With the removal of the quest “An Urgent Meeting” from the Horde version of the Exile’s Reach starter experience, the Grommash Hold gets stuck in that phase with Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner, Warlord Breka Grimaxe and Nathanos Blightcaller for a character that has completed the Exile’s Reach.
There is now no way for that character to reach Gotura Fourwinds for the quest “Preserving the Barrens”, or High Overlord Saurfang to turn in the quest “Walk With The Earth Mother”, or even General Nazgrim for the quest “The Art of War”.
It doesn’t help completing the standard Horde intro for Battle for Azeroth with the scenario in Stormwind, nor does it help entering relevant Chromie Times.
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This bug is 10/10 because I can confirm it too. My toon Arthir-Farstriders also has it locked to the end of Exile’s Reach with no ability to change it to something more useful. The only people in the building for me is Sylvanas up on the throne and warlord Breka Grimaxe talking about victory in exile’s reach.
If I stand on the ledge that surrounds the room the phase changes to what I need to turn quests in, but the quest givers are just out of reach and when I try to get to them, they disappear and it goes back to the phase at the end of exile’s reach…it’s infuriating!!
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Yep, it continues. My toon Aitas on Kirin Tor completed the sightseeing quest in Orgrimmar when he arrived from Exile’s Reach, and Grommash Hold is still phasing out to Sylvanas, Breka and Eitrigg and literally no-one else whenever I count as indoors. I’ve caught somewhere that if you skip that sightseeing quest, you skip this phase and don’t get caught in this bug, but I haven’t tried it myself yet.
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same problem here, i cannot talk to the other npcs in there because they do not appear due to this bug
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The bug persists.
EDIT: … in fact, it probably pays to mention: there is an Orgrimmar Grunt by the crossroads in the Drag by the gateway into the Valley of Honor, that has an automatic NPC line directing you to the Grommash Hold whenever you get close enough. That grunt must be part of the original breadcrumb back to the Hold from the Valley of Honor innkeeper. It appears it isn’t just the Grommash Hold that gets stuck in this phase, but at least some parts of the rest of Orgrimmar as well …
EDIT 2: Well, I suppose it was about time. I tried opening a ticket about the NPC phasing, and got spat in the face with the generic “wE dOn’T gIvE hInTs” auto-generated response. In the end, I literally deleted my toon and re-rolled it (didn’t have enough stuff to lose), making sure to pick the conventional starter area this time.
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I am so frickin’ sick of the phasing quests in Grommash Hold. A new one appears EVERY patch, and this one literally locks new players out of the Dragonwrath quests and any way to open up the Twillight Highlands. Pathetic.
What happened, I am 100% certain, is that they changed the end of Exile’s Reach to send you to the Dragonflight starter quests, but DIDN’T remove the part that sends you to see Breka and Sylvanas to start BfA, because you never get the quest to do so. What a ridiculous oversight. The only thing that has helped in the past for phasing issues in here is obtaining the Heart of Azeroth after Level 50, but I have my doubts even that will work in this case.
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Opened a ticket regarding this and was presented with a ridiculous automated response like the one described above. This is going to happen to literally EVERY new Horde player who starts to play the game until it’s fixed.
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I can comfirm the Bug persists. After Exile Reach Grommash Hold is stuck in that Phase. Changing timelines with Chromie hasnt helped so far.
I even started doing BfA content and then Dragonflight content to change the phase but nothing works. Weirdly enough something changed at some point and now its not Sylvanas but Baine standing in her place?
this is just really annoying especially beacause you are forced to do the exile reach start with your first character…
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For the record, the EXACT same thing is happening on the Alliance side in Stormwind Keep. Breadcrumbs to Redfall, Pandaria, multiple other places, just inaccessible. This is what new players to the game are being presented with. Broken access to multiple zones/expansions.
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There isn’t enough support around this. I have 3 quests in my log right now going through the old content that I cannot complete because Grommash Hold is stuck in a phase where I only see Silvanas, Baine directly in front of her, Warlord Breka in front, facing Baine, and Eitrigg on the other side of the room.
I have no idea what triggered it so I tried to do the lead-ins for every expansion up to BfA so far, and I’m not sure why it’s stuck like this when I obviously have quests that need a certain NPC like Saurfang or Belloc Brightblade
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It’s absurd they are going to let this sit in this state for MONTHS. Every new player is being treated to a broken quest system.
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Thought I should comment on this, in case someone wants to start the Twilight Highlands, even though I don’t have a solution, just a “workaround”.
For starters, it seems every character that has done Exile’s Reach will have this phasing issue. Probably with alliance as well, since some of my alts can’t use the portals, so it’s kinda the same.
I had no other choice but to bring a blood elf I had, level him up to 30 (necessary to start Twilight Highlands), then I could take the initial mission from the board, all the NPC’s visible, BUT, still Eitrigg wouldn’t give me the follow up, so I had to go to Chromie and select the Cataclysm timeline, then the rest of the quests finally appeared in Grommash Hold.
As for my poor orc warlock that went through Exile’s Reach, I’m thinking of dropping him. With all Grommash Hold broken, and Chromie not fixing anything, I won’t be able to start Pandaria either.
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awesome. this ruined my character too, on alliance side though. i havent played since wotlk so been trying to catch up on lore, and all my storylines dead end at sw cause i cant hand in or accept any quests there. this REALLY seems like it should be a pretty simple fix. why has it been left unresolved for so long?
It’s insane to think that this still hasn’t been fixed. I don’t understand what the point of the bug report function is since it seems that anything outside current content goes unresolved for months.
Its fixed after the update today (for me t least) !
fixed on alliance side too. thanks for letting us know blizzard. ffs. didnt patchnotes used to include bugfixes?