Void Creatures need more Spawn locations for Endeavors

SilverBride · June 24

There are very few spawn locations for void creatures and it's very difficult to get credit for one when a gazillion lot of other players are all attacking them at the same time. Please add more spawn locations for these if they are going to continue to be endeavors.

Pixiepumpkin · June 24

Yes.

licenturion · June 24

I run around left and right with a lightning staff and keep the button pressed. (works great with a controller)

That seems to leech off a kill pretty quickly. Even 1 dmg is enough for it to count.

I agree though that this is annoying, especially because I had this endeavour already 2 times this week.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · June 24

There are plenty of spawn points.

You have Nighthollow Keep and even a dungeon in Apocrypha , you didn't know there are void creatures there?

SeaGtGruff · June 24

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach. In the courtyard is a shade colossus that appears and fights a Dwarven sentry. If you lightly attack the shade colossus and then stop, it will spawn two very weak void rots. Kill the two void rots, let the shade colossus spawn two more, kill those, and you're done with the endeavor in less than a minute-- in theory, anyway.

In practice, you almost always have other players run up and burn down the shade colossus as soon as it appears, then they race off and spend five or ten more minutes running around trying to find more void creatures to kill. But if you're lucky, no one else will be around, or you'll be able to let the shade colossus spawn at least one pair of void rots before other players notice that it's respawned and race over to burn it down. Then you can wait a bit for it to respawn-- which it does fairly quickly-- and finish the endeavor.

So the best-case scenario is that you get it done in one spawning, which takes less than half a minute. The usual scenario is that you must let it spawn at least two or three times, which takes a few minutes. And the worst-case scenario is that you must let it spawn four or more times, which takes several minutes.

There's also a world boss in the Reach that some players like to use for this endeavor, but that boss is far beyond my meager abilities, and I can't always count on there being other players around to help kill it, so I prefer the Library of Arkthzand.

SilverBride · June 24

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are plenty of spawn points.

You have Nighthollow Keep and even a dungeon in Apocrypha , you didn't know there are void creatures there?

I didn't! Thanks!

SilverBride · June 24

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach. In the courtyard is a shade colossus that appears and fights a Dwarven sentry. If you lightly attack the shade colossus and then stop, it will spawn two very weak void rots. Kill the two void rots, let the shade colossus spawn two more, kill those, and you're done with the endeavor in less than a minute-- in theory, anyway.

In practice, you almost always have other players run up and burn down the shade colossus as soon as it appears, then they race off and spend five or ten more minutes running around trying to find more void creatures to kill. But if you're lucky, no one else will be around, or you'll be able to let the shade colossus spawn at least one pair of void rots before other players notice that it's respawned and race over to burn it down. Then you can wait a bit for it to respawn-- which it does fairly quickly-- and finish the endeavor.

So the best-case scenario is that you get it done in one spawning, which takes less than half a minute. The usual scenario is that you must let it spawn at least two or three times, which takes a few minutes. And the worst-case scenario is that you must let it spawn four or more times, which takes several minutes.

There's also a world boss in the Reach that some players like to use for this endeavor, but that boss is far beyond my meager abilities, and I can't always count on there being other players around to help kill it, so I prefer the Library of Arkthzand.

Thanks for the tips!

Veinblood1965 · June 24

SilverBride wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach. In the courtyard is a shade colossus that appears and fights a Dwarven sentry. If you lightly attack the shade colossus and then stop, it will spawn two very weak void rots. Kill the two void rots, let the shade colossus spawn two more, kill those, and you're done with the endeavor in less than a minute-- in theory, anyway.

In practice, you almost always have other players run up and burn down the shade colossus as soon as it appears, then they race off and spend five or ten more minutes running around trying to find more void creatures to kill. But if you're lucky, no one else will be around, or you'll be able to let the shade colossus spawn at least one pair of void rots before other players notice that it's respawned and race over to burn it down. Then you can wait a bit for it to respawn-- which it does fairly quickly-- and finish the endeavor.

So the best-case scenario is that you get it done in one spawning, which takes less than half a minute. The usual scenario is that you must let it spawn at least two or three times, which takes a few minutes. And the worst-case scenario is that you must let it spawn four or more times, which takes several minutes.

