When we get to the second wave of elites, like 5 of them spawn and they're pretty much impossible to kill....

 

Anyone else having this problem?

 

We tried resetting the instance too, still same thing....

yep we're having the same issue, as are another group on our server, great fix

 

does ANYONE test this stuff?

That fight has a number of bugs. Gotta get luckly.

On hard mode at least, youre supposed to do it like this, at least thats what we do..

 

have two teams on each side, figure out the right turns before you aggro the mobs and start turning the wheels..

 

everytime you have to lock on the right symbol, you have to sync it with the other side so they lock in at the same time..

 

This is what we did... still the wheels became unturnable... and those acklay mobs started spawning like crazy after a while..

 

Are we missing something? we did this in hardmode pre patch without figuring out the turns before we started turning them on the spot.. and it worked okay when we started syncing the lock on's... Tbh, I am not so happy for the ev fixes since it seemes to have only screwed up the pylon fight, so now we wont be able to progress any further until they hotfix it... -.-

That's no bug, you're too slow.

 

Edit : We just did it on nightmare.

Edited January 18, 2012 by Mazzrad

Having the same issue. We have been doing this for about a month now and haven't seen more than one elite spawn during the encounter... now we are getting 5 at a time towards the end.

 

UPDATE: We reset the instance and it fixed the problem.

Edited January 19, 2012 by Offwhite

We had the same problem on Nightmare (+4 Acklays at the same time, consoles not being clickable after a solve) and we managed to finish it like this:

 

North pillar solves first wheel first.

South pillar solves second and third wheel first.

North pillar solves last wheel first.

 

So its North South South North. Figure out how the wheel works and how many left/right clicks you need to solve each wheel, and coordinate with the other team so you finish in that pattern.

 

So far, we have completed every Pylon 'kill' this way. And this was on Nightmare.

We're working on 16 man regular, and we are getting alot of adds. Last week we one shot it on 8 man reg and hard mode.

 

Don't know if its us or if its bugged

That's no bug, you're too slow.

 

Edit : We just did it on nightmare.

 

This. It's essentially a soft enrage.

 

We had the same issue, but once we tried actually going quickly instead of messing around, we were able to do it.

Edited January 19, 2012 by DarthSiricus

This. It's essentially a soft enrage.

 

We had the same issue, but once we tried actually going quickly instead of messing around, we were able to do it.

 

The encounter didn't have a "soft enrage" before the patch, and there's no mention of adding an enrage in the patch notes. We used to take our time with this encounter the first few times, so I can assure you that a soft enrage didn't exist pre-patch.

We also succeeded after the 5th time of wiping on the third wheel with 5 Acklays spawning, we just turned them crazy fast and managed to lock both Pylons before the 15 or so Acklays at that point killed us.

We had the same problem on Nightmare (+4 Acklays at the same time, consoles not being clickable after a solve) and we managed to finish it like this:

 

North pillar solves first wheel first.

South pillar solves second and third wheel first.

North pillar solves last wheel first.

 

So its North South South North. Figure out how the wheel works and how many left/right clicks you need to solve each wheel, and coordinate with the other team so you finish in that pattern.

 

So far, we have completed every Pylon 'kill' this way. And this was on Nightmare.

 

We tried NSSN several times in nightmare tonight and it did not work.

That's no bug, you're too slow.

 

Edit : We just did it on nightmare.

 

I was wrong.

Edited February 5, 2012 by nilssen

How in the hell are people getting multiple spawns of elites? How slow are you guys going for christs sake. We have never had more than 1 elite spawn in any attempt and on occasion we've finished before that one even spawned.

You have to kill all the south, then all the north. Don't even click north until all of south is done.

You have to kill all the south, then all the north. Don't even click north until all of south is done.

 

Bad advice here. Figure out how many turns each side will take. If north is less than south for that level then do both but get north to within 1 turn and wait for south to lock. Lock south for that level then lock north. Rinse and repeat. If you do it right you'll finish every time either just before the elite spawns or just after. The only time you'll have an issue is if one side only has 1 turn on the 4th level. If you see that just zone out and reset since it triggers a different bug where you can click the console but it won't spin. This is tested over and over so if you say it doesn't work you're just messing it up and failing to follow directions.

bad advice here.

 

say wuttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

none of this worked, i hate you all and I hate EA more.

the only thing I have gotten is legacy XP and , well, that's it.

Edited February 7, 2012 by Lion_of_Judah

We had the same problem on Nightmare (+4 Acklays at the same time, consoles not being clickable after a solve) and we managed to finish it like this:

 

North pillar solves first wheel first.

South pillar solves second and third wheel first.

North pillar solves last wheel first.

 

So its North South South North. Figure out how the wheel works and how many left/right clicks you need to solve each wheel, and coordinate with the other team so you finish in that pattern.

 

So far, we have completed every Pylon 'kill' this way. And this was on Nightmare.

 

Posting to confirm that after attempting this fight on hard mode numerous times and it bugging out, we finally tried this strat and it worked perfectly the first time.

 

+1 Internets to you.

I just did this yesterday and on first attempt that happened, second was super fast and perfect and it didnt happen, I think your just going to slow

 

and then the loot was bugged >

Edited February 7, 2012 by Cupkip

I can add another voice to the bugginess of this encounter since the patch. We've downed it on hardmode twice prior to tonight with no issue at all; tonight the wheels bugged out and became un-clickable after the second round every time we tried the fight.

When we get to the second wave of elites, like 5 of them spawn and they're pretty much impossible to kill....

 

Anyone else having this problem?

 

We tried resetting the instance too, still same thing....

 

... that's the enrage timer.

 

Also, you don't need to solve it NSSN. First and last doesn't matter, 2nd and 3rd need to be solved by south before north. =free loot, unless the rows stop rotating..

Edited February 7, 2012 by Mrs_Murder