Originally Posted by Loadrunner

- Encountered a problem where your character doesn't pick up the item you ordered him to pick up. He does the 'picking up' gesture but doesn't get the item. This happens very frequently with items lying on top of objects. I should mention that i used the highlight function to pick up the items.

A good example are the items on this table in the tutorial dungeon.
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I ran into this problem as well. Others are saying you have to wait for the animation to finish, but that was not the problem in my case (and perhaps yours).

For me it was also one of the arrowheads in the tutorial dungeon in the picture you're showing. My character kept doing the gesture but the arrowhead would never fly off surface/altar it was resting on. The only way I was able to pick it up was to first move the arrowhead to another surface (the floor) and *then* pick it up from there.

Originally Posted by Loadrunner

- Where is dat shell?

You only know its there because of the highlight function.
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That shell can be accessed by traveling towards it from the first waypoint you reach. The area it lays in is a bit hidden (on purpose). I think that shell is probably purposely placed there where it's visible from the other side to encourage you to go looking from it.