Certain quests cannot be picked up with Party Sync

As a quest maniac myself, my goal is to complete every single quest out there. Party Sync is a great feature that allows me to complete a number of breadcrumb quests that I missed and couldn’t pick up because I’ve complete the its quest chain. However, there are certain quests that cannot be picked up even with Party Sync. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but I couldn’t find a pattern to distinguish them.

I will start by listing a few such quests here and see if I can get an official confirmation that whether they are impossible to pick up even with Party Sync.

I know some breadcrumb quests also have its own prerequisites, so the quests I listed already meet the following scenarios:

  • A is the main character (max level) and complete the quest chain therefore cannot pick up the breadcrumb quest.
  • B is the helper character and have not complete any of the quest chain and can pick up the breadcrumb quest, i.e. have completed all prerequisites of it.
  • A and B forms a party of 2, and enable the Party Sync feature.
  • B can pick up the breadcrumb quest as before, but A still cannot pick up the breadcrumb quest.

I think based on the concept of Party Sync, A is supposed to redo (or just do if not completed before) all the quests that B can pick up, which is the case about 90% of the time based on what my own experience. Thus I’m incline to believe these are bugs instead of intended behaviors. Some of them are garrison or HoA related so the implementation of this feature can be messy, but given the fact the Party Sync was only introduced in 8.2.5, it’s understandable that it’s not a perfect system.

Feel free to point out what I’m missing here. Any response from official support will be much appreciated!

Im pretty sure its due to the fact that youve already completed said quests and the game wont let you redo them.

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Actually I have not complete the above quests, which is why I’m trying to use Party Sync to see if I can pick them up. And even if I have, I should still be able to pick up any quest that the low level character can pick up. I have been able to do this for the most of my missing quests, but apparently there are some hidden restrictions that are overlooked by Blizzard.

After some further digging, I was able to pick up Preserving the Barrens with party sync. Turns out it’s the phasing issue: The other synced character can pick up the quest because there’s no 8.0 HoA questline for him due to low lvl. However after syncing with him, I actually have the unfinished 8.0 HoA questline, which makes the NPC in a different phase (can see but no quest). After quickly finished a few HoA intro quests, I came back to the same phase and successfully picked up the quests.

However, for other quests I still couldn’t find a way. Evidently they have other restrictions such as “not having a garrison” or “having a low lvl HoA”, etc. Well I guess the party sync doesn’t really “sync” everything as it promised. There are definitely places to improve for this feature, but I don’t think Blizzard will do anything about it at least in the near future as it’s not a priority (obviously).

Do you mean the character you party synced with was below level 10 in order to get this quest?