right next to the maw event on wayfarer foothills, there’s a waypoint that leads to a small hut where a norn couple lives. their kid is usually asking players to collect tattered armor to make a snow norn army. but as far as i can remember (and i’ve been playing since BWE1), that lodge’s door has always been infested with a neverending army of grossly overleveled ice elementals (we’re talking lv15 on an area that downscales you to 11) that just keep spamming AoEs in front of the door as if there was something to attack. and the longer it goes without a player (or server reset) to clean it up, the more elementals stack there.
i think we all know a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s the aftermath, after my lv80 and another guy fought the elementals (i got downed twice, but since the elementals care more about the door than the players, i could rally on my own, despite barely scratching them with my downed skills).
I happened upon that mess for the first time many months ago. They were all stacked exactly on eachother and I thought it was just one or two, suddenly 30+ lvl 15’s turned around and destroyed me. At that time, I wasn’t as lucky as some where they focused on the door…they weren’t as intent on pushing through the door as they were at wanting me dead when I interrupted them. I learned to avoid that area permanently.
Nearly the same issue, but with friendly NPCs, occurs in the southwest corner of Caledon forest where a mess of fern hounds get lost and stuck near that heart quest in that back alley with the big wurms. They don’t do anything, but sometimes there are dozens of them just standing there.
Also, several NPC “SKTR-0100 [Runner]” golems stack on eachother in the Accountancy waypoint in Rata Sum. Also not a big problem, but they don’t stand there quietly…they constantly play their beep-boop music over eachother, and just out of sync so it’s a mess of noise. As well as them finishing with saying “good morning”, etc. over, and over and over. I have to keep reminding myself to mute my headphones when I am there as it is very irritating. :\
