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Is PoP flagging truly an intended bottleneck to the Artisan Aug?

Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Jhenna_BB, Jul 16, 2016.

  1. Sphynx_CT_SR Elder

    Were you in the raid/group that killed Grummus or did you just run in to hail afterwards? If I recall you need to be in the raid/group that got the credit for the kill for the projection to register and give you the flag. Some require this, but not all.

    Have you checked with the post-Grummus hail NPC mentioned in the post above in sickbay and double checked with the seer that you did not get the flag?
  2. Zynrael Lorekeeper

    Thank you for the replies. No i was not in the group and this was actually what I was hoping the issue is since I will at least be able to try and remedy that next time.
    I have/did hail all appropriate NPCs before and after including the seer and even Maelin just to eliminate as many possibilities as I could. Also outside the zone in and in sick bay.

    Thanks again, will try again
  3. Grove Augur

    There is a bug in the text of the Seer in PoK. When she is hailed part of the text in brackets are the two words [unlock] and [memories]. You cannot use those; she does not react to them. Instead do /say unlock memories.
  4. Smokezz The Bane Crew


    Only RZ requires you to be in the raid for the flag as far as I can remember. (People were bringing far more than 72 people at the time, to split up the raid force to beat it...)

    As for hails and text you may be missing Zynrael - run up to Grand Librarian Maelin in PoK and hail him... say "new lore" to him and say "information" to him. Then go do the unlock memories again a couple times and see what you get.
  5. Lilura Augur

    The flagging is proving a pain in the you know where. I've done Hedge twice now with my box crew, did the whole though to the end, looted the dagger, etc, and still 2 toons do not have credit for Hedge. I killed all 5 Sol Ro minis, clicked through like you HAVE to, and still can't click into Sol Ro's tower. Did Saryrn twice, no credit. This is frustrating.
  6. Darchon_Xegony Augur

    For Hedge you need to make sure you got the pre-flag in the Sick Bay in PoTranq first. Also you need to be sure to hail Thelin at the end of the escort, the dagger is completely irrelevant to the actual progression, just a symbolic "Stab her through the heart" gesture from Thelin in the lore.

    Clicking through Sol Ro you need to be standing on the rocks clicking the orange diamond on the central pillar. Even without the 5 minis (which are not required for progression) you should be able to click through because of being level 70+.

    Saryrn has a huge amount of pre-flagging associated with it. You can get a checklist flag for her, however the complete flagging isn't completed unless you did Hedge Event, Terris Thule, Grummus, Bertox, and Keeper of Sorrows. If I had to guess you're likely skipping KoS and not getting that flag?
  7. Smokezz The Bane Crew


    Nope... you need the 5 mini's or the alt quest for access to Sol Ro's room, even with the expansion wide open or you can't get up into the room for the hail on Sol Ro's Planar Projection.
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  8. gotwar Gotcharms

    From my understanding, to get into Sol Ro's tower, there are additional pre-flags beyond just the 5-mini's. Don't know which ones exactly, just know that after getting all 5 checklist flags for the mini's, we still had to do more progression before we could click into his tower.

    That being said, if one person in your group has the unlock to his room, everyone should be able to click up, even without the proper flags. Tested this (on test) ~2 days ago, was the only one flagged to get up to his tower and everyone was able to click up after I did, no mini-kills or prior progression.
  9. Darchon_Xegony Augur

    Interesting I thought that got included in the flagging change.

    Well I suppose you could still get gimped up there... But if you did get the 5 mini kills and clicked on the fire pots at the end of their hallway, you should be good. I recall lots of issues clicking the port up gem though, just like PoWater zone in. You just had to figure out the right place to stand and area to click.
  10. gotwar Gotcharms

    We had to complete the SolRo pre-flag from Maelin before it'd let us into his actual tower. This was right after the most recent patch on Test (the one that was pushed to Live a ~week ago).

    We thought we just needed the Mini's checklist flags too, until we tried to click up and got the "you do not meet the requirements" or w/e message trying to get in :(
  11. Darchon_Xegony Augur

    I guess that makes sense.

    Whenever we would be doing PoP progression the first thing guilds would tell you was to get the 3 freebie pre-flags in PoTranq so you don't forget later.

    Sol Ro from the Drake at PoFire
    Grummus from the guy at PoD
    Hedge from the guys in sick bay

    I think every time I started PoP progression on any toon I did those preface before anything else. I'd suggest everyone do the same so you don't forget!
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  12. Tevik Augur

  13. Lilura Augur

    Done both.

    I have all 5 minis. It's in my guided meditation. And when I jump up on the rock and click the light it still says I don't meet the requirements.

    Who the heck knows. I only know Fahlia will not respond affirmatively when I say "I will go." She says I need to spend more time exploring the planes.
  14. gotwar Gotcharms

    Need to unlock memories and see which flags you are missing. As far as I can tell you need most/all flags in order to get the Maelin Solusek Ro pre-flag to get into his tower. Or have someone already fully flagged click you up (you'll still have to click up yourself, but if one person in your group is flagged everyone can click up even if not flagged)
  15. Zenyan Journeyman

    Try going through both of the text chains with the named drakes outside of PoFire. You may only need one of them, but I don't know which. I talked with them both and was able to click up to the tower without the minis.

    Torment is kinda odd. You can kill Saryn but you won't get credit for it until you kill Keeper of Souls. You can't get the preflag that is required to talk to Tylis to port you up to KoS area until you have Bert flag.

    Helpful links that probably got buried;

    http://www.alkabor.com/flags.html Posted by Daldaen not too long ago. Helps figure out where you're at flag-wise.

    http://tancidtherogue.com/pop.html Posted by Sirenea. This one helped moreso with the preflags.
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  16. Zynrael Lorekeeper

    Just a follow up to my first post about Grummus. I re-hailed the NPC and waited grummus out, but this time was in the group to get the kill.

    Got my flag. So unless I am missing something, at least with grummus, kill credit is necessary Hopefully this helps someone else.
    Thanks Sphynx and all others who have helped myself and other players with issues that arise.
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  17. Vdidar Augur

    I used to think PoP back flagging wasn't that bad. I then decided I'd try to get it done with a few alts and it's pretty impossible on Bertox anyways. There are so many people who lack understanding of how triggers work that lord mith marr has his script pretty much perma bugged.
  18. Brohg Augur

    I've flagged two additional characters through Planes of Power since Artisan's Prize was introduced.
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  19. Orbital101 Augur

    So did I the last 3 weeks. Xeg seem to have setup a solid way of keeping track of when was the last time X target got downed with a spread sheet. Its not always updated but you can easily do the math if X target dint get updated with the previous or 2 kills then there is a good chance it got downed as they respawn.

    Something like this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...woPE20Nn0UMEExruFJbE9iSTA/edit#gid=1204972995

    Considering I spent 80% of my loged time on Quarm the last 6 weeks the reward worth all the spent time planning when to be on...
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  20. Vdidar Augur

    I'm done with my main like I said so it's not a big deal to me but ya I'm happy it's working out for you guys on your respective servers but that's not the case on Bertox.