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[Marootsoobutsu]

Starting over = "Starting from the beginning".. It would make less sense for it to retain any amount of progress. The NPC is working as intended, so I think the only recourse you may have in this case is your one time item restoral. :/

BTW, you need to use the template in the sticky, or else it won't be considered as an actual bug report and get auto-trashed.

It's a series of quests tied to an item, not a single quest. Ergo, it is not unreasonable to think "Starting over" is "starting this quest over", not "starting this entire questline over." She does not say, "You will start from the beginning." She says, "Abandon your current shield." Which was not every shield in the line; it was this current iteration of the shield with a flawed implementation. Don't sit there and tell me that it's unreasonable to expect a reset to the current quest. But thank you for pointing me to the template.

[Nyarlko]

It's a series of quests tied to an item, not a single quest. Ergo, it is not unreasonable to think "Starting over" is "starting this quest over", not "starting this entire questline over." She does not say, "You will start from the beginning." She says, "Abandon your current shield." Which was not every shield in the line; it was this current iteration of the shield with a flawed implementation. Don't sit there and tell me that it's unreasonable to expect a reset to the current quest. But thank you for pointing me to the template.

It works the same for any of the other "ultimate" weapons. Why would you think that dropping the item would somehow result in getting one back? I feel for you, but it doesn't really make sense to me. Not getting upgrades after only a handful of synths also doesn't necessarily mean it's bugged. It's entirely possible/probable that it works differently than prior stages, similar to how the last stage was different / more difficult than prior. The devs have even been saying that this stage was going to be an actual challenge that was going to take a lot of time to complete (unlike the prior stages for the most part.)

The "restart" behavior has been the same since the first stage, btw. I don't see it being at all possible that you will get it back as a freebie since the npc is "working as intended." You probably just want to get your restore process started.

[Marootsoobutsu]

It works the same for any of the other "ultimate" weapons. Why would you think that dropping the item would somehow result in getting one back? I feel for you, but it doesn't really make sense to me. Not getting upgrades after only a handful of synths also doesn't necessarily mean it's bugged. It's entirely possible/probable that it works differently than prior stages, similar to how the last stage was different / more difficult than prior. The devs have even been saying that this stage was going to be an actual challenge that was going to take a lot of time to complete (unlike the prior stages for the most part.)

The "restart" behavior has been the same since the first stage, btw. I don't see it being at all possible that you will get it back as a freebie since the npc is "working as intended." You probably just want to get your restore process started.

Having done it already on my alt account, at least through multiple stages, I already knew that it worked the way it did in the past-- particularly since they flat out say it is.

Since you are clearly speculating and do not actually do not know the quest-line, I will thank you kindly to shut the hell up with such unhelpful and frankly trollish advice, and stick to things-- like pointing out the template-- that are actually useful, helpful, or community-friendly. Since the NPC itself actually said *TO DROP THE FREAKING SHIELD*, you can just stop. You don't know what you're talking about, and I will leave the rest of this conversation to Devs or GMs.