Dear Uthgard people,

just a post to warn you about Tajendi in general and the Taj1 quest in particular.

We did it in a fg yesterday. Here is a detailed summary of the events.

We got up to the cloak pattern puzzle combo. Got the treasure cloak pattern from the chest.

Started clearing the temple.

Server crashes. We all reconnect and pursue with the quest.

We come back to "Wiseman Hamad" in order to obtain our cloaks before continuing on with the rest of the XP quest.

None of use was able to obtain the cloak.

We finish the XP quest, get the taj1 token and leave.

Here is the response i got to my /callgm regarding this issue.
"You must repeat the quest."

So bottomline is: We properly did the quest. We all have the token to show for it (in case gamelogs would not suffice). We all spent over 3hours in Taj1 suffering through the clunky (at best) coding. The quest trigger in our quest apparently got bugged wether id be from the server crash or just the questline not beeing properly coded alltogether.

Solution?: Go back there, spend time gathering a grp, and relive that nightmare (because really that is how i would describe my taj1 experience) for 3hours.

Long story short:
If you want the Taj1 cloak, do it at your own risk. The area is very buggy, the quest is as well, and there is as per the above no technical support for it either.

Other accounts of this specific quest not deliving the cloak as intended:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12719


ad: my apologies to the 7 other people that joined me on that quest yesterday and for the 3hours you spent there for nothing.

Regards

I Hope GM's will understand the disappointment, and solve the situation, because the group did the quest properly, completed every step/tasks properly. The problem doesn't come from players, but from area/servor. Hope to find support from GMs on it.

how many cloaks and how many tears of tajendi were lost in my playtime... many many
gm's never support tajendi related problems (except stuck issues)

Tajendi isn't a nightmare if you'd read what the NPC's say.
There are lots of (often funny) details you totally oversee, when reading nothing and just rushing through Tajendi not recognizing all the little details which pretty much makes Tajendi to what it is.

(If you read the texts and still didn't enjoyed it, well you don't have to go there)

Tajendi Quest related problems are often pretty complicated to fix, but we won't just hand out some cloaks.
You'll have to do the same like everyone else do the - CLOAK QUEST - again.
You can leave afterwards and only doin cloakquest takes about ~5-15 mins?

Tajendi isn't a nightmare if you'd read what the NPC's say.
There are lots of (often funny) details you totally oversee, when reading nothing and just rushing through Tajendi not recognizing all the little details which pretty much makes Tajendi to what it is.

(If you read the texts and still didn't enjoyed it, well you don't have to go there)

Let's just say that it is as you said. I don't have to go there.

Tajendi Quest related problems are often pretty complicated to fix, but we won't just hand out some cloaks.

When, as a player, you perform a quest and then don't get rewarded for it as a result of poor coding/server issues/anything that is not due to the player, handing out cloaks to the grp would be what is expected of a GM, yeah.

Now i wasn't questionning the decision here, because it just seems asinine from my perspective. I was just making this thread as a word of warning to players who, like me, are newcomers to Uthgard.

Many templates i have seen on these forums use the aforementionned cloak, therefore I think it's relevant to warn people about Tajendi beeing what it is; a place where you might spend 3hours and not get what you're after.

Server did not crash, players LD'd. There are safeguards in place to allow for LDs, but not for the entire group LD'ing (sorry). Tajendi is considered complete. If Metty wants to improve the cloak part, he can. Otherwise, the existing safeguards are sufficient.

Also, the references to 2009 are no longer valid as there are now several new safeguards in place to ensure you can get the cloak in the event of an LD.

I would be curious to have the feedback on this thread from the other group that was in Tajendi at the same time we were (and who crashed -sorry, group ld'ed-. as well.)

They apparently did not get the cloak either.

Or the other 20 or so reports of a crash i read about in the broadcast channels when I logged back in.

Maybe I'm mentally challenged, but I fail to see it; what could be the reasonning behind not handing the players cloaks when victim of such bugs?

I was also one of the members that was on this quest. I'm not trying to spread any bad blood or anything, but you have to see this from the player's perspective as well. You have 2 groups Khrain's (which I was in) and an Over-Medicated guild group that ran at the same time that this occurred. So there are 16 unique people from various places in the world. People spoke French, German, Italian, and English just in my group. Different internet provider's, different connection types (dsl and cable), you name it and all of these people happened to be in Tajendi 1 when this happened. Same step, same temple, multiple different people from well over the world. It doesn't make sense to tell us that we may have not safe-guarded ourselves adequately. I know the GM's have responded to this but at the same time a more empathetic response would have been nice. We as donators and the community of your server want you to succeed in your goals and ambitions. Treating your "customers" with indifference because this is a "Free Shard" is a different story.

Tarthas 48 Paladin

We understand the issue and empathize, but there is no way for us to verify the state of the side quest. It simply doesn't work that way. It is stored temporarily and is lost when you log off. There are checks to ensure someone in the group has done it, but again, if the whole group is lost you must restart.

Dragonstar00 wrote: Treating your "customers" with indifference because this is a "Free Shard" is a different story.

Not really following this thread but this exert stood out to me. A "Customer" is someone who purchases goods or services from another. Just to be clear, you do not "Pay" to play here. You should also keep in mind a "Donation" is a gift, you should not expect anything in return.

Back on topic, I haven't been to Tajendi1 since the changes and I hear many players complaining about it. I'm guessing either something is bugged or there is a new / changed step in place and people are following old guides that may be obsolete as of the latest changes.

No, nothing has changed with Tajendi 1 in quite some time besides a bug with spider cave spawns. In fact, the last changes that were made were safety checks for the token and cloak nearly 2 years ago. The Alifa cloak "side quest" is nothing more than temporary information that is lost on logging off. In this case, their whole group logged (rather LD'd) so the tracking step was lost. Since it is temporary, there is no log or way to verify this step from our perspective.

It sucks but it is understandable. A while back I did the rr5 horse quest having no clue how to do it and when I got to the hidden NPC near MPK in Hadrians it said i had received a letter for my rr5 horse but it was not in my inventory. I did call a gm but after helping the others in my group do the same quest I ended up just doing the quest over again.

I made the promise I would help the others in my group finish so I spent my entire night doing that stupid quest over and over and over again. On the plus side I learned a neat trick to do it with two people.

My point is you have to understand the GMs aren't going to hand you anything.

The taj cloak quest can be done pretty quickly when you have finished the xp part.

Notice the parentheses on both customer and free shard. I just didn't have a better way of putting it. I'm not saying I was forced to donate and to be honest with you I'm not sad or upset that I did in any way. I have enjoyed my time here greatly and met great people on Mid and Alb. If I have the ability to just swing back through and complete the cloak portion of Tajendi 1 without handling the other steps that's a different story. I have a guild that can help me with that. Just repeating that all over for the possibility that it may happen again doesn't set well with me. I appreciate all that the staff does here and am grateful that they have the best shard out there. =P

Yesterday we got help from gm when archeolog Jackson dissapeared from the game. Thanks a lot Rajnish
We got tokens and cloaks. Except one person who didnt received token, no idea what happend

If your inventory is full, it drops to the ground. If you miss the text prompt or popup or can't pick it up for any reason, go through the portal and speak to the NPC. He will give you the token.