Just to be clear, the tenticle can move. It also has the ability to mellee or ranged attack players on top of the rocks. However the AI design makes it simply stop attacking in a number of different circumstances.
it 100% does not fight back… and arguing the value of a lvl 64 vs 66 means you don’t understand the gs watermark system. THIS is the only boss you can exploit and solo and once your gs is 591 this 100% drops gs 600 legendries… I had a few people link me about 20 legendries they got from THIS boss. A solo person should NOT have that. You are trying to justify this because you are probably one of the people exploiting it.
You can even hit it from the front and it won’t do anything.
if it’s a bug, and people are actively using it to push their gearscore/watermark- yes it’s being exploited…
Consider this- People get mad at you for moving off that rock because it effects the bugged mechanics… lol tf outta here.
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Well technically speaking it can be an exploit, the issue is that the AI for the tentacle cant follow you and doesn’t reset like many ranged monsters since they can shoot you, this is quite old and it’s not a problem amazon can fix easily without changing the code of the mob’s AI.
also regarding the bunch of people that are farming that boss, they are braindead, similar to the watermark and luck system after 10 people on the spot the drop quality and quantity is horrible, plus is a waste of time because the tentacle is very tanky. this kind of thing is better done with less than 10 people, IoW 2 groups.
This “exploit” is by far the most inefficient way to raise your WM, you will be better of doing priests in Myrk or just elite chest runs or incursions. The reason being, with less than 10 people it takes forever and with more than 10 people you don’t get loot
Fighting back is trivial considering there is not much advantage to farming it over other bosses like I said. The boss at Spryla towers also has legendary drops on his table just like any boss.
Also you shared a screen shot of enough people ot have fought the boss head on with no issue either. In that screen shot they maybe shaved 10 seconds off moving off the rocks down below.
Even if a solo farmer got a bag full of 600GS legendaries, they would have far more legendaries solo farming other bosses. I understand the GS system just fine and level 64 enemies are enough to raise your watermark to 591. Once your watermark is maxed out you will be farming level 60 bosses for specific legendaries on their drop tables which is far easier than any of the level 64+ bosses.
Adhominem fallacy. I think you are over reacting to the situation. I have given a critical analysis of the situation in this thread, and like I say: grinding this boss is not as efficient increasing your water mark as other bosses are.
Personally I did farm this boss. When the videos first came out about the boss farms, there were too many groups at many of the bosses so I gave Viridulon a try. Actually I liked him because he was MORE of a challenge since his adds were deadlier. It wasn’t as boring as the others. Now that this fad has died down I am back to Scryla Tower because it is a far better way to farm watermark.
People get mad at anyone sitting in the area for any of the bosses. It is not limited to this one.
they already know unlikely any bans will come of it sadly I personally don’t care i’v not used it and struggling to get to 550+ kinda sucks but it is what it is. its been reported since the beta.
no ones justifying it… its just no one really cares as much its been ingame since the beta its been reported it’s also only bug that boarders between exploit and not so its a fine line as this happens with every mob ingame.
same with all elite chest…you can get behind most and deaggro. what you want is to punish everyone understandable but not possible when this can be done for almost every elite area. or chest.
Hell you can crouch into ore nodes and deaggro. everyone’s using it sadly. thoughts of us who are not well we fall behind so hopefully they’ll make watermark easier otherwise everyone who didn’t kinda hurt theirself lol . still going to 550 slowly while I see others rocking 600’s
Alright, so if you cannot understand why this is an exploit, you’re naïve. All mobs have a range and if they do not have the ability to get to you, they’ll retreat, the same is said if they cannot attack you. So with those two things combined, when the tentacle mob does NOT attack you and does not reset while it is getting pelted constantly, it probably means it’s bugged.
Now with this knowledge, in one of the recent dev blogs, they had mentioned, if you do something by accident and discover a bug, that’s okay, but if you CONTINUE to use the BUG to get an advantage of a situation you normally wouldn’t have, that is then considered an exploit, aka what they call, “common sense”.
It’s actually insane the individuals who think that because it is a bugged, that it’s a “clever use” of game mechanics, when the mechanic itself (retreating), isn’t happening.
There is 0 possible way you can say that I am incorrect when I’ve literally used AGS’s words to PROVE that this is indeed a EXPLOIT.
Come on.
There is no clear advantage to farming this boss over others like I have said. Players who farm this boss will be in the same relative position progression wise as other players who farm other bosses. Thus, it is more of a bug than an actual exploit as defined in that blog post.
I think people are tripping over optics rather than thinking critically of the end result. Thorpe was an example of a borderlined exploit, but because of his drop frequency and loot table he did give an advantage to those who went to farm him, and Amazon has listed him as an exploit.
you know what I’m talking about lol why pretend like it’s subjected to irrelevance…
People also get mad when they get called out for cheating or exploiting.
My only reply to you is… Bruh
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Remeber guys this is an official report section. It is best to keep it relevant to the issue at hand.
Look, I’m currently somewhere around 225 hours of reekwater 3 boss rotation elite farming… My highest, is 597 leg slot. Most weapons are still 570’s. I have 3-4 that are 550’s. Shields are 520’s.
This HWM is terrible. Any way that players can ease that suffering seems okay with me.
edit: Think I have somewhere near the upper 80’s right now in the number of Fancy Shells alone.
The specific mob drops jewelry HWM which is something that is difficult to level up. I know people who have got too 600 jewelry GS drops now. Yeah, totally not broken, stop.
If this mob has a higher chance to drop jewelry then there is an issue. However the Scryla Tower mob also drops jewelry, and I am sure there are others. Most players will farm the Myrkguard priests for jewelry watermarks. I haven’t tested it, but I would imagine farming Myrkguard priests would drop more jewelry per hour.
highest lvl elite named in game that
DOES NOT FIGHT BACK
fix and ban the cheaters!
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you are so wrong. period. Scryla tower boss IS NOT LVL 66 therefore does not drop high lvl items. THIS boss does ALL THE TIME. It is sickening how you try to justify this. This mob you dont have to fight anything you just watch netflix and afk… I have even see people sitting afk with a macro shooting straight where the head of the mob is. Keep trying to justify your cheating.
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Didn’t fix AI just removed the cliffs. Only makes it slower but still doable.