Interesting bug with Mannimarco

Dekkameron

Hullo thar!
Mere moments ago i was doing the Sancre Tor mission and beating the poop out of Mannimarco (again) and an interesting bug happened.

Just as i killed Mannimarco he simultaneously opened up a wraith portal that spewed out infinite ghosties



At first i could just oabout hold my own against the swarm. but as my stamina went i got overwhelmed by the undead legions.

Thankfully when i rezzed they had gone.

Zorgon_The_Revenged

My fight with Mannimarco turned into a bug filled nightmare.

My nightblade was doing really well (wouldn't let me shadow cloak but there could be genuine reasons for that) until the ghosts came and my FPS dropped, then on the next wave of ghosts I became unable to attack, only block (flurry bug I believe).
While trying to rectify the 'unable to attack' bug I fell off the edge of the circular area your fighting him on, managed to rectify the 'flurry bug' but was unable to jump back onto the platform as it was too high.
All I could do was look at the lovely plants you can see in your screenshot while I got beaten to death by ghosts and a crazed mage who only tactic was to do light attacks with his staff.

They paid for it the second time and although I scraped through with low health I didn't even get chance to recharge my ultimate.

I love this game and look forward to his demise once more with another of my characters.

felinith66

SPOILERS:
This happened to me as well. Fortunately I was on my DK Redguard tank, so I just blocked it all until the quest ended.

Do you guys recall if Mannimarco was supposed to die during this fight? I seem to recall Molag Bal intervening and spiriting him away before you could kill him. I thought this is the reason why the bug happens, because this time his health drops to zero before Molag Bal could abduct him, eventhough technically Molag Bal did succeed judging by the dialogue that follows.

You actually see his dead body lying there when the quest ends, when technically he should be with Molag Bal, since you later see him being tortured. I was salivating about the loot I would get from his body, but all I got was gold.

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO

@‌felinith66
Mannimarco is indeed supposed to die during this fight. What happens is you kill him, his ghost starts talking smack, then Molag Bal opens up a small anchor and drags his spirit to Coldharbour.

I've never had this particular variation of the bug, but I remember on my first time through this fight, Abnur decided fighting Manni took precedence over closing the portals, and so the entire chamber was promptly flooded with ghosts.

jambam817_ESO

Happened here too. Just as i downed Mannimarco and the theatric sequence played, i had a portal that was stuck open, i was on my 2 handed Sorc, so it was a bit hairy at first but i managed to AOE them down (low health mobs) pretty quickly. The portal went away once the scene had played out

Sighlynce

LOL !! I would have died.. No literally !! It took my poor Templar like 5 times ! By the fourth attempt I was soooo disheartened I just turned off the game . It never would have hit me this was a bug . I would have continued just thinking of all the others that seemed to have no problems and how much I must really suck . Lord I'm glad this didn't happen to me !