Blades: Captive of the Alliz Raef Ew  

Did the quest today with my Lvl 50 warlock and it's still bugged.

This quest is STILL bugged as of December 2, 2006. Hailed the merchant and she says "thank you for rescuing me and returning me to the dock" ...while still on the island. No guards spawn and the quest does not update past needing to free the captive merchant!

For me:
1) clicked the cage (update; mobs were grey)
2) got near the island (update; loc listen above works fine)
3) hailed an unconscious merchant and mobs poped (grey)
4) killed the mobs and hailed the merc again (update)
5) made my way back to Mahir.


Also, I found out the hard way that, if the merchant dies while you are escorting him/her back to Mahir, there's a 10min repop time.

And they'll show up on the island again, unconscious.

Definately messed up on AB...

I found him up and awake, but with no mobs around him... I talked to him and he thanked me for taking him safely to the docks!

This is DEFINATELY bugged.

Broken on AB - Got a guide and he first tells me I'm still on the first step. Convinced him otherwise and then he tells me he has added it to his journal and it worked. So I drag him over there, and show him that no matter what I do, I just get a message that the merchant is unconscious. So the genius guide goes back to the drawing board, this time telling me he hasn't spawned, even though Im looking right at him. "In game feature" was the guides next line. Told me to wait for him to spawn :(

Well, this quest definately has some quirks that need to be worked out for sure. I read all the posts, as the description is sorely lacking, and lots of issues with this quest.

I finally got this quest when I became amiable with the blades faction. I went to the cage and cleared the mobs, and then clicked the cage. As I approached the island with the 'a captive merchant' on it, I got the quest update ding. I then hailed the 'a captive merchant' and received the following text: 'a captive merchant looks unconscious!'. Naturally, I spammed hailed her, obviously doing no good. I then cleared all the lizards as fast as I could - nothing. Finally a prophet lizard spawned and I took out that little group of 4, and the 'ring event' started. There was 2 groups of 4 lizards (two prophets and two zealots - heroic) on either side of the little island that the 'a captive merchant' was on. Once I cleared those, a group of 5 lizards and a named lizard spaned around the base of the sole tree there. Once I cleared those, I hailed the 'a captive merchant' again - same text appearered - ...looks unconscious!

Suddenly, an Epic lizard (level 51 x2 epic) spawned with 4 'an ancient crocodile' (also epic x2 but not heroic) spawned. I quickly gathered a group of friends (all level 70 and one level 65) and toasted the epic. I then hailed the 'a captive merchant' again - same text - ...looks unconscious!

Throughout the course of the next 2 hours, I killed dozens of lizards, including the ones around the cage and the roaming prophet again, and managed to do that 'ring eent' or whatever, 4 more times. Twice the named spawned, once the buff item appeared, and once the event happened on the island beside the one with the 'a captive merchant' on it, also with a buff item on it. The Epic lizard did not spawn again.

Upon further reading of the remaining posts, it appears that this quest still needs some tweaking for sure, and like a few of the posts mentioned, perhaps it will work once the server is reset Monday morning for maintanence. (/crosses fingers).

Quest broken on Najena as well. Got it on my 47 Necro alt. Killed lizardmen by the cage, clicked cage, got update on the way to the lake. I got to the merchant and he is laying there unconscious. He would not respond with anything other than "a captive merchant looks unconscious" no mobs spawning. I figured it might be bugged because someone had recently failed, so waited an hour. Still no luck. I /petitioned it (BIG MISTAKE) they had the nerve to say I had missed a step.

Looks like I will have to wait for a server reset and hope no one else does the same.

This worked for me today. I had to kill the guards at the cage to get it clickable, then went to the man on the oasis island and he followed me back to the docks.

It seems that Mahir will only offer this quest to you once you reach amiable faction with the Court of Blades. Once I hit amiable faction, I got the new quest dialouge and was offered this quest.

It seems that each Court's faction giver at the SS docks does this... offers 3-4 quests at the normal rate, but has an additional one that offers 7500 faction once you reach amiable.

Got to this part with my alt char now, and it seems that the one you need to help doesn't want any help, infact she is just laying down looking cute and interacting with only visible helpers. So still bugged i guess :( 06/05/2006
Cinam B 70 Wiz
Brailia B 48 Conj on Splitpaw

Had trouble with the unconscious merchant. Waited 2 days for server reset. Worked as intended.

Just did the same 3 times as Xaryn but no update the merchat just lies there and is unconscious. Tried to delete the quest 3 times and i get all the updates on the way including the one that is needed between the island and the cage.

Quest must be broken on this server.