I think the 2nd skill quest for Mesmers on the beginner island is bugged.
The quest is called Lo Sha's Stolen Gift.
You are asked to find a "Crimson Skull bandit camp" and retrieve an ornate box.
Three big problems:
#1. The map does not mark the quest, so you have no idea where the camp is.
#2. I spent the last 3 hours searching every centimeter of Kinya Province, and the said bandit camp apparently does not exist.
#3. I spent the last 3 hours killing every single living thing in Kinya Province (starting with all the Crimson Skulls obviously), and the "ornate box" does not exist.
The only thing I can think of is that the quest is bugged, and that the ornate box SHOULD have been located at and/or dropped by the cluster of Crimson Skull in what appears to be a camp (with tents and a fire pit) just to the northeast of the guy who gives the quest. There is a lvl 14 mesmer boss and a grouping of 3 or 4 other Crimson Skulls in the camp, but none of them drop an "ornate box", nor is there an ornate" box anywhere in the camp.
This is the only area in Kinya Province that could even remotely be considered a "Crimson Skull bandit camp", and there is simply nothing there.
I thought that that definitely had to be the place and maybe the ornate box just failed to drop as it should have, so I rezoned, went back to the camp, and cleared it again. Nothing.
The third freaking quest in the game.
This is the third freaking quest in the game, a PRIMARY quest, and no hope for advancement because there is no goddamn ornate box! I can't even get a secondary profession until this quest is completed!
Anyone else start a Canthan Mesmer and run into this problem???
