Talk:The Troublesome Artifact

At first this quest wasn't available to me, even after completion of Defend the Wall. Then, I did The Great Northern Wall, arrived at Fort Ranik, head out and accepted Regent Valley Defense quest, updated Vanguard Equipment quest (returned stolen goods to merchent), but did NOT finish any quests. Mapped back to the City, and the quest is available! My current theory is that the quest becomes available if the player has been to Fort Ranik in post-searing, regardless of whether The Great Northern Wall mission was completed or not, and regardless of the status of other quests. -PanSola 18:11, 25 October 2005 (EST)


 * This happened to me too yesterday and I wanted to talk about it. I think right now we can theorize that it either requires completion of the Great Wall mission OR getting to Fort Ranik, we can decide conclusively.
 * The same applies to Scavengers in Old Ascalon and Barradin's Advance
 * The same though also happened for me for Vanguard Equipment, you're saying you were able to get it before doing the great wall? --Karlos 19:10, 25 October 2005 (EST)


 * For both the Vanguard Equipment quest and the Scavengers in Old Ascalon quest, I obtained them BEFORE I entered The Great Northern Wall mission. However, those two quests are not available until AFTER the completion of Defend the Wall quest.  In other words, go in the Great North Wall prep area, get quest reward, come back into the city WITHOUT entering the mission at all, and both Vanguard and Scavenger became available to me.  Troublesom Artifact was not available at that time.  Barradin's Advance is STILL not available to me even now.  Hope this info helps you in some way. Did you go right into the missoin after claiming the Defend the Wall quest reward? -PanSola 19:56, 25 October 2005 (EST)


 * I remember when I played through the game for the very first time I completed pretty much ALL quests in the Ascalon area before completing ANY mission. That was because at that time I simply hadn't understood how to launch a mission. Missed that tiny little "Enter Mission" button in the party formation window. LOL. So I bypassed all missions and fought my way to Yak's Bend. But I had a list of quests available in Ascalon, and I did all of them. --Tetris L 21:07, 25 October 2005 (EST)


 * So plus one point for "Having been to Fort Ranik" as the trigger. d-: -PanSola 21:57, 25 October 2005 (EST)


 * I was in a similar situation to Tetris L on my first character. I just plain ignored the missions until I was pretty much all the way through Ascalon (doing only quests).  I don't think that doing the missions is a requirement for any of the quests, but visiting the locations might be.  --Rainith 01:08, 26 October 2005 (EST)


 * I agree. It's probably reaching the place itself for this quest. --Karlos 01:22, 26 October 2005 (EST)

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The quests: Barradin's Advance, Ruins of Surmia (Quest), and Troublesome Artifact -- did not open up to my e/mo char until after I have completed the Fort Ranik Mission. As to the speculating on needing to visit the locations to trigger the quests, my char have already visited all of the towns/outposts in post-seering Ascalon prior to doing any of the missions. --DaveBaggins 04:37, Feb 02 2006 (CST)