Is there just one boss in balamath?

Qhival

I'm a v12 templar and recently figured out a build that lets me solo craglorn, but I cleared everything in balamath, including the 4 mages / elemental boss encounter. For some reason it isnt completing the dungeon. I did find a door called balamath hall, but it wont let me go in. I youtubed the dungeon and every video i watch everyone just ignores that door. Is there something in the halls i need to kill? and how do i get in there? Thanks in advance for any information.

xKyrio

The boss down there is a part of the CraglornMain quest, you need a 4 man group to enter and all need to be on th same stage of the quest. Dont remeber though if its needed for Balamath completion..



Edit*
Did you also kill the Genereal dude that spawn whenyou tuch the pilarstones?

Qhival

xKyrio wrote: »

Did you also kill the Genereal dude that spawn whenyou tuch the pilarstones?

nope i must have missed those pillarstones, ill look again, thanks.

Surfinginhawaii

Qhival wrote: »

I'm a v12 templar and recently figured out a build that lets me solo craglorn...

Hi @Qhival, would please share that build, I would be interested. Thanks!

Qhival

Surfinginhawaii wrote: »

Hi @Qhival, would please share that build, I would be interested. Thanks!

-49 points in health

-create a light armor seducer set with +health enchantments w/ impenetrable traits and use mana reduction jewelry.
-use a restoration staff as your main weapon
-max out your racial passives of course.
-max out all the fighters guild passives
-max out light armor tree passives
-max out restoration staff passives
-in the aedric spear tree max out all the passives
-in the dawn wrath tree max out the restoring spirit passive
-in the restoring light tree max out master ritualist
-be a werewolf, and max out blood rage passive

my hotbar is :
1. any werewolf ability so blood rage passive triggers
2. harness magic or spiked bone shield
3. puncturing strikes
4. blazing shield
5. repentance
ULTIMATE : Empowering Sweep,

Play style is simple. Keep blazing shield up all the time, spam puncturing strikes.
Harness Magic / Spiked bone shield is situational.
If you get low on mana, restore it with your heavy restoration attacks.
Use your ult whenever you can. It will charge very quickly from blood rage.
Repentance heals you based on corpses around you and costs 0 mana.

I chose max health instead of mana because there are times when enemies in craglorn will hit you so hard it will go past what your shield can absorb. Having that health buffer lets you stay alive as you regain it with the health leach from puncturing strikes. The rest is just experience.

Surfinginhawaii

Qhival wrote: »

Surfinginhawaii wrote: »

Hi @Qhival, would please share that build, I would be interested. Thanks!

-49 points in health

-create a light armor seducer set with +health enchantments w/ impenetrable traits and use mana reduction jewelry.
-use a restoration staff as your main weapon
-max out your racial passives of course.
-max out all the fighters guild passives
-max out light armor tree passives
-max out restoration staff passives
-in the aedric spear tree max out all the passives
-in the dawn wrath tree max out the restoring spirit passive
-in the restoring light tree max out master ritualist
-be a werewolf, and max out blood rage passive

my hotbar is :
1. any werewolf ability so blood rage passive triggers
2. harness magic or spiked bone shield
3. puncturing strikes
4. blazing shield
5. repentance
ULTIMATE : Empowering Sweep,

Play style is simple. Keep blazing shield up all the time, spam puncturing strikes.
Harness Magic / Spiked bone shield is situational.
If you get low on mana, restore it with your heavy restoration attacks.
Use your ult whenever you can. It will charge very quickly from blood rage.
Repentance heals you based on corpses around you and costs 0 mana.

I chose max health instead of mana because there are times when enemies in craglorn will hit you so hard it will go past what your shield can absorb. Having that health buffer lets you stay alive as you regain it with the health leach from puncturing strikes. The rest is just experience.

Thanks Buddy!

Qhival

no problem. i'm on NA server let me know how it works for ya

Qhival

hmm. i went back and killed the pillar boss, still didnt clear the dungeon. is there a 3rd boss?

Gyudan

Isn't that the dungeon with a group of mages in the North East corner? I remember a small opening leading to those bosses. This could be the wrong dungeon but I can't check right now, sorry.

Qhival

i killed 4 mages with an elemental, and another ghost like boss i summoned at a pillar with a puzzle.

qiyamatawilrwb17_ESO

from memory you do have to complete the quest too.

Qhival

qiyamatawilrwb17_ESO wrote: »

from memory you do have to complete the quest too.

ah that's probably it.

Valymer

Qhival wrote: »

-create a light armor seducer set with +health enchantments w/ impenetrable traits and use mana reduction jewelry.

Do mobs even crit? I didn't think so...and if they don't then you would be better off running infused, divines, or some combination thereof.

KenjiJU

There's a group of 3 boss mages, one of each element. Each spawns elemental adds once they die. They're at the far northeast in a grotto type area--above ground, but you have to go through a short tunnel.

I'd be very impressed if you soloed these.

Qhival

KenjiJU wrote: »

There's a group of 3 boss mages, one of each element. Each spawns elemental adds once they die. They're at the far northeast in a grotto type area--above ground, but you have to go through a short tunnel.

I'd be very impressed if you soloed these.

ok that makes 3 bosses then, i've only fought 1 boss above ground, the other was underground, must have missed those mages, but challenge accepted lol.

Valymer wrote: »

Do mobs even crit? I didn't think so...and if they don't then you would be better off running infused, divines, or some combination thereof.

according to this they do

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

also, if you have the foundry tactical combat mod you can see when they crit you. they will be displayed in **, like *888* in the floating combat text. Against trash mobs it's negligble and low chance, but if a boss crits you, it could be lights out in 1 shot without some sort of damage shield and impen

Valymer

Very interesting...

Qhival

sometimes the archers will crit me for 3k light attack even with a full suit of impen

Valymer

Qhival wrote: »

sometimes the archers will crit me for 3k light attack even with a full suit of impen

That would seem to imply that their mechanics work differently than players...

A full set of legendary armor with impen would be 70% crit chance reduction, right? Which from all the testing I've read about means that it is literally impossible for anything with less than 70% crit chance to ever crit you.

But the fact that you got crit means one of two things. Either:

1) The archer has >70% chance to crit. This seems impossible, since most people aren't running any impen on their PvE gear and at >70% crit the archer would be doing much more damage to these players than they currently are.

2) Mob crits work fundamentally different than player crits.

But from the GM/dev message you posted above, it seems that they are saying that mob crits work exactly the same as player crits. So something doesn't add up.