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I figure you guys can get the idea....

So I finally locate a GDK among the infinite Dune Kimos, Giant Kimos and Enraged Kimos...

I engage him even though Im on my TKM/Pistoleer. Since I had an nice new DE-10 I thought I may as well give it a try.

Well I pull him out of a cramped canyon to get better mobility when a Gurk nest spawns so I circle and lose agro with a peace spam and letthe gurks tank as I begin to kite him.

I get his ham down about a 1/4 and decide ill clean up some pretty serious desease wounds and meditate. Im only like 30m from the thing as Iwatch the gurks flop around.

After a couple minutes the gurks are all dead and the GDK lays down.

I get up and after 2 steps he poofs. I check the spawn point, run a area check at 1k, 1.5km and 2km, he is off the map, gone.

I have killed only one GDK prior and that was like 5 months ago and havent seen another until now.

/targetSelf;

/lastditch;

/macro killme;

that is by far one of the most anoying things in this game, the despawning of critters, I've experienced it a couple times, and it is both creepy and anoying all at the same time.

Especially when it's a big target like a GDK. Luckily I manage to not have as hard of a problem finding GDK's myself and usually find at least one spawn of three every hunt.

I have had a few of them poof on me as well. This happens often with krayts and other high ham critters who are out in the open. I think it has something to do with a limit to encounter length where a hidden timer begins to tick away once the critter is engaged. Also, if you come upon one that someone has already engaged/damaged, this hidden timer is already running, so there is a much higher chance it will poof out on you. There also might be something regarding how far it travels from its spawn point. I have never seen this poofing happen in caves, but it seems most frequent in long encounters where the mob has been kited to hell and back.

Aedyl Voivai
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