Wierd Kobolds in The tide turns

[DonTheGreatOne]

A friend and myself were running The Sentinels of Stormreach arc last night and ran into something weird.

Several times during the quest when we killed a blood tide archer it was immediately replaced with a kobold. This kobold had a CR of 0.00 and a total HP of 12919. One time at the top of the tower outside we killed an archer and it was replaced by a kobold and when we killed it a new kobold appeared. this happened 6 times in a row. here is a screen shot taken during the 6 kobold run https://photos.app.goo.gl/skDEygfPptWhSSSm8

Has anyone else seen this happen? This is not the first time we have run the arc on both heroic and epic and have never seen this happen before. Just for reference this was on Thelanis.

[Elfishski]

A friend and myself were running The Sentinels of Stormreach arc last night and ran into something weird.

Several times during the quest when we killed a blood tide archer it was immediately replaced with a kobold. This kobold had a CR of 0.00 and a total HP of 12919. One time at the top of the tower outside we killed an archer and it was replaced by a kobold and when we killed it a new kobold appeared. this happened 6 times in a row. here is a screen shot taken during the 6 kobold run https://photos.app.goo.gl/skDEygfPptWhSSSm8

Has anyone else seen this happen? This is not the first time we have run the arc on both heroic and epic and have never seen this happen before. Just for reference this was on Thelanis.

As I understand it the dummy kobolds with a bunch of HP and no actions are the game's placeholder object when it can't find (?) the object that should go into the quest. Basically a symptom of "instance didn't load properly/server is sick", in this case sounds like it failed to load/find the blood tide archer corpse. Happens pretty rarely thankfully (I've seen it a couple of times but not more), so just... be amused when it does?

[Nonesuch2008]

As I understand it the dummy kobolds with a bunch of HP and no actions are the game's placeholder object when it can't find (?) the object that should go into the quest. Basically a symptom of "instance didn't load properly/server is sick", in this case sounds like it failed to load/find the blood tide archer corpse. Happens pretty rarely thankfully (I've seen it a couple of times but not more), so just... be amused when it does?

Yes, this is correct. I have had this happen in Tempest's Spine & Mirror Darkly, and it has been reported by a few other folks in other spots as well. The best one though has to be in one of the original Mabar Festival runs, when kobolds replaced the skeletal giants that spawned from the ground.