I had a problem with this quest but not with focusing the occulatory, but with talking to the researcher for some reason he would no un-bug and had to setstage until after the stage where you follow him and then after focusing the occulatory to where you must talk to the arch-mage guy...
Did not have that issue when redoing that quest. To see if I could do it without set-staging it.
I killed him after i spoke to him, b4 i went to see the archmage...
Finished quest (will not spoil) but just wondering if that npc was essential. I killed him because I did not want him to go spilling the beans to his buddies.
I could not get a way of not killing him. But then again I do tend to do a random npc killings lol even if they are important lol
[Edited by ServiusTheBear, 11/21/2011 12:42:37 AM]