This is a horrible experience. You don’t have any visualization to know what locks you’ve done, do they reset when you leave, or is progress saved? I’ve counted the rats, killed them all, put the statues in the right places and zap… this is the worst. There is no way to troubleshoot, it could be bugged or it could be working correctly and it is my mistake, but I have no way to conclusively tell if I’m wasting my time, or if I’m making a mistake because I have no way of knowing.
I know this post is nine days old but this just happens to be the part where I am stuck. Am I supposed to kill the rats? If I get zapped, how do I reset or does it auto reset? I’ve done this three times already so there is no way to know where I’m at in the puzzle. So frustrating.
Do you guys check ConCon’s videos?
Get the weakaura it will save you a lot of sanity. Ridiculous that we need addons for this kind of thing but it’s better than doing it manually.
For the rat puzzle:
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Go to the machine. Click the first button. Click the second button.
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Go through the instance. Kill catacomb rats. Kill regular rats and count those. Do not include the catacomb rats in your count.
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Move the right # of statues to the right pressure plate. You may have to pull them up and over the center stairs. There will be colors that indictate the # of things on the pressure plate…make sure you aren’t on it.
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Go to the machine and push the second button only. If you’re right, you get a magnifying glass; if you’re wrong, you get zapped.
4a. If you are wrong, go out of the catacombs, reset the instance, and restart from 1.
4b. If you’re right, go back to step 2 (kill rats and count). Move statues. Click on second button.
You have to do it 3 times now.
I found there are 1-2 rats that like to hide in the room that has the 2 doors with statues behind them, with the fire throwing statue thing. They are on the left side just as you enter the room. Make sure to check there. Check the whole catacomb, without exiting, for rats.