POE 2 - Infinite Spawning "Minions" in Hunting Grounds

had the same thing happen to me in manor house... the minions infinitely respawned over and over and over and over again ... and were rushing me the entire time.......
Had this happen multiple times on mid-level maps, its not cool at all I keep losing maps.
Had same thing happen to me on a T14 map - Augury. The minions were chaotic zealots and kept immediately respawning after I killed the rare and all other mobs around them.
Running a T15 map, with a Boss and this happened. It has happened about 5 times while playing POE2. One time it was some low level monsters, so I just dragged them and completed the map. But this is just annoying. At the level I am now, I can not drag monsters around. At level 88, death xp loss hurts. So I have to abandon the map.

These little things are adding up quickly and making the game more frustrating than enjoyable. Would like to see this fixed ASAP.
Currently happening to me right now and a really frustrating mechanic. The minions keep respawning, so I cannot pick up any loot. I cannot end the map and start over or the boss I really wanted to fight will be gone. Killing the minions and any other monsters - I ran back to my original portal - seems to provide no additional XP gains. I am pretty sure that this mechanic is only supposed to spawn minions until you kill their rare boss. Feels like this needs an update.

EDIT: I have done some testing, maybe this will help someone else. The minions are annoying but at least for me the two following me did very little damage so I mostly ignored them. When you get some loot you want kill them as quick as you can and spam your actions button to pick up all the loot from a pile. Go into your stash - you will be paused - and drop all the garbage. Once I killed the last Rare and the map completed these minions seemed to disappear. Only trash mobs were left over. It was annoying at first but better this way than losing the map to restart. I did see some XP gains eventually from other trash mobs. Good hunting.
Last edited by toastedzen#5320 on Jan 12, 2025, 2:59:11 PM
This happened to me as well in Ogham Manor, used all my skills killed all mobs, they just kept respawning, Had to exit the map to stop it, this is the first time I encounter this issue in the game. Seeing the amount of posts this thread has it would be nice to hear a response from the devs...
Happens too me often
Same I killed the rare that said revives minions and they kept coming back and killed me. At least the second time this has happened after I killed the elite. Waystones hard enough to get without losing them to this. Lvl 5 waystone mapping
Wouldn't mind my stone back.. just saying
Thanks for your time and attention.
Last edited by SmokeyG#0134 on Jan 19, 2025, 11:58:22 PM
https://gyazo.com/0b94889c37ad69f896e2848076e06279


This is my third instance of this bug happening through levelling and maps.
The worst instance was skelly snakes, about 20 of them, infinite respawn running me across the map. My minions kept attacking of course, and they only perma-died after I killed another boss. Which was a close fight given that the minions were so overwhelmed by the minion skeleton snakes.

In this video, it's the same bug, different map, different mobs.
I have had this happen twice. Most recently yesterday during a tier 14 map. Seems like there is a bug in detecting when the minion master is dead and then they just chase you around for the rest of the map. They ended up killing me while I was trying to clear the breach in the map.

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