eternal bone giants

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Charlatan73
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eternal bone giants

#1 Post by Charlatan73 »

being eternal, i take it there is no way to drop them?

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Re: eternal bone giants

#2 Post by Grey »

It's false advertising on their part. They're just a bit persistent is all.
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Re: eternal bone giants

#3 Post by Charlatan73 »

hrm, welp i finally got one to 0HP even though my berserker obviously counts on lots of physical damage, which was reduced to 0.
LONG fight.
But i got him down to 0, and he would then get another 150 or so HP. Did this twice. Shall I assume 3rd time is the charm?

EDIT: Fight I'm referencing took place in the backdoor to the armory in the far east. Unless that particular Eternal Bone Giant is supposed to be indestructable, with 100% physical damage resistance, I think i encountered a bug.
I went to another pride, found another eternal, and dropped it pretty easily. Definitely not the same experience.

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#4 Post by Grey »

Hrm, only encountered one with an Archmage, and he only resurrected once. Maybe he has a cooldown on the resurrect and you must kill him quickly? Also note that any enemy must reach -1 HP to die.
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Re: eternal bone giants

#5 Post by Charlatan73 »

yeah i'm probably killed about 10 or so at this point. that one was definitely different, maybe buggy

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Re: eternal bone giants

#6 Post by overtrix »

Sounds like it's not the cause here, but the generation in T4 does throw up noticeable differences between individual bad dudes - which seems like a good thing, can find e.g. that one uruk or whatever is majorly fire-resistant while his buddy's perfickly toastable. There's so much behind-the-scenes stuff like that which adds touches - the archer might be about to whack you with slime-coated arrows, depends what he picked up at the barracks this morning - is very good.

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