Greetings - MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS
The quest gives u a shipment, and directs you to Kion, where it suggest you go southward and look for Barradin.
There is 1 path that leaves kion directly south, another that goes west, then south.
I represented both paths on picture - Red being the path that goes directly south, Blue being the path that goes west, then south.
Upon doing said quest, I followed the quest description to the letter, as I always do. So, I followed the Red path.
Upon reaching my destination, I noticed the entrance to a mine, which is also suggested in the quest, and went straight inside the mine, looking for the quest npc.
Ofcourse, he/she was not there - inquired a bit around, found out there is a trigger point somewhere, and I went out to find said trigger point.
Went back to Kion, followed the entire Red path on foot - no trigger point.
Went back to Kion, followed the Blue path out of Kion, then the path turned south, I followed, found trigger point, and I was able to continue my quest.
So, this is a long text to say this: Is it not better if the quest tells u to follow the blue path, by suggestion you leave kion westward, then turn south ? And by doing so, you will almost never fail the trigger pointOr was it intended to be inaccurate, open to interpretation as to make the player spent time exploration ?
PS: actually there are 2 paths that leads south out of kion, but they converge into 1 not long after
Thank u for your time,
Yggddrassil