Edit: Missions now (mostly) work properly, but still do not give participation. The only exception to this is elites, you are still better off ignoring the missions and zerging the field which doesn’t make any sense.
Missions/objectives aren’t showing up at all for a lot of us. Some people are getting them sporadically and then they break. I got one to show up but nothing was marked and then the mission bar vanished entirely.
I’m having the same issue & it doesn’t seem to matter what toon I’m playing. I can’t get any mission bar but the overall mission progress. Very disappointing. 
Yeah, I didn’t even realize you could get missions until someone mentioned it in chat, I suspect most people don’t realize it? And there’s basically zero chance of filling your personal participation bar without the missions. Ya know, assuming you can even see it. Most of the time I can’t see that either, it’s also broken.
My wife had this same issue happen to her… I was getting the missions, but she wasn’t. At the end neither of us got credit for the boss kill.
Did the whole event, I got no objectives or anything except the top completion bar gave me the two or three chests and the end boss awarded completion. The only thing I could do is kill some stuff and I’m not even sure that did anything at all. Occasionally I could see some webbed guys and crystal bonfire things but couldn’t interact with any of it.
Did this across 4 different characters and none of them had any objectives. Something popped up one time about killing shadecasters or something, and then quickly vanished. Event is slow feeling and that is probably the reason. It’s just people standing around in groups, or roaming around killing everything that pops up trying to figure out what they should be doing to progress the bar. The whole event in its current broken state is awkward.
This appears to have improved today. I did the scenario on an alt and everything worked as intended. Was pretty painless, here’s hoping that improvement continues.
For me, everything is broken. There’s a ton of people waiting for the champion, some have been waiting for two hours.
Blizz’s new content is for us to all afk randomly in game, to contribute to their investor metrics without having to actually create content at all, nvm entertaining content.
My three subs are deactivated, just using up time before I’m gone for good. Makes me sad.
Erg, I’m sorry. It seems like shards that work actually work today but they still haven’t fixed the shards perma-breaking when something bugs. Which means the later in the day we get the less chance that someone will even be able to participate, as more shards break.
Same thing has been happening to me since restart and now on Gilneas US shard at least the Nightfall event didn’t even start it is just stuck as 0 on the map timer and Beledar never shifted.
Can confirm this is still a huge issue. I’ve had literally one time the event worked as it was supposed to, all the others you never get any objectives so all you can do is bug farm to try and fill your bar.
Same problem :<
This has been a big problem for myself and my GM, we are not getting access to the mission items to click on so the bar doesnt increase. Its a total schmozzle.
Where do you pick up the missions from? There are no quest icons at the camp. I just run around tagging everything in sight to fill up the bar. Done it 4 times over couple days.
The missions involve doing certain things on the field, like clicking on characters in cages and destroying catapults. But most of the time I can’t interact with any of them.
Its a bit like back in Dragonflight, with the Superbloom where you would be tasked with doing certain things along the way to the final fight. Imagine if you couldn’t do any of those things because whatever the target was, you just couldn’t interact with them. When you did things, the cache-type reward improved in quality.
That’s what is happening to people (including me and my GM) at the moment, and it has been that way as far as I know since we were even able to complete the Nightfall at all. I am rarely able to get past the initial green quality box reward.
Same exact situation for me. I rarely see an objective pop up for a split second and then it just disappears. Everyone just spam tags mobs and I only see a handful of people getting or even doing the objectives.
Another issue is, when they do pop and you can interact, your bar doesn’t increase. Doing the missions literally doesn’t advance participation or add to your personal cache, it only advances the main mission bar. Which means if you want rewards you’re actually better off not doing missions and just farming mobs.
Last 2 days in a row, no missions pop up for me until the veeerry end. And it has been the shadecaster one both times. The shadecasters are not there, or are not interactable, plus the event moves into the next phase so fast, I would not be able to do it anyway.
Bump because missions are now mostly working as intended except that they don’t give participation for some reason. You’re much better off just zerging the field. Elites do give participation now, thankfully, but that’s the only mission that does.
the radiant shard mission either gives like .5% or none that i’ve noticed. and that one takes about the longest to complete