No XP for Kraken Tentacles

[Uun]

In the 3rd mission of Sister Solaris' arc (Save Marcus Valerius), you've got to defeat 4 Kraken Tentacles, then defeat ambushes from the Talons of Vengeance, then defeat a bunch more (8?) Kraken Tentacles. The tentacles are stationary and have only one attack, but that attack is a cone with an 80 ft radius and 20 degree arc that does 409 dmg (at lvl 54) every 4 seconds. They have boss-level hp, so they're not trivial to defeat. 

 

Defeating the tentacles doesn't grant any XP or inf. I assume this is because they respawn indefinitely until the mission is completed and theoretically could be farmed, but I feel like you should get something for defeating them. Perhaps the mission completion bonus could be adjusted accordingly.

[Rudra]

Are you sure they spawn indefinitely? I've cleared them out without them returning on several playthroughs.

[Uun]

If you clear all of them after the ambushes, they don't respawn. If you only clear some of them, they will respawn. Also, the longer you take clearing the ambushes, the more of them will spawn. There may be a limit, but I haven't tested it.

[Rudra]

I actually made a point of clearing out the tentacles before the ambushes on two different runs. (As a Brute, the ToV weren't a threat to me, and my character would have prioritized the survival of the boat and Marcus, so I hunted tentacles and ignored the ToV until too many had gathered to ignore.) The tentacles stopped spawning for me.

[lemming]

Interesting, I've not had more than the usual waves of tentacles.  I did notice on some runs, I got the tentacles spawned before I cleared the older ones, but figured that was because I dealt with the ambushes.

 

Sounds like the easiest test on this would be to clear the ToV, and take out most of the tentacles.  Then hang out to see if they keep respawning tentacles.

 

If they aren't infinite, and I doubt they are, some reward for the dang things would be nice.  It annoyed me when I noted they had no reward.

[lemming]

Ok.

We start off with three tentacles.  No ambushes until those three are dealt with.

Three more ambushes come in.  Once you clear one ambush, another set of tentacles sprouts up, and another ambush.

So we get nine more tentacles, and if none taken out, that's how many.  I sat around for 15 minutes, no more spawned.

i then killed eight of them and hung out for 20 minutes.  Nothing spawned.

Killed the last one and that was the end of the mission.  No spawns after 15 minutes

 

And then I was done with dinner...

[Uun]

If they don't keep spawning, they certainly should award xp and inf.

[lemming]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

If they don't keep spawning, they certainly should award xp and inf.

I would agree.  It's not a huge deal, but it is annoying.