I cannot access shadowlands content on a max level character that previously hadn’t done it. I wanted to run the old raids for transmog. Guess I leveled the wrong alt to be my main this time around. My current work around is using the Wormhole Generator: Shadowlands, which only works because the SL engineering trainer was one of the few relevant npcs spawned in. That being said I have no access to the maw or ZM.
My support ticket and responses:
“I am softlocked out of playing shadowlands content due to a bug. Went to oribos on a character that hasn’t been before trying to do old raid content. For some reason, I was not stopped by the npc that offers the decision. Campaign is stuck at 1/2. There are no relevant npcs in Oribos: no covenants, flight master, etc. There is no access to the maw. Upon using a toy to teleport to ravendreth, I’m allowed to walk into the covenant hall despite not being aligned with them and there are NO NPCS.”
Ticket Number: US102036179
I am Game Master Taiormmos. Thanks for contacting Blizzard Entertainment. I’ll handle your ticket today.
After a thorough reading of your ticket, I can see that you cannot skip the introduction of the Shadowlands campaign. I understand your situation, and I appreciate you bringing this to my attention.
I have reviewed your ticket and I would like to tell you that I also went through the same thing when I skipped the SL campaign with my holy paladin, I couldn’t do anything, I couldn’t continue with quests. So I started to investigate and I found this article in wowhead:
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Find your way inside Oribos to learn what is happening. A level 50 Oribos Quest. Rewards . Added in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Always up to date.
Also, you can spoke with Chromie to come back to normal time line and then jumped back to Shadowlands and this time ‘‘Stranfer is an Even Stranger Land’’ will appear automatically.
I recommend that you follow the advice of the people who have commented on this problem because they are very useful, it helped me and I am more than sure that it will also be very useful to overcome this inconvenience. In case wowhead’s comments do not help you to overcome this problem, please report it as a bug so that the developers can review it further and do a more in-depth research: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/
Although the answer is different from what expected, I hope you won’t take this as a setback from the epic adventure you’ve been having so far. Please note the development team will announce the outcome of the investigation through the forums, so I’d like to ask you to keep an eye on it. If you need any further assistance with anything else, always feel free to hit us up.
Sincerely,
Game master Taiormmos.
“So unfortunately this isn’t a chromie issue, as this is on a max level character, specifically Hextex-Sargeras. I have NOT been given the option to skip the campaign. The npcs are in a “fighting stance” as if when you first get to oribos to select threads of fate or to do the normal campaign. There is NOTHING I can do to progress. Jumping into the maw stuns me and spits me back out, the first portal to the flight master room is unclickable ( the others work though). I skipped the inital maw campaign and now and the campaign is forever stuck on 1/2. There are NO NPCS in the covenant room, the pvp vendors, etc. There is the lfr guy and a few side quest givers, that’s pretty much it.”