In the Confessor’s Stronghold Story Instance, I am unable to drain and break one of the Bloodstones whilst fighting the second Veteran Bloodstone Elemental Mauler. This means I am unable to take down the shield and I cannot continue with the story.
I’ve attempted the instance twice now, hoping it was just a one time glitch. However, I’ve come to realise it isn’t, and that it puts the entire story to a standstill. The bloodstone continues to respawn on an endless cycle despite the player character consistently draining it.
You need to drain it TROUGH the monsters to remove their Shields. Just havet the monster inbetween yourself and the bloodstone and then activate the skill.
And once you get past that, you can be stuck at the next step where you have to do the same thing only with a bloody moving target.
After 30 minutes i gave up. One time getting them in the beam isn’t difficult, but it only half breaks the cc bar and you get knocked around by annoying adds with their nr2 longbow skill so by the time you manage the second, the cc bar has refilled.
Very solo-unfriendly
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I concur. I got stuck at the same place going solo but what really bugged me is Rytlock and Marjorie standing there doing nothing. Very solo-unfriendly indeed.
After I realized you had to drain through the shield I got past the elementals but on the boss fight the ‘drain’ effect simply vanished each time I got far enough so that she would move through it.. can’t finish the instance like this.
there are no enemies spawning to use on the bloodstones, so been running about the instance for 30 minutes now until I looked up online how to do the instance..this instance fails
I had trouble with this too — you have to activate the special skill then move so that the “big red beam” crosses the foes. It’s easy to miss on the first ele because standing next to the bloodstone is good enough to make it happen. It’s a bit harder to miss it on the second (although I did) because it’s possible to stand close enough to the bloodstone that you don’t notice the beam and still disable the invulnerability.
I misunderstood the instructions — I thought that I could only drain the magic if I remained near the bloodstone and the more trouble I had, the closer I stayed to it, which is the opposite of what you need to do.
tl;dr trigger special skill and then walk to the other side of the foe and make sure the beam is cutting it.
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Possibly the worst instance design, ever. (although there’s some competition)
What you need to do is not at all obvious. Even after googling it to find out what I needed to do, I just about gave up before finally succeeding, because the boss moves so much faster than you do and the range of the bloodstone beam is limited that it’s extremely difficult to solo this instance.
edit: LOL. I just realized I was moving so slow because I left run mode. Accidentally hit the toggle key during combat because it’s right next to the – key I need to keep hitting. Still, this instance needs to at least be clearer about what you need to do.
As stated above bya few people, likely not a bug. What you need to do (as hinted by canach and marjory) is to get close to the stone, have a line tethered to you from the stone, and pass it through the bloodstone elemental’s shield. I think Marjory said something like ‘anything caught in its line gets their magic drained’.
To make it easier to move while tethered, you need to use the counter magic special action (pops up near your F1 skills). Once it’s activated, you can move at your normal move speed while still carrying the tethered beam.
Come on guys, the instance is very easy once you know what you’re doing. I’m saying that and I’m a terrible player.
It is possible to drain Justiciar’s entire breakbar in one go (and super-easy in two), just quickly get yourself on the outside of her circle of movement and follow her in order to keep the beam hitting her shield. If anything, the actual fight was more difficult, and I did get downed by her once when I wasn’t paying attention.
So, You draw an Arc from the center Bloodstone, then hit your Counter Magic which allows you to run, run to, or behind the Justicar to take out the invulnurability shield, then take her down. May have to do this multiple times. Easier if you bring a friend
Trying to complete this instance; I only have to find Caudecus since I managed to check in with Canach and overcome the ambush.
But there are no mobs or anything showing to help drain the unstable bloodstone chunks all over the floor and the npcs are just standing there doing nothing. The wall past the unstable bloodstone chunks has a green star on it, but will not open no matter what I do.
So if I am supposed to drain these chunks to trigger the wall, it appears this instance is BROKEN. Nothing works….no extra mobs to use the unstable bloodstones on to drain them with, and no way to trigger the wall.
Fix this instance. It should not be this much of a problem. If it had been implemented with sufficient mobs to do the draining, I would not be stuck here trying to finish this.
But there are no mobs or anything showing to help drain the unstable bloodstone chunks all over the floor and the npcs are just standing there doing nothing.
Simply stand next to the shard. Counter magic should pop up to break it.
But there are no mobs or anything showing to help drain the unstable bloodstone chunks all over the floor and the npcs are just standing there doing nothing.
Simply stand next to the shard. Counter magic should pop up to break it.
I did try that…with no pop up showing. Unfortunately, it did not even peep up at any of the shards I managed to get close to before having to move away to prevent drain death.
Had I seen a pop up you can be certain I would have utilized it…but without it, seems the instance is not working as intended.
I did try that…with no pop up showing. Unfortunately, it did not even peep up at any of the shards I managed to get close to before having to move away to prevent drain death.
The drain should have popped up with counter magic. Counter magic is unlocked through a mastery, which was required to get this far. You do have it? Try using the keybind just in case the icon is simply invisible. You can find the binding under Skills / Special Action.
I did try that…with no pop up showing. Unfortunately, it did not even peep up at any of the shards I managed to get close to before having to move away to prevent drain death.
The drain should have popped up with counter magic. Counter magic is unlocked through a mastery, which was required to get this far. You do have it? Try using the keybind just in case the icon is simply invisible. You can find the binding under Skills / Special Action.
The popup should look like this:
Nope, never saw anything like that above my hot keys….was watching for it.
