The Ancient Threat is permanently spawned preventing one from accessing the altar needed to complete the Talos Drellik alliance alert Fighting Power With Knowledge. It's up in all instances.

Can confirm. However, I believe the Ancient Threat is not always spawned; it just spawns automatically as soon as you enter the area.

Also able to confirm on Shadowlands, on both the PVE and PVP instances...seems to spawn, pull anyone nearby, kill, and despawn. Have several people on the server trying to get the artifacts and unable.

Same problem. It is now ABSOLUTELY impossible to get the artifacts for "Fight Power With Knowledge" alliance quest. :|

Agreed. This was, unfortunate.

Harbinger too, can't get close.

Same here from the Shadowlands. Tried just about everything and got nowhere. Please fix ASAP. Edited August 9, 2016 by rhinoceroseosei

Same on Progenitor.

Was also up on Tomb of Freedon Nadd. For a couple of first timers this caused a nasty, albeit humorous, surprise.

I can confirm this, on the server Ebon Hawk. Can't get close to the relics without triggering the spawn.

same on T3-M4

WTH is this thing, Ancient Threat? I've never seen it before.

It's a 24-man highly difficult world boss. Like NiM Dreadtooth, HM Colossal Monolith, etc.

 

~ Eudoxia

And in addition to being incredibly, agonizingly deadly, it's also only supposed to show up after a player goes through a long and arduous ceremony involving the ghosts haunting Yavin 4, to be able to correctly summon and even damage the damned thing.

 

At first I thought that someone had just summoned the bastard and left it to its own devices, but it's nice to be wrong sometimes.

I only can add that besides the long detection distance (stealth doesn't help at all), Ancient Threat literally devours the FPS: it drops from typical 60 to 1-2, which makes a character virtually non-controllable. I doubt that I would be able to fight this monster with such FPS even in a full 24-persons group. I didn't have the same problem anywhere else in SWTOR. Please fix this bug!

It's a 24-man highly difficult world boss. Like NiM Dreadtooth, HM Colossal Monolith, etc.

 

~ Eudoxia

 

Colossal Monolith is 16 man, and Nightmarish Dreadtooth hasn't been a challenge 2.0

 

This is even worse than than that.

happens for me too :-( (red eclipse server)

The team is aware of the issue and are aiming for a fix in 4.7.1. I will pass on additional information as I have it.

 

-eric

 

That's great! Thank you.

 

HK-55 achievements are also still bugged after many, many months. Threads here, here, here, and here.

I can confirm this; It lagged me to the point where I can't even log out or go back to a republic camp to respawn as my Jedi Sage. It's the last artifact which it triggers the boss crashing my computer each time.

Nightmarish Dreadtooth hasn't been a challenge 2.0

 

Did it in a PuG a couple of months ago, it took us a few wipes. I doubt it's as hard as it used to be though.

The team is aware of the issue and are aiming for a fix in 4.7.1. I will pass on additional information as I have it.

 

-eric

 

You guys will fix this in a heartbeat but still won't fix the instance bug in Operations that has been out for months, smfh.

I submitted an in game ticket like most of us probably did as well, and at least its not just me....yes truly misery loves company.

 

That being said, The ONLY question I have at this point is what genius thought it was a good idea to put these two spawns, the one for the little known, rarely fought Yavin 4 worldboss and the spawn point for a totally unrelated mission so darn close to one another?....just saying "Working as Intended" huh?

 

With these bugs BW / EA should be ashamed of what they are putting out, New content is good as long as you don't break the stuff you've already have out, and at the same time charging more for cartel packs and delivering less per pack! Didn't think people would notice the increase to 6300 Cartel Coins for the hypercrate but we did so you lowered the number of packs to try and get back to what we were used to paying for a Hypercrate. This is pure junk and insulting to your customer/player base. Much more of this kind of behavior and it wont matter if its Star Wars or not, people will leave your game in favor of a company that isn't so blatantly cheap and mistreating of its players.

Edited August 12, 2016 by Samwyse
Had incorrect information

Yeah i have this problem and its so bad that it crashes my graphics card completly .

Same thing on Red Eclipse, was trying to complete Talos Drelik reqruitment quest, but I cannot collect the final parts, cause I get stunned, killed and fps-dropped by the ancient threat....exrtremely annoying. Hope a fix is on the way...