It seems that I'm stuck with too many hanging tasks actually.

Harvek did not ask me for help for several ingame years. Just nothing happens anymore - so I will never be able to upgrade him.
Same with Gerrick: he simply denies to search for a buyer for I would guess now two ingame years or so. So he's at the end of development, too.
edit:
With Renkailon, I'm not sure. He gets lots of Arcane Items from me but that's all... closed circle, somehow?
Stuck with Skorar now, too. There's no place to ask for his relatives - I was hoping for Auguros Working Camp but no menu option of talking to anyone there, thus it's another dead end, it seems. /edit
The outpost can't develop because no salt mining specialist is able to enter it. They simply vanish when I hire them and escort them thereto.

Does someone here found how to overcome those dead points? Are this bugs or only misleading descriptions?

Spoilers are appreciated...

Hello,

Please send in a F1 report using the ingame tool from within your problematic saved game, so that we can take a look at it. Thanks!

1:Harvek How far are you with his Questline? Did you kill his enemys, his archenemy are you stuck on the later familymatters? You need to talk to him from time to time and if you progressed his revengelist and raised his Trust/Loyaliy enough you will get new Options to talk to him. He wan't talk to you from himself. If you're still stuck with killing his enemys keep in mind that some are quite hidden( like a Gladiator in the hidden Arena)

2.Renkailon After giving him a random number of arcane Items(tablets/texts) and at least one special Item you get a new Option while discussing his research and he should point you to a place of interest. unique or limited Specialitems are given back to you. I did not finish this Questline yet but i allready researched/plundered two ruins Ren pointed out to me.

2.Garrik If you wan't to sell the Dragonstones you can only search for a buyer at Torags-Shelter every few weeks and without your help his chances to find someone are low. If you're wellconnected with criminals or are famous enough you get the Option to help him. After i was famous enough it took me 4 more tries and 5 month to get the message that someone is interested opening the showdown :)

3.Skorar As described to you after the grave, his relative will look for someone to lift a undead curse, undead curses can be lifted by the Askulites, Saridarshaman, some mighty single NPC-Spellcasters/Specialists.

Thanks a lot, DF1871! That's very helpful indeed :) .

With Harvek, I did not assume enemies in an arena, in fact. Does he has to be member of the fighting crew? I did not took him with me as he is too weak in my opinion. And I usually have a problem with his loyaltiy, it's nearly impossible to even keep him congenial.

Renkailon gets items at the moment. He now has two special items and I don't know how many tablets I already gave him... okay, I'm going on with that.

Garrik does not even try to talk to anyone, actually, he always say that he was in touch not long ago... Seems that a reputation of IV with Loarders and III with Carpenters is not enough, and it's tedious work to extend that. But well... Sound like boring grinding for another some months.

Skornar is looking for the relative in question. Quest log says that this guy probably searched help for lifting curses. So I tried Deven, Tor'Zag's Shelter, Avernum and some tribes. As far as I understood the quest he should not have asked at a Dragonlands guild, so I did not intesively searched in the Mines or at the Crimson Gate.

Does someone know what preconditions the "salt mining expert" has to fullfill to check my Outpost? Or is there another hook I still miss?

So I appreciate the offer for checking a file but it seems that my stagnation is in fact not due to bugs but only impatience, and at some points not doing stuff enough that I rate boring (like reputation and arena fights, I did only those for GorGoros questline and otherwise ignore them as they only weaken my companions without any reward in exchange, as far as I can tell).

Harvek: No, during Arena or "Duels Honor/First Blood" He will say that he want this one dead..wich can be a problem dependent at the Situation :) After kills talk to him about his revenge, if you progressed his List he will tell you more and give some insight and/or Repbuffs with criminals but you need to keep his Loyalty at Friendly+ and for Harvek this is easy as long you're not a enemy of the Wraith because you can gift him boogweed(up to friendly) and moondust at a regular base. Boogweeg can be always bought at Deven from the Wraith and Moondust can be bought from Wraithdealers at several citys that appear as a Event during Cityexploration.
Enemys i remember 1 during a fight at the secret Arena, 2 during the lighting mage Quest, 1 during a random encounters while doing city exploration and for the others he just talked to me after entering a location the first time and he told he that one of his old enemies is here.

