Multiboxing Escort quests?

[lans83]

I just ran into this situation last night when I tried this quest while working on a collection quest in the area. The cave/mountains north of Lakeshire village in Redridge Mountains is where I had this problem. I was working on the Blackrock Axe collection quest with my team and figured I'd knock this escort quest out with my team once. Thing is, I selected the npc, hit my assist button, then the 'interact with target' with my slaves. I then hit accept with main by clicking it with my mouse, allowing Jamba to mirror the selection, so everyone took the quest. from there, no problems. cleared the path all the way back to town then got to the lost warrior's commander to turn in. I managed to complete the quest, but it was only on my main and not on my slaves for some reason. I checked their quest logs and all 3 of them had the quest, but it was not completed like my main. i then abandoned the quest on all of them, went back for more axes, 40 is alot to collect, so i figured i'd need to make another trip there anyway. went back in, go to the npc again and did the same thing as before, but switched to one of my slaves and hit the /accept quest macro i set on everyone. when i hit my hotkeys to use the PiP with Keyclone, it changes selected window/slave to master through Jamba, sets them as the focus, and promotes to party leader. I then ran the npc out, back to town, collecting more axes along the way, managed to finish that quest. Gratz: quest complete. Fail: only one slave completed it. Sooooo, i abandoned the quest on the ones that didn't complete the quest, turned in the axes, grabbed the next link in that that chain, and went after the orbs up there, and this hopeless soldier, again. this time i tried something different. i got to him, switched to one of my slaves and hit accept on him only, no others. i tried to share with the one slave that didn't complete it either time, buuuuut, apparently this escort quest is not shareable seeing as how he takes off as soon as you hit accept. pissed about this, knowing i'm gonna have to run this yet again. i get all the way to the endzone with him, and i notice 'Quest Complete' pop up on two of my slave's windows. o_O i check both of their quest logs and see that BOTH of them had the quest, and BOTH of them completed it this time. Now, i've done this quest i don't know how many times on old alts alone, but never done it like this and only once with a group of others in the past. I'm not sure if this quest is bugged, or i did something wrong, but if i did, then how do i take on this quest from now on with my other teams i'm running through this area? Do i hit accept on only one person in the group on all escort quests and it automatically gets shared with everyone in the party or what? i didn't report this to a GM cause i knew i'd have to make multiple trips up there anyway for quests. hey, it's xp, so i said screw it, my team ain't dyin easily. 8D holy priest on main with 3 BM hunters with bears and Aspect of the Viper up at all times. i hardly ever do escort quests cause i tend to solo all the time,so there's always been a slim chance i'd fail and they'd get killed, so i hardly bother with them. now that i'm running my own party, i'll take them on more. any advice for future instances where i might expect this situation? thanks in advance for any input.

[thinus]

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I can't help with that specific quest but in general an escort quest will pop up an accept/decline for all party members and I might be wrong about this as well but Jamba could be auto accepting those accept/decline prompts. So in your last scenario you didn't see the accept/decline box because it was auto accepted.

In the 1st instance you might have encountered a problem because you had the quest dialog open already and maybe the accept/decline prompt didn't come through to the clones. I didn't have a problem with this when I did the escort in RFD yesterday though. I popped the quest open on everyone via interact and Jamba is set to follow leader on quest accept and all my alts got the quest and completed it 1st time.

[KvdM]

Escort quests usually bug when you start them on all clients at the same time. Just start them on the leader only and the other clients will get invited through a "do you want to join quest x" popup and you shouldn't have this problem.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Yea, I ran into this exact problem last night in Dragonblight. Where you talk to the commander guy in the crypt to kill that lich guy at the hell gate after getting his phlayctry pod from the dragon. I used the /assist /interact with target and what it did was auto accept on one of the client boxes as its set to auto accept any quest, and my main. The rest LOOKED like they accepted and was in their log, it but when I went to do the turn in, only the main and one client had completed it. I abandoned it, went back and ONLY had my leader talk and accept and it auto accepted on the clients like it was supposed to.

Also when useing interact with target to loot quest drops that everyone can loot, like the bring back their head type quests. I have to hit interact with target several times to get them all to loot it, not just once, so keep an eye out you dont skip off to the turn in with one or two heads instead of 5.

[Maxion]

Note to horde players doing the escort quest in the misty area in borean, when you get close to the end, make sure all characters get out of the phased are before she runs to the turnin guy and gives completion credit.
The first time i did it, a couple of my characters were back in the phased area when quest credit was awarded and they did not get it complete since they were in a different phase.

