Well you can try asking blizzard for help but that hasn’t worked so well for anyone else thus far.
After the holidays if this persists i’m gonna link this thread over to customer support as a hail mary and do another ticket. In the meantime i’m going to complete every major story questline in legion so at least they cant continue using phasing as an excuse to ignore the issue; Yes, i am that stubborn.
best of luck in the meantime.
Update: I have now completed every main story questline in all of Legion, including both optional trial of valor raid questlines. Minus total completion of the balance of power questline im still working on. He still isn’t appearing.
either way, beyond safe to say this has absolutely nothing to do with being the cause on him not appearing.
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I can confirm, he has indeed vanished. I had picked up the start of the “Hidden” Disc. Weapon and was a few books in when I stopped to move onto BFA and then Shadowlands. I recently went back to finish picking up the rest of the books and turn them in. Archivist Inkforge is nowhere to be found. I have tried everything I can think of, including exiting the class hall and switching into Disc. Spec before zoning back in but still nothing.
Bugged for me as well. Sent in a ticket to Blizz a few weeks ago and initially got back a completely useless response to try wowhead or the forums. Surprise, surprise that did in fact, NOT, make the dwarf spawn!
Finally got another response a few hours ago saying that they know of the situation and are investigating it, but they cannot actually help me with anything. It went on to say that I should post about it on the forums and linked me this thread because “every bit of information helps.”
I’m just honestly curious about how a 6 year old NPC in a one room instance disappears randomly like that. I guess he is a dwarf, so maybe he got bored and snuck off to a tavern in a seedy part of Dalaran and got absolutely plastered? Who knows, but hopefully its fixed soon.
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Bumping this, problem still persists. Did the entire order hall campaign, got the mount, dwarf still missing. Sure would like to get the hidden artifact!
Bumping again. Still an issue.
The responses being provided by customer service are beyond insulting. Everyone KNOWS how to get the damn hidden appearance. We don’t need help finding the books, there are guides all over the place, and everyone knows how to do it and has for 5 years. The NPC is not showing up to START the process because your game is broken in this aspect. Pretending it has something to do with the players is an utter slap in the face. Absurd.
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Indeed, and bumping this again, and will continue to do so til something gets done. The first mystery is why a random dwarf sitting on a bench in instanced Legion content just disappears at the beginning of new content 3 expansions removed from when he was introduced. The second mystery is why it has been 3 months and absolutely nothing has been done about it. Transmog collection is a MAJOR part of why people play this game, and hidden artifact skins are among the most sought after looks for any class.
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I don’t think this has anything to do with what is happening here, but I just completed the mount quest and got the “Balance of Power” start quest from Kalec. To my understanding, that is the last thing that happens in any given class hall. In other words, I have exhausted all class hall content on this character, and Inkforge has never once been there taking his seat on the bench.
Edit: I received a ticket from a GM who have confirmed that the development team is aware of the issue and acknowledge that something is not working properly. So a fix is apparently in the pipeline. How long that pipeline might be is a different matter entirely.
Edit: As of the the new patch drop today, Inkforge is back and on the bench in the Priest Order Hall. One can assume this will be safe at least until 10.1 at this point, hopefully forever. Thanks to all who helped report.
Edit: Can report all 12 volumes are in the right locations and dropping as they should. Turned them in and got the appearance last night.
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Well as of checking today, the NPC has returned to his rightful bench. However he offers no dialogue options to start hunting the appearance.
So… one problem fixed, one more to go?
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On this character, I have completed the entire Priest Hall campaign, Obtained Light’s Heart as well as gotten the mount and completed the Balance of Power chain but Archivist Inkforge doesn’t appear.
Out of curiosity, I restored a Priest that I had created to unlock heritage armor and promptly deleted to check her Order Hall, and he was sitting there. She has zero progress in the Order Hall campaign.
Unsure if this is a phasing issue due to race changes or what, but because of the completion of everything I can’t seem to get him to spawn on my main no matter what I do. So, it’s pretty clear this is a bug and completing an arbitrary questline may not fix it as has been stated as a fix…
Edit: So this MAY work as a workaround if you’re in my position… I switched to Discipline spec and equipped Light’s Wrath and logged out in Dalaran. I logged back in and entered Netherlight Temple as he was there. Hopefully this works for someone else in the future!
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This questline has been buggy since Legion, when a priest had to complete it prior to the next reset or it would be undoable. Someone had some weird workaround at the time that didn’t work. At that time he was still there, but would not speak to her.
I sent my priest back. Not seeing him there.
This fix worked for me! You’re my hero! <3
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