Howdy,

I'm not the best player by a long shot & I'm running a thief/assassin type without reading anything about how other people are playing theirs i.e. armour, perks etc. So, I've been learning as I go. I'm about 110 hours into the game.

So, I'm in New Fall Sanctum & I just killed a Dragu Death Overlord & his companion up on a platform in a room I'm pretty sure I could just sneak through, but then what is the fun in that. It took me several hours of die, load, rinse & repeat (see above) before I finally killed them, however there was NO loot on the Death Overlord...really? His normal Honed Great Sword was there on the ground, but he was not lootable...so, I did it all over...load, fight...die...repeat until I killed him again & again NO loot...The toughest mob I've come across so far & not one single piece of loot form him.

/sadface

EDIT: A save & load of the game made them lootable. Nothing fancy to loot; just some gold, but at least lootable.

they normally havent anything worthwile on them... but often have chests somewhere near or a wordwall. the mob itself has the normal draugr loottable

Yes... everything that happens that doesn't meet your level of entitlement is a bug. I'd submit a full bug report and hold my breath until they fix it.

Its a bug. Save your game, when that happens, then load the game you just saved.... its how I make them lootable.

Oops just rear your edit

As I have mentioned somewhere before, try a dungeon raider's life in Morrowind for a while and you'll be happy for that Honed Ancient Nord Greatsword, when you compare it to a deadly dungeon that rewards you with bonemeal.

EDIT: Misunderstood the OP. Yeah, I believe that is a bug if the corpse couldn't be looted at all. But as others have pointed out, they don't necessarily have any special loot on them, which is when my original comment would apply.

I've noticed mobs can bug out when killed and not be lootable. I'm curious if this is what you experienced or if you looted him and he had nothing on him.

I had not discovered a fix for it but I never tried the save/reload trick you claim worked for you. If this is the same issue I have at any rate.

Howdy,

The 'bug' (?) being the body was not targetable i.e.Dragu Death Overlord/Search/Empty menu did not appear when I moused over him. The save/load was a total accident as I had to load the game again (I don't remember why) when I tabbed back to the game after making the edit to this post.

@Shagsbeard ...ignoring.