Can confirm this is possible to finish even if you encounter it glitched. Thanks to Drucifer for their repeated efforts as it led to mine.
Season 1 I never had this issue. Season 2 I had it 3 times in a row. I then repeated the path I took in Season 1 throughout the watchtower and the keys and bosses spawned appropriately.
You cannot kill the Beastmaster lieutenant first. You must walk around him and kill the lieutenant by the tower first. Only then will Crocus spawn appropriately. The Storeroom key will drop off of whichever you kill first, don’t matter, but Crocus did not spawn for me at all except when I killed the watcher lieutenant first.
As this route worked first try in both Season 1 and 2, I am choosing to believe the limited dataset that it can be accomplished by repeating this process.
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This is it! Works like a charm!
Thank you ever so kindly!
this doesnt work, doesnt matter which i kill first im stuck
After several failed attempts, I was able to get Crocus. I just switched to Tier 4 (probably not related but…). I entered the zone from the Northeast. I hugged the wall to the north and went past the boss fight area up to Talida. I killed them and the mobs around them. The videos I saw had Crocus in the room by the ladder Talida comes down. It was not opened so I thought it was also bugged but I kept going. From there I went West, still staying as North as I could. I knocked down one of the tent poles, or whatever it is, just past the path up to Talida and Crocus appeared. I killed him and then went south and destroyed another post. This time Thidrek spawned. I killed him, then the last LT and the boss spawned correctly.
I have no idea if this was just dumb luck or not, but try destroying the tent poles/building posts to spawn Crocus.
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Never had an issue before, but it failed for me twice in a row.
Logged out after clearing, while still in the area. Spawned me by south-west gate.
Walked in killed beast master, got the key, went to the east to get the guy in the small room. I usually just open the door and kill all the trash with the elite, but this time I killed all the trash first. Crocus spawned while killing that guy. Then killed the one in the north and the door opened.
First time I killed in the same order, the Second time I killed the guy up top and beast master last. So it’s not an order issue, I think it’s probably random, may depend on how quickly you kill the elites or maybe there’s glitch with not killing the trash that spawns outside the small locked door.
This is my second character where I’ve come across this bug. It’s annoying. I guess I’ll just have to do what I did the first time around - give up for now and come back to it some other time…
S3 is two days old and this bug still exist, cleared it all, got the bar full and door wont open
Thank you so much, this worked for me. Season 3 also bugged in this. Kill the Lieutnant on the Watchtower up left first, next Beastmaster and after the Lieutnant behind the locked door (key will drop on others). Than it worked for me 
Thank you so much for this!! starting upper left worked perfect!
This is still bugged. Are you going to fix this??
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Still bugged! Can a non-DEI fix this please.
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still bugged after 8 months…
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This worked first time for me, thanks very much GalactiCat, you solved a very annoying problem for me 
Many thanks, that Watchtower was totally freaking me out. Always had Drucifer’s problem with full progress bar but then nothing more happens. Your way of killing the Lieutenant by the Tower first was the solution for me.
It’s now 06 May 2024… still happening lol
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Killing the Lieutenant in the tower first fixed it for me as well.
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I just had this bug occur. I noticed that it happened to me after I teleported back to town during my first clear. Where as my second clear I simply killed all the mobs and didn’t have an issue.
Almost 1 year later, the bug is still there. I’m at season 4, but maybe season 7 will fix it?
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For me it felt like it was time based. Dont kill everything too fast and let crocus spawn after first lieutnant
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