[lans83]

i have the mirror master selection selected on all toons in jamba. when i hit the invite group button in it, i notice that no box pops up when i invite my slaves, but they auto accept and join me. i think the option in jamba cleared the box on them when i took this quest as my main, but also accepted the quest directly from the npc at the same time, causing an error. i've got a few more groups i'm going to run thru this area again, so i'll test this out on my next run thru. as far as looting quest items on all toons at once, i've run across this already. i rebound my keys to /assist focus on 'e' and 'interact with target' on 'tab' across my slaves, but not on my main. that way, i can use them to loot everything when i need them to and grab quest items first, then i'll use my mouse to loot on my main when they finish. makes using questhelper much easier if everyone's on the same quests. can't get carbonite quest to work with the new 3.1 patch, even tho curse said it was up to date and a reinstall didn't work either. will try again later this week to see if they fix it. as far as having to hit the tab key multiple times for everyone to loot everything, including quest items, i've noticed this and can deal with it. just don't add 'shift' to what ever key you bound 'interact with target' to unless you turn off auto loot. or else it'll be like holding down shift and right clicking on your main. you'll either loot everything with auto loot off, or open up the box/body and get nothing with it turned on.

[thinus]

i have the mirror master selection selected on all toons in jamba. when i hit the invite group button in it, i notice that no box pops up when i invite my slaves, but they auto accept and join me. i think the option in jamba cleared the box on them when i took this quest as my main, but also accepted the quest directly from the npc at the same time, causing an error. i've got a few more groups i'm going to run thru this area again, so i'll test this out on my next run thru. as far as looting quest items on all toons at once, i've run across this already. i rebound my keys to /assist focus on 'e' and 'interact with target' on 'tab' across my slaves, but not on my main. that way, i can use them to loot everything when i need them to and grab quest items first, then i'll use my mouse to loot on my main when they finish. makes using questhelper much easier if everyone's on the same quests. can't get carbonite quest to work with the new 3.1 patch, even tho curse said it was up to date and a reinstall didn't work either. will try again later this week to see if they fix it. as far as having to hit the tab key multiple times for everyone to loot everything, including quest items, i've noticed this and can deal with it. just don't add 'shift' to what ever key you bound 'interact with target' to unless you turn off auto loot. or else it'll be like holding down shift and right clicking on your main. you'll either loot everything with auto loot off, or open up the box/body and get nothing with it turned on.

Good point about not binding the interact key to a SHIFT modifier. Sounds like something I would've ended up doing lol.
Pro tip: keep your interact key and assist key close together.

When doing collection quests I just target with my main, assist and interact with all my characters. Usually the main ends up getting most of the drops first. You just need to watch for the "Object is busy" messages and hit the interact key multiple times. I did all the troll drop collection quests in STV this way. Troll ears, necklaces, bones, eyes, beads, testicles, the works. And I did it while there was a 57 Tauren DK 1-shotting the trolls as well (WTF?????). Overall it wasn't too painful, I wouldn't even have attempted it without the interact ability.

EDIT: Erm...apologies for getting a little side tracked from the escort quest topic lol

[falsfire3401]

I just had this same problem on the escort quest in the Amani Catacombs in Ghostlands. Being a new multiboxer and this being my first escort Q as a multiboxer, I handled it the way I handle all quests: I targeted the npc, did my assist key and interact with target key for the slave, then accepted the quest on the master. The quest got accepted and placed in the slave's log but after arriving at the destination, is only marked as complete on the master. So now I gotta do it again. I guess in the future, all escort quests you need to *NOT* interact with the target on the slave and let it (via jamba) auto-join the quest the master starts thru the 'do you want to begin this quest too?' dialogue...

[thinus]

I keep starting escorts/event quests with the interact and it keeps screwing up ;(
I did it with the turtle escort in Tanaris, 3/5 were able to turn it in.

[terraforma]

been running into this problem myself, namely those damn chicken escorts, however, I found out that if you first make sure every char talks and gets credit for the " find XO11 bla bla...", and start it with a slave, accept with my main, and it cleary states in the chatlog that all chars have the quest, then I just sit tight and wait for the failed notification...

After that, i remove the failed quest from the log on all chars ( I know you dont technically need to anymore), and then I start it with a slave, and that has worked for me now 4 out of 4 times...

Sucks to be forced to do some extra stuff to get it to work, but the tanaris escorts (quests) you just don´t want to do too many times