I'm glad that it was explained in detail. However, I do find it disappointing to know that it's not working some people are still having trouble. It kind makes me wonder if it work on my Evoker since I did some quests. I just didn't do the one about the IOU to Valdrakken though.
---In the last 2 days I ran 12 alts out to DF and did the dragon shards of knowledge quest line on all of them just for the free gear and dragon shard drops "eventually" down the road. ---When I encountered Haephesta, I think the skip only showed up on the characters that had only purchased level 1 in whatever profession they had and DID NOT pick up any profession quests in the original waking shores starting area. The characters that did pick up the profession quests available could not see the skip when flying up to Haephesta. Just a shot in the dark but this was what I experienced. - Sincerely Just another altoholic
Not a single one of my alts can access this skip. I tried ones with level 1 in professions, 25 in both, and 50 in both. None of them have done any of the quests in the line and are being offered artisans courier.To the above post, none of my alts have even been in the waking shores yet. Apart from flying to the shrine.
to Maizou:Yah, mine were fresh off the boat after completing the arrive in DF quest. I flew straight to the starting prof area, not picking up any campaign or other quests. Paid to learn the profs at the specific trainers and flew straight to the ruby life pools. That's when the skip showed. When I picked up any quest before seeing Haephesta, that's when the skip quest seemed to disappear. Not that I was gonna skip but I did notice the big red text being missing and just offering Artisan's Courier quest.
Ported to Valdrakken, flew straight to Haephesta on two toons and nothing! (Did not complete any other quests before going to her)
Well, at least this will be useful for FUTURE alts...
If this skip does not immediately reward the 4 knowledge shards you would get by doing the original quest line, I wouldn't recommend using it. Instead you should do the Into the Azure then backtrack skip to get those free shards while doing the unlock chain. That time invested is easily worth the 4 shards you will receive for free doing the quest chain.
Do the skip give you the same 4 draconic shards? The quests are super easy to do and you get those 4 shards. If the skip doesn't give you that, then you'll probably won't want to skip it, specially because the drop rate on those is super low, I have barely even gotten one in like 10 characters.
This skip doesn't exist for me. New character to DF, have not done any quests except the 2 to get to adventure mode. No option.
In my opinion this is just another mean spirited evil joke by blizzard devs to mess with people....this could work, properly, if they really wanted it to, but they would rather just goof around and pretend and then sit back grinding out the jokes as they watch the frustration they sowed.... its such a mean thing to say its available and then be completely and relevantly unusable.... they must think we are all chumps.