SI:7 Report: Lost in the Woods

As of this date, there is a bug where Rell dies way too fast. However, here is a workaround:

1. After you talk to Kearnen, run away west (toward the river) far enough to where the hozen will not aggro you (you may have just one aggro you, if so, kill it).
2. Wait about 30-45 seconds for all the hozen to spawn.
3. Slowly walk in to edge of the quest area's blue circle on your minimap, barely enough to not aggro them.
Note: The hozen's position is random. Sometimes you may have to kill to reach the edge of the blue circle. As long as you don't aggro two at at a time or aggro the boss you should be good.
4. Wait for about 5 minutes, the hozen will automatically die and you will get credit.

As of 7/25/2024 (patch 11.0), specifically Remix: Mists of Pandaria in my case, it appears that there is an issue with how much damage the Hozen do. Sometimes it seems normal, but sometimes it is so significant that it KO's you from 70%. Either this is a bug, or their critical hit rates are astronomical. I have tried at least ten times and was knocked out of the "report" every time. The last time, I was hit for 67% or more (I was at 67%) and KO'd, and I have been at 80% and knocked down to 2% in one hit.

Another reason I think this is unintentional is that a couple times I was hit for severe damage, and then healed up most of that damage (from 75% to 3%, then back up to 65% the last time I noted it).

As an aside, I really wish we could skip the delay from the dialogue in the beginning.

This is my first time trying this quest, but I am completely unable to do it. As I understand things, accepting the quest should put me in Rell's body with his skills available, and transfer me to the quest location. However, no matter what I do, I've never gotten put into the quest "vehicle" body. I've read that pets can cause problems, so I dismissed mine. I read that UI errors can cause it to mess up, so I disabled my entire setup of addons and just tried with the default WoW UI. I have been completely unable to use Rell's abilities, or even see his sprite instead of that of my character. I tried running off to the right like some dwarf is supposed to at some point, and I do see a broken-down airship, but there's no Amber anywhere around it. On top of the broken airship stands General Rik-Rik, who doesn't respond to me in any way.

I AM getting ported to where the quest is supposed to start...but it never does. I've abandoned and retaken it close to fifteen times trying different combinations of pet/no pet and addons/no addons, but nothing works. Help?