Hey guys, I realize that there is a lot of threads on this already and a bug report thread, but it's been reported there and none of the fixes seem to be working. I've been trying to fix the issue for about 5 hours now and, quite frankly, it's really, really, really annoying me.

I've run through the whole DLC, but through the entire thing I've had no souls stolen - I had/have the Unofficial Skyrim Patch installed as well as the Unofficial Dragonborn Patch installed however I still can't take dragon souls/Miraak has never appeared to steal any from me.

Anyway, I'm up to the part where you get flying dragons and fight him however whenever I get him down low on health he goes into the center, goes Spectral and kills a dragon. No dragon soul is absorbed (be either of us). This is with both patches and only an armor mod, Apachii Hair, a sword mod, SkyUI and Marts Savegame Debloatifier* active as well as the official DLC. I've tried hitting him slowly, killing the dragons, using the resurrect command on him when he kills a dragon to get him back in the fight, stealthing to get out of combat, etc. Basically any possible solution I could find I've tried it.

The command is the only way I can get anywhere - he kills the first one, doesn't absorb the soul, I console resurrect (and resurrect 1, doesn't make a difference, was worth a shot though) Miraak and beat him down again until he kills the second dragon (he does kill the second dragon, he doesn't just focus on the first one, so I assume the script is sort of working?) however upon commencing the third beat-down the just tries to kill/absorb the second dragon over and over, no matter how many times I heal him up and beat him down.

Going into stealth for any length of time just results in him standing there being a useless [censored].

I'm at the stage where I just want the fight over and done with and I can console add the quest rewards/abilities to my character, I'll beat him down properly on another character if I can be bothered. My character is level 71 and I don't particularly want to start over (honestly, I don't know if I could) so if you guys have any ideas that would be fantastic.

I've got a test save that I'm more than happy to potentially murder in order to fix this, here are the mods active in that one;

Active Mod Files:


My usual order is this:

Active Mod Files:


*I had thought I had disabled the Non-playable armor mod however I just tested it again without that one and it made no difference.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Is there a way to force the scripts to play via an ingame command? I'm more than happy to just do that.

i have the same problem miraak stay in the middel and do notting i have everything whit dragons delete but noting and i have not data/meshes/actors/dragon/character assets skeleton.nif file
what must i do I have the Unofficial Skyrim Patch installed as well as the Unofficial Dragonborn Patch installed,

Yeah...I recomend avoiding the Main Quest,

what do you mean ??????

OP, how do you mean that you 'heal him up'?

If you have console resurrected him, I would suggest that he's trying to complete the scripted actions prior to your resurrection.

Have you simply reloaded from a save before the fight to try it fresh?

Thanks for the reply,

I have loaded saves previous to the entire dungeon run that leads directly to him (prior to reading the Black Book), I have reloaded just prior to taming the dragon and I have tried loading just before he engages the fight. (I got progessively lazier)

When I say healed him up I mean I used the console command "resurrect" and "resurrect 1" on him as per a suggestion I read somewhere to heal him. Both had the same effect - I'm not sure what the actual difference in the commands is. Anyway, it just healed him up and he'd come out of being Spectral.

I also tried just waiting him out and him slowly regenning health. Took forever, didn't work. /frown.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

Just an update, I seem to have resolved the issue by doing the following:



My issue was that the file itself wasn't in my scripts folder when I went to check it so I assumed I had no conflicting files/scripts with that one and went on my merry way.

If anyone else comes across this issue and happens to read this thread, extract that file and delete it then put Dragonborn.bsa somewhere else and give it a shot. This worked perfectly for me and I had my full load order running.

Thanks for the help /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

I personaly wouldn't go deleting scripts. For me all I did to fix it was use the "latest" USKP and the UDBP.

I had tried that, it didn't work.

If I end up needing the script I can just extract the files from the bsa again and put it where it goes.

If you hadt the "latest" USKP and the UDBP and had them in the correct load order and still had a problem then it may be likely do to another mod.

lol.
I posted that to fix the problem of not absorbing dragon souls, and now I'm having the issue with Miraak.
Adding the script back in doesn't help.

Side note: not using any of the unofficial patches.

just a quick update:

The "invulnerable Miraak" issue seems to have something to do with dlc2mq06miraakbossbattle.pex. Obviously.
Removing the file prevents him from ever becoming invulnerable and allows his health to drop to zero, (he ends up like an essential NPC - beaten but not dead) but also prevents the ending of the battle to come about. Adding the script back in after his health has reached zero is pointless - it goes back to the mess it was before.

From what I've gathered, it's impossible to edit the script because there are no source files for it - either that or I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to .pex files and there is a way to fix the issue I just don't know about.

Either way, problem isn't solved.

Same issue here. I have not been able to kill Miraak no matter what I do. He nor I can absorb the dragon souls, you can't kill all the dragons to trigger Hermaeus Mora to kill Miraak, etc. No matter what mods I have or don't have or never had, it still does not work. I can't believe bethesda have just completely ignored this gamebreaking bug. Ridiculous.

The unofficial patches reportedly fix it.