What's your favorite boss fight and why?

Faugaun

Mine is blackhart, just like the mechanics and the difficulty.

C0pp3rhead

Load screen boss. Most annoying boss ever, impending uncertainty, great relief when over, not hard to survive. Good battle.

Faugaun

C0pp3rhead wrote: »

Load screen boss. Most annoying boss ever, impending uncertainty, great relief when over, not hard to survive. Good battle.

Funny >;p

timborggrenlarsenb16_ESO

Players

Ffastyl

Hm... my memory is super fuzzy because I did this only once 10 months back, but the final boss of the Vault of Madness is my favorite. The entrance was spectacular, though I don't remember the fight.

As for bosses within my memory, the giant dwemer spider at the end of Veteran Darkshade Cavern. Pure mechanics boss. The kind you see in the early decades of gaming. It was very refreshing to be in such a straight forward battle of observation and patience, rather than the usual brawl or dps race.


Captain Blackheart is memorable for me too, as he formed a crucial juncture in the development of my playstyle. It was in doing Blackheart Haven that I learned: Healers are rare (so I picked up a restoration staff) and everyone needs to fulfill every role, no one can just deal damage or just tank or just heal. We all need to be able to take hits, recover from them, and return the damage. Blackheart's sword, Skullmaker, is also my first unique weapon drop and I model all of my present swords after it.

Jaerlach

The Serpent with HM enabled.

I'm typically responsible for lamias, and the sheer number of mechanics and random factors makes the entire encounter into something that is all about your ability to read and react because you can't simply overwhelm it with DPS or overcome it with positioning patterns. You have to be on your toes and pay attention and react to things that are always a bit different.

PBpsy

The ESO forums.

Wyietsayon

I can tell you my most frustrating bosses.

-Any boss that has that huge templar healing ability. (Heals all the damage I did in just a second! NO! Already used all my stamina to do all that damage!)
-Matron's Clutch, because making that boss appear is frustrating. Stupid hidden dregh! (Or at least it was hard long ago. Not sure now.)
-Captain Bone's ship because it can be difficult to solo. Also, it was bugged for the longest time, and still sometimes doesn't spawn everything, or they get stuck not moving or something.

Not sure of my favorite. I guess it'd be one of the group dungeon bosses, just for different than normal gameplay, for the most part. The spider web battle stands out in my mind, mostly for the atmosphere and less for the gameplay. Wish I had time to slow down and find out the reason why I had to fight them, or their backstories, or something. But I never had the chance to do so, even before pledges were introduced. Also thought that'd be rude to the group.

Latter

Mantikora, the best dps meter in the game hands down, its basicly a straight dps race, and i like it.

BuggeX

Valkyn Skoria funny mechanic

hydrocynus

Not really for difficulty (although it isnt easy), but as a tank, I really love fighting the Warrior the most.

The main reason is that on high graphics the fireworks display of 11 players blazing he back of him while you stand on the pedestal looking own on the him and your team is a truely pretty display. Meteors, Skoria Procs, Crushing shock, lightning and fire attacks, etc etc etc all at once - it is a frikken awesome sight. The mechanics of the fight are also awesome - very detailed and as healer/dps you feel like if you take your eyes off the boss for a second you will miss a shield/cleave/carve and be toast, so its fun from that aspect too. Starfall - lets not even go there - great fight!

As far as favourite due to difficulty, well i have not gotten past the Manticore, and it is a serious challenge for me at least so i really enjoy it for that.

I also used to love Praxin prior to 1.6 - man he was tough! I miss him.

Hiath is also a frikken cool fight and just insane on Vet mode as a tank.

If i thought about it more i could probably find a whole bunch more that i love, but the Warrior is tops for pure spectacle of the fight.

Heromofo

The Lag Boss
999999999 Health
ABILITY: Screws up any pvp match it likes sometimes procs and causes problems to pve

hydrocynus

Shame but you are a cynical bunch on this forum.

Faulgor

Beta Doshia.

idk

While I probably have a favorite boss fight, I honestly cannot think of what it is. I enjoy our combat mechanics but the design of the boss fights demonstrates a lack of imagination and are fairly weak. If the group has half decent dps most things are a face roll.

AlnilamE

I don't know if I have a favourite, but I do like both the Mad Architect and the Flesh Atonach in Vaults of Madness. It's my favourite normal dungeon and I'm looking forward to the vet version of it.

In Vet dungeons, the Spawn of Mephala and the Maw of the Infernal are fun fights. I'm getting to like most of the boss fights as I get used to them.

Wifeaggro13

none of them anymore. shada before the destruction of difficulty of the game

Nestor

Wyietsayon wrote: »

-Matron's Clutch, because making that boss appear is frustrating. Stupid hidden dregh! (Or at least it was hard long ago. Not sure now.)
-Captain Bone's ship because it can be difficult to solo. Also, it was bugged for the longest time, and still sometimes doesn't spawn everything, or they get stuck not moving or something.

Momma Druegh now shows up without having to kill the adds first.But, that just means you have adds to deal with. With the right rotation, its fun.

Yes, Captain Bones is one of the bosses that is difficult to solo on level. There is one or two of them in each zone.

traigusb14_ESO2

Hard to pick.

I'm going with Capt. Blackheart

idk

Wifeaggro13 wrote: »

none of them anymore. shada before the destruction of difficulty of the game

Have to agree. It became obvious when it was hard to tell the difference between vDSA and nDSA.

Jeremy

I hate to be so obvious and typical: but the final showdown with Molag Bal.

Even though it wasn't especially difficult: it was easily one of the most bad ass boss fight I've ever experienced on an MMORPG.

My hat is off to which ever developer designed that encounter.

newtinmpls

Ffastyl wrote: »

Blackheart's sword, Skullmaker, is also my first unique weapon drop and I model all of my present swords after it.

I wish we had a way to level items up with us (either via crafting or via a one-shot crown store item); not for the set bits, or imbalance, but because of things like this.