Bitterroot Cave World Boss in Shadowfen is glitched out and undefeatable (PC NA)

Ludvik0894 · June 2022

Greetings,

I'm sorry if this has been posted anywhere else but I couldn't find anything about it. The World Boss Urrai in Shadowfen seems to have glitched out of his cave and no longer engages in combat. I've been there in the past couple of days and the situation seems to be the same all the time. Other players that enter the cave aren't able to attack the boss either. You can see the pictures below for more information. Basically, you can see his feet and tail stick out from the ceiling, but there is no way to reach him.

No addons were used when approaching the boss.

Many thanks

Naomi_K · July 2022

It's the same on PC EU

tejaska · July 2022

I can confirm that the boss is still bugged on PC EU.

zaaSpaceMonkey · July 2022

Also on Playstation EU.

Imetheryn · July 2022

I just wanted to add an additional report of this issue. Same thing. His legs are poking out of the ceiling, but he can't be targeted.

Update: I was able to get kill him after a little work. Basically, I stood directly beneath him and marked my location on the map, then ran around to the outside and up top. I could not see him, but when I angled my camera just right, I was able to see his healthbar. I ran around the area where his bar was appearing, and suddenly I heard the tell-tale, guttural "hrmhisssss" of an aggroing daedroth. Lo and behold, when I ran back inside the cave, he'd fallen through the ceiling and was standing there, very much available for slaughter.

I hope this is repeatable. Good luck, and happy daedra-slaying!

tejaska · July 2022

Imetheryn wrote: »

I hope this is repeatable. Good luck, and happy daedra-slaying!

Thank you, @Imetheryn ! I was finally able to kill the WB using your approach. Although, I fear, this means that now that we have a workaround, the bug will never be fixed, sigh.

blktauna · July 2022

lol like it was going to be fixed anyway... >.<

Kashya_Vulano · July 2022

Yeah, no, this is fine.

Imetheryn · August 2022

Update: (I'd edit my previous post

tejaska wrote: »

Imetheryn wrote: »

I hope this is repeatable. Good luck, and happy daedra-slaying!

Thank you, @Imetheryn ! I was finally able to kill the WB using your approach. Although, I fear, this means that now that we have a workaround, the bug will never be fixed, sigh.

I'm glad it was helpful!

I also wish such silliness wasn't required, but such is ESO.

Herfules · August 2022

Imetheryn wrote: »

I hope this is repeatable. Good luck, and happy daedra-slaying!

This is the way.

Worked great. Thanks!

Trickton · September 2022

I have created a video going over this glitch showing how I was able to get this boss to spawn in and complete the achievement. I hope this helps you to complete this as well!

Click here for the Video:

https://youtu.be/PFbjddBZ1yM

AvalonRanger · September 2022

Yea. I reported same bug thread in this category. 1 month later, it still isn't fixed.

event121 · December 2022

This bug still exists. I encountered it today on PC NA. The workaround of running to the location where the boss is stuck in the ceiling outside of the cave, hearing the hiss, and then going back in does allow them to drop from the ceiling and be killed.

stonelisticub17_ESO · November 2023

This bug still exists. I encountered it today on PC NA. The workaround of running to the location where the boss is stuck in the ceiling outside of the cave, hearing the hiss, and then going back in does allow them to drop from the ceiling and be killed.

SeaGtGruff · November 2023

Odd, I fought him just the other week and it spawned normally without any issue.

ivaylo.krumoveb17_ESO · November 2023

The boss is still bugged, his legs protruding from the ceiling

Arizona_Steve · November 2023

Ahh, the joys of Agile software development.

The bug is reported. Then there is a meeting to assess the bug, it is then prioritized. Then another meeting to assign a team to it, then the product owner has to assess a priority within the team. If you're lucky it will end up in an assigned sprint. If not, it'll sit in a backlog for who-knows-how-long.

When it is finally picked up it has to be tested in several places and sent to QA. Once testing is complete it has to go to a change management meeting and once it gets through that it will finally go live.

In the old days, I'd hear about the bug, fix it, test it and put it into production inside a day. Not anymore.

SeaGtGruff · November 2023

Has it struck anyone besides me as odd that the first November 8 post was word for word, space for space, punctuation for punction identical to the December 2022 post? That kind of copypasta posting seems kind of sus to me.

I went to this boss today, first on PC EU, then on PC NA.

Both times, the boss was already spawned, and was correctly positioned on the floor of the cave, NOT stuck up in the ceiling as had once been the case.

Both times, I waited around after killing the boss so I could see it spawn-- you know, just in case it had previously spawned up in the ceiling but had fallen back to the floor when someone had wandered over its location up on top of the hill.

Both times, the boss spawned correctly, on the floor.

On PC NA, I went a step further and walked back up to the mouth of the cave to see if that had an impact on where it spawns-- that is, did it try to spawn at the same elevation as the nearest player in its vicinity.

It spawned correctly in that situation as well.

So I don't know why some people say they are still having trouble with it, but it's been spawning correctly for me. Maybe it's got something to do with different instances; maybe there's one or more instance where it spawns in the ceiling? Or maybe nearby players are doing something-- casting some skill or triggering some proc on their gear-- which is pulling the boss up into the ceiling when it's in the process of spawning? I don't know.

But if it's still problematic, then it seems to be inconsistently problematic, which probably makes it much harder for the devs to identify and correct any issues.

Xaat · January 9

Still bugged