They all have/had endgame armor and weapons, are/were max lvl with rerolled perks for VIT. Of course, the Barkeeper canât fight, but it was standing right next to the other two who would have defended it against any reasonable threat.
Is there a bug/exploit by which my Barkeeper was âkilled by a playher.(2)?â Is it only possible with a Barkeeper or are all thralls under threat?
This spot shouldnât get much traffic. Further, recent events incline me to believe I may be specifically targeted.
Of course, the most important factor above all is this is a PvE server.
The new patch notes killed almost everyones barkeepers if funcom thought they where âabandonedâ not sure what the parameters where for that? maybe too far from landclaim or something not sure. But half our server lost their barkeeps too.
That or a hacker can kill them with their AOE kill any thrall hack even on PVE servers.
If any barkeeper is not on landclaim or near to a player, it starts a four hour countdown.
After four hoursâŠ
It is not a very elegant clean-up solution, and just removing barkeeper invincibility - which is the bigger problem - would have made NPCs slaughter most of the truly abandoned barkeepers.
Anyway, there isnât much need to leave barkeepers out in the middle of nowhere, so although I think the abandonment mechanic is excessive, it shouldnât incorrectly target very many barkeepers.