So I can not find the focusing crystal. I did a bunch of research and it seems like ot should be on a Falmer caster boss in the room before the Oculory. However, there is no caster boss and no crystal here. I went back through the entire dungeon and search everything but there is no crystal. In addition, the show on map feature does not work with this and there is no marker to help. I think the quest is bugged. What should I do to enable the quest?

Thanks!

The falmer carrying the crystal usually engages you in the hallway right before the big circular room with the high ceiling, check the corpses there.

Thank you for trying, but as I stated, I've done that multiple times already. I also loaded saved game from just prior to entering that area; I forget the area name but it begins with an A (Arboretum?). I loaded the auto save from when I was inside the Boilery just prior to entering the Arboretum. Their is no boss caster Falmer!

I will try a saved game from when I first entered Mzfult and hope for the best.

I think its a bug or glitch.

You should have a marker if you are doing this quest. Check in your journal that your quest is well marked and then open your map to be quite sure. You should then have the marker (pointer).

I just did that quest today. The falmer with the crystal is in the Mzulft Aerodrome area in the large room with the three doors leading off of it.
You could check to see if the dungeon says "Cleared" or check that his body hasn't got flung somewhere out of the way when you killed him. There are three falmer in that room, so you might have missed him when checking the corpses.

Thanks. Ill check to see if it says "cleared" on the dungeon. I did not think of that. I considered that his body may have gotten flung out of sight so I tried loading a previous verson but it does not result in any Falmer boss caster. There are 4 Falmer in that room; 2 nightstalkers (caster) and 2 regular falmers, but no boss. This is the case no matter how many times I reload just before entering the Aerodome.

And to the previous poster, regarding the marker, thank you but as I stated there is no marker no matter if I have the quest selected or not.... This has happened on one other quest for me before. When I click the quest in the quest choice screen or press "show on map" from the quest, it just makes a sound like "bump" not the usual "click" and it does not show up on the map. Even if I leave the dungeon and go to skyrim (from the observation deck) it still doesnot show a marker.

Please keep the ideas coming as this quest is bugged for me. I will try to redo the entire dungeon tonight and hope for the best...

So an update...

I still can not find the crystal even after re-running the dungeon...

However, Agrona showed me the following so that I could use the console to create a Focusing Crystal myself and finally complete the quest! Thanks Agrona

If you need a crystal do this:

Hit the ~ key (above your Tab key)
Type in exactly what Vaen said: player.additem 0009f7a6 1
Hit Enter
Exit the console by pressing ~ again

The 1 at the end denotes quantity, the code is the item code for the focus crystal and the three 0 are zeros.

Same problem...spawning the crystal in my inventory doesn't work, either. The imperial guy still gives the "you don't have it yet" line and there's no compass beacon for the crystal.

Same here, tbh I have given up on it for the time being, spent some 8 hours re running the area, seaching and spawning. Shafts the quest arc so no more progress until its patched.

I have the same problem.i have the crystal in my inventrory( i get it with the cheat) but paratus(the guy who send me to find the crystal) says "unless you can find that crystal there s no point in wasting time with talk".any ideas what i can do please?

You'll probably have to advance the quest a bit with the setstage command, I'm not sure whether the game can update it automatically when getting the crystal via console -> http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Revealing_the_Unseen

It'a bugged, the falmer carrying the crystal isn't always there...the only option if you're on consoles is to reload an earlier save
(he only has the crystal btw, the key to the locked door is straight across and down the steps iirc or the guy will let you in when you try the door)


Also there may be a quest killing bug on your return to the college after this quest is over so make sure to save. I won't spoil what happens but something thats supposed to trigger the next quest won't happen, forever killing the college questline