Black tar prophecies quest

[saito2288]

Can someone please help me with what to do after drest and you kill Ionia. He is stuck in a loop of saying he will help you cleanse the shrine. On the quest log it still says talk to hob or visit the "tomb of a good druid" in the north. I had already exhausted hobs dialog before this quest now he just says nothing and I have no idea what the tomb of a good druid is.

[Tetchi]

I am having the same issue. I tried re-loading to a save before this quest started but it still did the same thing.

[saito2288]

Sad I haven't seen any answers and no one replied :/ it's the last thing I need to complete :(

[AGAGAGAG]

im having issues also. right after we kill ionia drest says he needs some time then disappears. if i go back to his cave spot he just sits there with the begining dialog of "who are you" what am i missing

[Blakjak]

I had this same problem. And it was at this moment my entire game messed up. Saves no longer saved (saves are all white icons with 0 progress), the entire outdoor zone was reset which caused there to be no POIs on the map and the city gate was shut. Something got corrupted.

[veryinky]

Same problem. Quest ends in a loop.

[saito2288]

Wow that really sucks it messed your entire game up @Blakjak :/. Definitely something wrong with this quest

[blazingtiger21]

I am having the same issue. I killed Ionia and it didn't update the quest. I reloaded and killed Drest and same thing, nothing changes.

[Blakjak]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

I'm wondering if sacrificing the druid will close this one out

I attempted that on a reload, but all that changed is Ionia walks away unsure of herself.

[SwiftZero]

Submitted a bug report via the game for this as well. Seems as though this has been a known issue for over 2 months? Seems like a critical issue too and they havent patched it? Yikes..

[GamingARC]

The tomb of the druid is near the Smugglers bay where the fast travel sign is! A big circle is there in the map. Just go there and it will proceed.
Hope it helped!

[spiritwalkerwoman]

I killed Drest and the shrine is still corrupted. I hope they are able to patch this soon. I thought for sure it would be one of the things that would have been fixed with the June update, but I guess it will just stay open until they get around to fixing it.

[snarkyboy]

Similar issue, I did the whole quest, refused to sacrifice Drest, killed the dryad, now he's stuck in a loop at the circle offering to help cleanse the site.

[Happydevil89]

At it's current state in easy access everyone is experiencing the same issue regardless of what decision you make. So the best thing to do right now is use the in-game bug reporting tool to help the devs fix the issue. For now that's all we can do

[kome360]

Question: Do you get special artifact rewards for siding with Ionia? Because I get the horrible feeling that I'm locked out of finding a way to get both sides to back off.