World boss difficulty? Come on.

Asardes · November 2016

I did 2 world bosses solo on my Templar spamming heavy attacks with resto staff and puncturing sweep, refreshing healing ward and kiting them a bit when things got hairy. It went on for ~10 minutes. I did most of the others in groups of 3-5 players and it was very easy, even using basic skills from one bar. Duoed the nirncrux mines in Upper Craglorn with a lowbie player later. That was with level 44 blue training gear and crusty bread on a CP cap char. When I changed to CP160 gold gear and blue food I can probably do that in 2 minutes without breaking a sweat. Soloed Spellscar, Elinhir and a couple of delves I wasn't able to clear with my gimped-on-purpose-to-emulate-a-weak-player-setup earlier. All are still marked as group activities though they removed the pesky mechanics that were in place to prevent soloing (ex. you can now gather all essences from Spellscar).

Ommy71 · November 2016

I have no problem with world boss.
Now are fun.

Strider_Roshin · November 2016

Buffing the world bosses is one of the best things ZOS has done for PvE. I actually enjoy soloing them now.

Taleof2Cities · November 2016

If you can't group up on a very short list of encounters that require 2 or more (in an MMO) ...

Integral1900 · November 2016

Why can't they scale like dark anchors, so if someone like me comes along they have one level of health and if a player with a ninjas reflexes that spews out a million times the dps it will adapt to that instead. As long as it can't be one shotted it could get bonus health and damage based on how fast it looses its total health. Basically the harder and faster you hit it the harder it hits back and the tougher it becomes.

I liked the world bosses in hews bane but finding a group for them since one tamriel is like looking for unicorn snot

Asardes · November 2016

I might add that most world bosses are camped on extensively, because people are farming the zone sets, and often times you can barley get a shot in to claim credit, loot and XP. The zergs have thinned a bit, because they are just farming Wrothgar for double loot, but they will most likely return in force once that event is over. Poor Bittergreen ...

Jamini · November 2016

The worldboss camping has died down significantly. That said, it's normally pretty trivial to get the 1-3 extra people you need to get the kill in zone chat.

Also, patient tanks can solo almost every wold boss. Assuming, of course, you have a self-sufficient build.

GreenhaloX · November 2016

If you want a challenge, take on those ones in Craglorn. Those are tougher to solo.

Strider_Roshin · November 2016

GreenhaloX wrote: »

If you want a challenge, take on those ones in Craglorn. Those are tougher to solo.

Challenge accepted.

newtinmpls · November 2016

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

The patch notes list the World Bosses that got redesigned and buffed. My guess is they plan to redesign all the World Bosses eventually, but have started with just 1 or 2 in each zone.

I'm guessing Aesar the Hatespinner in Rivenspire is one of them.

Mostly it takes a pretty large group, unless a Min-max BIS who can also tank and self-heal comes along.

EternallyMithril · November 2016

brandonv516 wrote: »

A world boss should take at least 10 people. In that same respect they should drop gold quality set items.

I would love to have "raid" bosses occasionally pop in the world... huge things that would take a minimum of 20-25 people. For a while I played Rift and that is one thing that game did REALLY well...when the call went out on chat one of those was up, players would flock from all over the map. Besides dropping great loot, there was always the chance of them dropping a mount, or a cosmetic pet, or something like that. Tons of fun.

SHADOW2KK · November 2016

Hmm they are easy enough to solo imo

elvenmad · November 2016

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Hmm they are easy enough to solo imo

I must agree tbh, I'm not great geared on alts but some are even easier than they were pre patch and after leveling another toon recently some are even easier at lower levels b'cos of the 'battle scaling'

Jamini · November 2016

GreenhaloX wrote: »

If you want a challenge, take on those ones in Craglorn. Those are tougher to solo.

Actually, I've soloed a few of them!

As long as a boss doesn't have a DPS check, instant kill, or unpurgable immobilize, you can solo it.

The tricky part with soloing in craiglorn is that you will always have farmers coming to help outside of group delves.

exeeter702 · November 2016

SanSan wrote: »

don't forget the 5 Ds, Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge.

That was the gayest thing I've ever read.

Doctordarkspawn · November 2016

Worldbosses: The reason for their difficulty will evaporate when the love for One Tam dies down, and it allready is.

Like much of One Tamriels 'balance', I can still solo it. It just takes longer. Shakin' muh head yet again.

Also, Soulfire plateau needed buffed? Really? Bahahahaha.

summitxho · November 2016

newtinmpls wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

The patch notes list the World Bosses that got redesigned and buffed. My guess is they plan to redesign all the World Bosses eventually, but have started with just 1 or 2 in each zone.

I'm guessing Aesar the Hatespinner in Rivenspire is one of them.

Mostly it takes a pretty large group, unless a Min-max BIS who can also tank and self-heal comes along.

I have been farming Aesar and the near by dolmen this weekend and found that world boss pretty soloable. My clanfear usually gets the agro and used as a tank and I keep hardened ward up to keep it alive while using the storm astronach ultimate, crystal shards, light and heavy attacks and destructive reach, while also keeping my magika up with dark exchange. Takes a few minutes but it goes down. Other world bosses in the area I die within seconds (forget the name but it had the gargoyle and mages), I think it really depends on the build for each world boss, maybe need to take a different approach to each one? Some seem soloable, others not even close with my gimpy build.

sneakymitchell · November 2016

Carbonised wrote: »

Alright Zenimax, jesus christ what's wrong with your world boss difficulty? I did Stonefalls, two of the bosses (the netch and the dreugr) I soloed without too much difficulty, the third one, the Golden Saint at Shivering Shrine, we were 3 max CP level players, and yet she killed us all 4-5 times before going down. Her flame whip pretty much instakilling anyone despite blocking, having full health on and a shield etc.

The difficulty on these seem hugely different. Is there a reason why some of them can be soloed quite easily, and one takes 3-4 maxed people to go down, and even then you die? Would be nice if they were at least around the same difficulty.

Well I can solo them. If there isn't any lag. I can solo them. Tough but I can still beat them.