message about disturbing a water spout on the first one.. maybe I feigned death and didn't kill it or something. Anyways gonna try to delete it and face my spout in deadly combat before I try a second collect.

ElectricPotato · 10-09-2014, 04:31 PM

[100] Procuring Armor Plates
Seemed like less than 8 stegodons were up at once. nice dino variety in area. Could you change this to 8/10/12 of any large dinosaur armor plate? Would be less of a bottleneck. (apatodon, cerodon, etc) ((Lore and legend dinosaur!? add it! add it!)

ElectricPotato · 10-09-2014, 05:01 PM

[100] Deino-bite!
worm mud mounds super hard to see, could use particle effect, or make them like a super dark colored mud. failure rate is a little high for the rate at which they render.

Xentin · 10-09-2014, 05:22 PM

Here is a compiled list I have from last night concerning Phantom Sea

1. Quest "Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn" says (No Base Text) in quest accept box and reward box. When getting to North Dshinn, after getting the update of landing in blackwall and to find a pygmy, the pop-up text says the [DEVL] INVALID before finding Guld. This also continues for the main bullets in the quest journal for this quest. As for instance currently I have 2 steps completed that say [DEVL] INVALID - No progress texts specified, then a 3rd unfinshed saying this with 2 sub-bullets actually saying what to do -Continue to Help Corrith Midner and -Help Zaveta Stickyfingers.

2. Quest "Field Bandage" from Corrith says their private beach is "_(western)_" shore instead of eastern. It does have the brackets and underlines. Saltyknuckles also bug reported this one.

3. Quest "Caustic Collection" has a really low success %. It took 81 crystals to get all 8 updates.

4. Quest "Deino-bite! has a semi low success rate. It took 32 mud mounds to get the worms. I personally did not see the problem with the color of the mud, they stood out to me.

5. Quest "Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend" in the quest accept box it has [NO BASE TEXT] and after completing steps of the quest the main bullets in the journal are [DEVL] INVALID - No progress texts specified.

6. Quest "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor" you can spam click the vessel on a single skeleton for all 12 updates.

7. (Pending patch as per Kaitheel) Quest "Gangrenous Treatment" cannot be completed at this time, which in the process stops from progressing "Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend" as there are no weapons in the village to destroy.

ElectricPotato · 10-09-2014, 05:30 PM

BLAAARGH! been going at it for like 45m, 6/8 with only me scouring the clickables. Can it be 12/14/16 ATTEMPTS, and then I go and yell at the ratonga, mission complete?

EDIT: The shattering? was that when luclin was destroyed? no, its when a ratonga sent me out to get intact caustic crystals

Xentin · 10-09-2014, 06:10 PM

So working through the Ghorkaal quests with Saltyknucklesx, after the quest "Body of Work" for Destore J'Narus, she would no longer give him anymore quests. She continued to give me three more quests of "Corrupting the Blessed", "Malicious Obsession" and "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor". He however was able to get 2 quests from Eleden Calmseas doing basically the same things I did for Destore.

His quest "Putting down the Walking Dead" did the same thing as my "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor", he was able to spam click the vial on dark elf skeletons.

So is this a split quest line for Freeport vs. Qeynos?

Ucala · 10-10-2014, 01:35 AM

maybe just me, but Quest: Taking the thunder Pass.
I cant seem to find these vines anywhere

Kaitheel · 10-10-2014, 02:44 AM

Yes! They are dependent upon which city you started the signature line in.

~ Kaitheel

Kaitheel · 10-10-2014, 02:48 AM

This is such a great start to testing Phantom Sea! Thank you!

The following issues should be resolved in a future Beta update:

Putting Down the Walking Dead - Quest journal has full text.
Momentary Peace for Bloody Kithicor - Quest journal has full text.
Coin in Remembrance - Quest journal has full text.
Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn - Quest journal has full text.
Field Bandage - Directions to the impromptu beach camp has been corrected.
Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend - Quest journal has full text.

I am not sure when these changes will hit Beta, but know that they are on their way!

~ Kaitheel

ElectricPotato · 10-10-2014, 03:58 AM

[102] Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend(Complete)

Dialogue with Opal darkbriar:
Absorbed by a shadowknight, leaving the sword and gem inert.
Player response: I was that shadowknight.

((I'm a monk))

Also
j[103] Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice(Heroic
no base text
no objectives
unknown zone

Ucala · 10-10-2014, 05:04 AM

don't make people hate themselves on collection crystals on the quest "Caustic Collection" you need to relook at the % of grabbing them

Ucala · 10-10-2014, 06:33 AM

For some reason, I can't throw the jar of stuff at the ceremony to mess it up in the quest Ceremonial Vestments and Condiments

Kaitheel · 10-10-2014, 04:48 PM

D'oh! I'll clear that up!

