Delera's Tomb bug: bad/frustrating/unhappy/angry

[faithknight]

The bug is that after doing the quest "Delera's Tomb" the ghost wont speak with you so you can not advance to the second quest "Thrall of the Necromancer" and so you can not get the final reward and have to do the ENTIRE quest chain all over again from the beginning.

People say that this bug happens if someone shares the original quest with you, but this is NOT true because I took the quest myself, nobody shared it with me.

Today I did Delera's Tomb 3 times.... TWICE OUT OF THE THREE TIMES IT BUGGED AND I GOT SHAFTED.

The first time I did it, it bugged, no end reward.

The second time I did it, it worked.

The third time I did it, it bugged again, again no end reward.

This is an adventure pack that I paid for.

This makes me a very unhappy and frustrated customer.

If you're going to make a free game and offer premium content I at least expect the content I pay for to work.

[Jiirix]

Sometimes I have to walk a little bit behind delera's ghost in order to advance the quest. I did get the endreward every time I ran delera's.

[Kinerd]

I am not sure I understand your scenario.

If you are not on the Thrall of the Necromancer quest, you will receive a warning to that effect in red text when about to enter the quest. Are you saying that you do not get this warning, and complete the quest only to find that you do not get the chain reward?

Are you saying that upon seeing this warning, you are unable to re-enter the Return to Delera's Tomb quest, and therefore have to start the chain over?

Do you receive your first "chain" reward from Derek Grospic after completing the first three quests (The Mystery of Delera's Tomb, The Missing Party, Free Delera)?

[Tinari]

I am not sure I understand your scenario.

If you are not on the Thrall of the Necromancer quest, you will receive a warning to that effect in red text when about to enter the quest. Are you saying that you do not get this warning, and complete the quest only to find that you do not get the chain reward?

Are you saying that upon seeing this warning, you are unable to re-enter the Return to Delera's Tomb quest, and therefore have to start the chain over?

Do you receive your first "chain" reward from Derek Grospic after completing the first three quests (The Mystery of Delera's Tomb, The Missing Party, Free Delera)?

This exact situation he is explaining has happened once to a friend of mine and now once to me.

In my friends case I don't know the specific particulars but he somehow got the quest chain bugged and broken and had to do the entire chain again to get the ending quest reward.

And now we all three completed the entire first thee chapters of the quest on elite. I walked to Delera and bumped into her and "completed'" the quest BEFORE I spoke with her. Now anytime I speak to her she stares peacefully into the distance and I cannot continue or complete the quest at all. It's completely broken entirely. Why is a quest as "popular' as this from what I read not "fixed" by this point?

[BOgre]

Have you looked at your quest log, and tried "Abandon"ing the arc? This should reset the arc and you can re-run it.
I have had her bug out once before, but I just dismissed my merc, exited, re-entered, and she was fine. Actually, I think I had to go into Dead Girls Spellbook, call and dismiss a merc, then go back and she was reset... can't remember exactly.
It's not a super long arc and it's all right close together (except for the one or two times you have to run back out the house J) so re-doing the whole arc, though not ideal, isn't TOO big a hardship.

[Delt]

I've run full Delera chains's 100 times or so by now, never once had the quest bug. I tend to think anyone that "has the quest bug" just failed to follow the proper progression of the quest/NPCs.

I'll grant you it's not the most intuitive of quest chains...it could use polish, but I've yet to encounter this "bug" and I'm not at all the lucky type.

[Kinerd]

This exact situation he is explaining has happened once to a friend of mine and now once to me.

In my friends case I don't know the specific particulars but he somehow got the quest chain bugged and broken and had to do the entire chain again to get the ending quest reward.

And now we all three completed the entire first thee chapters of the quest on elite. I walked to Delera and bumped into her and "completed'" the quest BEFORE I spoke with her. Now anytime I speak to her she stares peacefully into the distance and I cannot continue or complete the quest at all. It's completely broken entirely. Why is a quest as "popular' as this from what I read not "fixed" by this point?Are you entering the Thrall of the Necromancer quest at all? If so, are you "on" the quest?

[J'arel]

I have not played Delera's that often but I just finished the first 3 parts and got my end reward from Derek. However when talking to Hargo there is an outlined quest goblet symbol over his head and he basically won't talk with me. I then went to Delera - spoke with her (said somethingabout not slaying the girl) then finished the quest for 0 favor. I then went back to Hargo but no change - still outlined goblet and doesn't want to hear about Delera.
So I'm stuck. The only possiblity is that I did not speak to Coelum before collecting my reward from Derek. If that is what screwed things up then it should be fixed that you can't collect the reward without talking to Coleum. If I don't run past Coleum I don't know that I have to talk to him first. Or allow me to talk to him anytime I finished Delera's tomb to activate Hargo. I really don't want to run tomb again - and I'm still not sure that I didn't talk to Coelum. Also, I was allowed to talk to Delera after talking to Hargo but after logging out/then back in I could no longer do that - I would get a not on that (pt4) quest message. Any ideas? Thanks.

[taurean430]

The bug is that after doing the quest "Delera's Tomb" the ghost wont speak with you so you can not advance to the second quest "Thrall of the Necromancer" and so you can not get the final reward and have to do the ENTIRE quest chain all over again from the beginning.

