Morokei Battle Bug - Fight Not Starting

[Happy Halloween]

I've made my way all the way through the Labrynthain to the room with Morokei and the two mage thralls (this is the quest to get the Staff of Magnus). The two mages are casting beams at Morokei, keeping hm in a sort of force field. However, when I kill the mages, their beams don't disappear and Morokei stays trapped in the force field (he doesn't even initiate the fight). Does anyone have advice on what I should do? Are there any console commands I could use that would get him to start fighting?

[alexander_dougherty]

Mages aren't keeping him from attacking, they are making him stronger. He should attack you the minute you attack one of them.

The only thing I can think of is to backtrack, go back one area (where the game reloadsd the map), then go back again, and see if he now attacks you. I had to do something similar in one of the Daedric Quests, and it worked then, maybe it will work for you.

[Happy Halloween]

I exited the dungeon and walked through the whole thing again, but unfortunately the situation stayed the same. Although I did try that after I killed the wizards. Maybe I should try it again but leaving the wizards alive.

[silentcrow01]

I poked around, but could find no sure solution. You could try the suggestion in this post http://www.gamesas.com/how-fix-invincible-morokei-glitch-t342276.html

[cfs111]

Open the console and click on him. Type in
Resetai
Disnable
Enable

[Happy Halloween]

I messed around with the resetai technique but it doesn't seem to do anything. I have yet to try silentcrow01's advice, though.

[Uncle64]

Originally posted by cfs111:

Open the console and click on him. Type in
Resetai
Disnable
Enable

Do notice one spelling error. CFC111
Perhaps that is why this did not work for Traffic Cat.
It should have worked.

It should be.
Resetai
Disable
Enable

And one thing that almost all times work, is to load the save before you enters the cell.

[silentcrow01]

Just remember that command could kill a non-essential follower, too

Morokei may rarely be invincible due to Zero Hit Box detection (every shot counts as a miss). The console command "kill" with Morokei selected or with his RefID won't work. The only way to kill him is to use the Console Command Killall. Make sure that your follower is set as essential before using that method. from http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Morokei

[Happy Halloween]

I'll try that and get back to you on how it works, silentcrow01.
Also, Uncle64, thank you for clarifying, although I did guess that it should have been spelled Disable and it still sadly didn't work.

[Uncle64]

Did you try to load one older save?

[Happy Halloween]

Yeah, I loaded an older save and even did stuff outside of the quest before returning to it. I think I'm just going to use console commands to end the quest, then add the staff and Morokei's mask through the console when I need them.

[gecman]

I also had this problem. It happened to me when I shot one of the priests from long range without first starting the fight. I killed the priest instantly and it bugged out. Mage boy stayed in ghost form - he didn't attack. Just floated around invincible. I had to load from an autosave.