Hi all,
I’m one of the victims who can’t pick up the quest “Lost Expedition Scouts”. I noticed several people encountered the same issue as I did so I’d like to share my thoughts on this.
Firstly, according to the article(328987) “The quest “Lost Expedition Scouts” grants access to Expedition Scout Packs to all characters on the account. Once completed on a single character, the others will not have access to it”. From my perspective, it seemed like all my characters who meet the requirement (renown 2) should have access to it before one of them completed the quest.
However, it just didn’t work for me even until now. In my case, I only have 1 character so far, so I should be able to pick up the quest. But it’s just unavailable from the quest giver. After contacting the support and testing on different accounts, I found out that the devs might define the first character who reaches renown 2 as your “main” character whether you like it or not. I found this by typing the checking script from Wowhead “/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(70822))” on all my characters including the deleted ones. I noticed that one of my deleted characters who meet the requirement had access to the quest but the script result showed false (it means I haven’t done it on this character). Therefore, I believe that this might be where the bug existed. If my guess was true, it conflicted with the description from the article so it definitely needs to be fixed.
To sum up, I think this can only be solved by changing the way the quest is registered in order to avoid the same thing happening again. For instance, the quest can be available to all characters who meet the requirement at first, but once a character has done this quest, the other would not be able to pick it up. Right now, it seems there’s no way to do it on your preferred character if you have a similar situation like me even though you permanently delete the other characters you have since it’s account-wide unlocked.
Hope this helps you guys who are also confused about this quest. Also, I suggest that the devs team can edit the description of the article since it’s sort of misleading and less informative.