Ironhand gnomes cave blocked

[MooMooZooPal]

I read that if you don’t save the gnomes, the quest will be blocked. I saved the gnomes, and in act 3 the cave is covered with boulders. I know they show up when you get taken by the steel watch at south span, but at the time I didn’t and decided to sneak my way onto the bridge. Does this mean the quest will be blocked for me as well because I didn’t enable that cutscene?

[Ironwu]

The Gnome side of it is now no longer available. I did the sneak in as well, and the Gnomes were no longer in play for me.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Really?

I was never accosted by the watchers -- just used my monk's mobility to get around and then warped everybody else in via the fast-travel point on the other side, so I never triggered the 'flashbang the Watchers' scene... but that didn't stop me later from finding their cave and raiding it so I could grab their runepowder.

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Really?

I was never accosted by the watchers -- just used my monk's mobility to get around and then warped everybody else in via the fast-travel point on the other side, so I never triggered the 'flashbang the Watchers' scene... but that didn't stop me later from finding their cave and raiding it so I could grab their runepowder.

Who knows why you were able to do it. Or when. Perhaps you found a sequence through the game that left them active. Without knowing the specific details of that sequence, it does not help anyone else to replicate it.

Bottom line is that both the OP and I sneaked in and neither of us had access to the cave when we got to it. Will look into it when I hit that point in this run through. If I don't elect to let the Gnomes do their thing. :)