It may be where I am, mostly critters, but I raid the camp across the river. Not much, level 22, fairly vanilla dedicated server, mebe 30-35 kills of NPCs.
None of the corpses have poofed, even when I return from out of eyesight (have not tried out of cell).
I am curious to know if anything was tweaked on this. When I get to the Pagoda, it happens often on live and can test properly since there is a reference.
My preferred spot for farming up religious essences is the Darfari Camp at the Dregs obelisk. Earlier today when I went there on testlive official, there weren’t any that disappeared. After reading this I went and checked again, but I still had the normal 2 or 3 disappear on me. That camp spawns 26 people, and I’ve gotten in the habit of checking how many I’ve harvested. If I don’t have 26 I know someone has disappeared and I need to go back in and check for them. So maybe it’s a roll of the dice.
OK, I just experienced it myself, so it’s the luck of the draw. No problem finding and cutting up the corpse, just because I saw where he went down. It appears to be the same as live.