There is a quest that starts in East Freeport which is initiated through the NPC Fabian who is located in the Grub 'n Grog near the piers. The quest is supposed to result in a back slot item called Cloak of Hazy Memories with a clicky effect to summon ale. I have completed this quest twice in a row now making sure that each time I have followed every step to the last letter and both times I have not received the next to last item needed to complete the quest. In short, you hand Fabian some money and he asks for strings from someone in Qeynos. Next, you go to Qeynos and talk to someone in the bard's guild. Then you have to hunt down Zahal the Vile in North Karana and bring back the requested item to the Qeynos person with some money. At that point you take the strings you receive back to Fabian and hand them to him. This is the point where it seems to be broken or at least broken for me. He takes the item and gives the proper verbal response to the hand in but he never hands me the coin he is speaking about. So far as I understand that coin is to handed back to him and he gives you a note to take back to the Qeynos bard guild where you turn it in and receive the quest reward. Now for the questions. Has anyone completed this quest successfully in the recent months? Has anyone experienced the same or similar issues with this quest? Has the quest been nerfed? (obligatory question, ya know? ) Is the quest only doable once per character and somehow I have forgotten that I completed it some time in the past AND inadvertently destroyed the resulting quest reward? If nobody knows the answers to the questions above, is submitting a ticket the only way to really address the issues I'm experiencing? Thanks for your time. PS - I play this game for fun not end game so it's disappointing when some of the little things, this quest for instance, don't pan out as it appears like they are still intended.
Upon handing Fabian the Lute Strings, you have a 25% chance to receive the Etched Silver Coin. Although his dialogue suggests he has misplaced his lucky coin, its not guaranteed it was included in the coins of payment he just gave you for recovering the strings.
Well I appreciate the clarity. I considered something along those lines being a possibility but I just wasn't persistent enough to find out. Many thanks to you, sir!
I completed this quest on Al'Kabor this evening and I actually received the coin, handed it back to Fabian and continued on to Qeynos. The last NPC by the fountain gave me "A Placeholder Scroll" instead of the cloak, however. What gives with this?
Dzarn - I just finished this quest - I recieved the coin from Fabian and turned it in. I than recieved the note and turned it in to Dionna. All I got was gold approx 6 gold. This is on Ragefire. Is this normal? Or does she also have a 25% chance to give you the cloak? much thanks and sorry for the necromancing of this thread
Likely it's right around the time of progression when the quest was being put into the game, or just not "authorized" or whatever it's called. Wonder what you could do with the scroll. It's not supposed to be in game yet, or else it would be worth several Krono based on the stats. It's several expansions ahead before you can get the cloak, like a couple years away (due to it having a ~35 level restriction and attunable). Imagine the value of an item like this being obtainable in Classic!