Died to invisible mob (‘bug report’)

We don’t have a ‘Bug Report’ forum in the EU, and I am not asking for customer support, so I am posting here, as a warning to others!

Today I was levelling a shaman, got to level 12, completed the challenge to kill the fire elemental (to get the fire totem).

There was another Shaman there also, and I was in a group with them. They also killed the fire elemental, but hadn’t yet used the torch / brazier (which you need to do before going back to Barrens, handing in, where you are given the fire totem).

It happened too quickly, but in retrospect, what happened was:

  • They managed to get the fire elemental to spawn again
  • I wasn’t aware of this, but I did heal them before we walked down the mountain path, in case they fell
  • The fire elemental quest mob aggroed to me
  • The fire elemental killed me as I was running down the path, using potion, mana etc.

All I saw was my screen flashing red due to low health (the invisible mob was hitting me, but I had no animations to show I was being hit etc). Presumably the game hid the mob from me because I had done the quest, so I had no clue what was happening (and of course I couldn’t target the mob, even if I had realised what was happening, as it was invisible to me).

So - be careful around this shaman quest, and probably any quest where a class can spawn a mob as part of their levelling, because the game can make that mob invisible to you, but can make it attack you and chase you, while giving you no warning as to what is happening.

(edit : also, I had to self-heal myself almost constantly, and use a healing potion, to stay alive; the invisible mob killed me in about 10 seconds, and in retrospect, given I had around 500 armour (equipped with shield etc), it is likely that the mob was doing ‘unmitigated hits’ - it is probable that I had zero armour to the invisible mob, and maybe no chance to dodge etc. That is the only explanation for how fast it happened).

I doubt this will be fixed, so be careful. Also, I did go agane, immediately :joy:

There are several places where invisible mobs can kill you. The Ruins of Lordaeron courtyard for instance. One Aoe and your toast on low lvl^^

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On the EU side you can report bugs ingame, it will be helpful if you do this one the character that died for best results. It will go to the same place.

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Thank you - I did add a report (unfortunately, I did ‘go agane’ within a minute of dying; same character / race / class, but reported from the replacement character, at least!);

It is probably an extremely rare bug (someone in my group got aggro from the invisible mob, I did a small heal, I got aggro, but couldn’t see the mob, and only realised once my health was low! xD)

Am now level 17, and hoping to stay alive this time :slight_smile:

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