I want to know if anyone has en-counted many dragon souls not absorbing when they are killed, this has happened to me twice in a row, and many times before.

THIS MAY BE A REASON WHY - The 'final kill' in which the player automatically jumps unto the dragons head - and kills it < this might be one of the reasons why it doesn't absorb the soul after woulds.

I'm pretty sure i didn't see a 'fixed dragon soul not absorbing' sentence in Bethesda's post. Correct me if i am wrong.

The Patch 1.2 changelog mentions fixing this issue; however, it still happens on rare occasions when you encounter a dragon that respawns at one of the word wall areas where you have previously killed a dragon (e.g., Eldersblood Peak, Shearpoint, etc.).

This might be intentional to dissuade camping at the exterior word walls, but it has nothing to do with killing animations in my experience.

For me, none of the dragons I kill due to one of those Jarl-given bounties produces an absorbable soul. The just die, they don't combust. They do provide treasure, but never a soul. I thought that was on purpose.

Not that I care. I'm up to my chinny-chin-chin in unneeded dragon souls

It happened to me once I think. But I am not sure if it had been a dragon falling down from the Sky.

BTW OP nice spoiler about fighting the dragon!

It happened a lot in patch 1.3. I've long since stopped playing.

I have killed over 80 Dragons, all at range, with a bow, and have only had one soul that would not absorb.
I did stumble up on one once and actually absorbed it's soul before I killed it, I then fought a flying skeleton for about 15 minutes, which was extremely tough to bring down, because my arrows just sailed right through with no damage. That was very early in the game, and I didn't know at the time that it was a glitch, but it was actually kinda fun though....

The only dragons I have found with no souls have been labelled just "Dragon" any that has had a name or elemental alignment has given a soul.

It coud be intentional.

Happened once to me. I also found a dragon i did not fight west of riften by a mill. svcker was laid out in a tree upside down. He was whole, and had no treasure.

Mat

I'm experiencing basically the exact same thing all over the game with EVERY Ancient Dragon no matter how they die. They don't even begin to burn, they keep their skin and everything.

The dragon souls and word wall system are just made for bugs. Make them lootable instead.

Lol! sorry but I just had to quote this as its the most hilarious phrases I've ever read on these forums. Its like something out of a Terry Pratchett: Discworld novel or somethings. I'd always thought that it was the people that were supposed to combust when encountering dragons, nice little turn around for the humies, yeh?

I've has two nonabsorbs of dragons. One was a dragon named "Dragon" in the Hot Springs section, that I fought at the same time as another badder dragon (Blood Dragon, I think). I killed Dragon, no soul, then I killed the Blood Dragon and got its soul. Makes me think the first soul didn't go because there was another living dragon in-cell.

The other as a revisit to a Word Wall dragon peak. I believe I had already killed the dragon at that peak (on a Jarl of Riften radiant quest) and absorbed its soul, and eventually the cell respawned. The dragon was there again, but on this kill, no soul.

Those are my only two soul-absorb fails in ~35 dragon kills.