I just reached renowned 8 and got this quest, however the quest giver does not appear when I get to the designated area in the Eternal Forge. I have relogging, dropping/accepting the quest but no luck.
I am also stuck on this. Mikanikos is not showing up for me. This has been a bug since beta.
Stewards of a feather? NPC disappears after finishing gathering the 5 stewards
Edit: finally showed up; just spawned in out of no where
Birds of a Feather bugged for me as well, waited around 5 minutes and she finally showed up.
I relogged in the area and it fixed it
however to continue the quests you have to stand around and wait for the givers to respawn in for some reason
Different (and much smaller) bug on this quest - when I approach Mikanikos at the Eternal Forge, he addresses Sika (“Sika, I left you in charge!”), but Sika is not visible in the area, and I can’t see how she is responding to him (though he is clearly having a conversation with her). Completing the quest does reveal her however (and she has a quest of her own to offer).
i got the 3 quests after reaching the forge and when i went to turn in the quest for freeing 5 captured smithhands the quests giver disappeared i abadoned the quest to try and restart it the quest giving still is not there
I totally exited the game and restarted it, and that seemed to fix it for me.
so the quest givers both randomly disappear because this thing is right messed up. You have to just stand around and wait for them. redoing the quest wont make a difference they are spawning in and out depending on other players near you doing stuff with them. I’m on my third time waiting for them to appear now
Sika will show up if you wait a bit.
I’m stuck here too. No matter what I do, the npc won’t spawn. I put in a ticket and it says wait time is 13 days…
okay, it finally works. thankfully
…and now after that part of the quest one of the turn in npcs is missing…
edit: okay, it respawned after a few minutes… this is seriously buggy
edit 2:…and now again the same problem as originally with another one of these two npcs… holy cow
Yep, all the quests in this chain are bugged. I’ve had to wait ~ 15 min to turn in a quest, then wait again to pick up a new one, then repeat. I also put in a bug report. Very frustrating, regardless.
How is this still bugged 2 years later?