With the lowering of the Enigma Machine locks to 3 from 7, it now constantly zaps you at Lock 3. For me it’s constantly resetting itself to:
“There appears to be 3 locked mechanisms.”
No matter if I solved 1 lock or 2 locks already. I’ve screenshotted my WA showing I have 2 locks unlocked but the machine shows I’m at 0. This is quite frustrating as I’ve been banging my head against this door for days now. (literally and figuratively)
It is still happening and has been going on for a few weeks now. I’ve got 2 different macros to make sure NO rats are up (catacomb or regular). I run through the entire place to make sure NOTHING is on a plate that shouldn’t be. I make sure I am NOT hitting “Begin”. Nevertheless always get zapped when I know it’s the 3rd attempt but the machine shows it’s the 1st (aka it says there’s 3 locks locked but I and my WA know that’s not true).
Can this please be addressed??? SO many are solving this and I am unable to move past this point.
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For this pillar you basically have to count “rats” then kill them and also kill all the “catacomb rats”.
For example you have lock 1: you hit begin / submit
Then you go around counting rats - (killing them) - lets say you have 8 you killed with just the word “rats” on it you then need to clear out the “catacomb rats” (killing them) cause they can walk across a panel. Once you have the number of rats you compare that to the table and you move the statues on to the panel and use the machine by clicking submit. (Never hit begin again.)
Lock 2 and 3 work the same way except you have to take the old statue placement off the floor panels before you do anything, then kill the new rats (counting them) and catacomb rats (to ensure they don’t walk over a panel)
So I am thinking you are either allowing the old statues to stay in place, or you are allowing the catacomb rats to live and they are messing with the floor panels.
(I helped two other people get it done just yesterday.)
What the game is telling you is going to be more accurate than the WA. If the machine has reverted to saying you need 3 locks, then one of your previous locks was done incorrectly and reset the sequence.
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For me the solution I found was buried in youtube comments under a video.
Run out, reset the instance.
Go in, click the enigma machine.
Click begin. AND NEVER CLICK BEGIN AGAIN
Click submit.
Kill all rats, normal and catacomb, the weakaura counts them just fine.
Move statues for answer.
Click submit. DO NOT CLICK BEGIN TO SPAWN MORE RATS (submit button does this!)
If you ever hit begin a second time it stops accepting correct answers until u reset the instance!
Knowing to never hit begin again made it work first try after a lot of frustration!
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OMG YOU ARE MY HERO!!!
Why do none of the instructions say THIS???
This worked. I am so blown away. Less than 3 minutes and I have 8 done. Holy wow. After WEEKS of getting zapped. THIS needs to be in the guides. You’re so my hero!!!
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The Wowhead guide mentions nothing about choosing the “Begin” option any time except the first time. FYI, almost all guides related to the secrets tell you what to do to the letter. If you inserted an extra step, that’s kind of on you; don’t blame the help.
Clicking begin spawns rats, unless one of the rats spawns near you when you submit the first round… most people will assume you click begin to spawn the 2nd set… as evidenced by multiple people running into this issue.
Go away contrarian your condescending post adds no value. Flagged as trolling.
No, clicking Submit spawns each set of rats. If you read the Wowhead guide I mentioned, it is pretty clear since there is no mention of rats until after the first Submit step.
The quote I presented was very evidently incredulous, and implying blame to the guide for their own mistake. Again, you don’t blame guide-writers for your inability to follow their instructions to the letter.
Feel free to report all you want, but I’d advise that continually submitting false reports on the forums can also result in action.
My comment helped someone and you were a nasty troll for no reason. That isn’t a false report.
i am unable to get past lock 3 - i do the rats and that statues for lock 4 and go to submit and the enigma machine doesn’t work - says The contraption appears inert. All mechanisms are unlocked . I have reset all instances and ran back in but now I can’t even activate the machine at all
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I just had the same thing happen to me last night. I went to hit submit for lock 4 and I could not interact. The crappy thing is you can’t go back to get what you need to unlock the machine again because you have already solved those puzzles. I have a ticket in so we will see. Wonderful Glitch when you are so close to solving everything and getting the mount. Sigh