Keeper of Souls Poof

[Zeelot]

We killed keeper of souls last night and the corpse instantly poofed on death. I'm not sure how to replicate, but is a troublesome bug!

[Thetan]

You sure someone didn't just ninja loot it?

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

I figured out why.

[Thetan]

So what happened? Inquiring minds wanna know.

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

I'll let you know after the GMS fix it.. All the clues are posted in various threads.. I just did the math.

[Lazortag]

This is happening to various bosses, not just Keeper of Souls. Hope it gets fixed soon.

[Lazortag]

So apparently there's also a bug now where pets stay around even if their owner dies/gates. If this is true, this could account for why this bug happens in cases where the remaining pets do the majority of the damage or get a killshot. As it stands if an NPC gets a killshot on another NPC, or if it does 51%+ damage, then the corpse poofs (this is classic). Maybe ownerless pets are being treated as NPC's in this same way. That's just my theory.

[Harrison]

I presented the same theory at the time.

[Omnimorph]

I poofed KoS once, but it was on engage... that'll teach em to have an ench take the DT!

[guineapig]

Spiroc Lord poofed on us on Saturday... And of course he didn't respawn either. And there have been double Spiroc Lords up nearly every weekend (but that's unrelated).

[Harrison]

So, any resolution on this?

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

Not that I know of

[Teeroyoyort]

a Dracoliche's corpse poofed today in fear.

[Nedala]

a Dracoliche's corpse poofed today in fear.

Draco poofed because you wiped and a (charmed?) pet killed draco cause of a faction war, or am i wrong?

[Aadill]

The mob was killed and the corpse poofed.

[ElanoraBryght]

No charmed pets; corpse poofed. Known and replicatable bug. Also, not a "wipe" - there were still people there to loot, had a corpse been there to be looted.

[karsten]

The mob was killed by mage pets after the mages died and we wiped and then the corpse poofed.

[Haynar]

Sounds like a good reason to not use pets, until the issue is fixed.

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[Alderac]

Draco poofed because you wiped and a (charmed?) pet killed draco cause of a faction war, or am i wrong?

You are wrong, I was alive along with over a dozen other people. There was only 1, maybe 2 mage pets both bugged and alive.

Sounds like they may want to post a general warning that pet classes are currently unplayable in the traditional sense until they can nail down what has caused this.


Edited to include mention of how great it is to be able to watch draco die for the "first" time again, I'm sure everyone here appreciates the hard work that has gone into making this server possible and the hard work of the people who devote their time to fixing such problems as do unavoidably crop up.

[Lazortag]

You are wrong, I was alive along with over a dozen other people. There was only 1, maybe 2 mage pets both bugged and alive.

Sounds like they may want to post a general warning that pet classes are currently unplayable in the traditional sense until they can nail down what has caused this.

It would be best if mages poofed their pets manually before they died.

Not to say that reimbursements are a bad idea, especially when no one knew the cause of this bug.

[Molitoth]

We also had a Bazzzt Bazzat corpse insta-poof on us this last weekend.

[Curtoph]

We also had a Bazzzt Bazzat corpse insta-poof on us this last weekend.

And a couple Spiroc Lords..

[apocalypsesmeep]

Yea, it is pretty frustrating. And it was around for awhile on live, so who knows when it will be fixed.

Mages banishing pets before death will help, but with some mobs, where the mages die to summons, it will be too fast for them to banish pet.

The lack of response on the mob corpses disturbs me, really. It would seem pretty cut and dry that the bug requires reimbursement, but there has been no reply whatsoever afaik.

[guineapig]

Don't feel too bad. We haven't been able to get a respawning Spiroc lord in months and we never get reimbursed for our time planning the day around it.

[Versus]

Don't feel too bad. We haven't been able to get a respawning Spiroc lord in months and we never get reimbursed for our time planning the day around it.

I read somewhere that this had happened to people in Live, and that the problem was someone in the raid had some minute agro on the Guardian. The raid camped out to clear agro and Spiroc Lord repopped.

[guineapig]

I read somewhere that this had happened to people in Live, and that the problem was someone in the raid had some minute agro on the Guardian. The raid camped out to clear agro and Spiroc Lord repopped.

I think what's been happening is that whenever two lords are up and we petition to get rid of one, the wrong one is death touched... in other words the one that WOULD have re-spawned. This of course, is pure speculation as I have no idea how the encounter is coded.

That is an interesting theory however and worth at least testing next time this happens.