There's also a world boss in the Reach that some players like to use for this endeavor, but that boss is far beyond my meager abilities, and I can't always count on there being other players around to help kill it, so I prefer the Library of Arkthzand.

Thanks for the tips!

I use this method also, it's quick and painless.

Jaimeh · June 24

I skipped it for this reason, there were so many players in the Arkthzand courtyard that I thought it'd be faster to just pick another endeavour to do.

NoticeMeArkay · June 24

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach.

I too, just went to the outer courtyard of the library. It got 3-4 spawns for void creatures. Just placing my aoe under one of the portals and nothing more. 1 tick damage is enough to get the endeavour progressing without taking anybody else's chance on it. Probably a 5 minute adventure, maximum.

tomofhyrule · June 24

Yeah, everyone always goes to the Library of Arkthzand.

Better choice is the Voidmother WB in the Reach. She's a popular target anytime there is a "Void Creature" endeavor, so it's unlikely she'll need to be soloed, and she spawns void creatures throughout the fight.

whitecrow · June 24

I did the Voidmother and got all of them instantly with an arrow spray (at least that's what it seemed like.) But she didn't go down too fast, and I'm pretty sure everyone there got their credit.

SilverBride · June 24

I tried some of these suggestions but there were just so many players there that it was still slow going.

Next time I will try the Voidmother and see how that works.

I appreciate all the info!

Hapexamendios · June 25

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Yeah, everyone always goes to the Library of Arkthzand.

Better choice is the Voidmother WB in the Reach. She's a popular target anytime there is a "Void Creature" endeavor, so it's unlikely she'll need to be soloed, and she spawns void creatures throughout the fight.

Yeah, she's where I go too. I usually just leave after killing the void creatures.

code65536 · June 25

I remember in the past when we got void creatures, it was just kill 1, which made it much more tolerable. And to salt the wound, we had void creatures on the 21st. And again only a few days later on the 24th. Skipped it both times. It was faster killing 40 enemies--8x as many--with scribed abilities than it was finding and killing 5 void creatures.

SeaGtGruff · June 25

I went to the Library of Arkthzand on PCEU and, as expected, I had to wait for the shade colossus to spawn five times due to all the players insta-killing it, such that it never got a chance to spawn its void rot adds.

I decided to go to the Void Mother WB on PC NA, to be different and to see how quick it would be. I got the endeavor pretty quickly, and there were several other players there as well, so I didn't gave to try to solo her.

magnusthorek · June 25

Go to Nighthollow Keep in Blackreach and run all the way to the very end. You'll end up in a cave with a door at the end you can only enter during the questline. However, in this cave you'll find a few void puddles and one or two Void Mother-like thingy.

With Wild Hunt mythic you'll already get there in not time, but you can always do it faster with: Nightblade's Concealed Weapon slotted on either bar; the Green CP for out-of-combat speed; 5pc of Coward's Gear / Adept Rider (+30% Speed) and/or Fiord's Legacy (+15%) — never tested if these sets actually stack, not enough inventory space :P

katanagirl1 · June 26

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach. In the courtyard is a shade colossus that appears and fights a Dwarven sentry. If you lightly attack the shade colossus and then stop, it will spawn two very weak void rots. Kill the two void rots, let the shade colossus spawn two more, kill those, and you're done with the endeavor in less than a minute-- in theory, anyway.

In practice, you almost always have other players run up and burn down the shade colossus as soon as it appears, then they race off and spend five or ten more minutes running around trying to find more void creatures to kill. But if you're lucky, no one else will be around, or you'll be able to let the shade colossus spawn at least one pair of void rots before other players notice that it's respawned and race over to burn it down. Then you can wait a bit for it to respawn-- which it does fairly quickly-- and finish the endeavor.

So the best-case scenario is that you get it done in one spawning, which takes less than half a minute. The usual scenario is that you must let it spawn at least two or three times, which takes a few minutes. And the worst-case scenario is that you must let it spawn four or more times, which takes several minutes.

There's also a world boss in the Reach that some players like to use for this endeavor, but that boss is far beyond my meager abilities, and I can't always count on there being other players around to help kill it, so I prefer the Library of Arkthzand.

