Drake flying off?

[just.nuke.em]

So I'm in post game and want to kill the Drake just outside Gran Soren, but whenever I get it on the last bar, it fly up and then is gone. I can't see it, but the health bar is still on my screen. Bug? This has happened more than once on the same Drake.

[Proconsul]

If the fight strays outside a flyer's designated "hangout" location, it will fly off, often out to sea. That might be happening here.

Solution: kill it faster and/or disable it's wings early on

[cdarklock]

I often have the same problem with that drake. I don't know that I'd call it a bug. More like "kill it faster," I'd say.

[just.nuke.em]

Hmm, weird. Kill it faster, got it.

[Algol]

Just outside Grand Soren? It's not a Drake, it's a Wyvern. The latter are notorious for excessive flying, but if it doesn't come back at all, it's a bug I guess. Bring some Rangers/Striders who can pincushion the bugger mid-air.

[GAZE]

it's not a bug, you've just made it so that he is out of its designated area. If he goes too far he will fly away, make sure you tell your pawns to come to approx the middle of his spawn ground and fight him there

[just.nuke.em]

Originally posted by Algol:

Just outside Grand Soren? It's not a Drake, it's a Wyvern. The latter are notorious for excessive flying, but if it doesn't come back at all, it's a bug I guess. Bring some Rangers/Striders who can pincushion the bugger mid-air.

That's to the north, near Windbluff tower. I know the issue with that one...

The Drake is straight west of Gran Soren, in the plains.

Originally posted by Gaze:

it's not a bug, you've just made it so that he is out of its designated area. If he goes too far he will fly away, make sure you tell your pawns to come to approx the middle of his spawn ground and fight him there

I can't find anything about the exact location these boundaries, so that doesn't help. When I first engaged it, we didn't move very far at all during any of it. I think something was up.

[DownSouth05]

I encountered it just ourside Gran Soran. There is a herd of aurocs there. What I do is kill them and try lure the thing down that way. When it lands go for the wings. Thats the plan anyway lol

[Proconsul]

Originally posted by just.nuke.em:

That's to the north, near Windbluff tower. I know the issue with that one...

It isn't an issue just with that one. As I said before, it is an issue with ALL flying boss critters, even griffins. If the fight moves outside what I will call their comfort zone, they will just fly away rather than returning to their comfort zone.

Originally posted by just.nuke.em:

I can't find anything about the exact location these boundaries, so that doesn't help. When I first engaged it, we didn't move very far at all during any of it. I think something was up.

That is the tricky bit, right enough. It isn't like the beastie projects a big blue circle delineating its home turf, after all. When you first engaged it, it might have been right at the edge of its range or right in the middle - no way to know for sure. But I suspect, and I repeat that this is just my personal suspicion, that it's flight pattern for the take-off and strafe portion of the evening's entertainment, may itself carry the beastie too far outside its zone and trigger the fly-away reflex. That is another reason why I advocate the same two tactical compensation for ALL encounters with flyers: kill them faster, and/or cripple their wings early.

[Corlain]

I would call it a bug since it didn't happen in the original DD, or at least it was a pretty stupid addition if they did it on purpose.