~ Kaitheel

Kaitheel · 10-10-2014, 04:51 PM

Yeah, that's not intended. We don't want it or "Deino-bite!" to be frustrating. The success rates will be adjusted, but right now I am focusing on impeding bugs and finishing quest implementation. I've just got to prioritize the order of which the issues are addressed.

~ Kaitheel

ElectricPotato · 10-10-2014, 07:36 PM

But it is super cool, if I was a shadowknight, the squeal of delight I would have emitted would have disturbed many nearby people.

Xentin · 10-10-2014, 08:33 PM

So I tried to see if this quest would complete even with it being blank by doing the Advanced Solo version of Ossuary since thats what Opal pretty much tells you to do before the quest accept box, it didnt do anything. Solo version is impossible to kill trash currently so can't test that yet.

Ucala · 10-10-2014, 10:18 PM

Quest: I believe it was Plagued with Questions
the sea anglers are extremely rare, I had to basically fly around the whole isle just to find 4.

Ucala · 10-10-2014, 11:01 PM

Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice

has no text

-Soteria- · 10-11-2014, 02:10 AM

Taking the Thunder Pass - I've scoured the island, specifically the Thunder Pass area, for 20 or 30 minutes, and can't seem to find any lorpa vines. I do see some vine looking things hanging off of the trees here and there, but they don't appear to be clickable. Not sure if this is an ID 10T error, or what.

Ucala · 10-11-2014, 04:35 AM

th

the vines exist

Minxs · 10-11-2014, 01:05 PM

Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice

Since the last beta update we got the quest description, however, the quest asks to zone in "Ossuary of Malevolence: Primordial Altar", and the zone seems to be unavailable at the moment.
However when we try to zone in we get the update for the quest, asking to explore and search for objects.

Plus, there is no indication on if the Ossuary of Malevolence: Primordial Altar is a solo / heroic or whatever zone. The (Solo) - (Advanced Solo) ... is missing.

If it is a solo zone, do you know when will we be able to zone in?
If it an heroic zone, seem to be time to help us lvling (beta buffer or re-open grind zones).

ElectricPotato · 10-11-2014, 05:27 PM

its a special quest instance I guess. wasn't even on the list of choices until last night. Unavailable still =(.

Ucala · 10-11-2014, 06:06 PM

I too couldn't zone into the special zone, was told it was unavailable, but it still updated my quest.
it also seems attempting to zone into the contested also updates the quest Tongue

Elowith · 10-11-2014, 07:31 PM

Caustic Collection - seems like gathering the crystals has an unreasonably high failure rate.

Elowith · 10-11-2014, 09:50 PM

Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn. After flying around randomly finally got the 4 spots. Can not find any other members of the Far Seas Co. on the Island. Big place, no hints.

Ucala · 10-11-2014, 11:32 PM

north

Elowith · 10-12-2014, 12:19 AM

Touch of the Undead - having trouble finding vampiric arcanum objects. Did find a Potion of Pure Ethereal Magic that is labelled but I can not interract with.

Neiloch · 10-12-2014, 05:39 AM

They are west of the pygmy village along the cliffside.

Ucala · 10-12-2014, 08:25 AM

I grouped with someone just now that was at 4 crystals, with the high failure rate of grabbing them, they got all 8 crystals once I joined the group, it seemed that since I already did the quest the success rate of grabbing the crystals went way up for them for some reason. /shrugs

10-09-2014, 05:30 PM	#6
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	ElectricPotato said: ↑ “[100] Caustic Collection Crystal exploding rate seems very high. I may need more feedback in the crystal explosion red message if I didn't do something right to harvest them, or the quest journal. EDIT: All attempts after the first have been explosions. Got a message about disturbing a water spout on the first one.. maybe I feigned death and didn't kill it or something. Anyways gonna try to delete it and face my spout in deadly combat before I try a second collect.” BLAAARGH! been going at it for like 45m, 6/8 with only me scouring the clickables. Can it be 12/14/16 ATTEMPTS, and then I go and yell at the ratonga, mission complete? EDIT: The shattering? was that when luclin was destroyed? no, its when a ratonga sent me out to get intact caustic crystals

10-10-2014, 02:44 AM	#9
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Xentin said: ↑ “"Putting down the Walking Dead" and "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor" So is this a split quest line for Freeport vs. Qeynos?” Yes! They are dependent upon which city you started the signature line in. ~ Kaitheel

10-10-2014, 02:48 AM	#10
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	This is such a great start to testing Phantom Sea! Thank you! The following issues should be resolved in a future Beta update: Putting Down the Walking Dead - Quest journal has full text. Momentary Peace for Bloody Kithicor - Quest journal has full text. Coin in Remembrance - Quest journal has full text. Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn - Quest journal has full text. Field Bandage - Directions to the impromptu beach camp has been corrected. Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend - Quest journal has full text. I am not sure when these changes will hit Beta, but know that they are on their way! ~ Kaitheel

