I remember there was a bug where the Soulfeaster at the end would occasionally not come down the ramp. Killing them was still doable but required heavy ranged dps or lots of healing on melee. I have done about 10 attempts at this event, and each time the feasters never come down the ramp. Anyone else notice this? Any work around? Any plans on devs to fix it? Is it somehow intended?
I had this happen to me a lot. So i would do my best to make sure I was fighting every wave as close to the ramp as possible. As it seemed to me like it had something to do wether or not the NPC's got aggro. Then someone told me the reason I was having issues with it is because I wasn't using the sheilding clicks. Since I have followed their advice, I have never had a problem.
That's crazy, interesting stuff. As it happens I was not using a single shield click. Do you imagine I have to constantly use them or ...just one single use during the entire event will cause them to come off ramp? Or a click has to happen after they go active to make them come down?
This happens if you dont attempt to click a shield. You must at the least attempt to click one, you do not have to succeed in blocking a meteor i dont think. After coming to this conclusion and attempting to click a shield for the very first meteors that came down I never encountered it again
Unless it's a new bug you don't have to click, from what I've seen it's random. I just came back a two weeks ago from RoS. I used to farm missions for gear for my two set of 6 boxes and outside of EoE being buggy I could never figure out why sometimes they came down off of ramp and didn't. What I will say though is I never click the shields ever. Too much of a pain multiboxing.
I only click it once like Duder mentioned. I do it in the very first with no regard for repositioning to make it actually block anything.
get remi to hs them if they won't come down even with shield click. that's how i did it. not with remi, obv, but still ~
Remi is too busy to help me. I got a rogue but doesn't help from far away! Should come get remi to help me yourself
There's pretty much no chance that clicking the shield or not clicking the shield has anything to do with those guys moving. I'll make a note to look into it when I can for the May update.
I've encountered this bug everytime I'm boxing a melee team (which prevents me from easily fighting the stuck soulfeasters) and have never encountered it when I've brought a ranged team (which would allow me to kill them). Go figure. For posterity: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...-mission-changes-bugs-for-anyone-else.246929/
Goof stuff. My Google search did not come up with that thread, although it doesn't appear to have gotten any attention from devs or provide any workarounds so I'm glad I made a new one. I have a ranger I could bring in but he's not part of my "team" and would like to do it with them, as all toons except the cleric need medalions. I have beaten it thrice with my team, out of maybe 11 or 12 attempts. Best strategy is to burn down first two dogs, then boss, then 2 more dogs, then soul feasted iirc. But so much can go wrong with multiple dog spawns and eating aes from boss as well as them since I can't kill them until after the boss is dead.
So I grabbed a shield this attempt. I had veterans killed before the first meteor's even spawned. Soulfeasters were stuck on the stage. I was going to wait to click shield assuming it'd appear when veterans appeared but no dice. So i go ahead and click shield despite no meteor's about to rain down on me to see what happens. Sure enough, about 5s later the soul feasters come off stage to attack me, their dogs were already there. So, seems they are on to something here.
Maybe I'm the odd one out, I usually prefer that they stay up on the stage. Kar' Zok Warleader Hegron is actually punt-able so usually we kill: 3, 2, 3 and then punt. (balancing) Kill 2 dogs kill soulfeaster 1 kill 3rd dog that has spawned by now then kill soulfeaster 2 then kill Warleader It's certainly less hectic than if they come down and you're fighting two soulfeasters and two dogs with more possibly coming.
I’ve done this mission dozens of times. The soulfeasters don’t come until the third veteran dies. Run your tests again and try to see if the timing of third veteran’s death affects the releasing of the soulfeasters.
That may be a mechanic, I'm pretty good about balancing the veterans down usually so they die pretty close together. I've Def killed two of the three and still had one up for a considerable amount of time (unlucky timing on dicho and assassinate procs) and got the dogs to come after me, but still no soule asters after the third death or death of dogs or the named. Either way, I've clicked the shield randomly on two attempts now and each time the soul feasters came down like they should. Idealy you click the shields to avoid the meteors anyways but they don't even spawn for me by the time I kill the last veteran (I guess I'm a boss at dpsing?).
If it helps here's a video of the event when it bugs out. Like I said before it's happened 100% of time I've brought a melee-heavy group (this time it was war/brd/sha/3x ber) and 0% of the time I've brought ranged dps (Specifically my mage). Also note that I ran into this bug during the event on my bard early on into the fight and was a bit annoying because I barely failed the event. I remember hearing before a dev say this was an issue that was looked into and determined to be non-trivial to fix. https://dgcissuetracker.com/browse/EQ-1810 https://dgcissuetracker.com/browse/EQ-292
