Today I ran into an issue with turning in the quest “Bloodied Sentinel’s Glaive”. It turns out this must be done in the area of Stormwind Keep where the archeology trainer is. And this led me down a very deep rabbit hole.
I have found out every single character that went through exile’s reach since 11.0 when “An Urgent Meeting” was removed from the game as a quest has Stormwind Keep stuck permanently in the instance for this same quest. As it still loads, despite the quest not being started.
Starting the BfA questline did not fix it
Starting the Dragonflight questline did not fix it
Due to this phasing/instancing issue that many characters/players are not aware they are affected by there are a handful of quests inaccessible & not possible to complete by a large amount of characters made since 11.0.
Could this urgently be looked in as despite it being a minor issue blocking only a handful of older quests. It affects a massive chunk of the population locking them out of some game content.
For those that want to check out if their character is affected. Check the main room of Stormwind Keep. If Captain Garrick is standing in front of Anduin informing you of “urgent matters”. You’re one of us.
Edit : this isnt as minor an issue as I thought it was, found out today I cant get the westfall quest achievement, cause the last quest is in stormwind keep. I reckon it may block other achievements too then.
I had the same problem few days ago when I decided to roll a thief starting with the Exile’s reach. Later (like, lvl 60-61) I wanted to lock my xp to do a bunch of things before going to TWW area.
Came to the Throne area, and went to the room next to it, only to see nothing. Because of phasing, no npc are there, neither the xp eliminator, nor the others. A younger king Anduin was on the throne in the main room, and Captain Garrick was waiting with other main Alliance’s heroes but nothing.
I read few comments in wowhead stating that in order to undo phasing, you had to do some expansions’ starts until some points. Did them all, BFA, Legion, DF, Pandaria, you name it, I’ve done it. Never changed anything.
Only today while I was still searching for an answer did I notice that Henry Garrick never came to the inn after setting the hearthstone and that might be the problem because it bugged the whole thing after that point.
Please, make a fix for it, or at least make the Exile’s reach start unavailable until you fixed this, for it is very annoying to find out that you’re stuck after several hours/days IG.
I have the same problem, I am unable to start/continue/finish any quest chain which require to talk to someone in Stormwind Keep, cannot start Twilight Shores etc…