Assault quest "Thomas Vandergrief" keeps breaking

This quest can only be completed by killing the target, Thomas Vandergrief, but he only spawns when you open his treasure. The treasure keeps getting stuck so nobody can open it, making the quest impossible to complete without server hopping to find a non-broken treasure.

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Seconded… the quest circle was up, the dot showed in the cave, chest was not clickable.

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Confirmed as happening on Zul’jin.

yep this is bugged on US-Nagrand as well. continues the trend of at least 1 WQ being bugged per incursion

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Still broken on Zul’jin 45 minutes before the assault was over. Realm hopping didn’t help either - tried 3 others. :frowning:

Still broken Blizzard… please fix this…

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Yeah this is still very much breaking during the assault right now. If you join enough groups you might get lucky, otherwise skip it.

why is this still happening?

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Broken on area-52 as well.

Bugged on Silvermoon, as well.

Still broken. on Mal’ganus and the marker and circle are there but the npc isn’t.

How many months old is this topic? But it’s STILL broken, so that’s nice.

Ouch, sad to see this one still doesn’t work right. Been how many months now, 6?
Many bugs that went live in 8.1 are still going strong, along with bugs from 8.0.
Instead of working hard to fix them, they nerf toys and release 8.1.5 to distract us.
I really hope 8.2 gets treated a bit better.

And that’s it for me. That’s the straw that broke the camel’s back. I just ran half way across the zone to spend ten minutes standing in a cave, only to discover a quest that doesn’t work. Then it’s half way back across the zone to do another quest I hate, and then half way back again. That’s enough. When I finish typing this, I’m canceling my account and deleting the application.

Probably a little late to be of help, but for anyone who ends up here from Google, just look for groups for this quest. When it breaks, it only breaks on specific shards. A quick realm hop should(hopefully) get you to a working version of the chest to summon the NPC for this quest.

Still broken, 12/2/19

Still broken as of June 10, 2020, nearly 2 years later.

Lovely, thanks Blizzard.

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Can confirm, came across it broken on several characters and multiple shards yesterday.
Fun times watching 15 people stand around waiting for a spawn that never comes…

I took a break from BfA a few months in… and this WQ was broken then…

How in the hell is this STILL broken some 18 months later?

Very clearly this would be a 20 minute programming task to hotfix him as a static spawn/respawn instead of a clickable chest

small indie company I guess