I'm sure the forums have gotten a couple posts about this one but I hadn't seen any recently.

Near the very end of the quest, and dungeon, the iron claw is needed to use to open the door to fight Hevnoraak. The solution is on the palm of the claw, as the other claws, but when I move the rings to correspond to the solution the door won't open. I've tried a lot of things to fix it but nothing seems to work.

Basically I just wanted to see if anyone had found out any ways to fix this problem, if not, I'll just have to wait for the next title update and hope it's fixed.

Thanks a lot guys.

Just finished that quest, didn't have any problems. You've probably already tried loading an earlier save, but if not, it may work it out. Hopefully the next patch will fix it.

I have. I tried reloading, restarting my Xbox 360, leaving the dungeon and returning and I even tried shouting the door. Sadly, three words of Unrelenting Force wasn't enough.

So. A little update with this bug:

I recently traveled to Northwind Summit in which I killed a dragon and found a shout word location. After obtaining the word it told me my quest to find the shout in Valthume was completed. For some reason it registered that I was in Valthume and found the shout there. I will travel to Valthume and see if the door will open after this instance. I'll update this post with any information I find out in case anyone else is having this problem.

Huzzah! It worked!

Okay. After having a problem with getting this door to open in Valthume using the Iron Claw this is what I did afterwards to trigger the door to open.

First of all I need to say that the reason I came to Valthume in the first place was to obtain a shout that was at the end of this dungeon for a quest given to me by the Greybeards. After entering Valthume a dungeon specific quest was started called "Evil In Waiting" which was to collect three vessels to destroy an evil encased in Valthume. Two of the vessels can be found before entering the Iron Claw door and the third is after it.

Well, this was when I first encountered the bug in which wouldn't let me pass through the door. I couldn't move any of the rings to solve the puzzle in which the Iron Claw held the solution. I left the dungeon and returned to find that I could move the rings but the solution would not open the door. So, I moved on to other quests. It wasn't until I did a quest in which brought me to Northwind Summit to slay a dragon. After the dragon was killed I came upon a shout word location. After receiving the word my quest to find Valthume's shout was completed. This, I thought was funny, because I wasn't in Valthume at all but it registered that I found it's shout.

So, after visiting the summit I returned to Valthume to find that the door opened when the solution was entered in and I could finally complete the dungeon specific quest.

I hope this could help anyone else having this problem.

Thanks a lot guys.

@LordBrother

this advice you have given has totally worked for me thankyou

Playing Skyrim on Xbox. @LordBrother - It didn't work for me That quest that you were talking about, where you killed the dragon at Northwind Summit, learned a word, then were able to open the door at Valthume... was that a bounty quest given to you by the Inn keeper in Ivarstead? I ask because I went to him, hoping to do this same quest and therefore, be able to finish the quest at Valthume. Instead, he gave me the same quest, only I had to kill a dragon in a different location. (This is because I had already been to Northwind Summit, killed the dragon and learned the word). So I went to this other location, killed the dragon, learned the word, but it didn't change anything at Valthume.
I tried everything... reloading previous saves, returning to that Iron door later on in the game, deleting/installing the game from my hard drive, etc... Nothing!

Does anyone know anything else I can try? Is this something that will be fixed in a future patch?

This is a pretty f'd up bug. It keeps an entire quest from being completed, prevents the player from learning a Word, and prevents the player from getting all 8 Masks! I was trying to collect them all. This would have been #7. Bravo, developers. I really hope a fix is in the works for this problem. Otherwise, it's like I bought something that doesnt work the way it should. Refund? lol

I'm having the same problem. The claw door won't open at all. I tried going to Northwind Summit and killing the dragon, but it did not work. I had killed the dragon and gotten the word some 30+ hours ago. Strange thing though, after I killed the dragon I received the quest to kill it again.

I'm seriously pissed about this. I love the games this company makes, and I can deal with most bugs. But a bug that prevents a quest from getting done and 1 out of 8 masks collected.... really svcks. not to mention a dragon word we won't be able to learn. There's a lot more to do in this game. And I LOVE this game! But I'm really hoping for a fix.

got the same bug here :/ gonna go see if i can find this dragon and try again, but i'm not getting my hopes up...



edit: by the gods it worked. went and killed the dragon and then back to valthume to try the quest again, door worked fine. thanks for the heads up on this one!

does anyone know the code to open the valthume door?

im am having the same problem....pls pls patch this in the next update!!!

big surprise, different play through, same glitch....


edit: forgot to mention that killing the dragon at northwind summit didn't work this time. not only am i deprived of a shout and a mask, i also don't get any of my master level alteration spells because this is the dungeon that he sent me to. i think rolling out fixes for glitches like this should take priority over stupid sh*t like the kinect support patch that was released today.

The only problem that i've come across was absorbing the word of power after going through the door