If you do the story mode of Sorrow’s Embrace and Caithe is dead the moment you open the door with the missing gears, the whole instance starts bugging.
First of all Caithe’s dialog lines are missing and Zojja starts monologues instead. Even if you revive Caithe now, the game STAYS bugged.
The speech of the dredge leader is now also missing and the mortars are not attackable, but still vulnerable to AoE. The cutscene about “destinies edge” however works, except for the fact, that you get the task to “Kill Zaithan” once the cutscene ends. The dungeon won’t progress to the phase where you have to protect Zojja until she opens the door.
We tried as hard as we could, but Zaithan wasn’t anywhere to be found in that dungeon, so we had to abort the run at that point.
Then please read the post again, carefully this time.
There is a certain condition mentioned, which needs to be present in order for the dungeon to break. I’m talking about “Caithe” being dead at the wrong moment, and this isn’t unlikely since Caithe loves to get killed by the masher trap you encounter when trying to open that specific gate.
I also managed to complete the dungeon on the second try while avoiding that situation, but i nonetheless needs to be fixed. And something went terribly wrong on the server side, if two dungeons (the personal story line dungeon and the actual dungeon) get mixed up so badly, that you get the missions from the one in the other.
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