Disruptive Influences  

Finish to completion for each character one at a time. You cannot save the vial and missive to finish with all later as the task will fail if anything goes wrong with the task at any stage for the others in the group at any stage. Anyone holding the vial and missive will have to destroy them and start over.

All can have the task and not lose it as long as they wait until they are ready to do it from hailing Tithoun and Malaurin and heading to the Greyhawk regiment camp. Drop Malaurin from target. Malaurin will pop up in the extended target window at the start of combat with the Obliteration traitor ambush, engaging with Traulaand and sometimes at the end of the fight with Traulaand if any other Greyhawk regiment jump in after Traulaand goes down. Evacuate after this point will save the progress even if Malaurin goes after Traulaand is killed but make haste to Andylis for the turn in. Evac may not even be needed but it was frustrating that it went down different at the end for the 3rd group member and evac was done to get out of the area and leave Malaurin up. One party member did not make the evac and their pet finished Malaurin.

Edited, Feb 13th 2024 12:21pm by Severrian

If you go to start the quest and Traulaand is not in his tent because someone else bugged it, you have to reposition him. Start the quest and get all the way to the point where he spawns his two supporters. Of course, he is not there to respond to Malaurin, so you have to go find Traulaand. Aggro him and drag him back to the Greyhawk camp. Then you can kill him. This resets your quest, but also resets every mobs location so you can restart the quest clean.

Traulaand Augrith is no where near where he's listed, not sure if he was moved or if its a bug but he is on the west side of kith, you will need a tracker most likely b/c he's out in middle of no where. Sorry I forgot to get a loc. Update. completely broken traulaand is invulnerable in the wrong location. if you hail him you do get the update. but then Malaurin V'kon will walk up to where he is suppose to be in the next step and nothing happens. Traulaand never spawns.


Edited, Oct 16th 2016 2:28pm by cybal

+29 to Silla

The script of this quest is really very fragile not to say buggy. Took me some tries to finally get that one done.

Here some tips:
- Go ahead till "Speak with Malaurin V`Kon'". Instead of hailing him just target him, go to the west side of the lake, halfway of the lakes length and put your chars & merc there. Once ready 'hail' and he will walk to you. This way you avoid any animal adds.
- Once the thre ambushers spawn aggro all of them to make sure they don't hit Malaurin too much. When low on health he will wander around and you never know where he goes.
- Before looting the vial for "Search the assassins' corpses for any clues." take the break you need to get heath/mana back. Move your other chars/mercs outside the camp. I placed my peeps west side of the camp.
- When ready loot and Malaurin will start walking to Traulaand. He will aggro him. Dont try to save Malaurin, his death does not matter. If you do the rest, Malaurin will spawn again to talk you through the rest of the quest.
- Now here comes a nasty bug: Malaurin's attack on Traulaand does not only put Traulaand permanently on your agro list, it also messes up merc behavior. My tank merc kept coming to my aid, even though I was set as puller (this is a reproduceable bug). Having the merc attack in the camp will most likely not result in a success.
- I solved the problem with smokebombing the mobs (thats the rogue mez/mindwipe). Either use some similar croud control available to you or do not use a merc in this moment.
- Anyway, if the script keeps working fine, Traulaand is on your agro list but also permarooted and invunurable. Pull the two adds (the traitors) out of camp (wear the faction necklace to avoid adds) and kill them.
- Now Traulaand is attackable but he is still rooted and must be killed in camp. Got no adds by wearing the faction necklace.
- Another bug to avoid: Several times I had Traulaand run around invunurable trying to hunt me down. If this happes the quest is already lost. Use whatever skill you have to get out/drop agro/evac.

Best luck.

I TRIED to do this quest a couple of times before I realized when you get to the step where you need to kill Traulaand, he is not attackable until you kill his followers. He will however attack you, and take damage from your damage shield. His followers are mez'able but he is not (not a valid target).

If you wait to long the quest resets even though its not on a timer.

Anyone have the problem where Traulaand can hit you but you cant hit him? I was thinking that it was because I was stepping out of the tent for more room to fight, but on the 7th attempt, he ran outside of the tent. I can hit the traitors, but not Traulaand.

After speaking with Malaurin at the Silverwing regiment camp and he starts walking, the person with the task should not invis (it's ok for any others in the group to invis) -- it seems to mess up the script with the ambushers -- some or all of the ambusher's corpses will instantly disappear before they can be looted and the mission won't update and you fail. This happened twice to us when the taskholder invis'd even for a brief moment to get to the edge of the lake to avoid aggroing the animals around the camp.

In our case the taskholder was a necro, so after the hail on our 3rd attempt he ran ahead to the lake and FD to clear the animal aggro and that worked. Rangers seem to be able to just walk among the animals unbothered -- lucky them. Others probably will want to clear the animals between the camp and the top of the lake (it's a very short distance) and then do the hail to start Malaurin. Once you reach the lake nothing else wanders by to aggro and after the ambush event it won't be a problem to move the rest of the way to the Greyhawk camp uninvised.

Note that only 1 char can complete this mission at a time, because while there are 3 empty vials, there is only 1 missive on the final corpse to loot, and the event sets for whoever LAST hands in a vial.

If Malaurin dies, you lose the mission.
If you die, you lose the misson.
If Malaurin gets beat down too far, and wanders off, or gets stuck in a tree, nothing we could find to do would reset him back on the mission. Had to kill him and restart totally.

If you attempt to Vinelash the ambushers, you will be banished to the northern most end of the zone.
If someone else who has this mission runs up to the area while you are killing ambushers, a new set will spawn and kill Malaurin. Try to avoid that.

At first ambush point [-856 x -2011 x -20] three ambushers will spawn. Malaurin will attack one at a time, and can easily tank one, but two on him will kill him every time, best to root-push one off him if you only have one tank in your group, then kill all 3.

You cannot heal Malaurin, don't waste your time trying like I did ;o)

At the Greyhawk camp (the one at the south of the lake) it is best to pull the two ambushers out of the camp and kill down at the beach to avoid accidental AE aggroing the camp. Traulaand will wait, don't worry.
After that set of ambushers are dead, Traulaand will stay in his tent until you get him down to 50% (approx, need to confirm) at that point he will struggle to exit the tent, it is best if you allow that and pull him down to the beach as well; as it seemed that at 30% the rest of the camp assisted him and that was messy fast.

Seemed any interruption in the sequence of the mission prevented Malaurin from continuing on. Only way we were able to do it was (basically) flawlessly from start to finish, otherwise it would bug and we would have to do a complete restart.

Hope this helps.

Make sure only one person has this quest at a time if you are with a group. It will bug Malaruin and Traulaand. Just a FYI so you don't run into the problems we did.