I killed the Abysmal Remnant...

[Zarakaï]

And all I got was this lousy mug.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/913547533759297781/A7ED7A4A72D367AFAD2FE89CE75184035E6E8DDF/

Stones and plant fibers in every chest during the whole dungeon.

This random loot is worse than Skyrim's.

Also the acid pool didn't stay empty long enough for me to read the journal, I had to activate god mode to swim in acid.

[Solomon Hawk]

(Edit after looking at your screenshot)
That isn't a boss chest. Just so you know.
And you're missing the staff which you're supposed to get off of the remnant (I didn't see it in your inventory .. unless it's further down, beyond sight).

I'm surprised to see one of the pieces of the Scourgestone in your inventory.

[LittleBallOfPurr]

On top of that you get the Abysmal fangs to make the armour and Abysmal eye to make a weapon. The loot is a combo of his recipies and his corpse.

[Zarakaï]

Originally posted by Vahlok:

(Edit after looking at your screenshot)
That isn't a boss chest. Just so you know.
And you're missing the staff which you're supposed to get off of the remnant (I didn't see it in your inventory .. unless it's further down, beyond sight).

I'm surprised to see one of the pieces of the Scourgestone in your inventory.

A staff ? What staff ? I butchered the corpse to get the materials.

I didn't find the piece of the scourgestone there, I have two of them and forgot to store them in a chest.

But really the last chest of the dungeon in the BOSS room should have something nice in it. So yeah you get a recipe for a new armor and some materials, but that's it.

If they put chests in dungeons they could at least put something better than stones and plant fibers. You can find that stuff everywhere outside, no need to go in a dungeon. It's just disappointing.

[LittleBallOfPurr]

Originally posted by Texelion:

Originally posted by Vahlok:

(Edit after looking at your screenshot)
That isn't a boss chest. Just so you know.
And you're missing the staff which you're supposed to get off of the remnant (I didn't see it in your inventory .. unless it's further down, beyond sight).

I'm surprised to see one of the pieces of the Scourgestone in your inventory.

A staff ? What staff ? I butchered the corpse to get the materials.

I didn't find the piece of the scourgestone there, I have two of them and forgot to store them in a chest.

But really the last chest of the dungeon in the BOSS room should have something nice in it. So yeah you get a recipe for a new armor and some materials, but that's it.

If they put chests in dungeons they could at least put something better than stones and plant fibers. You can find that stuff everywhere outside, no need to go in a dungeon. It's just disappointing.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1382202624

This cheeky little chap :P

[Solomon Hawk]

You should have gotten a staff out of that creature's remains and I don't know why you didn't get it.
(Spoiler Alert)
You take that staff to the tower of bats, kill the Albino Bat and harvest it.
put both staff and that Albino Bat blood into the altar and the staff becomes "awakened".
Once it's cooked, you take it. Put it in your tool bar and place it on the ground ... and then "talk" to it. For an ancient staff, it's got a most peculiar accent and it sounds a bit "unhenged".
But it'll tell you a few things you might want to know.


@ ParadoxedHope .. yeah, I'd say it's cheeky.

[Zarakaï]

Well thanks fo telling me, I'll go kill it again and see if I get the staff.

But really how is one suppoed to guess that you have to put the staff and the blood into an altar ? Is there a journal to read about that somewhere ?

[Solomon Hawk]

Originally posted by Texelion:

Well thanks fo telling me, I'll go kill it again and see if I get the staff.

But really how is one suppoed to guess that you have to put the staff and the blood into an altar ? Is there a journal to read about that somewhere ?

I can't remember.
(must be senility creeping in).

[LittleBallOfPurr]

If you get any weird items, like the staff, select it and click the 'info' button. The staff has a description, including a broken up text, Tower of Bats is mentioned along with blood. Then when you get there, something there helps you to guess which type of blood. There are a lot of clues hidden in the texts in Conan.

[Zarakaï]

Originally posted by ParadoxedHope:

If you get any weird items, like the staff, select it and click the 'info' button. The staff has a description, including a broken up text, Tower of Bats is mentioned along with blood. Then when you get there, something there helps you to guess which type of blood. There are a lot of clues hidden in the texts in Conan.

