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Scouting Report: Hostile Natives does not progress - #30 by Bhrodo-moon-guard
Adding community reports of quests that are like Scouting Report: Hostile Natives (in Pandaria) are broken.
That broken quest was reported in the PTR publicly in build 32861 (Jan 7), no fix was verified, and the bug escaped to Retail.
Links to PTR reports, with follow-up posts affected in Retail:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blocked-by-broken-quest-scouting-report-hostile-natives/404539
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blocked-by-broken-quest-scouting-report-hostile-natives-33051-update-not-fixed/409426
As reported in this support forum, possible fallout from this bug: