Scarab Scouting

Has Blizzard even addressed this bug with the forums about them fixing it?

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I just wish they’d acknowledge the fact its bugged. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Still bugged :slight_smile: last quest for loremaster, fix this blizz

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Same here, Wyrmrest Accord. Can complete all other steps of the quest fine (talk to the niffen, pick a swarmbeast) but then nothing happens when I go to the area with the volatile soil. Doesn’t progress whether I’m solo or grouped, dropping and restarting doesn’t work, and also doesn’t seem to matter which swarmbeast I choose.

Now I don’t even see any earth piles! Before I saw a field full of non-interactable piles of dirt in the designated area. Now I see nothing in the area!

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I cannot see any dirt piles…

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Earlier I was unable to loot the dirt piles. Now I can’t even see the dirt piles. And yes, I’ve spoken to Aromash and selected a stagshell already.

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Same here… Sigh. Yesterday They were present, but couldn’t interact.

This is frustrating.

I also selected a stagshell and spoke to Aromash.

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Dismissed my hunter pets, abandon quest, /reload, different critter. Nothing. Sent bug report. Need fixed or “auto-complete” since it’s such a meaningless quest anyway.

Same issue, and no blue posts? How many seconds possible minutes till this is fixed??

My best guess would be in 2ish days at reset when the WQ that is the same thing goes away. Has to be an issue with people trying to do the story quest and somehow getting phased with the WQ.

same issue. The mounds wont spawn

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Same as the rest, mounds will not spawn.

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Having the same issue for the past few days. Just trying to get my Sorjurner achievement out of the way but can’t…

I can’t complete this quest. I am solo and not in a group of any kind. I take the quest and the scarab follows me to the quest area. It does nothing. I walk all around and it just follows me. Nothing happens but I do get attacked by the wandering mobs. The scarab again does nothing. He is content to watch… or hoping for my death. Either way, the quest is bugged and completely unplayable.

Scarab Scouting is bugged for me as well. I choose a scarab, go to the location the dirt piles are supposed to be, confirm the scarab is with me and the buff active (both true), and no dirt piles spawn.
The only indication that there is anything to do there other than the highlighted area on the minimap is the people who are somehow not bugged causing Truffle Gorgers to spawn seemingly out of thin air.
I’ve tried abandoning the quest and picking it back up, choosing different scarabs, relogging, restarting the client, walking there from the quest-giver instead of flying, talking to Aromash and not talking to Aromash, war mode on and off, flying away from the area then flying back, leaving the zone entirely then returning… unfortunately none of these desperate tactics worked.

Oh, and come to find out, this bug has existed and been reported on since beta. :face_exhaling::+1:

Same issue here - now the piles aren’t even showing up anymore.

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The first time I encountered this bug, I could see the dirt, but nothing would happen. I could not interact with any of them. I reloaded, relogged, changed bugs after abandoning, zones out and back in, joined and left group, and nothing.

My guess it had to do with quest progression. I was only missing that quest and the quest to go back to Dornogal to finish up the main questline. I turned in the main story, unlocked WQs, and now the dirt piles no longer appear for me at all. I did the same cycle with no luck.

However, when I was first trying to complete the quest, I saw other players “examining” the dirt piles but they didn’t know if they did anything different and were just doing the quest.

I have a feeling it’s something to do with the main story and if you progress to a certain point, you are unable to complete this quest.

I do find it absurd that this has been a known bug for some time and the only “fix” some Blizzard employees proposed was dropping or joining a group. No, you take the bug reports, you get it to the team that looks into the code that’s causing the issue, and you fix it.

They had beta to get it done. What’s even more sad, is that the in-game cut scene that told the story of what happened to the queen, Blizzard didn’t bother cutting the “Blizzard Entertainment Presents” part. It may as well had the YouTube logo on it.

Great expansion over all, so far, but I see a lot of laziness and I’m not a fan of being held up on trivial things like an unimportant quest. I honestly don’t even know why we have the option to choose another bug as a button, when we can just close that window and talk to another one.

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Man, it’s still busted, AND still needed for loremaster. That’s frickin’ nuts.

It’s labor day weekend. I think this is dead until reset at the earliest.

So this & '‘Lost & Found’ are both still bugged.
I’ve got to say, the sloppiness of quest bugs this Xpac has been concerning.

If their goal is to bring less out, but more frequently, then their QA needs to be almost perfect.