Baron von Olrec wrote:
End result, I goofed it up. If you read the words of the quest from Athele, it only states to kill them....speaks nothing of an order. To me, that is a BUG. Either put some clue in the conversation with Athele, or give the loot once all are dead and the Druids are safe.
Huh? That's not necessarily a bug just because the event description is vague. All epic descriptions are vague (or at least they used to be). The whole point was to figure out what you were supposed to do. There's a reason there are sites dedicated to nothing but run throughs of quests. And even those are notoriously sketchy on details.
None of the NPCs in any of the epic quests tell you *how* to defeat opponents or events. They just tell you to do them. Every single post on the subject in the quest description says to kill the corruptor first. You killed him last, and it didn't work. How is that a bug? That's just the way the event works.
I tend to agree with you about the GMs. I haven't noticed any reduction of capability. In your case, they gave you the item you needed back (not like it's that hard to repeat that section of the quest anyway, but still). No harm, no foul I say. Just do the quest again and make sure to kill the Corruptor first and you'll be fine...