The dawnguard quest "prorphet" won't start (still broken)

[despacito]

i chose to become a vampire, and after completing bloodstone chalice the quest prophet simply won't start, i tried the "setstage" command and that doesn't work at all unless i skip the quest and start the only after this, but i don't want to skip the quest.
what can i do? what else might work? please help

[SailaNamai]

If you don't have the quest yet startquest is a better command to use then setstage.
Open up the console and type help prophet then press enter. Now using PG Up navigate through the output and look for the quest id (there might be two as in vampire/dawnguard version). Then type startquest questid and press enter.

While that might work if your problem always happens (reproduce with save from before) that might indicate serious problems with your save/mod setup.

[despacito]

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

If you don't have the quest yet startquest is a better command to use then setstage.
Open up the console and type help prophet then press enter. Now using PG Up navigate through the output and look for the quest id (there might be two as in vampire/dawnguard version). Then type startquest questid and press enter.

While that might work if your problem always happens (reproduce with save from before) that might indicate serious problems with your save/mod setup.

Yes there are two id's for different paths, dlc1vq03vampire is for the vampire path and the dawnguard path is the same with "hunter" instead of vampire.
I tried this and nothing happend, i typed SQO and the quest id, it says the quest is dormant, what does that mean?

[SailaNamai]

Dormant is the default state for quests you have not acquired. So that's not really helpful here.

If i remember right from the oldrim days one couldn't start a quest through startquest if one didn't have the prerequisites for it. Assuming that is also true for SSE it could mean that the previous quest is not correctly finished.
Anyway if you try to finish the previous quest through setstage on your current save as well as on a save before you actually turned it in, can you then start prophet?

If that doesn't help though.. i've no further ideas.

[fauxpas]

The safest option is to simply reload a save from before you turned in the last quest in the line and let the script trigger properly this time.

[despacito]

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

Dormant is the default state for quests you have not acquired. So that's not really helpful here.

If i remember right from the oldrim days one couldn't start a quest through startquest if one didn't have the prerequisites for it. Assuming that is also true for SSE it could mean that the previous quest is not correctly finished.
Anyway if you try to finish the previous quest through setstage on your current save as well as on a save before you actually turned it in, can you then start prophet?

If that doesn't help though.. i've no further ideas.

i've tried reloading a previous save before i became a vampire, and went through it all again until i got to this quest, And it still doesn't work. this suck

[despacito]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

The safest option is to simply reload a save from before you turned in the last quest in the line and let the script trigger properly this time.

i tried doing this and it didn't work
but thanks anyway

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by despacito:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

The safest option is to simply reload a save from before you turned in the last quest in the line and let the script trigger properly this time.

i tried doing this and it didn't work
but thanks anyway

Then your game has deeper issues. 🤷‍♀️

[SailaNamai]

You said setstage is not working. What does happen if you put "setstage DLC1VQ03Vampire 5" into the console?

[despacito]

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

You said setstage is not working. What does happen if you put "setstage DLC1VQ03Vampire 5" into the console?

nothing happens, no message pops up and the quest stays dormant, same thing with Startquest

[SailaNamai]

Originally posted by despacito:

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

You said setstage is not working. What does happen if you put "setstage DLC1VQ03Vampire 5" into the console?

nothing happens, no message pops up and the quest stays dormant, same thing with Startquest

Then yeah this:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Then your game has deeper issues. 🤷‍♀️

[despacito]

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

Originally posted by despacito:

nothing happens, no message pops up and the quest stays dormant, same thing with Startquest

Then yeah this:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Then your game has deeper issues. 🤷‍♀️

any ideas on how to start fixing this?

[SailaNamai]

Originally posted by despacito:

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

Then yeah this:

any ideas on how to start fixing this?

For your current save there is probably no hope, sorry. I mean you can continue by skipping the quest and see where it leads or just play another story line and hope the problem is contained within dawnguard.
For the future it's back to the drawing board, modding tutorials and lots of reading.

[despacito]

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

Originally posted by despacito:

any ideas on how to start fixing this?

For your current save there is probably no hope, sorry. I mean you can continue by skipping the quest and see where it leads or just play another story line and hope the problem is contained within dawnguard.
For the future it's back to the drawing board, modding tutorials and lots of reading.

The problem is contained within dawnguard, all other quests work normally, only this perticular one doesn't, but thanks anyway

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by despacito:

Originally posted by SailaNamai:

For your current save there is probably no hope, sorry. I mean you can continue by skipping the quest and see where it leads or just play another story line and hope the problem is contained within dawnguard.
For the future it's back to the drawing board, modding tutorials and lots of reading.

The problem is contained within dawnguard, all other quests work normally, only this perticular one doesn't, but thanks anyway

Have you used any other console commands?
Sometimes console commands can cause issues like this... not always but sometimes.

[despacito]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by despacito:

The problem is contained within dawnguard, all other quests work normally, only this perticular one doesn't, but thanks anyway

Have you used any other console commands?
Sometimes console commands can cause issues like this... not always but sometimes.

i tried "completequest" on the prophet quest and it worked but that doesn't help much, i also tried "resetquest" but nothing changed, are there anymore commands i could try?