Yeah but everytime I think there is something special here or there I try to find a solution, then end up looking on the forums just to see people saying "yeah it's not implemented yet", like for the Hannuman statue.

And sometimes I explore caves and stuff and see something which looks like a gate but it can't be opened, no clue around, maybe it's not even a gate, maybe it's for later.

Or like, I've built a Derketo shrine just to discover that there is no priest in the game, unless you activate the purge it seems.

Everything is so obscure and unexplained, or not finished.

Feels like the puzzles from Secret World.

[LittleBallOfPurr]

Originally posted by Texelion:

Originally posted by ParadoxedHope:

If you get any weird items, like the staff, select it and click the 'info' button. The staff has a description, including a broken up text, Tower of Bats is mentioned along with blood. Then when you get there, something there helps you to guess which type of blood. There are a lot of clues hidden in the texts in Conan.

Yeah but everytime I think there is something special here or there I try to find a solution, then end up looking on the forums just to see people saying "yeah it's not implemented yet", like for the Hannuman statue.

And sometimes I explore caves and stuff and see something which looks like a gate but it can't be opened, no clue around, maybe it's not even a gate, maybe it's for later.

Or like, I've built a Derketo shrine just to discover that there is no priest in the game, unless you activate the purge it seems.

Everything is so obscure and unexplained, or not finished.

Feels like the puzzles from Secret World.

Haha yeah, I can understand the feelings there. It's hard to want to try to solve a puzzle if the last 9 puzzles you tried to solve, weren't really puzzles.

For the most part, I try to just be on the eye for names, be it people or places. If that pops up, it piques my interest. I've found that can come from NPC dialogue, info descriptions, written texts and even ghosts showing places.

The empty buildings is definitely a big disappointment, it's like seeing a massive Christmas present, excitedly tearing it open and finding a note saying "It's the thought that counts!"

[Zarakaï]

Yeah well I just went back and killed the remnant again and there was no staff, nor on his body, nor in the pool, nowhere to be found.

Another bug I guess. Or do I have to destroy the stones in the pool ? The acid came back before I could try that.

[LittleBallOfPurr]

I always use a Cleaver on him and I've always gotten a staff from him. Which tool did you use?

The Journey step to kill him is the first clue in a very long story, it really shouldn't be failing to give you the next step of that story. You on Single Player by any chance? You can use MakeMeAdmin, then go the the admin panel and spawn one in if it is bugging out and not dropping for you.

[Leeux]

Did you learn the recipes at the entrance? Maybe it's tied to that, by any chance?

I just recently did the Abyssal Remnant myself and he politely dopped the staff for me :D

[Zarakaï]

I tried a skinning knife, an axe and a pickaxe, I didn't have the cleaver on me, I'll try next time.

On the wiki they say the staff is in the pool not on the remnant but there was nothing.

And yes I learned all the recipes, activated the stone at the entrance etc.

I'm in SP, i don't like to cheat with the admin panel but if it's a bug i won't have any choice. I'll try to kill him a third time and see.

Could it be due to my level though ? i installed a mod to increase max level to 100 and I'm level 70 now. Maybe I'm too high level and the staff doesn't drop after level 60 ?

[Leeux]

Originally posted by Texelion:

<snip>Could it be due to my level though ? i installed a mod to increase max level to 100 and I'm level 70 now. Maybe I'm too high level and the staff doesn't drop after level 60 ?

Nah, don't think so... I also have a mod installed to increase the level cap and I was already past L60 when I went there myself.

I also killed him two times, used a skinning knife and a hatchet/pick alternatively (not the pickaxe...) and both times it gave me the staff.

I've read in other thread that someone reported that the pickaxe is bugged for dropping some of the "special" loot, so I'd try not using it when harvesting boss monsters... just use the hatchet or the normal pick.

EDIT: BTW... if you're in there and want to repeat the kill... you can just close/logoff and restart/logon and he will repawn and will be there waiting for you again :)

I'd move out of the way before you do that, though... best place to camp out is down the stairs by the entrance to the final room.