Final Apocrypha main quest boss nerfed after U39?

RaddlemanNumber7 · August 2023

I completed this boss fight for the 4th time today, the first time since U39. I was on a stealth/damage build, hybrid Arcanist. Relatively squishy.

I had Azandar along as a Healer, but he died almost immediately.

I was expecting to wipe, repeatedly. But I won the fight without getting close to dying even once, unlike my previous three goes.

Has the big bad boss been nerfed?

disintegr8 · August 2023

I'm on PS and faced him for the first time yesterday on my new Arcanist with one of the new followers at low level. While it wasn't a 'cake walk', I did manage to beat it without dying.

I've only had Necrom for a week, my Arcanist hit level 50 two days ago and is in Julianos and Mothers Sorrow as a test hybrid healer/dps, in 5/1/1 light armour.

zaria · August 2023

The Apocrypha boss was cinematic I say, impressive but not dangerous. The high Isle final boss was an fight.
Did not die but felt I fought an world boss.
And the solution is to have npc keeping boss in combat so it don't reset and simply let you re-spawn.
Its still an fight and if you dies a lot improve.

ZOS_Hadeostry · August 2023

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic, as it deals with a quest.

Thank you for your understanding

Dr_Con · August 2023

I would treat any response you get with a grain of salt. You can expect the following types of responses:

Player A has beaten the boss before and it was easy to them so they do it again and say it was either easy, more difficult, or same difficulty depending on the class/build/level they had

Player B beat the boss with great difficulty in the past and tried it again and said it was easier, harder, or same difficulty, and can be due to the class/build/level they had

Player C beat the boss with either great difficulty or ease and won't bother to do the boss on a new character

Player D looks through patch notes and posts what they found, but concedes that ZOS sometimes makes changes without announcing.

Player E comes in and either criticizes or praises ZOS and provides nothing constructive.

Player F comes in with actual data from U37/38 and shows us how difficult the boss was on a certain class/build with the character's stats known/recorded, then compares it to now, with footage to back it up.

Personally I'd hold out for player D or F to respond, but all other replies are just opinions

Necrotech_Master · August 2023

i only played through the main necrom quest once

finished it within 2 weeks of launch, was in 2 person group with my gf and 2 companions

if i remember right there were a few times i did get hit like a truck and almost died (i was on a tank toon too), so difficulty wise i wouldnt put it at the same level as vet difficulty content, but it was probably equivalent to normal dungeon difficulty or DLC WB difficulty

i dont usually play through the main quests on alts, in fact ive never even done greymoor, elsweyr, blackwood, high isle, or necrom main story with anything other than my main

Arizona_Steve · September 2023

Dr_Con wrote: »

Player F comes in with actual data from U37/38 and shows us how difficult the boss was on a certain class/build with the character's stats known/recorded, then compares it to now, with footage to back it up.

LOL... some of us just like to play the game.