Priest Quest Progression Blocked and Duplicate Final Rites Spell

[Steve Killbane]

I had a progression blocking bug when doing the quest to become a priest. I submitted this as a bug report, but wanted to post it here so more people would be aware of this and not make the same mistake. If anybody happens to know of a way to fix this, please let me know. Anyways, here's the bug report I wrote:

I was doing the quest for Bishop Grove to become a priest. I had just finished the second task he gives you to purify the little graveyard by the church. I was in a conversation with him when I got up from my computer and went to go talk to someone in real life. By the time I came back, I saw the time of day in the game was different. I forgot time is always passing in the game. I didn't want to have wasted a bunch of time just standing there in front of the priest, so I figured I'd just reload my save from before I talked to him and stood there for a while. After I did that, I noticed the priest quest was gone from my journal. I went to speak to him, and he gave me the dialogue about becoming a priest.

I thought this was odd since I thought I saved after I purified the graveyard, but I figured it was no big deal and I'd just do his first two tasks again. He gave me the Final Rites spell again, but when I went to equip it, I saw I still had the Final Rites spell from when he gave it to me before, and I even noticed I still had the Arcane Bolt spell equipped, too. I checked my inventory, and I had the Divine Favor I got from purifying the graveyard. However, he still did give me a new copy of Final Rites, so I had it listed in my spell book twice.

I didn't love having a duplicate spell, so I reloaded my save file and that didn't fix the issue since the same thing happened again when I went to speak with the Bishop. I quit the game and restarted, and once again, the same issue occurred. It got much worse than that, though. I accepted that I would just have a duplicate spell and went to go bless the grave to complete his first task. Unfortunately, when I used Final Rites at the grave, nothing happened. I realized that even though it said I accepted the quest when I spoke to the Bishop, it still wasn't in my journal. When I went back to speak with the Bishop, he had the same starting dialogue where he asks if I want to become a priest.

No matter how many times I told the Bishop that I wanted to become a priest and the game said I accepted the quest, his dialogue didn't change and the quest never actually showed up in my journal. Furthermore, despite already having Final Rites since he'd taught it to me, the only dialogue option was the one where my character says he doesn't know how to perform the ritual. That meant every time I went through the dialogue with the Bishop, he gave me a new copy of Final Rites, so I had a bunch of copies of that spell in my spell book. However, from my testing, reloading the save gets rid of the duplicates of Final Rites. The bigger issue than the duplication is the fact that this bug has now locked me out of doing the priest quests.

When I first caused this bug to happen by reloading my game during the conversation with the Bishop, it was specifically at the part of the dialogue where he was explaining that holy sites which haven't been purified in a long time will have necromantic resistance when you try to purify them.

I have attached a screenshot of me speaking to the Bishop and getting his dialogue where he asks me if I want to become a priest at the same time that the "quest added" notification and the Final Rites "skill learned" notification are still on the screen from when I spoke to the Bishop right before I took the screenshot and accepted the quest to perform Final Rites at the grave. I included this screenshot to show how his dialogue resets even after I speak to him, learn Final Rites, and am supposed to have activated the quest. I took two more screenshots of my spell book filled with four pages of duplicated Final Rites, but since I can only include one screenshot here, I chose that one instead since the bigger issue than the duplication is the progression blocking.

Anyways, I love the game and have been enjoying it immensely, but I don't want to start a new character as I've already done a lot on this one, so I'm hoping you can fix this bug soon. Thanks for all your hard work!

[blop]

i also got duplicate skills(arcane bolt aswell) but have yet to run into a progression stop, thinking of making 2nd file to save the skill points (2 is a lot it seems)

[Steve Killbane]

Originally posted by blop:

i also got duplicate skills(arcane bolt aswell) but have yet to run into a progression stop, thinking of making 2nd file to save the skill points (2 is a lot it seems)

Yeah, it's definitely better to get the spells for free if you can.

[Air Bear]

So I did this yesterday and also had some issues. I got the duplicate copies of that spell and then the next one where he says you might get necromantic resistance he gives you a magic missile type spell. This was also a duplicate for me. As you said, the duplicates get cleaned out of the spell book on a reload.

My issue was the next quest in the chain where he tells you to go clean an old grave in the nearby woods (you have to go to the world map to transition to the woods in a different zone via the world map). I got to that grave and it didnt have the necromantic corruption at all. I ended up exploring the zone further, got ambushed by some bandits, and dying. So I reloaded a save in that wooded zone and then the necromantic corruption showed up.

TL;DR: Try reloading the area to get the necromantic corruption to show up. Dont worry about the duplicate spells as reloading also clears those out of the spell book.

[Tachyon]

After trying to find the corruption at the gravesite for quite some time on various characters I found it at 23:16 on Dymdag, for whatever that's worth. Maybe it only appears on a specific day and/or at a specific time, I don't know. Anyway, it's doable. 🙂 I'm now a Priest of Arosa and can accept jobs from the noticeboard at Elderglen Church. Sounds like fun.