i want to add that its impossible to upgrade your gear beyond veteran rank 1 without the ability to enter veteran zones, which the completion of this quest blocks.

bal ignores my summons and go straight for me, my summons do not last more than 2 seconds. entering poison mist form doesnt stop the control effects of bal's attacks.

there is no "play your way" here.

Why did you make another thread about it...?

I can't kill him the titans wreck me

ok, i was able to beat him, but only barely, had to use the light armor damage shield and the conjuration damage shield nearly every 5 seconds, poison mist my way through the titans, but i did it. this does not change my opinion on the fact that it needs to be nerfed however.

He's a Daedric Prince. He's supposed to be difficult to beat.

I have four titans. I am guessing if you don't kill them on the way to him you play with them during the fight.

Gelston wrote: »

I have four titans. I am guessing if you don't kill them on the way to him you play with them during the fight.

No he spawns a bunch of titans. Nothing to do with those you see before. Titans are easily dealt with by holding block. After that it is just and endurance match.

I killed him on my DK by kiting him around the rock while my HP regened
I was in level 49 crafted gear, no enchants with armour % trait.

Don't nerf it.

At first I thought this was a sarcastic topic...

Are people really having trouble with him? I thought the last quest after they turn you into a god was a breeze, I was slicing through titans and everything like they were hot butter. Molag Bal himself wasn't much harder, I can't remember if I even needed health potions.

I was a Nightblade with 2 hand sword.. average green gear.

That´s a really easy fight as a Nightblade.
The only problem was that I was wearing my tank stuff...
All the rest was at the bank.

Still easy.

Edit: I had that 0 hp problem too.
I traveld to afriend and directly back .
Quest restarted... abd I had another "firstkill" still in my tanking clothes.

Cannot kill him, either he one shots me with his followup to that heavy attack or the titans get me, either way I can't kill him and I'm about to give up with this stupid ass game, I play to have fun with my friends, not rage over dying 20 times to molag bal. And that is no exaggeration, this mofucker will not die. I couldn't imagine how hard I would rage if I actually killed and he bugged and I had to do it again. I'm giving it one more try, and if I don't finally beat him, I'm ending this worthless sub.

Omg, I give up. I'm done, 30 deaths is enough for me, please tone down the titans kthx.

I have fought him with a Templar and yesterday a Nightblade. They were in greens. He is doable. It takes some time.

As long as you have a self heal (Siphoning on my NB) you can survive. I used a bow mostly, but would jump into melee when my health was full and wack him a few times, use my DPS ultimate. I never used stamina to dodge, just ran.

My method was to keep moving. You can see when he is going to leap. You can see where the AoE rain is going to land. Don't be in that spot.

The titans will go down, you have about 10x your normal DPS because of the buff. If they get close just flat out turn and run, then turn and DPS. I recommend you have a bow or destro staff. The bow is nice because even with no skill points it does decent DPS with light attacks, fires fast, and costs nothing. Although you could even whittle them down with a resto staff.

Some people who insist on doing only melee are going to have a hard time in this game. Bal is not the only fella who might give you troubles in VR when you refuse to consider using some ranged DPS.

I do not think I have the skill on any class to just stand there in melee and kill everything I have encountered in this game.

I carry a bow and healing staff, do not use either very often. But now and then they are life savers. I also try to keep a skill point or two in reserve just in case I need to stick a point in something to get past an encounter.

People who cannot handle getting killed a time (or 10) to figure stuff out will not like this game, but having to adapt is what makes me keep coming back.

If you cannot get by Molag without rage quitting, then you were not likely to enjoy soloing VR content anyway. It does not get easier.

As a summoner sorcerer with destruction staff I found him impossible and quite frustrating. After reading here that blocking the titans would reflect the damage (thanks for that info ) they were easy to kill but Molag Bal would one shot me pretty fast. I never spent a point in stamina and not many in health. So I went back to town, bought a restoration staff and spent a skill point in grand healing. Didn't use my familiar, only my winged twilight.

Then I just ran around, saving my stamina to get out of his AoE and healing myself when needed. Using heavy attacks on him and running away. That made for quite a long fight but I was able to do it.
Before the restoration staff, I got killed about 50 times. Seriously. After I got it I did it in the first try. So I guess you need at least one healing ability for this fight. I had potions but they weren't enough.

ArgonianAssassin wrote: »

I want to play my way, which is melee, I have a bow for back up but I use it for pvp mostly so I only have poison injection and scatter shot + a point in the first 2 passives, I want to be a melee character, I don't want to be forced to play something I don't want to play just to get past a single encounter, I kill 2 titans before their fire damage overwhelms me, there's 5 of them, my computer can't handle 5 titans spewing fire aoes at me + molag bal, I'm not a tank, stop trying to force me into roles I don't want to play. If you have a good time, and an easy time playing something you don't normal play that's awesome I'm happy for you, but I want to play the melee character I made. (: I want to be able to handle any situation with the character I've built for myself, I shouldn't be able to solo absolutely everything, but I should definitely be able to solo something that's required to be solo'd, with any spec I damn well please. Especially, when it's required to progress further into the game, and that part about the titans I'm also a vampire, this is ridiculous. Play your way, being forced to play an archer a mage a healer or a tank or w/e the *** else is not playing my way. Content made to be solo'd should be soloable by any class, any spec, any build.

I do not personally care how you play or what you do. I am sure some have beat Molag in melee only. I just could not.

But I am glad you made a small compromise and beat him.

Congratz.