need help finishing off Ancano of the mages guild.

[D_ManXX2]

Somhow this quest is majorly buggen in my game. i have the staff of magnus the moment i enter guild hall some npc start attacking ancono and somehow nothing happens when using the staff on the eye of magnus.

 

i think some mods have conflicted this quest greatly i currently use Immersive College of Winterhold.

[myuhinny]

Have you tried running TES5EDIT and looking at the skyrim + any other mod altering the college.

[Content Consumer]

I never know when I'm supposed to be shooting at Ancano and when at the eye... I wonder if you might be having the same problem. Not a bug, but just bad mechanics.

The eye doesn't open automatically when you shoot at it with the staff, I think it's timed, and you only shoot at the eye when it opens up.

 

 

 

Back in Winterhold, there are some more magical floaty balls, and most of the college's members are stuck outside by another magical force field, and nobody can get in... except for those people who are still inside the force field but apparently can't be arsed to actually do anything. I wipe out the barrier with the staff, walk into the hall of the elements, and an absolutely ridiculous fight begins, where I never know exactly at who I am supposed to be shooting at any given time. I mean, sometimes I have to shoot floaty balls, sometimes the eye, and sometimes Ancano, and still don't know exactly how I won that fight, or what I did to win it, or if it was just timed, or what...

 

 

           Anyway, you have to fight Ancano here, after some more mustache-twirling villain dialog. I really don't know what to say about this bit, mostly because I'm always completely confused by what happens. I never know who I'm supposed to be attacking at any given time... Ancano, the Magical Anomalies, or the Eye of Magnus. There appear to be as many as four factions involved in this battle, randomly switching between hostile and nonhostile. There is no way to strategically approach this fight without first looking at the wiki, which says (paraphrased):

Attack the Eye with the staff until it cracks open. Magical Anomalies will spawn and attack everyone indiscriminately. Continue to attack the Eye until it closes. At this point, Ancano is vulnerable (he was previously invulnerable) and you should attack him.

However, you must simultaneously defend yourself against the Magical Anomalies and Ancano's attacks, and even after playing this bit several times I'm never quite sure at what point the Eye opens, closes, or even what finally ends the battle. To be fair, this final section is more irritating than it should be, not because it's too complicated, but because there's just too much going on. You're swapping back and forth between attacking the eye and Ancano while at the same time trying to avoid getting between Tolfdir and any Anomalies, and all while dodging Anomaly attacks and recharging the macguffin staff that drains energy super-quick. On the other hand, it's probably one of the few places in the game where being a pure mage actually works out in your favor... armor doesn't protect you much from lightning bolts, but wards do.

 

[D_ManXX2]

i think some mods witch added new npc to the guid where interfering with timed quest. normally it is only you and tolfdere where fighting ancano but other npc instandly started to attack ancano, i had to resolve to use console and use tdetect to prevent other npc's from fighting that seemed to have solved the issue. but not very practicle.