Squall of Retribution: Fire Orbs spawn repeatedly out of nowhere

Arunei · August 25

So from my understanding, Fire Orbs are only supposed to drop when you kill Flame Atronachs. However a few times now I've been doing Exiled Redoubt on my own and again with a friend, and all three times I've encountered an issue where the things spawn literally from nowhere and will keep spawning as soon as I pick them up. It only happens with the Fire Orbs that I've noticed, my friend saw it too. They will spawn over and over in the exact same place, pretty much as soon as one is picked up and the AoE of it vanishes, another spawns in its place.

Is this a known bug or something? I couldn't find anything about it searching online.

Soarora · August 25

I’ve not experienced this but I also haven’t done that boss with anything less than 4 players. Are you sure that you’re not picking up the orb whilst you already have one? You can only have one orb at a time, picking up another orb causes you to drop the first one.

Arunei · August 25

That's odd, the first two times I went in were on my own, so I was having to pick up multiple ones. The time first time in, it didn't start happening until somewhere around the third or fourth attempt, when the boss was maybe around 35-40% Health. I'd been picking up the Orbs while still carrying one before and it wasn't spawning them when I did. The second time I went in, it started happening on the second attempt earlier in the fight.

On the third time going in my friend was with me and he saw it spawn the Orbs numerous times in a row; he's familiar with the Dungeon and neither he nor any of the guides I checked (to see if it was a thing) mentioned droppping Orbs if you tried to pick one up while already under the effects of one. We've also run this Dungeon a few times together before and had never seen this happen. If it's supposed to make you drop whatever Orb you're "carrying" every time, it seems inconsistent.

Soarora · August 25

Arunei wrote: »

That's odd, the first two times I went in were on my own, so I was having to pick up multiple ones. The time first time in, it didn't start happening until somewhere around the third or fourth attempt, when the boss was maybe around 35-40% Health. I'd been picking up the Orbs while still carrying one before and it wasn't spawning them when I did. The second time I went in, it started happening on the second attempt earlier in the fight.

On the third time going in my friend was with me and he saw it spawn the Orbs numerous times in a row; he's familiar with the Dungeon and neither he nor any of the guides I checked (to see if it was a thing) mentioned droppping Orbs if you tried to pick one up while already under the effects of one. We've also run this Dungeon a few times together before and had never seen this happen. If it's supposed to make you drop whatever Orb you're "carrying" every time, it seems inconsistent.

Unfortunately, dungeon guides tend to be lacking these days so I’m unfortunately not surprised that they didn’t mention dropping the orb. I’ll see about investigating this.

GeneralGrundmann · August 26

It is exactly like you noticed. You can only carry one orb at the same time.

That's kind of an anti-burn mechanic of the boss.

I soloed the dungeon on veteran and learned this the hard way.

That's also the reason why I use a resto staff to ensure that I can target only an atronach or the squall and don't kill someone I don't want to kill yet.

YffresTrill · August 26

The orbs are on a timer, so you can slow DPS and wait for the current one to run out before you have to pick up another.

GeneralGrundmann · August 26

YffresTrill wrote: »

The orbs are on a timer, so you can slow DPS and wait for the current one to run out before you have to pick up another.

Yeah, they are on a 15 seconds timer.

Necrotech_Master · August 26

yeah this dungeon final boss in particular is very punishing to you if you try to burn it