Last boss in ROM and pet death

Iselin

What is it about that boss fight that kills sorc pets and Warden bears over and over?

Pets are very resistant to AOE damage almost everywhere but that fight seems to wreck them. It's a pain doing it with a pet build.

Vaoh

Iselin wrote: »

What is it about that boss fight that kills sorc pets and Warden bears over and over?

Pets are very resistant to AOE damage almost everywhere but that fight seems to wreck them. It's a pain doing it with a pet build.

If the boss casts her spell on you (the one that requires you to break the correct statue) then it'll also slot what looks like Inner Fire on all of your skill slots. This unslots your current active skills for the time being... which causes pets to go away.

This might not be what you're talking about but I think it is. Haven't done this fight in awhile though.

Taleof2Cities

Vaoh wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

What is it about that boss fight that kills sorc pets and Warden bears over and over?

Pets are very resistant to AOE damage almost everywhere but that fight seems to wreck them. It's a pain doing it with a pet build.

If the boss casts her spell on you (the one that requires you to break the correct statue) then it'll also slot what looks like Inner Fire on all of your skill slots. This unslots your current active skills for the time being... which causes pets to go away.

This might not be what you're talking about but I think it is. Haven't done this fight in awhile though.

I haven't done this fight in awhile either but I think @Vaoh is right.

If you get selected in statue phase, your screen turns orange and you lose all skills ... except for the one skill the game gives you to defeat the statue.

Which is different than, for instance, Stage 5 of vMA. Pets don't survive there either. But that's because there often isn't time to move them out of the strong frigid waters DoT.

Iselin

They are also taking extra damage from that boss' AOE. I have my pet health bars turned on and I can see their health drop very, very quickly with the AOE there especially in the final execute phase... which I wouldn't be able to see if they had been un-summoned by that annoying statue mechanic

Betsararie

It is a problem in this fight. This was one of the things that pushed me toward wanting to move away from running the pet in PvE, if at all possible but there's no way you can do it and compare to a pet build in terms of AOE DPS.

Caligamy_ESO

Still not as annoying as Selene's Web when halfway through the fight you wonder where they even are, and then look up to see them floating and spinning around in the air above your head where the previous web floor was. *stare* Don't ever summon your pets on that fight til you drop lol

Magdalina

Aside from statue, which is not that frequent of an issue, blame totem. It sucks the health right out of the pet - it appears game considers it a direct attack(which I guess it kinda is) and pets just get rekt by it. I have kept Twilight up through it but that basically means you gotta either heal or shield it non stop(I think).

Huyen

Its not only that boss-fight. My bear keeps dying alot since the last patch. Dunno why...

Loc2262

Caligamy_ESO wrote: »

Still not as annoying as Selene's Web when halfway through the fight you wonder where they even are, and then look up to see them floating and spinning around in the air above your head where the previous web floor was. *stare* Don't ever summon your pets on that fight til you drop lol

Or un-summon and re-summon them when the upper floor web breaks.

NyassaV

Maybe adapt and don't use a pet build?