I experienced a disproportionate amount of crashes this weekend while doing this quest, about 8-10 times in total. In all cases the EQ client would simply close and I was not offered the crash description dialogue box. In comparison I zoned at least 100 times this weekend (possibly a lot more) on other characters without more than one or two crashes. About half of these appear to be launchpad/patcher issues. Validating game assets did NOT repair these issues, I suspect this is due to the mission's legacy versions of the involved zones. The fix seems to be manually delete and repatch the freeport/Ro zones. /who all with a character on another account helped to identify the zone filenames. As there are multiple zones involved, I had to repeat this for each new instanced zone. I also experienced additional crashes which appear to be caused by the shrouding mechanic. Even after repatching the zone, most of the time I would crash again while attempting to zone and the second time I would appear in /who all as a different shrouded version of myself than the last crash. If someone the from EQ team is reading this, please make sure the patcher is correctly scanning these files.
