Tidespite resetting

sshogrin

Anybody else have Tidespite WB resetting in Solsitce?

We had it happen 3 times today. Others have been mentioning it

JinKC98

Sometimes if the DPS of the public is high enough, we mange to defeat it before this bug kicks in. Most of other times, yea the giant Crab burrows underground and respawns on surface with full health... Don't think this is intended

16BitForestCat

Yeah, I was doing world boss dailies on multiple characters today, and that stupid crab de/respawned with full health in almost every single fight that didn't end quickly. Since I'm playing around an injury, this makes the battle many times more annoying than it would otherwise be. I thought it was an intended fight mechanic at first, when it happened the first two fights in a row (like maybe it was meant to represent the boss molting again as the questgiver talks about), and just assumed I was missing out on something in all the chaos. Then I thought maybe people were pulling it too far away from its spawn point, but it happened at the spawn point in a few fights. I know it wasn't happening due to wipes, because plenty of times there were people alive and actively fighting it when it reset.

After over a dozen rounds against Tidespite, I'm pretty darn sure it's just "ZOS put out bugged content again, despite insisting the new season format was so they could take their time and not release things before they're ready."

KiltMaster

Yeah, this is still happening. Repeatedly.

NeuroticPixels

I don’t know if it’s true, but someone said he resets when whoever he’s focused on dies.

tomofhyrule

Yep, it’s bugged.

And yep,

16BitForestCat wrote: »

I'm pretty darn sure it's just "ZOS put out bugged content again, despite insisting the new season format was so they could take their time and not release things before they're ready."

I heard a rumor that the resetting bug is related to if a player gets killed during the fight and resurrects themself in place (instead of resetting to the wayshrine or letting someone else res them), then Tidespite is likely to reset around 20% or so. I can’t confirm that and haven’t tested it myself, but stranger bug connections have happened.

Hopefully they can fix this soon, because having to redo the fight 3+ times is not fun.

prof-dracko

From what I noticed it resets if the player it's currently agrroing dies, which tends to happen when it does its big bomb raid attack around the 25% mark.

SeaGtGruff

It reset a few times the other night and I had a sheepish thought that it might be something I was doing wrong-- I did die and rez a few times-- so I stayed away from it during certain stages of the fight, managed to stay alive, and everyone was finally able to kill it.

robpr

It could try to target untargettable pets, like Blastbones or Mender. All other bosses in the game it causes the reset.

Magenpie

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

I don’t know if it’s true, but someone said he resets when whoever he’s focused on dies.

I'm pretty sure this is what's happening. I tried a little test with Tidespite with a friend and it seemed pretty consistent that if you or your companion has aggro and you die, the encounter resets with it.

This is also a problem with The Festering Flesh in Deetra Grotto. I've tried to solo it on a couple of characters with tank companions and often (everytime?) the companion dies, the encounter resets. Obviously it resets if you die.

I can't be certain it's 100% repeatable bug but it's not far off.

Gabriel_H

Bug Forum: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/678787/bug-tidespite-wb#latest

Gabriel_H

Magenpie wrote: »

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

I don’t know if it’s true, but someone said he resets when whoever he’s focused on dies.

I'm pretty sure this is what's happening..

I've tanked it. Never lost aggro, never dropped taunt, someone else dies - it resets

AzuraFan

Yeah, happened to me this morning. Reset 3 times. Really annoying, especially when it's almost down and then it resets. I agree with the "it resets when the person with aggro dies" hypothesis. I died once this morning and the boss instantly reset, so I guess I had aggro. Hard to tell with all the AoEs, water, adds, etc.

Pixiepumpkin

Same. I think I have fought it one time where it did not reset. On the worst occasion it reset 5 times. At some point I have better things to do with my leisure time.

SeaGtGruff

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Magenpie wrote: »

NeuroticPixels wrote: »

I don’t know if it’s true, but someone said he resets when whoever he’s focused on dies.

I'm pretty sure this is what's happening..

I've tanked it. Never lost aggro, never dropped taunt, someone else dies - it resets

I don't think it resets when a player dies.

I think it resets when a player who died resurrects.

I started soloing it last night, because no one else was there, but my DPS is low, so I'd put only a small dent in its health when another player showed up. The other player had a much higher DPS than I do, so they were melting through its health pretty steadily, but when it got down to the point where its mechanics get more aggressive-- that is, multiple red circles that move together and overlap on whichever player has aggro-- the circles converged on me and I died. As soon as I began resurrecting myself, it reset.

We started again, and another player or two showed up. Once again, I died, but I waited several seconds before beginning the resurrection process. The boss did not reset as I lay there, dead, and the other players were able to continue damaging it. But I decided to resurrect, and the boss reset as soon as I started to resurrect.

On the third attempt, I died again. I was actually trying ny best to avoid those red circles, but it was like they kept homing in on me and I could not evade them, so I died a third time. But instead of resurrecting, I just lay there dead for the remainder of the fight. The boss did not reset, and everyone was able to finish it off.

Note, I'm not sure how it works if you're soloing and die.

AzuraFan

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Note, I'm not sure how it works if you're soloing and die.

Solo, it probably resets as soon as you die, because that's what the other bosses do.

majulook

It seems a bit random as I have experienced both the boss kill when boss is out at edge, and boss reset when boss is in center. Not sure what is causing it, but its really bad and needs to be fixed.

Carcamongus

The content format, seasons, is new, but the good old resetting boss bug is back to say hello... After the boss reset 5 times, one of which while under 100k HPs, I decided I'm not doing that daily again until it's fixed. That naughty crab sure is aptly named, though.

jristaub17_ESO

I've been having this problem consistently. Ever since the chapter released. Looks like it happens when someone resurrects on location rather than back to wayshrine. I don't think it matters who dies, it just seems to reset on local resurrect.

At the latter stage, where he starts carpet bombing the whole area, is usually when people die. That is also usually when he has just a sliver of health left. We just had him reset FOUR TIMES in a row, before we were finally able to kill him, and every time he was a hair from death.

This is an extremely annoying bug. A fight that should have lasted a couple of minutes ended up lasting about 8 or 9, and I was about to lose it on the fifth try.

ZOS, PLEASE FIX THIS!!

SpiritKitten

Not only does he reset, but he respawns instantly sometimes. Also, sometimes corpse is unlootable, even if there are only like 5 players there.

SeaGtGruff

jristaub17_ESO wrote: »

I've been having this problem consistently. Ever since the chapter released. Looks like it happens when someone resurrects on location rather than back to wayshrine. I don't think it matters who dies, it just seems to reset on local resurrect.

At the latter stage, where he starts carpet bombing the whole area, is usually when people die. That is also usually when he has just a sliver of health left. We just had him reset FOUR TIMES in a row, before we were finally able to kill him, and every time he was a hair from death.

This is an extremely annoying bug. A fight that should have lasted a couple of minutes ended up lasting about 8 or 9, and I was about to lose it on the fifth try.

ZOS, PLEASE FIX THIS!!

If the boss had only a little bit of health when it reset, that means the player(s) who revived in place should have just stayed dead while everyone else finished off the boss. The dead players would still get credit for killing the boss and should be able to loot its corpse (assuming there were no problems related to the number of players involved and their amounts of damage).

fall0athboy

Just posting because it's still happening.

BoloBoffin

fall0athboy wrote: »

Just posting because it's still happening.

Yep! Still is, it happened to me just this morning.

Reginald_leBlem

And here I was assuming it was a mechanic I didn't understand! Who knew