Radiation Buggs Jackal

[LightstealKnight]

I was helping some newer players farm Rhino parts and the radiation proc on my soma bugged the Jackal 3 times in a row.  As soon as I changed it to gas, it stopped bugging.

 

 

 

Could not damage it or kill it either.

Edited August 7, 2015 by Enemy1

[cittran]

I can confirm it happens with radiation-proc in general.

 

I tested it with Akmagnus, Quanta Vandal, Tonkor, Dread, Hek, and Amprex.

 

All of them, when a Radiation-status-proc occurred, caused the Jackal to basically freeze-up, take no further effective damage (you could still do damage sometimes, but it didn't result in anything), and to not attack the player(s) any longer. If I didn't get a radiation proc, I could kill it fairly quickly, which helped, but....

Not only is radiation the most effective method of taking down the jackal, it's also nearly-guaranteed to proc when you build using multishot mods on top of status/damage mods, in order to maximize a single type of damage. (And if you're speedgrinding a single boss, that's what you do.)

 

Now, if this were all that were bugged with the Jackal, I'd just avoid the boss entirely for a while, but I swear on my life the drop rates for Ruinous Extension are bugged to hell and back. The Jackal is the only freaking enemy that drops it, and I've never gotten a single one EVER. I've farmed the jackal for days before, trying to get one. It's absolutely ridiculous. I only know half a dozen people who have one, and my clan has over 70 players, at least 50 of whom are fairly active. Our alliance is over 15 clans, and I don't know of anyone in our alliance who has one aside from the half-dozen I mentioned.

 

Please, DE, when you fix the bug with radiation-proc bugging bosses, PLEASE double-check the drop rates for the bosses' mods.

Edited August 9, 2015 by cittran