Just wanted to report a bug I encountered just now. Phinigel server, Convorteum Zone, Lava Lake part of lower zone. Around 21:57 UK time Making my way to testing point 1 with the Clockwork Magma tester & we engaged some mobs, (several bunches along the way) fought those, won no problem, nothing showing on aggro, Clockwork Magma Tester goes into the Lava - I figured testing. What happened next is the Clockwork started losing HP, nothing on aggro, I went into the lava to find him & as I was playing my bard I tracked & he had warped entirely across the lava lake & was now on the opposite shore & engaged with a swarm of dwarves & gnomes there, as soon as I get close to him (attempting an AE mezz) they all jump me & despite being greens killed the clockwork & then me quickly due to how many were there. So somehow while in the lava it appears the clockwork warped to pretty much the other side of the zone even with nothing targeted or on aggro. I know this event has had a long history of problems related to the Clockwork stopping & starting correctly but I only stopped him twice once for buffs & once to heal up after a big clump of mobs fight (I did not use any run-speed buffs at all) and had no targets or aggro when I started it again & it went to the lava. Very upset that I didn't seem to do anything wrong & the npc warping across the zone has caused my escort attempt to fail through no fault of mine. Will try again after I have farmed a new batch of items Below image is a map from my still alive Shaman in the zone, he is the green X in the north east, not far from where the Clockwork Magma Tester entered the Lava. My Bard's corpse, around where I found the Clockwork Magma Tester is the green X on the opposite side of the lake to the south west.
It's annoying but the best way around this is to tell the robot to stop and pull mobs into the path you want him to walk, taking him around the lava on the way back.
I remember that task...it was hell. So, I feel your pain. Were you running with mercs? My mercs caused me no end of problems while doing this task.
Heal Merc & Tank Merc, both were sat by the shaman minding their own business, hadn't had any issues with them up to that point.
Had read that too, hadn't really had any problems up to the point the Clockwork went into the lava, all the trouble started right then. Bard Sham are level 105 so the mobs in there are fairly trivial green & grey cons, unless in large numbers of course as I discovered.
Just EQ being EQ. I'm sure reworking the pathing on a UF era quest,that isn't broken, just highly inconveniently buggy, is on the list right before Fixing the wall in Plane of Fire. Grab a buddy outside of your group to clear mobs, so you can micro manage the little .
