The Adventurer's Wife (Sidequest Spoiler)

[derMaskierte]

I would have chosen the resistance bonus anyway, but went looking for the chest before - I didn't find it either....

[Munderbunny]

The chest is hidden back in the upper-right corner, under a tree. It will be partially hidden in the grass.

There is one way for it to not show up, and that's if you go to the rebirth fountain, restart the game, and then walk straight up toward the opening. This is because the chest is spawned when the player walks through the trigger, which is a huge like 80-meter invisible sphere that ends just before the Zhidan exit, so there is a narrow pathway between the health fountain and the chest that you could walk through without touching the trigger. Go to magic vendor, then walk back towards the widow--that should guarantee you hit the trigger. It was an oversight. At the time I made a mental note to increase the size of the trigger in case someone entered Zhidan from the exit (say they forgot to activate the city waypoint). However, I was not smart enough to write it down, and I was in the middle of testing and fixing the quest steps, so it was forgotten.

If walking through the trigger isn't working for you, then someone can take a look at the quest file to see if there's an error in the conditional logic. It's pretty solidly setup.

I don't have the working files, but the chest spawn should be working like this:

When player hits trigger
     If player has PARCHMENT in inventory
     And If player does not have token(LootedChest)
     And If player does not have token(GotResistances)
Then
     Highlight Widow as QuestDuder
     Spawn WidowCHEST

When player talks to Widow
     If player does not have token(LootedChest)
Then
     Give player resistances
     Give token(GotResistances)
     Lock WidowCHEST
Else
     Close Quest (no resistances, just the closing exp reward)

When player uses WidowCHEST
     Give player token(LootedCHEST)

So, the only way for the chest not to spawn is if you sidestep the trigger (must come through Zhidan exit, or straight from rebirth fountain to do this, or if you talked to the widow on accident, or opened the chest without realizing it.

If neither of those things happened, then there must be a problem with the conditional logic, or it's possible there's something on the map that can spawn and block the chest from spawning, or I dunno what.

Edit: also, the chest is locked by spawning an invisible squirrel that prevents the chest from being opened (but not from being visible). Oh, and it's possible that I may have missed one of the important refire conditions, but I did test many times after game reloads, etc.. Like, have parchment, run through city, don't talk to lady or touch chest. Exit game. Return to area, etc.. Had no problems. Did not test multiplayer.

[Kane1990]

Yup, running from the arcanist to the backyard works. Thanks!

EDIT: I did not get the experience points for this quest, tried giving her the letter, tried pillaging the chest. Neither gives XP.

[Munderbunny]

Should say in quest log. I did get exp when I tested, but don't remember if all conditions returned exp. I may have forgotten to close the quest after one of the conditions, but don't remember which.

Or, maybe it wasn't exp, but gold that was rewarded.

Or maybe it was neither.

Been too long. Soz.

[Kane1990]

It says in the Quest Log, that You get XP for this quest. No money. Also, when I took the chest, it did not say "Quest Completed: Adventurer's Wife", in the pop-up, it just said "Quest Updated", so You may be right, the quest does not end properly that way. It was "Quest Completed", when I took the resistance bonus though. Neither gives XP.

[derMaskierte]

I'm not sure, but I think I got XP - I'll keep an eye out the next time I do it...