The Battle of Darrowshire quest is bugged. Blizzard doesn't care

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I submitted a ticket, and I got a generic response from the GM that essentially said “LoL, tough !@#$%^”.

Just doing some research, here is the collection of other reports made in the past week about this quest that I have found on various wow classic webpages:

“Has anyone been able to successfully complete this quest? We fought mobs for 40 minutes and Redpath the Corrupted never spawned. Captain Redpath never died.”

“We spent about 20 minutes killing the Bloodcaller mobs and the quest mob never spawned. Redpath was alive and mainly stood between the road and the right side hill. After 25 mins we backed off and decided to restart. Got out of combat, switched to a new layer and started the event with the same results.”

“We fought mobs for 18 minutes after the first friendly named NPC died and Marduk the Black never showed up. Eventually Davil died because, well ,18 minutes. I have absolutely no recollection of it taking this long.”

“I know that there is no support at all for the classic but it’s ridicolous to stay everyday 1h gathering people and 30m every try hoping for the Corrupted Redpath to spawn…”

“Did anyone actually finish this quest? Captain redpath always defaults to the same spot on a hill , and even after 25minutes the quest did not complete. Marduk just never appears. Redpath never gets cursed and he will just slowly die.”

“Currently Bugged. Corrupted Redpath doesnt spawn even after 20min of fighting. Dont waste time until Blizzard fixes this.”

“Can confirm that this is still bugged. Just attempted on Kromkrush-US and after about 30 minutes of beating up undead Redpath finally tanked to many things and died. Corrupt Redpath never showed up.”

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Please fix it Blizzard!

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What did the GM actually say to you? Because I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the people whose salaries you are paying into via your subscription didn’t tell you off. If a GM did mouth off like this, which is entirely antithetical to their position, it would probably be worth it to get in contact with Customer Support.

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tried 3 times now i guess the only way to complete it is to get lucky

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We completed it with 14 people. We had just one person place the bag and just stay there. The rest of us marked the quest mob and kept it alive . Finished smoothly , that we all went to kill Nathanos afterwards.

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I have. Did it successfully on the first attempt.

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It bugged on me once, fixed it by having the group stand near the fountain. Basically the less you do the less it risks bugging.

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It works fine. You have to let Redpath get involved in the battle. If you just kill everything to fast he gets bugged on that hill area. If you let him get into the battle it works fine. We have done this for our whole guild, with multiple runs.

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The understanding my group came to was that if multiple people place the bag to start the event, or someone else arrives mid event and places the bag, it bugs.

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This is a long standing known bug that was and is still bugged in retail, it has never been fixed, it will never be fixed. Abandon it, and move on with your life.

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This is how I think I remember it from years ago … that’s BC or later not vanilla.

I have DEFINITELY completed this quest in the past, haven’t tried it in Classic so not saying I’ve seen it work for a fact here.