I, along with Rondor and Khoza (thanks!), was exploring the seemingly largely unknown and undocumented two-group LDoN raid (discussion thread) given by Eewatt Halmoore in South Ro (event write-up), and encountered a problem with this event. One of the final things that seems to be intended to occur, is that Bartleby Beckelbracker should follow you to the exit, after you have freed him from the Clockwork Monstrosity. However, Bartleby refused to ever actually follow anyone, despite trying many trigger phrases, hailings, zoning out to reset him, etc. This causes the mission to fail and be incompletable. He says the following, but never actually begins following anyone:
Another bit of feedback that it occurs to me to add to this bug report, is that the NPC who grants this mission, Eewatt Halmoore in South Ro, should probably have his title amended to more clearly indicate the level limited nature of this event, in the same way that the extremely similar (Stormhammer-originating, level-limited, two-group LDoN raid) NPC in Butcherblock, Alinai Kaneriti, had hers amended to clarify the level limited nature of her event, in a patch from 2012.
Just tried this event again, this time being more careful about who hailed Bartleby, since the previous time the one who happened to hail him had been a Mage with a pet. However, even using exclusively a monk to hail him, he still never actually began to follow them. This makes the event impossible to complete. Having seen this occur twice now, it really does seem like this event is broken and can't be completed.
Some possible insights as to why the NPC follow/escort failed some standard LDoN escort missions are mentioned in this thread from last year: "Bugged LDoN escorts?" [ https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/bugged-ldon-escorts.266124/ ] I do not know if they may apply here. Either for developers looking into this bug report, or for people wanting to try this mission again, here are some suggestions based on reading that thread: Not all NPCs being cleared from the zone before starting the escort, and there may be some minimum count of NPC that must be cleared before the escort can properly start, even though we cleared all mob-NPCs we could find. There may be a hidden trapped LDoN-style Chest/Container/Table/Box still somewhere in the zone and is blocking the escort due to the "trap spawned NPCs" still being around. The many normal DOT-casting or damage-casting "rune-shaped" traps on the ground all over the zone may be interfering and considered part of some minimum NPC clear count. Perhaps a rogue's "Disarm Trap" skill may get rid of those and can be tried again. Rogue "Sense Trap" skill may also help find and uncover any other hidden traps around the zone. The unattackable clockwork boss-mob NPC standing right next to the escort NPC may count as a "mob that needs to be defeated still" but can't be defeated due to being unattackable, so is blocking progress. These are untested theories. It takes quite some time to run through the raid-mission because of the maximum level cap on the participants being somewhere from level 65 to 69 or so. So it would be great to have a developer research this as well.
