Marauder Gothmau is bugged with companions

Orbital78

It would be nice if they would fix the companion targeting issue with Marauder Gothmau. My companion can tank all of the other marauders but just derp out and don't help me with that one. Unsure of the issue but it is very annoying as that is the hardest marauder and the whole reason I used the companion was to take some pressure off for that fight.

Others have mentioned running into the same issue, could the ZoS team gives us a update on this. Is this being addressed or even known about? It has been like this for months now. Pls, Thx. @ZOS_Icy @ZOS_Bill @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_Finn

DenverRalphy

Azandar tanks him just fine for me. <shrug>

Orbital78

Odd, this is the setup I use for Bastian. It almost always bugs out with him.

ESO_player123

It's been an issue since forever.

Marronsuisse

Yeah I had this yesterday again, ran around the arena commanding Bastian to target Gothmau, and Bastian just stood there picking his nose. 😅

He will sometimes taunt them but it does seem kinda hit and miss with the Marauders, that one especially.

Orbital78

Marronsuisse wrote: »

Yeah I had this yesterday again, ran around the arena commanding Bastian to target Gothmau, and Bastian just stood there picking his nose. 😅

He will sometimes taunt them but it does seem kinda hit and miss with the Marauders, that one especially.

With my tankier dps like my Sorc, it doesn't matter so much but I want to run IA Arc1-3 runs on my squishier setups. If I use a lightning staff to heavy attack the Marauder I seem to be able to do all of them pretty well for the most part except Gothmau. Bastian does absolutely nothing, just sits there in combat contemplating his life decisions I guess. Every once and awhile the wolf boss will turn and slap me on occasion and kill me if caught off guard but at least the companion is taunting and engaging.

If they would allow us to turn rapport off on alts we don't want to get stuck on the quest with, or allow us to interact with the inventory of the companions while on quest updates... it would be less of an issue for me.

spartaxoxo

It's an issue with the taunts available through the sword and board and Ice Staff weapons and Undaunted taunt, I suspect. This is not the only fight it happens either, although I can't think of others of the top of my head.

Azandar has a class skill taunt (Scathing Rune) that works just fine on Gothmau, so I use that one instead while in archive. But I dislike doing so as I previously had him setup as a healer, and imo, that role suits him better. He's not a young man anymore!

I'm unsure if Bastian's chain taunt would work better. I got tired of finding myself fighting with his taunt but maybe I should swap it out at some point.

Sarannah

This needs to be fixed asap, happens to me too. The companion engages him, then stops doing anything.

This happens on both new and old companions. Sharp and zerith-var are 100% doing this.

spartaxoxo

Nightmare Den in Necrom and other world bosses also completely ignore companion taunts.

spartaxoxo

@ZOS_Kevin

This issue has been going for nearly a year, any plans to fix it?

Grumpycrawler

So far only Azandar is the only one that keeps the taunt. Tried Zerith var yesterday with this marauder and he does taunt him from time to time (enough that I could finish him, but it did take a lot of running in rounds untill he got the taunt again.
So far Isobel really is useless with the marauders, she never lands a taunt with them.

Orbital78

Grumpycrawler wrote: »

So far only Azandar is the only one that keeps the taunt. Tried Zerith var yesterday with this marauder and he does taunt him from time to time (enough that I could finish him, but it did take a lot of running in rounds untill he got the taunt again.
So far Isobel really is useless with the marauders, she never lands a taunt with them.

I haven't tried the new companions, as they are low level and I haven't even leveled up a tank setup or all the guild skill lines for them yet. Perhaps Zerith's bone armor is trying to pull enough that he gets a little aggro.

It is disappointing that this has gone on for so long and hasn't been fixed, which is why I had hoped to get some status update on this as to why it wasn't hotfixed months ago. The new BG bugs got pretty quick action.

Contraptions

Also doesn't help when Gothmau is the marauder that hits the hardest by far, had a few deaths due to the companions bugging out already. Annoying.

PrincessOfThieves

I mean, I understand them. They just don't want to deal with that dude.
And yes, it is annoying.

spartaxoxo

I think there may be some dungeon bosses that tanks can aggro but companions can't too. They really need to fix companion taunt especially with Gothmau, since we have limited lives in Infinite Archive.

The whole point of bringing in a companion is to make things slightly easier by letting them take aggro. You basically give up having a chance to leaderboard by bringing them as you probably won't go as far as two people and will perform more closely to how a solo person performs, but companions (rightfully) aren't eligible for the solo leaderboard. So, the reason to bring them in should consistently work. And having them tank is a big reason to use them.

Orbital78

Maybe they are away for the holiday, but I had hoped for an update to this. This has been a bug for quite a long time and I haven't heard any mention of a hot fix.

Alaztor91

It may be something related with the ''Ruinach'' type of enemies, I remember Companion taunt also having issues with Magma Incarnate in the Dread Cellar dungeon. There is also another Ruinach boss that you can encounter in IA, one that spawns Oblivion portals, but I can't remember the name or if it also had issues with Companion taunt.

Another boss that also ignores Companion taunt is Baron Zaudrus, both in IA and The Cauldron dungeon, but this one is not a Ruinach. Also Aramril.