Co-op cannot collect Essence of Bargoll to progress FoA questline

Our co-op playthrough hit a brick wall when the “Ritual of Cleansing” quest required us to get the “essence of ugdenbog x2” and “essence of bargoll” items. The essence of ugdenbog spawned correctly at first, but the essence of bargoll never appeared when we killed the Root of Bargoll.

Reloading and trying again did nothing, but now I weirdly have two different stacks of “essence of ugdenbog x2”, which cannot stack on top of each other. Talking to the druid in Kurnhold confirmed she is still waiting for the “essence of bargoll” while I have 4 of the 2 required essences of ugdenbog in my inventory.

My co-op partner HATES the ugdenbog and quit our playthrough when this happened. It killed all their joy in the DLC after we eagerly waited for it together.

This is version 1.3.0.5, to be clear.

Sounds like you are still missing the Essence of Ugdenbog from Bargoll itself.

It never spawned in the first place, even after restarting and trying again.

You are in the wrong place then.

It spawns in a secret area near the riftgate after the Coven area.

It used to have an handful of locations it could spawn, but it got changed to the fixed location i mentioned.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh well thanks for that then, but that’s just annoying for a dlc field trip