10-10-2014, 04:48 PM	#14
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	ElectricPotato said: ↑ “[102] Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend(Complete) Dialogue with Opal darkbriar: Absorbed by a shadowknight, leaving the sword and gem inert. Player response: I was that shadowknight. ((I'm a monk))” D'oh! I'll clear that up! ~ Kaitheel

10-10-2014, 04:51 PM	#15
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	ElectricPotato said: ↑ “[100] Caustic Collection Crystal exploding rate seems very high. I may need more feedback in the crystal explosion red message if I didn't do something right to harvest them, or the quest journal.” Yeah, that's not intended. We don't want it or "Deino-bite!" to be frustrating. The success rates will be adjusted, but right now I am focusing on impeding bugs and finishing quest implementation. I've just got to prioritize the order of which the issues are addressed. ~ Kaitheel

10-07-2014, 12:33 AM	#1
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Please post all feedback and bugs that you may encounter, while testing the Phantom Sea quests in this thread. Be sure to give as much specific information as possible, such as: the quest name, the NPC who gave the quest to you, the last step that you were able to accomplish, your location (/loc), what your journal currently says, and what you are attempting to do in order to fulfill it. This will help us reproduce, diagnose, and resolve the issue as soon as possible! Thank you all for your assistance, and have fun! ~ Kaitheel

10-09-2014, 04:20 PM	#2
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[100] Caustic Collection Crystal exploding rate seems very high. I may need more feedback in the crystal explosion red message if I didn't do something right to harvest them, or the quest journal. EDIT: All attempts after the first have been explosions. Got a message about disturbing a water spout on the first one.. maybe I feigned death and didn't kill it or something. Anyways gonna try to delete it and face my spout in deadly combat before I try a second collect.

10-09-2014, 04:31 PM	#3
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[100] Procuring Armor Plates Seemed like less than 8 stegodons were up at once. nice dino variety in area. Could you change this to 8/10/12 of any large dinosaur armor plate? Would be less of a bottleneck. (apatodon, cerodon, etc) ((Lore and legend dinosaur!? add it! add it!)

10-09-2014, 05:01 PM	#4
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[100] Deino-bite! worm mud mounds super hard to see, could use particle effect, or make them like a super dark colored mud. failure rate is a little high for the rate at which they render.

10-09-2014, 05:22 PM	#5
Xentin New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Here is a compiled list I have from last night concerning Phantom Sea 1. Quest "Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn" says (No Base Text) in quest accept box and reward box. When getting to North Dshinn, after getting the update of landing in blackwall and to find a pygmy, the pop-up text says the [DEVL] INVALID before finding Guld. This also continues for the main bullets in the quest journal for this quest. As for instance currently I have 2 steps completed that say [DEVL] INVALID - No progress texts specified, then a 3rd unfinshed saying this with 2 sub-bullets actually saying what to do -Continue to Help Corrith Midner and -Help Zaveta Stickyfingers. 2. Quest "Field Bandage" from Corrith says their private beach is "_(western)_" shore instead of eastern. It does have the brackets and underlines. Saltyknuckles also bug reported this one. 3. Quest "Caustic Collection" has a really low success %. It took 81 crystals to get all 8 updates. 4. Quest "Deino-bite! has a semi low success rate. It took 32 mud mounds to get the worms. I personally did not see the problem with the color of the mud, they stood out to me. 5. Quest "Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend" in the quest accept box it has [NO BASE TEXT] and after completing steps of the quest the main bullets in the journal are [DEVL] INVALID - No progress texts specified. 6. Quest "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor" you can spam click the vessel on a single skeleton for all 12 updates. 7. (Pending patch as per Kaitheel) Quest "Gangrenous Treatment" cannot be completed at this time, which in the process stops from progressing "Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend" as there are no weapons in the village to destroy.

10-09-2014, 06:10 PM	#7
Xentin New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	So working through the Ghorkaal quests with Saltyknucklesx, after the quest "Body of Work" for Destore J'Narus, she would no longer give him anymore quests. She continued to give me three more quests of "Corrupting the Blessed", "Malicious Obsession" and "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor". He however was able to get 2 quests from Eleden Calmseas doing basically the same things I did for Destore. His quest "Putting down the Walking Dead" did the same thing as my "Sustaining Souls of Bloody Kithicor", he was able to spam click the vial on dark elf skeletons. So is this a split quest line for Freeport vs. Qeynos?

