ix'mnk glitch?

[Merr]

Before I make up my mind as to whether there is a glitch here I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this, or if anyone can think of an explanation of how this could have happened.

I went down to do a solo kill ix'aern mnk, unfortunately when I poped the thing and ran off, it must not have followed me. I normally pop this one for my shell when we are there as a group, but since this was the first time i was going to try solo'ing this I have to consider I made a mistake as a possibility rather than a glitch. Well, as I reached the ebon panel room and all the linked crap caught up, I noticed the Ix'aern was not there like it should have been. I let all the mobs that did follow me kill me and despawn, got back up and ran back to see if it was just lagging behind, and never saw it.

Thoughts on this?

[Suiram]

You lost it early, probably along with some of the mobs that originally linked, while the ones that killed you were from a chain of linking mobs. You died and went back to spawn after 3 minutes had passed and it'd already depopped. Next time keep it targetted as you run and if you are using movement speed try to sneak in a DoT before you start running.

[isladar]

Moved from Advanced.

[Merr]

Ok that makes sense, I had just assumed it wouldn't loose hate. I had used powder boots and crimson legs.

Thanks for the input.

[Lasareth]

You can survive without powder boots, which were probably the reason you lost hate in the first place. Usually when I do it i tend to stop and poison it halfway through to the room just to make sure I won't lose it.

[Kerberoz]

Yeah... don't use any flee items. I've seen someone lose it before the same way. Just run normally and take a big loop around the second room to give it some time to catch up. It only runs normal 100% speed.

[rog]

normal aerns tracks by scent, so they should never lose hate, unless you deoderize yourself. i know drk tracks scent, so i don't see why mnk would be any different; though it would seem it is, if multiple people have seen it.

[LakshmiToralyn]

Pop it when the other aerns in the room are not near the ??? and instantly cast Bio on it, Dont use the powder boots and youll be fine. Many times I can shed any links/agro in the ebon panel room w/o dying.

[stinkypoo]

normal aerns tracks by scent, so they should never lose hate, unless you deoderize yourself.

Not true, both for Ix'MNK and regular ones; not sure about Ix'DRK since I've never had to pull him really far. Train a regular one with 12% over a long distance and they'll definitely lose hate.

When I did it, I would do the pull with gaiters and would lose hate once almost every time (especially if I took off way ahead of him). Usually it would happen somewhere around the long hallway leading to the ebon panel room, so I made a habit of stopping and casting stun or bio II on him just to prevent him from losing aggro. This does put you at risk of getting hit by the various mobs that you're training, but buffs should take care of that.

[Meian]

This is slightly derailing but I couldn't find a topic in the search related to this mob and wiki failed me also so instead of making a new topic...

Is there a guide to soloing this guy and duoing (SCH solo and SCH + rdm {or blm})?

[Indalecia]

OP:

You faggot, it took us 4 hours to farm that up and you wasted it solo?! Imma fucking kill you!

[chapstick]

4 hours for one HQ Aern organ? Wow, that sucks. But yeah, don't use flee. It'll often get left behind immediately, turn around and get ready to despawn at his ???.

[rog]

normal aerns tracks by scent, so they should never lose hate, unless you deoderize yourself.

Not true, both for Ix'MNK and regular ones; not sure about Ix'DRK since I've never had to pull him really far. Train a regular one with 12% over a long distance and they'll definitely lose hate.

When I did it, I would do the pull with gaiters and would lose hate once almost every time (especially if I took off way ahead of him). Usually it would happen somewhere around the long hallway leading to the ebon panel room, so I made a habit of stopping and casting stun or bio II on him just to prevent him from losing aggro. This does put you at risk of getting hit by the various mobs that you're training, but buffs should take care of that.

are you sure? i've tried with +25% move speed before, and brought some aerns from one of the north ixdrk camps, to the zone, and they all made it there. deoderize also definatly prevented it.

[siknoz]

Like the rest said, movement+ is even enough to lose it. If you have Clegs, when you pop it, DoT it and take a LONG route to the ebon panel room. When I pop it , I typically follow the walls and make 1 pass across the room to give it time to catch up. Think I've lost 2 or 3 mnks by just running straight from pop spot to ebon panel room.