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For whatever reason, Miraak is not absorbing the souls of the dragons he kills during the final battle. I've tried reloading the game and removing all mods and he still won't do it. I've also not been able to absorb any dragon souls myself and Miraak hasn't been poppping up to take them for himself.

The save I was on a little glitchy so I switched to one I knew was fine and still couldn't absorb souls. I then tried unticking Dragonborn from the data files and loading a save that hadn't been loaded with Dragonborn on. I could absorb dragon souls just fine on there so I reticked Dragon and went back in and couldn't absorb souls. I tried a few different loactions as well just in case it was just a case of the dragon respawning quickly and couldn't take their souls either.

Edit: Ok I just tried it again and Miraak was absorbing souls normally. I don't know why giving up and leaving it overnight or turning off combat ai processing (tcai) helped but it did.

I've had similar problems. Actually I've had several bugs over the course of the DLC. Despite being a fantastic addon overall I think these bugs somewhat detrimented the questline! Also, how were you able to disable and enable the AI via the console? It'd be a useful technique to use!

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- When travelling Apocrypha in search of the second Black Book (Before Hermaus Mora asks you to recover information from the Skaal, the "Scyre" switch that activates the pod which should unfurl is dysfunctional and does not activate or deactivate. Disabling/enabling the switch via the console proves ineffective.

- My character would read the black books at random intervals during his travels in Apocrypha. Have not experienced the bug after the Skaal shaman read the Black Book.

- The Water stone would not react to my bend will shout and enslaved NPC's will continue to chip at the rock

[ Solution, re-load an earlier save]

- When engaging Miraak in combat it is possible to attack him until his health bar is empty at which point only his name will be displayed with the red health bar not showing.

- I've only seen the first dragon land around 20% of my battle attempts with Miraak (My only solution is to keep reloading your latest save). Even when the first dragon does land, Miraak has completely vanished and hence will not attack him or will stay static in the centre of the arena. The only movement being your allied dragon (Who's name escapes me) blasting this static enemy dragon with frost.

Hopefully Bethesda receives these reports as I hear a lot of the problems listed here are rather common occurrences for Xbox users and no doubt other PC players. Be sure to bump this and note down which problems you're experiencing. I'll be sure to try and report it to Bethesda as many of these are preventing players from progressing any further.

To turn off the combat ai processing via console just type in tcai

I have the same problem. After installing the add-on on my pc my character stopped absourbing dragon souls. This problem started during the main quest were I killed the dragon at the western watchtower (to be able to travel to soltsheim). Because my character didnt absorb the soul I had to use a console command to progress with that quest.

Simonvk wrote:I have the same problem. After installing the add-on on my pc my character stopped absourbing dragon souls. This problem started during the main quest were I killed the dragon at the western watchtower (to be able to travel to soltsheim). Because my character didnt absorb the soul I had to use a console command to progress with that quest.

I've been having this exact problem. It becomes a game-breaker when you hit the end battle with Miraak. He apparently can't absorb souls either so he gets stuck in ethereal mode. I don't suppose you found a fix?

There is an unofficial dragonborn patch out that may help.

Thanks. Ended up removing everything but Dragonborn and it started to work. Might need to try bringing the other DLC and mods back one by one to figure out which one is the game breaker.

rhaeven wrote:

Simonvk wrote:I have the same problem. After installing the add-on on my pc my character stopped absourbing dragon souls. This problem started during the main quest were I killed the dragon at the western watchtower (to be able to travel to soltsheim). Because my character didnt absorb the soul I had to use a console command to progress with that quest.

I've been having this exact problem. It becomes a game-breaker when you hit the end battle with Miraak. He apparently can't absorb souls either so he gets stuck in ethereal mode. I don't suppose you found a fix?

I did not, I expect a patch from Bethesda soon to solve this problem. To figure out which mod might (not sure if the mods are doing something wrong) is very time consuming because I play with many mods.

If any of you have this issue and have the Unofficial SKyrim Patch, that's likely the source of the problem. You can either remove that, or install the new Unofficial DragonBorn Patch to solve it.

Another culprit mod is "Dragon Soul Absorb More Glorious", so if you have that removing it should fix the issue as well.

I hate the end fight.....

Miraak won't absorb any souls and the three dragons go all to my dragonborn, so he never heals up. He didn't showed up anytime during the DLC to absorb Dragonsouls (killed about 3-5 dragons).

As far as I found out there are 2 different bugs in the end fight, if you hit him to hard he doesn't heal up fully, but this is not my problem.
Or Miraak can't absorb dragon souls and the souls will go to your character instead.

Tried to kill all 3 dragons before fighting Miraak, he still stands in the pool etheral.
Tried to hide to bring him out doesn't work either.
Removed all unofficial patches....

Even console commands don't work on him, you can't reset his health or restore his actor value health back.....

The only "solution" I found on the web which should work is to uninstall the addon and do everything again, no way I will do this!

Somebody has any idea how to solve this?

EDIT:

HAHA I have found a way, (this will only work for PC Users although).

1. Get yourself a Tool to extract files from .BSA Files. (like FO3Archive)
2. Extract all Script Data from Dragonborn.bsa
3. Copy everything you just extraced into the Skyrim/Data/scripts Folder, overwrite everything if you are asked to do so.
4. Hopefully now all DLC2 Scripts should work as expected.

After setting the unofficial skyrim patch to NOT load I can absorb souls again. Thanks for the tip Trelares.