Faceted Foes: Help

Gabriel_H · May 5

Can anyone help me pin down where these elusive swine might be? I'd also much appreciate a screenshot of what they look like if anyone has any, as my eyes have difficulty registering the unfamiliar. Much appreciation in advance.

code65536 · May 5

I encountered a number of them during the first day of NM, and they appear to be in random locations, and it's just an enemy with a yellow glow.

Gabriel_H · May 5

Hmmm. I've got friends who have the achievement on day 1, but despite ripping my way through all the districts I've never encountered one.

Are they mixed in with the normal mobs or do they wander alone?

twisttop138 · May 5

code65536 wrote: »

I encountered a number of them during the first day of NM, and they appear to be in random locations, and it's just an enemy with a yellow glow.

This is the same for me and I haven't seen any since. I guess this was bugged and hotfixed?

code65536 · May 5

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Are they mixed in with the normal mobs or do they wander alone?

Mixed in.

twisttop138 wrote: »

This is the same for me and I haven't seen any since. I guess this was bugged and hotfixed?

Yea, I haven't seen any since that first day. It was supposedly hotfixed yesterday, but I haven't done any NM since the hotfix, so I can't say if the hotfix worked or not.

Gabriel_H · May 5

Thanks peeps. I'll keep at it I guess.

valenwood_vegan · May 5

They seem to be ultra rare, I've finished everything else in NM and never saw one. Except I saw one randomly walking around when I was briefly playing on EU (of course, since it's not my main server). I was so annoyed xD

virtus753 · May 5

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Can anyone help me pin down where these elusive swine might be? I'd also much appreciate a screenshot of what they look like if anyone has any, as my eyes have difficulty registering the unfamiliar. Much appreciation in advance.

Gina said they are looking into it as a possible bug:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/692382/bug-fractured-facets-achievement-faceted-foes-may-have-stopped-spawning-in-night-market#latest

ETA: Oh, I see this was supposedly hotfixed. Add me to the list of “still haven’t seen any.”

Would also appreciate it if the faceted enemies and the gold buff enemies did NOT share the same “gold” color.

Zibji · May 6

They’re still exhibiting buggy behavior even post hotfix. Of all the people I’ve asked in game and online, I’ve only had people say they saw them on the first day. I have farmed quite a bit post hotfix and have not seen any, nor have my guildmates across different instances.

Taarente · May 6

virtus753 wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Can anyone help me pin down where these elusive swine might be? I'd also much appreciate a screenshot of what they look like if anyone has any, as my eyes have difficulty registering the unfamiliar. Much appreciation in advance.

Gina said they are looking into it as a possible bug:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/692382/bug-fractured-facets-achievement-faceted-foes-may-have-stopped-spawning-in-night-market#latest

ETA: Oh, I see this was supposedly hotfixed. Add me to the list of “still haven’t seen any.”

Would also appreciate it if the faceted enemies and the gold buff enemies did NOT share the same “gold” color.

I did run into a couple yesterday evening 5th May and they did seem to respawn one is a behemoth and the other a minotaur, not sure how many different ones there are but they are about.

raystormusa · May 6

I would appreciate a screenshot of what these Faceted Foes look like. My Golden Pursuits are at 45/40, and Achievements left are related to Dungeon and Trial runs.

emilyhyoyeon · May 6

I finally saw one of these last night. It was a gold-outlined boar mob (same one in green side Vateshran) with 7.4m HP

It was about 20m from the entrance in the Parch and didn't really roam any farther.

I saw the same one, the boar, like an hour later in the Parch but in the NE section, near the lower east entrance to the fire beetle.

I didn't screenshot but the gold outline is the same kind of outline you see on enemy mobs (but red) or innocent mobs (but white).

Silaf · May 6

I killed 2 today both in the Parch desert area. They looked like iron atronach.

Gabriel_H · May 6

Thanks for the replies. A friend spotted one for me last night, it was in The Parch - It was a (Faceted) Iron Atronach and had no distinct glow at all.

Orbital78 · May 6

There was one stuck in a wall in Sorrows friend. It could be bashed on terrain at a certain angle. We bashed it to death for 20 mins because they are so rare, or are always cleared quickly.

SkaiFaith · May 6

Seems they fixed the spawn, and now they are everywhere XD

At Parch entrance I found the Faceted Boar, the next group had a Faceted Minotaur, the group after that had a Faceted Iron Atronach.

They all had a little golden glow on their feet. And their health is around 7-8 Millions.

Hope this helps

Zibji · May 6

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Seems they fixed the spawn, and now they are everywhere XD

At Parch entrance I found the Faceted Boar, the next group had a Faceted Minotaur, the group after that had a Faceted Iron Atronach.

