My Kingdom For A Wand bug?

[Kaptain Komodo]

So I recently got Claptrap's mission "My Kingdom for a Wand"

Everything was going just peachy until I got to the part where I'm supposed to "Shoot an Orc in the face" I shove the wand up some mysterious hole on the orc, fire my weapon into his head in order to finish him with a critical, and upon killing him with a critical, are told again by Claptrap to kill the orc with a critical because I did not the first time. I've actually been standing in front of this stupid hut randomly plugging away at the orcs in frusteration and managed to get a few blues.

Obviously this is a bug, but is there a way around it to still complete the mission?

[Kaptain Komodo]

*UPDATE*

Actually, it worked after about a hundred Orcs. I just got the wand back a few seconds before writing this. Seems kinda excessive though, hopefully we'll get a fix for it.

[Veroku Chan]

That is quite odd, I didn't run into this the few times I've gone through so far. I'm curious though, were you using any sort of elemental weapon where as the critical damage didn't actually end up as the killing blow, but instead a tick of the damage over time from shock, corrosion, fire?

[Strangelove]

He's one shot down, so i don't think that he will take damage over time. Tried 2 or 3 times to snipe him and didn't work. Then i tried 2 or 3 times with deception mode, that I see his critical point and it didn't work. Then I did put the wall and directly shot him in the face and it worked. Worked with a sniper, which has explosive damage and I only was one step away from that orc.
Got it on video
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156040760
Maybe that helps doing this quest again someday
Could be that a long shot didn't work because of the explosive damage, don't know

[Tha Tyger]

Just got the same problem. I play as a siren, used a non-elemental sniper. Seems that the poison cloud might be the issue for me... did it 10 times or so and got it.

[Veroku Chan]

An explosive sniper? I had thought they did away with those. What sniper rifle are you using?

[Diet Dr. Beta]

Just never do this quest again. Its nice the first time around, but Claptrap broke my gun's ability to make noise after I finished that quest line. Get the beard quest and stop. Free Grog Nozzle.

[Diet Dr. Beta]

Originally posted by Veroku Chan:

An explosive sniper? I had thought they did away with those. What sniper rifle are you using?

And the sniper rifle is the Cobra. The only explosive sniper in the game. Its a rare drop from the Burners of the Torgue DLC.

[Strangelove]

yes it's the cobra from torgue dlc

[Kaptain Komodo]

Originally posted by Veroku Chan:

were you using any sort of elemental weapon where as the critical damage didn't actually end up as the killing blow, but instead a tick of the damage over time from shock, corrosion, fire?

Just a Sniper rifle. Nothing special about it.

That was what I WAS using for a majority of the time, then around the last twenty orcs or so, I switched to a shotgun because I was just bored, and that is ultimately what completed the mission for me.

[mojo-jo-jo]

On my merco I end up havening to punch him in the face, I think the extra slag dmg it not tagging as critical

[AslanCat]

I'm having the same problem. I'm a level 61 Siren. I've shot that orc in the face with every weapon I have. Several times I've even seen the 'critical hit' come up when I've done it. I've gone through this about 40 times now and Clap Trap just keeps saying I need a critical hit.

[AslanCat]

Originally posted by Stalker, Texas Stranger:

Originally posted by Veroku Chan:

were you using any sort of elemental weapon where as the critical damage didn't actually end up as the killing blow, but instead a tick of the damage over time from shock, corrosion, fire?

Just a Sniper rifle. Nothing special about it.

That was what I WAS using for a majority of the time, then around the last twenty orcs or so, I switched to a shotgun because I was just bored, and that is ultimately what completed the mission for me.

Did your shotgun have an elemental effect or not? I've used a few shotguns on him, but not sure if they had an elemental effect or not.

[Kaptain Komodo]

Originally posted by AslanCat:

Did your shotgun have an elemental effect or not? I've used a few shotguns on him, but not sure if they had an elemental effect or not.

It was a shotgun with an electrical element to it, strangely enough.

[Markava]

I had a similar problem, except I couldn't do the shock objective because it won't let me stick the wand into the spiders.

[Uncle Greg]

As far as the spider problem goes, you can't stick the wand into any spider. You need to fight through them to get to a "Magic Spider," which has green health until you stick it and a very distinct appearance.

As far as the critical hit issue goes, I had the same problem with a high level Siren who generates corrosive clouds. I happened to have a "trash" white rarity Submachine Gun, so I tried aiming it just over the orcs head. After three or four tries, this one worked.