10-10-2014, 01:35 AM	#8
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	maybe just me, but Quest: Taking the thunder Pass. I cant seem to find these vines anywhere

10-10-2014, 03:58 AM	#11
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[102] Shattered Seas: Dark Forest of Legend(Complete) Dialogue with Opal darkbriar: Absorbed by a shadowknight, leaving the sword and gem inert. Player response: I was that shadowknight. ((I'm a monk)) Also j[103] Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice(Heroic no base text no objectives unknown zone

10-10-2014, 05:04 AM	#12
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	don't make people hate themselves on collection crystals on the quest "Caustic Collection" you need to relook at the % of grabbing them

10-10-2014, 06:33 AM	#13
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	For some reason, I can't throw the jar of stuff at the ceremony to mess it up in the quest Ceremonial Vestments and Condiments

10-10-2014, 07:36 PM	#16
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	But it is super cool, if I was a shadowknight, the squeal of delight I would have emitted would have disturbed many nearby people.

10-10-2014, 08:33 PM	#17
Xentin New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	ElectricPotato said: ↑ “Also j[103] Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice(Heroic no base text no objectives unknown zone” So I tried to see if this quest would complete even with it being blank by doing the Advanced Solo version of Ossuary since thats what Opal pretty much tells you to do before the quest accept box, it didnt do anything. Solo version is impossible to kill trash currently so can't test that yet.

10-10-2014, 10:18 PM	#18
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Quest: I believe it was Plagued with Questions the sea anglers are extremely rare, I had to basically fly around the whole isle just to find 4.

10-10-2014, 11:01 PM	#19
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice has no text

10-11-2014, 02:10 AM	#20
-Soteria- New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Taking the Thunder Pass - I've scoured the island, specifically the Thunder Pass area, for 20 or 30 minutes, and can't seem to find any lorpa vines. I do see some vine looking things hanging off of the trees here and there, but they don't appear to be clickable. Not sure if this is an ID 10T error, or what.

10-11-2014, 04:35 AM	#21
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	th -Soteria- said: ↑ “Taking the Thunder Pass - I've scoured the island, specifically the Thunder Pass area, for 20 or 30 minutes, and can't seem to find any lorpa vines. I do see some vine looking things hanging off of the trees here and there, but they don't appear to be clickable. Not sure if this is an ID 10T error, or what.” the vines exist

10-11-2014, 01:05 PM	#22
Minxs New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Shattered Seas: Seeds of Malice Since the last beta update we got the quest description, however, the quest asks to zone in "Ossuary of Malevolence: Primordial Altar", and the zone seems to be unavailable at the moment. However when we try to zone in we get the update for the quest, asking to explore and search for objects. Plus, there is no indication on if the Ossuary of Malevolence: Primordial Altar is a solo / heroic or whatever zone. The (Solo) - (Advanced Solo) ... is missing. If it is a solo zone, do you know when will we be able to zone in? If it an heroic zone, seem to be time to help us lvling (beta buffer or re-open grind zones).

10-11-2014, 05:27 PM	#23
ElectricPotato Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	its a special quest instance I guess. wasn't even on the list of choices until last night. Unavailable still =(.

10-11-2014, 06:06 PM	#24
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	I too couldn't zone into the special zone, was told it was unavailable, but it still updated my quest. it also seems attempting to zone into the contested also updates the quest

10-11-2014, 07:31 PM	#25
Elowith Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Caustic Collection - seems like gathering the crystals has an unreasonably high failure rate.

10-11-2014, 09:50 PM	#26
Elowith Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn. After flying around randomly finally got the 4 spots. Can not find any other members of the Far Seas Co. on the Island. Big place, no hints.

10-11-2014, 11:32 PM	#27
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Elowith said: ↑ “Shattered Seas: Dark Threats on Dshinn. After flying around randomly finally got the 4 spots. Can not find any other members of the Far Seas Co. on the Island. Big place, no hints.” north

10-12-2014, 12:19 AM	#28
Elowith Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Touch of the Undead - having trouble finding vampiric arcanum objects. Did find a Potion of Pure Ethereal Magic that is labelled but I can not interract with.

10-12-2014, 05:39 AM	#29
Neiloch Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	-Soteria- said: ↑ “Taking the Thunder Pass - I've scoured the island, specifically the Thunder Pass area, for 20 or 30 minutes, and can't seem to find any lorpa vines. I do see some vine looking things hanging off of the trees here and there, but they don't appear to be clickable. Not sure if this is an ID 10T error, or what.” They are west of the pygmy village along the cliffside.

10-12-2014, 08:25 AM	#30
Ucala Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Elowith said: ↑ “Caustic Collection - seems like gathering the crystals has an unreasonably high failure rate.” I grouped with someone just now that was at 4 crystals, with the high failure rate of grabbing them, they got all 8 crystals once I joined the group, it seemed that since I already did the quest the success rate of grabbing the crystals went way up for them for some reason. /shrugs