Guard Valon eating Orc Pawn Picks
 

Guard Valon at the toll booth in West Commons is eating Orc Pawn Picks (he equips them) and is not giving the quest reward/faction.

Thanks.

Guard Valon turn ins
 

I've turned in many orc pawn picks the last couple of weeks on several toons. I did lose a few before realizing that he's sometimes broken.

Guard Valon is very inconsistently non-responsive. I always hail him now before handing him pawn picks. If he won't respond to the hail, don't hand him picks, as he'll eat 2 of them, and dual wield the other 2 against his next opponent.

I have not been able to nail down any of the variables which cause him to be non-responsive. I have perceived that if his partner, Guard Colin, is up, and holding a sword, that Valon seems to work normally. I have no hard evidence of this though.

Since he has a very short lifespan and re-spawn timer, I just wait for the next spawn, then hail him, hoping he hears me. If his next re-spawn fails to respond to me, I camp that toon nearby and do something else.

On a side note, thanks to all the higher level players that are always willing to give me a minute to conduct my business with him before executing him!!!

If you hail him while sneaking, will he turn around and kill you?

Yea. Maybe get a nearby faction aligned friend to test for you? I've had similar things happen, his turn in radius might be super small, try getting as close as possible first as a temporary fix.

Every time I've run by this guy and hailed him he has been broken. Tried turning in a few times with no success.

Tried the quest last night only to discover it was broken; subsequent search led me to this page.

Just here to report that the quest is still broken.

I just tried this on the pve server and it worked fine after patch. Are you turning in a total of 4 picks?

Correct, turning in four picks at a time. I'm on the blue server as well.

Guess I'll give it another shot.

Edit: Don't know if it makes a difference but I was a KoS Iksar using sneak.

Tried again today using same MO. Worked perfectly.

I've been killing him for xp, and i have left him up for people that requested so over the last few days. Seems hit or miss weather he equips the picks, or completes the quest.

I let them know they need to hail him first to see if he's giving quest dialogue, but they don't always listen.