Glitch in Iron Mines of Muladune?

Was doing this quest last night with guildies... mainly to infuse our armor but a couple of them including my warrior I was using had not completed the mission before. So we decided to finish it even though most of us were equipted with running skills (us warriors anyway) So we battled on, got to Markis(sp) and... he was not there... Now one of the guildies swore he killed Mark which was impressive seeing as how I always found him tough to kill before. But we didn't see any bodies... Now regardless of if Markis was killed or not... the issue we had was with the Jades... only two came to life. We stood around the others, ran around, cleared the map a bit more, ran back... STILL they never came to life...

Anyone else experience this glitch? It pissed me off lol we could have completed the mission and got Thunderhead... but Noooo... now we gotta do it over... In the case we didn't get markis, does he go off and hide somewhere? If so... where?

It is a common glitch. Sometimes markis gets stuck on another part of the map when you run to the infusion point. It is one of the more annoying glitches in the game. You get to his hideout, he isn't there, you kill everything and wander around the map for any extra hour or two trying to find him, and sometimes you do and sometimes you don't.

We didn't

If you know the bonus, you need to go back along the bonus route...he will be there. After killing him, come back and kill the remaining jades. It is a glitch nonetheless.

This is indeed a PITA.

I've never tried the bonus before... I always run the first half

The bonus is kinda hard, but then I used to think glint was hard. At the start of the game run past the Summit, and when you reach the frozen stream bed go left(instead of the right path to infusion). You simply follow this path around till the Scout starts calling for help. When you talk to her a bunch of Mursaat will spawn, Jades and at least 2 mursaat bosses, and you have to prevent one of the bosses from escaping.

My necro was in an infusion run group, and after infusion, many left except a monk and a warrior because they needed the mission. So we thought it wasn't going to be a problem, since it was only Markis. We went on to where Markis was supposed to be, but he wasn't there. Cleared that out, then waited a while hoping Markis would get "un-stuck" somewhere. That didn't happen, so we slowly pushed our way down the mountain to try to find him. Eventually, we got to the bonus area, and lucky enough Markis was there, stuck with some odd Mursaat. We start attacking him but eventually some of us die, and Markis starts running back to the end.

Bah... i came across that bug a few min ago. Made us waste like 1/2 hr looking for him. Only plus point was that some of us capped devastating hammer.