Bosses not spawning in Cyrodiil

ZeusChaos25 · July 2015

The bosses in Pothole Cavern and Bloodmayne caves are not spawning at all me and a group of 4 people went in each 5 times and never spawned. Can someone help out. Because I don't have any idea what the problem is. They are not spawning.

NovaShadow · July 2015

This has been the case since launch. Some will spawn, some just refuse to and you've gotta go back several times over a few days to get the one's you're missing. Keep trying, literally all you can do.

Camping the boss/bosses you've already killed won't hurt in the hopes the one you need will spawn.

ZeusChaos25 · July 2015

Thanks for your help

Ourorboros · July 2015

Cyrodil bosses have a simple, though frustrating, mechanic. In most delves only one or two bosses will spawn at a time. They have to be killed before other bosses will spawn. The frustrating part is that boss respawns are random, so the next boss to appear might be the one you need or might be the one you just killed, Since bosses spawn in the same place, that means you have to make a circuit of the delve, repeatedly killing the same boss until the one you need spawns. SInce there is no predicting RNG, it can take quite a while before all bosses spawn. But eventually, all bosses spawn. I've cleared all the delves on two characters.

edit: if you are on the PC, Public Dungeon Champions add-on is a great help in clearing these delves.

Sentinel · July 2015

Additionally, a few bosses only respawn after exiting the cave. I don't know why it happens, but if a particular boss does not spawn, even though the other bosses have spawned and respawned extensively (at least over 6 times), then it might be best to leave the cave, your entire group, and enter again. It has worked for me in the past. Re-entering and killing the spawned bosses should allow you to find every boss eventually.

CaptainObvious · July 2015

The problem is that they never refactored the Cyrodiil boss spawning code when they refactored the public dungeon boss spawning code.

The only consistency with this game is inconsistency.

Shimmer · July 2015

Here is how it works. The boss spawns are placeholders. You go in, kill all the bosses, then wait 10 minutes. Upon respawn each boss location has a chance of being one of the bosses on the acheivement. You have to camp the dungeon for awhile to get it done. This is how me and my friends did it.

You do not have to exit just kill the bosses and wait for the boss to respawn either as the boss you killed already or the one you need.

ZeusChaos25 · July 2015

Ok thanks everyone

ZeusChaos25 · July 2015

There's 4 or 5 caves that we couldn't finish because of this

Ourorboros · July 2015

Sentinel wrote: »

Additionally, a few bosses only respawn after exiting the cave. I don't know why it happens, but if a particular boss does not spawn, even though the other bosses have spawned and respawned extensively (at least over 6 times), then it might be best to leave the cave, your entire group, and enter again. It has worked for me in the past. Re-entering and killing the spawned bosses should allow you to find every boss eventually.

That's total bunk. I got all bosses without ever having to exit the cave for the purpose of getting a boss to respawn. I did get chased out by PVPers and had to return to finish a cave, but that has nothing to do with the boss spawning mechanic.