Last night (after the 1.1.1 update) I encountered the butcher three separate times in nightmare dungeons, and he despawned in a pool of blood without any real warning. I’m playing a druid build that is basically a refrigerator, so I pretty much face tank him. He was near me, but my party members were not close enough to assist.
Is it possible he is de-spawning because he is trying to find a path to a different player and cannot? Is there a timer on how long you have to kill him now? With 4 players in zone he had a truckload of HP and that barrier was just annoyingly powerful, but each time he despawned he was at roughly 40-50% HP.
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He is on a timer. If you don’t kill him fast enough, he will just leave.
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He decided just to give up
Before yesterday, on a low DPS class, I have kited him around for 5 minutes in the past to kill him. Is this timer something new? He never has despawned on me before yesterday, but I don’t see anything in the patch notes about it.
Fought him for like 10 mins and he didn’t despawn. However, a few times he ran away from me as though inflicted with fear - i chased and he ran even further. Then he suddenly died and drop his loot.
If you don’t get murdered immediately, and you are attacking him. He does give you a chance to win. But, I have tried to fight him at lower levels. He, in fact, does have a timer. I was about halfway through his life bar when he turned into a pool of blood and vanished.
I think it’s more about interacting with him. If you run away from him, he will despawn. If you attack him, obviously that sets in motion another set of stipulations. But, again, if you don’t have the DPS to kill him. He will just leave. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
He certainly hasn’t had his HP doubled, I killed him twice today, a 102 version and a 95 version, both died as usual with my “tanking” rogue. He melts even faster now Barber heart is fixed
I ride the Barbarian struggle bus. Enough said.
ran into him yesterday and i had to chase him… lol wtf usually hes chasing me and im running away
At higher levels he is easy, and i’d love to see him scale a bit more in that regard. But, it’s not fun to get wrecked at lv 8 in a dungeon because you choose to skip the campaign.
Update: Went into a nightmare 36s with just my wife (lvl 53) in party today and had 3 butcher spawns. Killed him with ease as usual.
A little later another friend joined us and by this time the wife was 57 and the friend was 52. Butcher spawned once and he had far more HP and barrier than the previous. I’m guessing the HP increase is doubled for 2 players, then doubled again? Can’t be sure. I think the nightmare might have also had 30% more HP mod but he despawned at about 60% HP after running around wildly trying to find a spot to stop and throw his chain at me while I chased him spamming pulverize for 1.2-1.5 million at times.
They stealth nerfed the butcher, hes on a timer now and has mechanics to avoid exploiting (team members running off, trying to get him/confused etc).