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Kommentar von Brendel

The easiest way to find the Cracked Vessels is to look for the neutral Wracked Spirits. They float above the quest item.

Kommentar von GraysonCarlyle

The cracked vessels are now, as of 8.2, keeping you in combat forever until you get quite a ways away from them.

Kommentar von BeerWolf

Christ this WQ always gives you the combat bug after interacting with a vessel...

Kommentar von SnakeFizz

I noticed if you kill the spirit (with an AOE since it can't be targeted) above the cracked vessel before you interact with the vessel, you won't become combat stuck.

Kommentar von thlayliroo

I went full overkill on this combat bug and I figured out how to easily avoid it, props to SnakeFizz for also figuring it out! You can break someone else out of it in some cases too, risk-free. SnakeFizz already has the TL;DR down, so I'm going for comprehensive. The second half gets pretty detailed, but hopefully the excessiveness will help get this thing fixed lol.

If you're already stuck in combat
Either use Feign Death, Vanish, etc., or run away from the WQ area until the bug falls off. I've had to run all the way to Zo'bal Ruins before, so you might have to run pretty far.

You CAN click vessels in Flightform/Travel form or using Monel-Hardened Stirrups. You can still get the bug, but since you're still mounted you can fly or run out of range much easier.

Avoiding the bug
Before you click on each Cracked Vessel, use AoE to kill the Wracked Spirit hovering above it. You can't target the spirits, but they're only level 1, so any AoE damage should kill them. If the spirit is gone, chasing someone else, or dead (doesn't matter who killed it), that vessel is safe for you to use! However, there are a few important things to know.
- Different players may see different things, even in party. Each person needs to go off of what THEY see.
- Once you click a vessel, that vessel's spirit becomes invisible to you, and is effectively in a different phase than you.
- You can only kill a spirit while you can see it. Because it's phased, it'll ignore your abilities.

TL;DR If you can't see it, it can't see you.

How the bug happens
The problem is specifically the unoccupied Wracked Spirits that aren't phased to you, because they attack you the moment you click their vessel. This causes a loophole where the spirit can keep chasing you despite being in a different phase. Basically it's haunting you lol. It will keep "haunting" you until it's killed or you're out of range of the vessel, in which case it resets and runs back to its vessel. Nothing changes its target while it's haunting someone; they don't care who else clicks their vessel, so you won't get the bug while it's busy. Just be careful if it's resetting and on its way back to the vessel; once it's reset, it's ready to haunt the next victim. If it's already phased to you before you click its vessel, it won't notice you, so it can't haunt you in the first place.

Helping someone who is stuck in combat
If you can see a Wracked Spirit (or several) haunting someone, kill the spirits. As you can guess, this only works if you can see all of them. In the best case scenario, you save them a few minutes of running, and the worst case scenario is still good for you, because one or more vessels are now safe for you!

Excessively detailed explanations cause I'm a nerd (feel free to stop reading here!)

So I'm a little weird and I have a lot of fun experimenting with bugs and figuring out how they work. This ~~essay~~ post is mostly observations from several hours of playing around with the bug and whispering other players that came by. My hope is that it can be used to help get the bug patched, so grab your scuba tank cause we're going in depth here ;d

The other thing that will cause spirits to be phased for you is which spirits you've already killed. Basically, each Wracked Spirit is connected to the Cracked Vessel it spawns on. When you click a vessel, or kill a spirit connected to it, all spirits connected to that vessel will be phased to you, including the ones that will respawn after. This explains a few things:
- Killing other players' spirits is safe and also helps your progress in the world quest, since a vessel is safe for you if the spirit is already phased.
- A vessel that is safe for one person can be unsafe for someone else. An idle spirit that is phased for you can still be there for other players. You can click the vessel without setting off the trap, but it's still armed for those other players.
- One player can't just kill spirits indefinitely for other players. Everybody has the same Cracked Vessel in the same locations, and you can only kill one spirit from each vessel.

Random notes that might be relevant
- You can't see any spirits if you aren't yet able to do the WQ, or have already completed it this particular time.
- Clicking a vessel will phase it out with its spirit, but killing its spirit will not make the vessel phase out.
- Spirits can be stunned with AoE if it causes no damage.
- Stunning an idle spirit will make it attack you without phasing it out. Theoretically someone could use this to hold its attention indefinitely, and just go back and do it again if someone else kills it (didn't think to test that though).
- Stunning a spirit that is haunting someone else will not make it change targets.
- Stunning a spirit and clicking the vessel while it is stunned will still give you the bug.
- Having your pet kill a spirit with its AoE still counts as you killing it, as you can only do so with player-activated abilities (I tested with my wrathguard's Felstorm). I've found that you often won't get kill credit on something if it's killed by your pet's melee or automatic abilities alone, but your pet only attacks what you have damaged or been damaged by; stuns don't count. The spirits are level 1 so they can't hit a 120 player, and any damage from a 120 player will instantly kill them.

Weird exceptions and speculations
- If you see someone kill a spirit and you click its vessel while it's dead, you may still be able to see it when it respawns.
- This may not be the same spirit that others see. In the above situation, I clicked a vessel shortly after I saw someone else kill the idle spirit above it. A few minutes later I saw a spirit respawn where that vessel had been. I could still see that spirit when I saw a different player come by and click the vessel. The spirit didn't react to them, but their "body language" suggested that they were stuck in combat and didn't know why. However, it's possible that they already had the bug from a previous vessel, or that they weren't stuck in combat at all. In-game body language is hardly a reliable thing to go off of lol. I did try whispering them but they didn't respond. I'll update this post if I can catch the WQ next time it comes around.

Under spoiler cause it's long and I know I may be the only one who finds this stuff interesting lol. But hopefully this post has been helpful or informative :D

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