People say that this bug happens if someone shares the original quest with you, but this is NOT true because I took the quest myself, nobody shared it with me.

Today I did Delera's Tomb 3 times.... TWICE OUT OF THE THREE TIMES IT BUGGED AND I GOT SHAFTED.

The first time I did it, it bugged, no end reward.

The second time I did it, it worked.

The third time I did it, it bugged again, again no end reward.

This is an adventure pack that I paid for.

This makes me a very unhappy and frustrated customer.

If you're going to make a free game and offer premium content I at least expect the content I pay for to work.

You shouldn't accept shares of the the chain for this reason.

[J'arel]

I did not have the quest shared - I obtained the initial quest (Delera's Tomb) myself. However, someone mentioned that if you go too far in approaching Delera before speaking to her the quest ends and that maybe the reason for not advancing. That did happen to me although as I stated Hargo had the goblet as an outline right away (before speaking to Delera) and I got no bluff or anything to choose when I first spoke to him. I was wondering if another glitch spot may be if you went to collect your reward from Derek without speaking to Coelum. Does anyone know if that will cause a problem - or will you not get a reward from Derek until you speak to Coelum. I am not sure if I spoke to Coelum at the end or not but I did get the reward. Also, now Derek has a blue symbol over his head but when I talk to him he is to busy to talk as if I did advance to pt4 (No repeat quest option offered).

[Vordax]

I did not have the quest shared - I obtained the initial quest (Delera's Tomb) myself. However, someone mentioned that if you go too far in approaching Delera before speaking to her the quest ends and that maybe the reason for not advancing. That did happen to me although as I stated Hargo had the goblet as an outline right away (before speaking to Delera) and I got no bluff or anything to choose when I first spoke to him. I was wondering if another glitch spot may be if you went to collect your reward from Derek without speaking to Coelum. Does anyone know if that will cause a problem - or will you not get a reward from Derek until you speak to Coelum. I am not sure if I spoke to Coelum at the end or not but I did get the reward. Also, now Derek has a blue symbol over his head but when I talk to him he is to busy to talk as if I did advance to pt4 (No repeat quest option offered).

Delera advances the quest to part 4. You need to talk to Hargo twice and then you talk to Delera. This is after getting the end reward from Coelum.

Vordax

[taurean430]

I did not have the quest shared - I obtained the initial quest (Delera's Tomb) myself.

Okay...



However, someone mentioned that if you go too far in approaching Delera before speaking to her the quest ends and that maybe the reason for not advancing.

This will not in any way affect advancement of the quest chain.


That did happen to me although as I stated Hargo had the goblet as an outline right away (before speaking to Delera) and I got no bluff or anything to choose when I first spoke to him.

This means that you didn't speak to Collum, then Grospic. Speaking to both of them in that order paves the way to speak to Hargo. You must speak to him twice. Of course, a bluff of 3 or better gives you the option to advance without paying him. After speaking to Hargo twice you go to Delera. This will put you on the correct step as long as you didn't accept a quest share from someone else.


I was wondering if another glitch spot may be if you went to collect your reward from Derek without speaking to Coelum. Does anyone know if that will cause a problem - or will you not get a reward from Derek until you speak to Coelum. I am not sure if I spoke to Coelum at the end or not but I did get the reward. Also, now Derek has a blue symbol over his head but when I talk to him he is to busy to talk as if I did advance to pt4 (No repeat quest option offered).

If you do the steps out of order, you more or less bork your quest chain. You will have to abandon the chain, possibly relog, then do it again. It's unrecoverable as far as I am aware...

[J'arel]

Good news -- although I had tried logging out then back in to no effect - it seems that when I just restarted DDO altogether (after quiting for dinner) then the yellow quest goblet was there over Hargo's head. I was then able to obtain pt4 quest by talking to him twice, etc. So it seems that the system had in fact just glitched and the server needed to be reset by quiting completely out - not just logout. Thanks for everyone's comments - I'll have to keep in mind that when things look really screwed up just completely reboot. Certainly in this case it helped.

[DrawingGuy]

Sorry to necro a thread that is a few months old, but had the chain bork on me and want to explain the exact situation more fully.

I have completed the full chain already. I decided I wanted to farm Carnifex, so I took the chain again. Complete parts 1 and 2 no issue. I hit part 3 and at the very end when I spoke to Delera's, she gives the intro statement of how she's haunted, blah blah... but the next box was that she "stares peacefully into the distance". Odd, but didn't think much of it. Talk to everyone, grab end reward, and then go to Hargo. Blue chalice, but no worries right? Just will repeat it. Well, he just goes onto "we're done here, don't bring the wrath of delera's blah". Says same thing repeatedly... So I try returning to the last quest to speak to deleras, quest gives the advancement blip, but all Delera's says is "the girl stares peacefully into the distance".

In short, my situation was just like J'arel's as despite completing the quests in the correct order and talking to the people in the correct order, it glitched on me. The quest has me on the part 3 completed, but the NPCs have me on Part 4 completed so they won't let me do that again.

Unfortunately restarts, relogs, or hoping in other quests have changed anything. So I guess I'll just have to redo the chain.

[ulticleo]

how did you take the chain? if hargo had a blue chalice, it means thrall did not reset when you reset the rest of the chain, which I have only seen when accepting a share (and as others have mentioned)