I've been looking for some type of solution to this and haven't been able to find anything. I can't talk to Vex. Clicking on her just has her telling me to bother someone else or that she won't hold my hand. I don't have any dialogue options.

This has happened with the quest for the Goldenglow estate, where there is the optional talk to Vex quest and the compass leads me right not her, and continues to be a problem after completing the quest. I never had the option to get the thief armor either. I also still have the quest No Stone Unturned active in my journal. I tried to reset these quests or even set different stages of them but nothing seems to work.

I'm very disappointed because at this point I am trying to play through with a thief/assassin character and am stuck until this is patched or there is a solution.

Did you remember to speak to Brynjolf, Mercer and then Brynjolf again and did you let them finish? If you have a save from just before starting the quest, you could try to reload that save.

I have the same problem and I've replayed the same quest like 4 times and can't seem to get it to work. Is there any console commands that could force fix this?

I did speak to them in order and let them finish. I reloaded from before the initiation quest where you have to get gold from the shopkeepers. Went through it again. Even though he tells me to talk to the woman to get my armor she doesn't give me armor. Vex still won't talk to me. Not sure what else to do. I thought maybe there was a conflict with the No Stone Unturned quest so I set it to the next stage (setstage tgcrown 10) to recognize that I was a member of the guild. Still doesn't work. I'm at a loss of what to do at this point. The only thing I can think is maybe not asking Maul about the gems but I really would rather not go through everything I did in Riften again and still not have it work.

First, make sure that the first quest Taking Care of Business has been completed. If not, please try to complete it or follow the steps below for that quest as well.

If the Loud and Clear quest has not been started, i.e. it is not in your journal, open the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console and type:

StartQuest TG02

If it is in your journal, you may need to advance it a bit. First, we need to find out which stages have been completed:

sqs TG02

This should print out the quest stages and which stages have been achieved. Confer with the list http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Loud_and_Clear#Quest_Stages to figure out which stages you may still need. You can force complete a stage by using the command:

SetStage TG02 stageID

You can try the same techniques for the other malfunctioning quests to see if some quest update were not triggered. How far have you advanced in the TG quest line. Oh, and the TG armor is not given by Vex, but by the redguard http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Tonilia. You can give yourself the TG armor using console commands, but I highly recommend that you get Tonilia to give it to you. The commands are:

player.additem d3ac5 1 (Add Hood)player.additem d3ac3 1 (Add Armor)player.additem d3ac4 1 (Add Gloves)player.additem d3ac2 1 (Add Boots)

Thanks. I know Tonilia gives the armor, I just couldn't remember her name. She won't give me the armor. Not sure how she does it, just that Brynjolf tells me to talk to her for my armor and when I talk to her I have the vendor option and the what else does the guild offer option. I did try using the console to add the armor, and even fully equipped my character but no change. I've tried different stages of the quests with the console and even went through Loud and Clear (unable to get the advice from Vex like the optional quest says I should).

The farthest I can go back is right before Taking Care of Business, my save prior to that has me back in Whiterun, since I try to reduce the amount of hard saves I have, and I'd rather not go all the way back to there. I also tried using the console to advance or even reset the No Stone Unturned since I suspect it may have been part of the problem but no luck.

I only have a few mods installed, one for vendors to have more gold and one for potions to weigh .1 instead of .5. I tried disabling them but still can't talk to Vex. Not sure how they would've effected her anyway but figured I'd give it a shot.

It looks like one of the quest stages from the first quest(s) were not updated correctly. Try to use the sqs command on TG00 and TG01 and confer with http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Queststo investigate if all needed stages have been fired. How far along in the TG quest line are you?

Loaded a save from before burning the beehives. stages 10,15,20,30,35,40,45 all are 1. 0,50 and 200 are 0. A save from after completing the quest has all except stage 0 set to 1. Not sure what relevance, if any, stage 0 has or if it's always 0. I can load right before taking it, after completing the Taking Care of Business quest but it looks like the steps are being recognized as completed.

ok by using resetquest tg02 I was able to talk to Vex about the unusual gem but still cannot get my guild armor or talk to her about anything else including the goldenglow estate. It doesn't seem to matter what stage I set that quest to. So something was interfering with them but I don't think I'm any closer to a real solution.

Tried going there with a different character. Same problem. It's hard to find any info on this with a web search or at the wiki. Do most people not have this bug? Does anyone know any console command that could force the dialogue with Vex? Setting the stages doesn't work.

I have this all finished, but....I recall back then, getting real frustrated.."she wont talk to me" but she is waiting on something else(?) later, she started talking to me. and all quests finished. have you done everything you were to Do . Talked to everyone. This was a twisted quest line, made ya think.

Yeah I was even at the part where Brynjolf tells you to talk to her and to talk to Tonillia to get your armor. Tonillia won't get me my armor and Vex won't talk to me. I even went through the quest, burning the bee hives and all that, and completed it and she still won't talk to me. And still no armor. I guess by looking at this thread at least one other person is having the same problem but I haven't seen many postings about it and I have no idea what could be causing it.

Just noticed something you posted above.....
The gal that gives you the Armor is a vendor ? She is the Fence non the less. Could this have messed her up? Was her gold amount changed?
Just disabling the mod , but could have already messed the save Game...we are new to modding Skyrim , so lots to learn yet...the CK will let us know so much more....sigh ..we wait patiently.

just a thought.

That may have been it. I had loaded from before entering Riften and was doing other quests including joining the Dark Brotherhood but avoiding talking to Maul. I disabled the give vendors more money mod and went through the Thieves Guild questline. When I talked to Mercer and Brynjolf the quests updated to talk to Tonilia, Vex and the other guy. Got my armor and was able to talk to Vex. My guess is it was the mod but I can't be a 100% certain. At least it works now.