EDIT: Honestly, I was confident before because it literally worked seven times in a row but I’ve seen the most random things trigger it and then the next pull it doesn’t do anything. At this point, I’m not sure.
Blizzard. Fix your trash island. Maybe test a boss once or twice before you send it live.
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UPDATE:
***I was going over what is going wrong with other players and we found that the reason everyone stacking in the corner works is because someone is always hit by the charge. If the charge hits a wall, it bugs out for whatever reason. ***
So it sounds like the solution is for anyone who gets targeted by the charge needs to stand still and take the charge head on so the boss doesn’t hit a wall. If it hits a wall, it immediately trigger the cave-in and breaks the objective.
Furthermore, charging the entrance didn’t reset it for us on our most recent attempt. However, using his slam by a wall did. So maybe it’s any interaction with the bounds? It seems like every person getting hit by the charge rather than dodging is a big one.
I HAVE A SOLUTION UNTIL BLIZZARD FIXES THIS THAT I HAVE TESTED NOW 7 TIMES IN A ROW SUCCESSFULLY
OKAY! When the timer goes off for Excavation to finish, nobody attacks the boss. A tank needs to hug the left wall and go into the back left corner, where there’s an alcove.
Once there, taunt the boss to bait the first charge into the corner. Then, everyone needs to stack ON THE TANK so that all subsequent charges go into the corner. If everyone is stacked over here and he never charges towards the entrance, it will get you the gems. I discovered this by accident with a random Brewmaster I met and have now done this several times with randoms to help them get their gems and to spread the word.
This is bugged until Blizzard fixes it but this method DOES work. The tunnel method is extremely buggy and slow whereas this one works every time if everyone stacks correctly. Please spread the word and upvote this for visibility. I have been sitting at this stupid cave for over 2 hours now helping people and I want this to get more visibility.
EDIT: I’m being told that so long as it doesn’t touch a wall, it seems to not be breaking. Have not confirmed this yet. Can anyone provide some feedback on whether or not they’ve seen this work or fail?
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While this should work it’s very difficult to coordinate because there is always both faction players that can’t communicate.
It’s good info but what a joke of quality control
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Completely agree. This isn’t the most convenient thing but I found that by having a guild mate on his Alliance tank and me on my Horde tank, we could communicate to everyone how it works. Actually setup macros to streamline things. This made the process significantly easier but of course, that doesn’t always work. Even on the same faction, some people just don’t listen.
Unfortunately, it only worked around 50% of the time because all it takes is a single person sitting by the cave entrance or in the center to bug it out. Every single person has to stand alcove in front of the boss or it’ll bug out partway through.
This should not have gotten through Q&A. There are only three excavations on the entire island and Blizzard could have just killed the mobs a few times to realize this one was abhorrently bugged.
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The problem is dealing with the room temperature Hunters.
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There is no bug or issue to solve though so ?
It is actively bugged.
What I’m hearing now from talking to others that have done testing is that if it hits a wall or charges the entrance, THAT bugs it out. Can anyone else confirm or deny? Breaks the bounds of the room and that bugs out the objective?
Interesting there is a group of tanks that keeps hanging out there and taunting the boss out the door nonstop. Is that what folks are upset about?
This doesn’t actually work. I’ve been in a couple groups that tried this, and he went nowhere near the entrance, and the event still bugged. And other times I’ve seen him near the entrance for most of the fight, and it didn’t bug right away. I have never once seen the event complete, nor has anyone of my faction on the shards I’ve been on (at least those speaking in chat).
Don’t even waste resources activating this event until it’s fixed. The gems he drops are currently not obtainable.
That is for the hunter pet strat where you pull the boss through the wall while the Excavation is still happening. They are trying to reset the boss by pulling it all the way out.
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Interesting although it was a group from same guild taunting everyone and pulling boss out the door at last minute and then cheering and smack talking in local so it sure seemed malicious.
That is probably griefing then. I was with a group earlier doing resets but that’s just because the objective failed and we wanted people to get the gems. That is just people being malicious for sure.
Nobody knows for sure…the only way I’ve heard of it being completed is by forcibly resetting the boss and glitching hunter pets through the wall. It’s really complicated to set that up, but that’s the only way anyone has been able to complete it.
The OP’s strat of keeping him against the wall does not work. I’ve been in at least 5 groups that tried that.
The underlying issue that’s flying under the radar for a lot of folks suffering through this experience is that the cave’s in an endless loop of collapsing and resetting itself. I can’t say for sure whether anything Stalagnarok does influences the cave collapsing, but it’s easily observable that the cave is constantly collapsing and resetting even when the event isn’t active and/or Stalagnarok is dead.
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Then what, am I just making this up and lying for no reason?
I did this 7 times with everyone stacking and it worked fine. You can say you’ve tried it in 5 groups that did that and failed but I’m sharing what I experienced and what worked, hence my update that someone brought up another angle to it.
This is bugged. Blizzard screwed up.
I first tried the hunter reset earlier and it didn’t work for me. Then we did the corner and it worked fine. Tried it several more times with zero issues.
I somehow got the gem last night on like 8 tries i think i just noticed it in my bag this morning.
@Vralok
I have both gems. They ARE obtainable. Stop lying to people that this is impossible. Yeah, it’s bugged, but you absolutely can get the gems. i’ll link pics if you think I’m lying.
You just had luck in your tries op. The bug is well understood at this point and there are several posts on Reddit on why this is happening and what you should do until they fix (overlapping two events with resets)