Tower quest bugged (Chapter 2)

[Tamron]

Hi.
As you might know, kalkstein gives you a quest to enter the mages tower when you first visit vizima. Well i was about to complete it, but one of the sephirot bugged out. I finished the cave in the swamp, got the sephirot and that was that. When i reopened the game tomorrow to put the crystals in place it was missing. I went back to the cave and the sarcophagus was empty.
Not only that, but i but the golem questline is similarly bugged out of its ass. Now this one might be my fault and i might have missed something, but what i did was learn the golems weakness, make the lightning rod from the order armorer, visit the druids, give them the money and thats where i am at now. I dont have the lightning rod in my inventory yet the druid wants me to place it in the golems hand.
One more thing, i talked to raymond and he gave me the last sephirot, which is supposed to be the destiny one. Well- he gave me the one i got from the cave, even though the annotations said i got the destiny crystal. So theres that. Is there a cheat code i can use to get the rod/ the crystal back?

[Rudi-v]

As far as I know, none of the cheat codes/abilities that used to be available don't work anymore. You're sure you don't have the rod in your inventory ? I thought I didn't have mine, either, but it turned out that it was in the first slot in the inventory section where the sephirots are. Worst case scenario, you can always get another one made. I think it looks like a tuning fork.

[Tamron]

Im sure
The dialogue optioın to make another one doesnt come up

[Rudi-v]

Originally posted by Tamron:

Im sure
The dialogue optioın to make another one doesnt come up

There's a mod called the 'Genie' mod that allows the spawning of some items, but I'm not sure if the lightning rod is included in the available items. Do you have your 'steam cloud saves sync' feature enabled, by chance ? I ask because it seems like your original problem was because of some buggy stuff happening. I used to have weird things happen also, and it turned out to be some corrupt cloud saves. Apparently those saves can get corrupted fairly easily, and they ALWAYS load, regardless if they are good, or not, and the only way to resolve those issues is to disable that feature, and let the game use the actual saves from your Witcher saves folder. Once I disabled that feature, all of the weird, buggy stuff disappeared, and my game ran almost flawlessly. Might be worth trying, if you haven't already tried that.

[gatto_nero]

I finished this few days ago. Those items like rod are in your "story items" (translated) on the top over inventory.