Quest objectives: Investigate the passage below the grate
The sewer tunnels in this area of the quest and onward are extremely buggy.
Sometimes when fighting a mob (jellyfish, barracuda) they just disappear into the wall and are unable to be attacked but the game says I am still in combat and do not regenerate health.
Warmaster Forgal Kernsson will also randomly disappear into the walls to fight an invisble mob only to reappear a few minutes later.
Lastly, as a mesmer if you get downed in these sewers and use the clone ability there’s a chance to get teleported into the wall where you cannot move or attack anything because attacks are obstructed. The only way out is to bleed out and retry the story.
EDIT: In the last objective of the quest I was killed and respawned at the checkpoint whereupon the sea creatures appeared at the entrance (see attached) to the sewer which was out of land. When killed though, the conversation triggered and the quest was completed normally.
Not sure if this is linked to the same problem but right after killing the Orrian scout, the objective reverted back to “investigate the area beneath the broken grate”…and thus we were unable to find a conclusion to the quest.
Also having this issue with enemies (especially the jellyfish) and my ally stuck in walls. And as a large Charr, the view gets distorted when backing up or turning and im looking inside a wall or it gets stuck zoomed into my head and I can’t see anything going on. Extremely frustrating.
PLEASE fix this. I cannot progress any further because of the bugs in this quest. Mobs keep getting stuck in geometry, my companion does too. I cannot hit the mobs since they are stuck in walls, but they can still hit me. I have tried this over and over all week with no progress due to buggy nature of the sewer tunnels PLEASE fix!
Succeded at the 4th attempt. I just slowed down until every quest objective was marked as done BEFORE going to the mini-boss, sometimes walking over the same place multiple times. A green arrow appeared on the mini map and every objective was cleared (without any duplicates this time) before going into the boss room (when a final objective appears).
OK – Finally made my way through the first ridiculously buggy part of this quest, mobs in walls, terrible camera pathing and mykitten meathead companion getting in my face and dragging mobs into walls where I can’t hit them (seriously how was this not fixed at beta?).
I’m stuck in a tight cavern with a couple of wrecked ships hulls in it, I’ve swam around in circles, retraced my steps and searched everywhere I can see but can’t find where I’m meant to be next. The green arrows on the map are next to useless as they appear to be directing me through a wall.
You’re doing nothing wrong. The quest is bugged. Be sure to have every objective marked as completed before the cavern with the wrecked ships and the green mini-boss.
I also noticed thet on my 4th attempt (the lucky one) I had the gelly monster spawn in the room just before the one where you dive.
Oh my god, I just came to complain about the stupid jellyfish and Warmaster Forgal Kernsson going into walls. I end up going against 3 jellyfish and an armored fish that reset when you back up 10 meter… As an elementalist if you don’t move you die… Now I find out the whole quest is bugged and it’s only the beginning…. great :s Hope they fix it soon
The 2nd last one is incomplete. One thats “explore the sewer”
Theres nothing to explore. Thats after killing the “boss” fish and swimming around for 30 min
I’m also having problems with this quest. The first time I attempted it, the “explore beneath the broken gate” objective was stuck and never progressed. Just now, I attempted this quest for the second time and the “Defeat the Undead” objective never progressed. I killed the monster, the cut scene didn’t trigger, and I was stuck. During this second attempt, I died once and was reset at the check point, so I’m not sure if that had something to do with it.
I got killed on this (a while back) and the mobs warped to me at the checkpoint. I was actually relieved to finish it this way as I hated water combat at the time and they were kicking my butt.
I just completed this quest, being careful not to advance until each step was clearly marked as complete. Even so, I ran into problems several times when a mob would manage to get itself inside a wall. It happened with 1 barracuda, a drake, and then 3 or 4 times during the final encounter with the Orrian monstrosity.
Each of the mobs in question spawned in plain sight (or I encountered them normally) so I don’t know if it was one of the skills Forgal uses that knocks the mobs through the walls or if it’s a glitch in their pathing. I was being very careful not to use any knockback or sink/float skills that might cause problems like this in the narrow confines of the tunnels. With the Orrian in particular, I think it’s the mob’s own skill (a spin-o-rama sort of move that looks like the standard drake AoE tail swipe) that was somehow putting it through the wall…luckly Forgal seems to have no trouble swimming through walls so he was able to do the last 1/4 of the final fight.
I am having the same problem mentioned. I cannot complete the quest because the tracker has reverted to “investigate below broken gate” after killing mobs.
Yup same problem. I died during the fight with the scout so i teleported back to the entrance only to find forgul fighting the scout right there, when i killed the scout there was a talking scene between me and forgul. after that he went away and i thought the quest was over, but it said there was still an objective left, “investigate below the broken gate.” i’ve went back and killed everything and walked through the whole place 3 times over and it still will not finish. and in the story tab, it says that the objective just isn’t checkmarked, but the next one is, like it just skipped it or something.
I just had the same thing happen to me. Where the objective “Investigate the passages below the broken grate” is incomplete, even after I defeated the scout in the room with the broken ships. Forgal was with me for the fight and the cut-scene plays after defeating the scout. Wandered around the entire instance, with nothing updating.
Just a follow up on how I got it to work on my 2nd try. When you discover that the grate is broken and you swim down the first time, there a mob that you’ll kill in the vertical tunnel. Shortly after killing him, you should get a quest update to the step “Explore the tunnels further” or something to that effect. I believe you get this update , which a lot of people are missing, from either some point in that vertical tunnel, or sometimes you may have to wait for your companion to catch up to you. I would recommend swimming around in that tunnel, because you should get the quest update right in there as I did on my 2nd try. I think sometimes the companion has a hard time dropping down through that broken grate, and the quest might not update til he’s in the tunnel with you. Hope this helps
Just a follow up on how I got it to work on my 2nd try. When you discover that the grate is broken and you swim down the first time, there a mob that you’ll kill in the vertical tunnel. Shortly after killing him, you should get a quest update to the step “Explore the tunnels further” or something to that effect. I believe you get this update , which a lot of people are missing, from either some point in that vertical tunnel, or sometimes you may have to wait for your companion to catch up to you. I would recommend swimming around in that tunnel, because you should get the quest update right in there as I did on my 2nd try. I think sometimes the companion has a hard time dropping down through that broken grate, and the quest might not update til he’s in the tunnel with you. Hope this helps
Yes I think this is the main problem. The first time I was stuck in this quest because I seem to have missed the River Drake below the broken water gate and thus didn’t kill it. I only found/saw it once I backtracked after the final cutscene. Quest was stuck and I had to exit and re-play.
On second run, the River Drake spawned and I killed it before proceeding further to kill the Barracudas and the Jelly Fish, then finally the Undead Scout, and the quest completed successfully.
Killed the undead boss mob, still have the “explore under the broken grate” step.
I didn’t get the explore the tunnels further step like someone mentioned above.
The pathing here is awful and the npcs and mobs go through the sewer walls.
edit:
I managed to get the “Continue your exploration” step the 2nd time, I swam through the broken grate, killed the river drake, then swam back up to where Warmaster Forgal was stuck and that seemed to have triggered the next quest step.
