Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

At around 12:00 server, I was in a 5 man group for this quest. It was going fine until the second ambush of elites occurred at the entrance to Blackrock Mountain (Burning Steppes side). Grark Lorkrub ended up just sitting there as we killed the mobs. I think one of the elite dragonkin mobs despawned for some reason, and two of the Blackrock Ambushers did not engage us until we attacked them. However, the second dragonkin mob did attack us as he was supposed to.

After we cleared the pack, Grark Lorkrub kept standing there, doing absolutely nothing. We tried:

1) Dragging a mob on top of him.
2) Abandoning the quest to see if he'd offer it again.
3) Use our Thorium Shackles on him.
4) Going back to his spawn point.
5) Opened a ticket and waited for a bit until people gave up and went to bed.

This is where the bug gets worse. At his spawn point in the fortress, he did not come back long after his 15-minute respawn is up. Unless a GM already removed him from Blackrock Mountain, then he's probably still there as I type this.

This is a very frustrating bug, as it cost me and 3 other people a quest that it's nearly impossible to find a group for, has a ton of elites, and has a good reward.

The ticket was never answered, even via in-game mail. Can something be done? We only couldn't complete the quest because it literally stopped working halfway through, and because the mob bugged out and didn't die, the respawn wouldn't trigger.

Tried it again, and this time he bugged out on the first pull. Can the people screwed over by this bug just receive completion credit for this or something?

Bump.

don't expect any help from the GM's, they'll just tell you to fuck off and use the bug tracker

Player has been contacted ingame, he had already successful finished the escort by himself.

Igen

Igen wrote:Player has been contacted ingame, he had already successful finished the escort by himself.

Igen

Thanks for contacting me!

For those experiencing the issue, you must wait a bit before fighting the ambush spawn mobs for this quest. If you engage them immediately, before their script has a chance to make them attack (they are mostly non-hostile mobs), the quest will bug out completely. It took about four tries before I figured this out and relayed the information to my group, so we could play around it.

It's great that he's been successful but what about everyone else that tries and fails? Getting to the bridge, that middle mob constantly bugging, let the script play out and let Grark aggro = bugs, we aggro = bugs, attack middle drake first = bugs, left drake = bugs, you get my drift. It's annoying to say the least.

Hi

Same problem here. We tried to escort him and then the third dragon despawned.
Bug-Reporting was not possible, because there is only an advice to look to the board.