Looks like the Are you kitten me climbing quest in Shifting Sands is bugged. Appears to be missing a rock (the third from the bottom) so you can’t get up the cliff. And no way to use Rupert’s helping hand either.
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What’s strange is it only seemed to have the problem on a couple of servers/shards. I went out to test it on a couple of mine and no problems at all. Doesn’t seem as though any of the usual explanations for why things might not work would explain this one.
But, it has been widely reported in the Bug forum so when the guy at Blizz who fixes stuff gets back from vacation it’ll be on the list.
AREA 52; This is bugged, missing hand holds to get up the cliff
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you need ot shard hop, whats annoying is it can be bugged in different ways so different rocks
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bugged on farstriders first rock
and STILL bugged… Plz fix it.
Yesterday you only had the first two stones, and then a gap that stopped you from continuing, now there is only the 3rd rock that you cant even use to start climbing.
This quest was bugged last week. It worked after reset for a day but appears to be bugged again. Plz fix.
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Still bugged. Please fix before next bi-weekly rotation. I need to maximize my gains.
This quest is |3&%$h!t. It cannot be done. Unless you get lucky on shard-hopping, there is no way to actually do what the quest asks for since the genius who wrote the code that programatically generates the grappling points didn’t think of making a check to see if it could actually be reached.
Not that hard.
And yet, here we are. I know I’m not the only one reporting this as a bug. And this isn’t even the only forum thread about it - far from it. A quick search returns at least a dozen different threads about the exact same thing.
For an added taste, they went ahead and locked a Titan Training Matrix behind this non-sense.
It’s a tragically sad state for the game when an expansion that is actually pretty good shows at the same time a horrendous level of quality assurance. I have reported more bugs in the past two weeks than in the previous EIGHTEEN YEARS playing this game.
It’s just sad, really.
Thing is, it CAN be done if all points are up, the issue is some servers/shards have missing ones. I have literally been watching as I server jump and see the one I needed appear, yet one below it goes “poof”.
That’s because the points are generated on each server individually. Which means it’s naturally going to have some divergence, from shard to shard. A person with some experience with programming would be more than capable of imagining a few ways these things can be done.
And when you think about it from the point of view of the algorithm being used to generate the set of points, it becomes clear that some kind of sanity check is necessary, or things like this happen. I have no idea what went through the mind of whoever came up with this quest or the way it works, but a first year CS student would understand this problem and come up with a proper solution.
For context, the set of points can be understood as a tree structure. Each point is a knot in the tree, and a missing point that breaks the climbing path would be considered a break in the tree, which is not allowed. The algorithm that creates the climbing path should be checking for things like that.
and dropping out is hard when there is no “dismount” ability that i can see. have to run a LONG way to get out of it.
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You should be able to get out of the “climbing mode” by right clicking the climbing buff to remove it. Not the most elegant way but it works.
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This quest is still bugged and not able to be completed. Please just remove from the game or fix.