A Climber’s Calling (69855) is supposed to appear via Doc Nanners once you have reached Renown 6 with the Dragonscale Expedition and have unlocked world quests. This quest is the breadcrumb that leads to the chain that unlocks climbing world quests.
Despite being Renown 18, having unlocked world quests, and even having unlocked the later cataloging world quests from Renown 8 with the Dragonscale Expedition, I still cannot get this quest to appear from Doc Nanners. I can see him following me when I am in the Waking Shores, but the only quest he has for me is a different, unrelated campaign quest called “A New Mystery.”
Being unable to unlock climbing world quests is preventing me from progressing the “A World Awoken” achievement to obtain the Taivan mount. I have checked via in-game scripts, and neither “A Climber’s Calling” nor the subsequent quest from Pathfinder Jeb “Basic Climbing Gear” are marked as completed. I have tried relogging multiple times and have gone to every relevant NPC quest giver in the chain with War Mode both on and off multiple times. I have also tried re-zoning into the Waking Shores as well as doing all of these steps with all of my addons disabled.
I have extensively checked the relevant Wowhead articles and comments as well as the Blizzard forums and the support page FAQs. Although there are many issues around these quests, but they usually seem to stem from people either not having actually unlocked world quests yet, needing to be in War Mode for some reason to progress one of the subsequent quests in the quest chain, or certain handholds not appearing while you are actually doing climbing quests. There are absolutely no solutions posted however for people in my situation, where all the pre-requisites have been completed and the quest to progress the chain simply won’t appear despite being marked incomplete in the system.
I opened a ticket and the GM confirmed that I had indeed not completed “A Climber’s Calling” yet, but there is no way to force the quest to appear for me. They also suggested that I leave a bug report of the issue here on the forums.
Is there anything else I should try doing? Or is it simply impossible for me to unlock Taivan?