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Zemecon

Jan 5, 2017 @ 1:09am

Cannot catch monsters with a soul gem

Right now as I type this I am in the fourth underground layer, in a pit, and I have a purple creep trapped in a crevice. It only has a sliver of health left but I cannot trap it with a soul gem. The soul gem bounces off the creep and back into my hotbar. I tried this on another creature in the above layer after getting it down to very low health and I could not catch it, either. What is going on? I watched someone trap a creep in a soul gem in a Youtube LP and it only took a few tries. I have a purple soul gem made from 10 amethysts. Am I missing something or is this a bug?

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onilink_ [developer] Jan 5, 2017 @ 1:33am

There is multiple level of soul gems, and many monsters cannot be catched with the soul gem lv1.
Also a capture with the good soul gem can fail if the monster rarity is high, it require to retry multiple time.

You can know if you can catch or not a monster with a soulgem by listening to the sound when the capture failed. If the sound is very acute, you cannot catch the monster with your soulgem and require a better gem.

Zemecon

Jan 5, 2017 @ 1:52am

Ah OK. Thanks.

Yotokan

May 20, 2017 @ 6:31pm

Originally posted by onilink_:
There is multiple level of soul gems, and many monsters cannot be catched with the soul gem lv1.
Also a capture with the good soul gem can fail if the monster rarity is high, it require to retry multiple time.

You can know if you can catch or not a monster with a soulgem by listening to the sound when the capture failed. If the sound is very acute, you cannot catch the monster with your soulgem and require a better gem.

What about that yellow bar that sometimes appaers when you damage a monster doesn't that help with capture?

ThrillForVictory has Planet Centauri

Jun 19, 2017 @ 8:19pm

creeps require a lvl 2 soul gem i believe. In order to increase the likehood of capturing the monster, you need to lower its health down to red and then throw the gem. Keep in mind each throw is not a guantee capture so you have to keep trying.

If you don't care about spoilers, you can go to the monster guide in steam. In the monster guide, it tells you what kind of monsters there are , soul gem that you need to use, etc. ( it hasn't been updated so there are a few new monsters)