Invisible Enemies O.o

PKMN12 · May 2015

So, just started up a Dunmer Sorcerer and went to do the barrow quest, when all of a sudden i started getting attacked (and then killed) by something. there was a red dot on my radar, and i was clearly being attacked by something, but nothing was on my screen. After i respawned, it happened again a couple seconds later.

The kill screen said i was killed by a Skeleton Warrior, and i DID pass area's where they are normally standing, but with nothing there at the time. MY Familiar was also attacking something, but did not seem to do anything before it died.

Attorneyatlawl · May 2015

Had the same issue in Aetherian Archive on the hard mode Mage. The conjured axes are supposed to despawn when she goes to her last phase... they disappeared from sight, but 4 raid members randomly died with no apparent cause and nothing in sight but the mage. However when we checked the death recaps, each of us who had gotten whacked had died to an axe

. Could have realized right away if the addons were allowed to show what was hitting us in the first place and compensated by blocking, but instead we had to wipe to find out

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Nestor · May 2015

Simple, the Mob spawned under ground. It happens sometimes, rarely, but it happens. When they do this they can still attack, but you can't hit them unless you have an AoE attack, and even then, it might not do anything if they are far enough below you.

I have also seen enemies get pushed back into walls or even behind and they are difficult to kill then too, but AoE is more effective then that below ground.

Attorneyatlawl · May 2015

Nestor wrote: »

Simple, the Mob spawned under ground. It happens sometimes, rarely, but it happens. When they do this they can still attack, but you can't hit them unless you have an AoE attack, and even then, it might not do anything if they are far enough below you.

I have also seen enemies get pushed back into walls or even behind and they are difficult to kill then too, but AoE is more effective then that below ground.

This is an obvious one, and while it's nice of you to cover that as it could be a common enough mistake for some to think they were invisible because of, that's not the case with the issues my raid group ran into, and I have seen in vet pledges since then. The mobs are invisible, but are not inside of the terrain in these cases as they are changing where they are being able to be aoe'd from, and you can see their power attack markers as they move around and bounce agro, walking just as a mob normally would

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Rune_Relic · May 2015

I had the same thing ages ago being attacked by wildlife and a chest playing peekaboo if I stepped left or stepped right. It some kind of quest phasing issue where scenery monsters NPC are removed from view but still active.