[Ezrick]

Two separate instances.

1. Was hunting Aliezasuar in OOT. My method was to engage, debuff, get hit once on my enchanter the fear-kite him with an enchanter pet. He quite often runs out into the water, but it hadn't caused real problems before. On this occasion the mob died. My assumption was the pet had killed him. A corpse was there, but it was unlootable. At a distance it said I was too far away, when I got closer to it the message changed to "you may not loot this corpse at this time". Corpse rotted, certainly not worthy of a petition, just scratched my head and went back to it.

2. SK epic fight in OT. Items handed in, mob respawns in to the one to be killed for the quest. This time playing my warrior I tagged him with an arrow and headed a bit down the hill towards the water. He did not path well on the hill (different issue I suppose) and began hopping up and down on the vertical axis. Still we manage to do enough damage until he ran. He headed straight for the water and continued popping up and down in and out of the water. At this point he was impossible to hit, though down to about 5% health. Apparently he also has no regen. Not being able to cast spells or melee him we waited, hoping he would regen enough to re-aggro but it didn't seem as if it would happen. Further experimentation showed that I could hit him with arrows, so we levitated out over the water and bombarded him until he was dead. We encountered the exact same corpse conditions mentioned above. At the surface you were too far away, but as you dived down and got closer "connot loot corpse at this time." Corpse eventually expired (reimbursed on a petition).

The obvious similarity is that the mob dies, in water, produces a corpse but it can't be looted. While the first incident was a couple of months back and I don't really recall, I do know when the mob died in the second incident there was no xp message, and no faction message, but no other external factor seemed to be involved in killing it. Just a corpse no one in the group could loot as if the mob died of some other cause.

Can mobs really drown? And if so would it cause the corpse conditions I describe?