Ifan not talking to Zaleskar

[bless]

I know what is supposed to happen since i did this before, I happened to restart my run because I felt I could do better and I did.

I got my collar of by doing the arena in fort joy however now every magister wants me dead, I had to kill magister Borris before even letting Ifan speak to him about his quest. I retrieved the note from his body so everything should be fine, however I am now on Hollow marshes bridge and Ifan does not want to speak to Zaleskar for his weapon, I tried giving the note to Ifan and speaking to him but nothing seems to trigger the quest. Any help?

[dupree0991]

I have the same problem.
I have the note, the quest log says Ifan shall go and talk to Zaleskar, but he just desn´t, so i reloaded a way older save and everything works fine, first Sebille talkes to him than Ifan and everythings fine. In both cases the quest log is saying the exact same thing but it just don´t work if Ifan didn´t talk to borris.

Although, it isn´t realy a major thing, it does heavily weight on my insentive to play further. I can either redo the last 5 houers or just give a crap on that crossbow, that i absolutly should get.
It´s just anoying and around for a while now. I hope they fix the bug and don´t just go Bethesda on it...

[bless]

Yeah I mean I ain't going back 15 hours just to re-do that bit but after you kill Alexander Ifan's mission resumes either way which is good.

[Aradhor]

This is a common bug, don't know why Larian didn't fix it already. You can't do anything, the quest will resume after Alexandar is dead anyway.

The only bad thing is that you miss a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good crossbow (like, REALLY good). So, your choice.

[vampyre111]

I had the same problem but found a costly fix. I had one of my guys steal the cross bow thats in the wagon. He is fried almost instantly. Survivors scamper away. We come back, rez the dead and Zaleskar will talk but he wants a gift to get his attitude readjusteded mine cost 45 gold.

At the end I have a small cross bow once its restrung and the one Ifan was supposed to get.

This my first play through and I've not seen any videos about any of this. I tried the arena. got toasted. To get to Zaleskar, I did a long envolved sneak twlwport sneak lock pick the castle door and then fast travel via the way point. My guys are only lvl 3 and dont work too well together.

[volx757]

Originally posted by Aradhor:

This is a common bug, don't know why Larian didn't fix it already. You can't do anything, the quest will resume after Alexandar is dead anyway.

The only bad thing is that you miss a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good crossbow (like, REALLY good). So, your choice.

It's not a bug, it's just an unfortunate consequence of triggerng magister hostility before Ifan talks to Borris.

It's quite logical: Ifan didn't talk to Borris so he doesn't know that he needs to ask Zaleskar for the weapon. Borris won't talk to Ifan once he's committed a 'crime' (like leaving the fort or removing your collar).

[Aradhor]

Originally posted by volx757:

Originally posted by Aradhor:

This is a common bug, don't know why Larian didn't fix it already. You can't do anything, the quest will resume after Alexandar is dead anyway.

The only bad thing is that you miss a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good crossbow (like, REALLY good). So, your choice.

It's not a bug, it's just an unfortunate consequence of triggerng magister hostility before Ifan talks to Borris.

It's quite logical: Ifan didn't talk to Borris so he doesn't know that he needs to ask Zaleskar for the weapon. Borris won't talk to Ifan once he's committed a 'crime' (like leaving the fort or removing your collar).

No, it's definitely a bug. You can find a note on borris corpse, saying that you need to go talk to Zaleskar. I did that once and Zaleskar wouldn't talk to me.

[Björn]

Had the same issue. Killed Boris before Ifan joined and the journal states that Ifan should talk to Zaleskar. But talking to Zaleskar was not interrupted by Ifan. The problem was solved (at least for me in the year 2021) by just reading the note from Boris again (with Ifan in the party). After that the journal was updated again and then Ifan interrupted the conversation (and got his crossbow as well).

[Levianne]

Since no one specified, I really have to ask: did you actually READ the note? Or just loot it from Borris body? And did the quest log note that? Did it update? Because it sounds, like it didn't. I triggered Magister hostility way before ... I fought Dallis and Alexandar at the gate and Borris got dragged into the fight, so we had to slay him as well. Then I looted his note and read it, the quest updated like it should. You don't need to have the note in your inventory at all, you can read it still on Borris corpse and leave it there, only the information in the note is important, not the note itself.

[Tr4nsist0r]

Was wondering too why Ifans quest wont trigger while talking to zaleskar (Ive always killed Borris before). The solution is always to actually OPEN/READ the note itself in your inventory and it will work.
Cheers

[The.Spaz.]

Did you actually read it? Like the above person mentioned, generally with notes and letters you have to open/read them atleast once to update your journal.

[Tr4nsist0r]

@the spaz, yeah, open the note from the inventory again manually - if that still does not work, reload, if still not, proceed, arrows will be still OP even without that crossbow