No UBRS key for you!
by Amanda Rivera 
May 8th 2007 at 1:27PM
Call me crazy, but I am still collecting Azeroth keys and attunements. It's this thing I have with needing to complete things. I realize fully that I will hardly ever go to UBRS now that I am 70 (it's a Murphy's Law thing), but should any of the lower members of the guild need entrance for attunements or gear of their own (my guild is full of collectors just like me), then I will be able to help them out. I have two out of the three gems needed, and have in my spare time been running the instance with our guild leader trying for the third. So imagine my irritation when I read today on QJ.net that the quest line is bugged, severely.
Vaelen, the schmoe who gives you the quest in the first place, is now in the habit of deleting the quest and your quest items when you talk to him. Now, this isn't right by any stretch of the imagination. Vrakhris mentioned in the forum post that Blizz knows about the problem, and are working on fixing it in an upcoming patch. Meanwhile, there's a workaround to tide us over.
Check this out:
"Basically what is happening is when the instance resets Vaelan will forget that he has ever spoken to you. In order to get around this you will need to acquire another Unadorned Seal of Ascension. Once you have the Unadorned Seal of Ascension speak with Vaelan, he will examine your Unadorned Seal of Ascension and continue his dialog as if you had never been there before.
Once he runs through his starting dialog he will offer you the quest that you should be on, since you have already completed the first Seal of Ascension quest he will give you the second one as well as Vaelan's Gift which will have the Unfired Seal of Ascension and the Orb of Draconic Energy in it.
Complete the quest and return to him, again if you had left the instance long enough for it to reset you will need to speak with him while a Unadorned Seal of Ascension is in your inventory."
Confused as to how this could possibly happen to a quest almost two years' old? Yeah, me too. In any case, I will do my best to make sure my gems don't disappear when I turn in my key. As irritated as I am that the quest is broken, I am glad they've given us at least one way to get around it.
[via QJ.net and WoW forums]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Addie May 8th 2007 1:36PM
I'm with you Amanda - I just got my Drakefire Amulet last week... so if anyone ever wants to pay Onyxia a visit for old times sake? >.< And I don't have the heart to vendor my Wildheart/Feralheart/Zandalar bits either... Hell, I still have the Emberstone Staff from my first Deadmines run. O.o
Rocklaw May 8th 2007 1:38PM
This happened to me after I solo'd Omokk for my final gem a few weeks ago. I got the stuff for Emberstrife but ran out of the 5 charges before I could successfully complete it (yes, I fail). Vaelan wouldn't talk to me when I went back (perhaps because our guild had Vael on farm? lol). I petitioned a GM and they referred me to the Quests forum. I finally found a post describing the fix (a new Unadorned Seal) so I ground one of those up.
Long story short, Vaelan gave me another batch of the stuff you need to go fire the key, so off I went and solo'd Emberstrife again - successfully this time - and I finally have my key.
folas May 8th 2007 1:39PM
@Addie
You must have a full bank. I still want to learn all the pet skills for my level 70 hunter. But at least they do not take up space.
Addie May 8th 2007 2:07PM
*blush* Full bank, yes... and a banker girl with a full bank too.
James May 8th 2007 2:37PM
I think that with every expansion they should remove the old attunements and keys required for the old.
For example, my guild is working on Prince Malchezzar in Karazhan, but may never see the inside of Naxxramas, because no one is going to take the time to be attuned to the old instance. We'd like to have fun there on raiding off-nights, but it's impossible due to the attunement requirements.
Do away with those as each new expansion is released. Can you imagine how many people are going to want to go to Karazhan after the next expansion, or SSC, or the Black Temple? Not likely if they have to get keyed. Might as well make some small use out of them, even if they don't introduce "Heroic" mode for old dungeons.
Smithra May 8th 2007 3:03PM
@James and while they're at it, just make old Tier sets purchaseable for like maybe 1g. And, um, have a GMmode you can turn on so if they're kind of hard you can just walk through to see the content.
I hit the endgame about a month before it became midgame, so I've only seen ZG once and Hakkar was bugged. I got in a run at Onyxia and a run through MC, but only saw the very beginning of BWL. I'd like to see some of the content I missed. I may still do the Naxx attunement as I think it's mostly a cost of admission thing, not like Onyxia's long questline.
Your suggestion sounds like: "It's not worth it to me to earn my way in, so you should just give it to me so I'll go anyway." If you don't care enough to do an attunement, why bother going at all? Most of my guild is keyed for all the old raids, but has 0 interest in going still. Once BC raiding gets kind of stale, I think we'll probably go back for fun though...and to catch some content people like myself missed out on.
Rainwizard May 8th 2007 3:59PM
This brings up a question I've had since I started about a month ago.
Since I came in post-TBC, I don't get why these places of legend and lore are now obsolete! These locales, from what I've read, are mind-boggling experiences that I've been drooling to have since I stepped into the World of Warcraft!
So, I ask, why doesn't anyone want to do them anymore?!?!?!? It's heartbreaking really. Everyone talks about them with such nostalgia...as if they're gone for good...
amanda.rivera May 8th 2007 4:37PM
Rainwizard,
Let's see if we can help a bit with this. Most of the lack of interest in the older content stems from this need for constant progression with many players. A lot of people see the game as something to be beaten, despite WoW being an MMO. Therefore once there is new or more difficult content, the old content becomes obsolete in their mind. I have known several players that quit the game because they "beat" it. It's not fair for people just entering the game, I agree, nor for those of us that haven't had the chance to get into those 40 man raiding dungeons yet.
But take heart, like Smithra mentioned, many players will go back to the older content once they've whipped Illidan enough times to be bored of him. It will take a while, but I bet it will happen if you just hang in there.
Nails May 8th 2007 4:38PM
@7
i am in the same boat
i started playing in early February, and ive got a character at 55 (and a few low level alts), and im pretty sure i will not get to see anything cool that's 55+ except in Outlands
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Karl May 8th 2007 4:46PM
My buddy and I both went and got the UBRS key (Pally and Hunter Combo). About 5 minutes after getting the key, we started to see LFG messages for UBRS, with a NEED KEY attached. It was a group of 3 62-65's. We charged them for opening the door, and then joined the group. I - the Ret Pally - tanked the instance without blinking an eye, and we cleared every mob in there in record time. I wish I would have actually recorded the time, but am going to guess we cleared it in around 40-45 minutes with all mobs (remember, it is only 5 people and only two of us were 70...no actual tank (Ret is not a tank regardless what other Rets might think).
Lertes May 8th 2007 4:58PM
Be aware, this might happen on your server
http://www.wowdrama.org/2007/02/20/drama-contest-kids-crying-over-loot/
Lertes May 8th 2007 4:59PM
Blast! Wrong article....sorry...was the one with the kids...
Naimon May 8th 2007 5:02PM
I didn't get my Mara "Scepter of Celebras" until well after I hit 70, and I was willing to run a lowbie pug through the whole instance just to get it. It gives me some closure to know that I could bypass orange and purple if needed, even if it's at the cost of a bank slot.
I'm also quite proud of my Key to Searing Gorge.
Cremean May 8th 2007 5:06PM
Our guild goes back to Old Content every now and again. The most fun? Drunken Molten Core