I had never seen this creature, so I looked for it when the endeavor was up. You are definitely right about other players melting it as a fast as possible.

Didn’t voriplasms used to count for this endeavor? I thought I used to farm those instead.

Koshka · June 26

I prefer to just kill the voidmother boss in the Reach when this endeavor comes up.
Her blob adds count as void creatures and it's easy for all players in the vicinity to get credit for killing them just by dropping some kind of aoe.

Aliniel · June 26

We don't need more void creatures. We need meaningful endeavors. There shouldn't be an endeavor to kill void creatures if they are so extremely rare. Same goes for, for example, Stone Atronachs. These endeavors just result in frustration as dozens of players try to kill those few that spawn. What's the point? It doesn't bring anything positive for the game.

MidniteOwl1913 · June 26

katanagirl1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The absolute best way to complete this endeavor (for me) is to go to the Library of Arkthzand in Blackreach. In the courtyard is a shade colossus that appears and fights a Dwarven sentry. If you lightly attack the shade colossus and then stop, it will spawn two very weak void rots. Kill the two void rots, let the shade colossus spawn two more, kill those, and you're done with the endeavor in less than a minute-- in theory, anyway.

In practice, you almost always have other players run up and burn down the shade colossus as soon as it appears, then they race off and spend five or ten more minutes running around trying to find more void creatures to kill. But if you're lucky, no one else will be around, or you'll be able to let the shade colossus spawn at least one pair of void rots before other players notice that it's respawned and race over to burn it down. Then you can wait a bit for it to respawn-- which it does fairly quickly-- and finish the endeavor.

So the best-case scenario is that you get it done in one spawning, which takes less than half a minute. The usual scenario is that you must let it spawn at least two or three times, which takes a few minutes. And the worst-case scenario is that you must let it spawn four or more times, which takes several minutes.

There's also a world boss in the Reach that some players like to use for this endeavor, but that boss is far beyond my meager abilities, and I can't always count on there being other players around to help kill it, so I prefer the Library of Arkthzand.

I had never seen this creature, so I looked for it when the endeavor was up. You are definitely right about other players melting it as a fast as possible.

Didn’t voriplasms used to count for this endeavor? I thought I used to farm those instead.

That what I thought too. In fact one time I soloed Ship Wright's Regret for the "sticky blog things" and they counted.

whitecrow · June 26

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Didn’t voriplasms used to count for this endeavor? I thought I used to farm those instead.

That what I thought too. In fact one time I soloed Ship Wright's Regret for the "sticky blog things" and they counted.

No, they are "amorphous foes."

allochthons · June 26

Voidmother WB is the way. Definitely. If you're solo, you don't need to be able to kill her. Just keep at it until you kill enough adds for the endeavor. You need to kill the void creatures to avoid that big explosion anyway (or get out of the way).

AcadianPaladin · June 26

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I went to the Library of Arkthzand on PCEU and, as expected, I had to wait for the shade colossus to spawn five times due to all the players insta-killing it, such that it never got a chance to spawn its void rot adds.

I decided to go to the Void Mother WB on PC NA, to be different and to see how quick it would be. I got the endeavor pretty quickly, and there were several other players there as well, so I didn't gave to try to solo her.

Same only on PC NA.

Lots of players competing for kills is the problem in Ark Library. Lots of players works in your favor vs the Reach WB though so, after doing both, I've concluded the WB option is better for me.

driosketch · June 26

allochthons wrote: »

Voidmother WB is the way. Definitely. If you're solo, you don't need to be able to kill her. Just keep at it until you kill enough adds for the endeavor. You need to kill the void creatures to avoid that big explosion anyway (or get out of the way).

Good tip. I couldn't find any in the caverns, but there were a ton of players running. I'm sure half of them were as lost as I was.

SilverBride · June 26

The enemies in the Library of Arkthzand aren't called Void anything. They are called Shades. It would be very helpful if we were given some of the names to look for when mousing over the objective.

katanagirl1 · June 27

whitecrow wrote: »

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Didn’t voriplasms used to count for this endeavor? I thought I used to farm those instead.

That what I thought too. In fact one time I soloed Ship Wright's Regret for the "sticky blog things" and they counted.

No, they are "amorphous foes."

Ah, I think you are right. We just haven’t seen that one in a while.