Nefarius, bugged?

[Acleacius]

Hey has anyone gotten Nefarius and his Tomb quest to work correctly, in version 1.12?

If I do everything as intended he bugs out and stays "Waiting" forever giving me meesages everytime I teleport, with no way activating an end dialogue or to talk to him by choice with "Go Back Now".

I can clear the path and make the Tomb safe, then tell him and he runs to the entrance and stops, so I just had leave it and give myself the Ice Explosion.

[Punter X]

have you tried the workaround?:

"- go to the cave by yourself.
- clean the way (jackals + gargoyle)
- enter the cave & kill the 5 minecrawlers (you get exp for cleaning the cave)

- talk to nefarius, tell him "the cave is clear" - not the other option. at this point he starts walking towards the cave, WITHOUT JOINING YOU.
- WATCH OUT: dont walk too close to him - stay far behind.
- when he enters the cave, you get more exp for taking him there, stay behind.
- wait for him to reach te bottom of the cave, dont enter. he starts reading the tablets like every good watermage .....
- keep on the very right of the final room of the cave, while he's on the left. reach the very bottom: this is THE ONLY PLACE where you can trigger the dialogue to learn the spell. as soon as you approach him, he'll trigger the dialogue "a cave .... full of monsters ..." which he would have triggered outside the cave otherwise.
- end the dialogue & he walks outside the cave & apparently stays there. there's no more possibility to let him join you, so the problems for getting rid of him are avoided. you may still kill him, but without funny evocation & aoe spells - he dies like a proper watermage, by the sword (or you can let him live).

if you walk too close to him he triggers "a cave ...." at the entrance, where you cannot trigger the "learn spell" dialogue. also, you'll never let him into the cave again, once the dialogue is triggered & finished. "

[Acleacius]

Wow, thanks for that detailed info. :)

I did try what you said, but have never heard he was bugged till now.
Where I went wrong in the fix you posted was not staying back far enough.
I sure hope you have a chance to add this to the Wiki as I didn't see it, but maybe I just didn't look in the right place.

Btw, Welcome to the board. :)