They all had a little golden glow on their feet. And their health is around 7-8 Millions.

Hope this helps

What server if you don’t mind me asking?

SkaiFaith · May 6

Zibji wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Seems they fixed the spawn, and now they are everywhere XD

At Parch entrance I found the Faceted Boar, the next group had a Faceted Minotaur, the group after that had a Faceted Iron Atronach.

They all had a little golden glow on their feet. And their health is around 7-8 Millions.

Hope this helps

What server if you don’t mind me asking?

Xbox EU

Seen a Faceted Lizard Behemoth too.

Zibji · May 6

Thank you. Multiple days of farming after the hotfix on PSNA but no luck finding any. Even across different instances. I would chalk it up to bad rng, but I’ve had multiple guildmates reporting the same thing across different instances. I can’t find anyone on the server who’s found one since the first day.

Sturmfaenger · May 6

I found a facetted forest wraith last weekend. It was in a mob group you have to pass through to access one of the bosses in sorrows friend. It was covered in little yellow specks. Have not seen any of those before or after. So: if you find one of those rare enemies, be so kind to announce it in zone chat, so people can come help you kill it and get the achievement

Edit1: found it tonight again at the same location. In the south between the two bronze bosses.
Edit2: hm, when I entered skittering precinct, there was a facetted storm atro right at the entrance about to die. So they seem to spawn more often now? Good for achievement hunters^^ Here's a spoiler picture of the facetted forest wraith:

code65536 · 1:46AM

code65536 · 2:57AM

So, I think the problem is this: When I went into NM on the day and hour it opened, we saw and killed a number of Faceted enemies. But I never saw another one ever since.

So my guess is that there was a bug where they just don't respawn. ZOS applied a hotfix, but the reports are still erratic. Some players report seeing a number of Faceted enemies, and some players report still not finding any. I myself had not seen a single one since the hotfix... until tonight, when I saw two of them in one instance, one near the Skittering entrance and one near the Parch entrance. I forgot to check Sorrow.

So my theory is that the hotfix isn't retroactive for existing instances and only affects newly-spawned instances. (This sort of thing, where a hotfix applies only to newly-spawned processes and not existing ones, is pretty a common feature of hotfixing in general, not just for ESO.)

And so if that theory is correct, then whether or not you run into Faceted enemies will depend on which instance you happen to land in, and that this won't be completely fixed until all old instances are wiped out (probably by the next time they do a server reboot).

Gabriel_H · 3:37AM

code65536 wrote: »

So, I think the problem is this: When I went into NM on the day and hour it opened, we saw and killed a number of Faceted enemies. But I never saw another one ever since.

So my guess is that there was a bug where they just don't respawn. ZOS applied a hotfix, but the reports are still erratic. Some players report seeing a number of Faceted enemies, and some players report still not finding any. I myself had not seen a single one since the hotfix... until tonight, when I saw two of them in one instance, one near the Skittering entrance and one near the Parch entrance. I forgot to check Sorrow.

So my theory is that the hotfix isn't retroactive for existing instances and only affects newly-spawned instances. (This sort of thing, where a hotfix applies only to newly-spawned processes and not existing ones, is pretty a common feature of hotfixing in general, not just for ESO.)

And so if that theory is correct, then whether or not you run into Faceted enemies will depend on which instance you happen to land in, and that this won't be completely fixed until all old instances are wiped out (probably by the next time they do a server reboot).

To give some support to your theory. Now that they have started showing up, I've been checking the race in The Parch. When there are faceted foes in the instance the race is crouch & jump, when the race is just crouch I have yet to see a faceted foe in the instance.

code65536 · 3:48AM

Gabriel_H wrote: »

To give some support to your theory. Now that they have started showing up, I've been checking the race in The Parch. When there are faceted foes in the instance the race is crouch & jump, when the race is just crouch I have yet to see a faceted foe in the instance.

Yes! I saw the exact same thing. I believe that the easy crouch-only Parch race was was unintended, and that they hotfixed it alongside the Faceted enemies (did they neglect to note this because it was an error in the player's favor?), and that it too only applies to new instances.

Gabriel_H · 4:14AM

code65536 wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

To give some support to your theory. Now that they have started showing up, I've been checking the race in The Parch. When there are faceted foes in the instance the race is crouch & jump, when the race is just crouch I have yet to see a faceted foe in the instance.

Yes! I saw the exact same thing. I believe that the easy crouch-only Parch race was was unintended, and that they hotfixed it alongside the Faceted enemies (did they neglect to note this because it was an error in the player's favor?), and that it too only applies to new instances.

Certainly plausible.

Side Note: Having killed a couple of what are rare mini-bosses I think ZOS and I have a very different definition of bountiful treasure.