Game: Cataclysm Classic
Quest: A Breath of Fresh Air
Zone: Shimmering Expanse
Bug: General Nazgrim doesn’t spawn, and Chief Engineer Petibas is stuck under the boat. According to Wowhead comments from back in the day, this bug has been in since the original release of Cataclysm.
Notes: We used to be able to fix the quest by re-logging, but this no longer works. The NPC just doesn’t spawn. There’s no other details to give, whether you swim up to the ship or use the quest item, he doesn’t spawn. Yes I’ve turned off addons and re-logged to see if it would work. He doesn’t spawn.
Character: Dessarian, Blood Elf, level 82 Death Knight, Whitemane (US)
Edit 1: It seems the NPCs in question spawn, but inside of the boat and can’t be interacted with. They’re spawning lower than they’re supposed to and are stuck there. “The Verne” submarine also seems to cause a crash for me consistently if I’m standing on or inside of it. He is just outside of range, so the Interact key doesn’t work.
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This is still bugged, but I found a workaround that allows you to turn in the quest and progress the story. The workaround in and of itself is also a bug.
Wait for the sub to appear. When it appears, get on the deck of the sub. It’s important that you step foot on the deck first, then move up the gang plank until you’re near the top. If you look to your right you should be lined up with the metal railing of the boat. When the sub starts moving, it should take you with it. There will be a split second where you clip through the railing of the boat and if you move forward in that split second then you’ll fall through the boat and be able to swim over to Nazgrim and turn in the quest.
Hope this helps while blizzard figures out a fix for the bug!
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Can confirm this works, might take a few tries.
this is odd i did this quest on my dk and shamen both trolls no problems npcs was spawned on deck. now on my mage undead the quest is bugged and had to glitch through like in video to do quest.
also like to add once on sub if you walk into the water in the Centre while it is moving you get dced and ported to landing without completing quest so you have to do it over
also bugs if you stand on the subs surface platform outside the sub as i did the first time and had to redo it inside sub to complete. took me 3 attempts
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