Garrik:The "i was in touch not long a ago" is the phrase if you allready searched the last xdays, can't remember if it was 30 or 60 days. If you did not search for 61 days+ it should be Bug, otherwise you're just unlucky and impatient ;)
This part of the Quest is somthing to "forgett", just trade and search if you stop at Torag for some reason.

Renaklion: He pointed out the first interesting place after 10-12 tablet and one special Item, same for the 2.place, i don't know if it's random or a fixed number but if you gave him much more then 10 and he still doesn't talk to you either his loyality is to low or you're hit by a bug.

Skonar: Ok^^...if you asked the Shamans allready...If you're a friend of the Watertribe they should have pointed you towards Saridar and the Shamancouncil.

Arena:If you did Goros Questline you should know allready everything about the Arena
Deven is a onetimeevent and give reown some rewards and you get a chance for some dialogs you can't reach otherwise.
Ash: Is only good to unlock the secret-Arena-line
Sun Rock: Is Usefull for the title+Reown and will be locked afterwards anyway
Torag's Beastfights: normal fights give money, Championtitle give you Rewon and you can accsess the Owner of the Arena, while the Reward is nice for some enemys groups(if you have a good Fighting Team) the Battles are random and at least two of your companions hate Beastfights...so i found it only worthwhile for the Title
Avernum:Winning three fights give a nice Reward in Money+1rare Item and every xwins in a row a Fights against Eliteenemys is unlocked that give more money, a valuable Treasure and the first Time you Reown and the Chapmiontitle. Avernum is always worth the fight in my opinion esp. if you take into mind that accsess to valuable treasures is limited otherwise.

Thank you very, very much oncemore :) !

According Skornar, it seems that I didn't ask all possible shamans. Now I can advance with him.

Renkailon also offered me more options after some additional tables, so we will set out as soon as I am done with a quite ambitioned sculptor.

And with Harvek - as I wrote, I didn't do many arena fights, just some to become used to the mechanics and then GorGoros quests. I'll see that I visit the arenas now :) . Winning will probably not too difficult with GorGoro and Finndurarth at level 9 and Nedir at level 8, as long as the enemies are not too evasive. If I could only find a way to increase Sornars power so that he could command both women... if someone tells them what do do they become really strong.
I only miss Gerrik on the same level to have someone for the better armed opponents.

So, what stays is the outpost and for Gerriks questline probably some more faction reputation.

Where can I check the blessing of which shamans I already have (and, vice versa, which are missing)?

Like all other Blessings/Buffs either under Comitatus>Crew>Enduring Effects, Vagrus>Status Effects, Comitatus>Companion>Status Effects.

If you'reds talking about the Spirit Blessings that is needed to enter Saridar it should be under Crew>Enduring Effects.

Take into accounts that the Spiritblessing is temporary, 14days if i remember right.

Edited
Being behind my poor crew with whips and curses I can make the way through all four camps and to Sadirar, so I have all 4 temporary blessings listed in the "Enduring Effects" panel now. But I can't go on... there's no option to talk to the shamans. Was I too impertinent by doing tons of successless attemps so now they are huffy and don't like me anymore? Ot is there an additional secret precondition hidden somewhere?

Feel free to use the ingame F1 reporting tool so that we can take a look at your problem.

If you have all 4 Blessings activ you should get a new option with the council servant that will unlock talking to the shaman council.


@Lareshill
Your spelling imply that you belong to the Vagrus-Team, if this is true it would be usefull to mark this in some way otherewise it gives the impression of spam if allways just anwser "Press F1 and report" esp. because Vagrus has quite a number of "clouded" Situation where the player is in the Dark if something is bugged or he's missing something...until now it was allways the case that i missed something or that i needed a (possible random) event before i could progress.