is there a point to boss's bodies sticking around after you kill them?

[Zerixar]

with the larger bosses, when you kill them the body just stays there with a glow to it and you can damage the body until it finally goes away. is there a point to this? we haven't noticed getting any materials or anything from it, does it re-awaken if you don't touch it or something?

[Gilmore]

Huh? They disappear like any other body after looting them.

[Lailantie]

I also wondered why some of the bosses won't despawn after killing them. There were several cases where I was buried beneath the boss unable to move, and my husband had to remove the body to free me.

[Aluna]

Pretty sure its a bug

[Eightball]

In some cases I think it is intentional. Take for example the lizards in the tar in Blackmire.

If the lizard corpses de-spawned as soon as you looted them you could find yourself in the middle of a tar pool sinking fast (to your death).

And in some of the Halls you can end up with a dead boss in the 'lava'. As it stands now you can jump onto the corpse, loot it and jump back. If the corpse de-spawned as soon as you looted it you would find yourself 'in' the lava.

Again, not sure, but it may be intentional so as to allow players to loot corpses in what would otherwise be precarious situations.

[Lailantie]

Not sure about that. Bosses I remember that didn't despawn were the vukah bosses, the blue dragon and the cyclops. There was no lava nearby.

[Zerixar]

Originally posted by Eightball:

In some cases I think it is intentional. Take for example the lizards in the tar in Blackmire.

If the lizard corpses de-spawned as soon as you looted them you could find yourself in the middle of a tar pool sinking fast (to your death).

And in some of the Halls you can end up with a dead boss in the 'lava'. As it stands now you can jump onto the corpse, loot it and jump back. If the corpse de-spawned as soon as you looted it you would find yourself 'in' the lava.

Again, not sure, but it may be intentional so as to allow players to loot corpses in what would otherwise be precarious situations.

OK I guess that could make sense. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some mechanic involving the body where you could do something extra with it.

[CoLS Firestar]

I assume it has to do with the stun it plays upon dying.

[DanklesD]

It could also be so you can take a picture standing on the boss as a "Hey I conquered this" type of thing. I know a lot of people enjoy taking in game pictures in various games so thats the only thing i can think of.

[Aluna]

Originally posted by Eightball:

not sure, but it may be intentional so as to allow players to loot corpses in what would otherwise be precarious situations.

Normal mobs (like said lizards) don't do that afaik and all the corpses disintegrate slowly enough anyway.
Corpses that don't disappear have a bugged health bar where some random amount of health is still left and they disappear when you hit that bar to zero. I've seen such health bar issues in other games and its always a bug.

Originally posted by DanklesD:

It could also be so you can take a picture standing on the boss as a "Hey I conquered this" type of thing.

You take such pictures before looting ofc.

[peacockron]

I discovered that with the Wispwyvern's dead body, it has a small bit of health on a health bar and you can mine it down to nothing. When the health is all gone, the body disappears with an animation. I felt for sure I would get some resource from it but I don't think I did.

[Blud]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Huh? They disappear like any other body after looting them.

No they don't in my experience. Body is still there after looting and disappears when I whack it a few more times.

[Tunsafun]

for some reason when the bosses die they still have a bit of health, so if you whack em a few more times the body disappears, might be to fix a problem with them disappearing before looting? dunno