Have you ever completed hardmode veteran Direfrost keep?

Tasear

As today's harder pledge ( daily dungeon), I thought to do a poll for us to talk about. If you completed share some tips if not tell us where you are struggling.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

As a magplar DPS I found I was getting 'sucked to death' by the last boss because I never had enough stamina to break free. So, I started switching to stamina pots for that fight and all is well now.

techprince

Breakout from her stun, have enough dps and optionally use Major Defile on her.

Betsararie

Countless times. It's not even one of the hard ones

Ir0nB34r

I don't recall this being a particularly challenging dungeon. The only thing you need to know is have at least 9k Stamina in order to break free of the final boss's stun thing. So Tri Stat food or potions will easily take care of you here.

NewBlacksmurf

Usually requires a group with food buffs, coordinated and who’ve done it before.
Most important is to break out instantly....if your group has a stam based dps.....they need to stay way above break out stam


Now this was done prior to the resource changes so now.....I haven’t done it. Might literally be impossible for many as a result as it was dang near too hard before unless you were a min/max build

danno8

Solo'ed it on my Magplar.

Yes there is a way through the pressure plates.

Yes the last boss takes a while.

Armatesz

danno8 wrote: »

Solo'ed it on my Magplar.

Yes there is a way through the pressure plates.

Yes the last boss takes a while.

I tried to do this dungeon vet solo and could not figure how to get past the plates, how?

Armatesz

I mean as a magplar I mean.

Sixty5

Only tricky boss is the last one.

Basically a tank isn't really required given the boss will just attack whoever they want to, so have the tank swap out for some more offensive gear. Keeping Taunt is useful for the ice atronachs, but more DPS definitely makes this boss much easier. Sap tanks work pretty well.

The boss will CC a person occasionally and rapidly heal. The person who gets CC'd needs to break free immediatly or the boss will regenerate a lot of HP. Yell at teammates to do the same, because the boss can easily heal for a quarter of their HP.
Additionally stamina management is key, make sure you never drop below 4-5k so that you can always roll + break free.

The boss will also use a teleport attack and then create a large AOE around them that will one shot anyone in it, it pays to identify the cue for this and start moving away immediately to avoid the one shot.

Apart from that it's a low damage fight so healers should have a pretty easy time, just manage resources and work at killing the boss as fast as possible

D0PAMINE

I 2 maned it with a buddy. The final boss isnt too bad imo, compared to the dlc dungeons.

You will be gimped if your group isnt doing enough damage, because she heals.

D0PAMINE

Armatesz wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

Solo'ed it on my Magplar.

Yes there is a way through the pressure plates.

Yes the last boss takes a while.

I tried to do this dungeon vet solo and could not figure how to get past the plates, how?

I was able to glitch it with my NB shade, a while ago tho, and I couldnt get it to work again. I havnt personally found a viable way around it since that happened.

Tryxus

Deathless and Assassin

Skinzz

I find that dungeon easy.

MattT1988

I’m guessing your struggling with the last boss’s drain attack? It really isn’t that difficult. Break free when she grabs you in her drain attack ASAP. You should be able to save enough Stam for it. If your a magic character and are struggling with Stam, switch to the tri-stat food for the fight.

D0PAMINE wrote: »

I 2 maned it with a buddy. The final boss isnt too bad imo, compared to the dlc dungeons.

You will be gimped if your group isnt doing enough damage, because she heals.

The healing should be very minimal if whoever is caught breaks free straight away, shouldn’t even be noticeable.

Tasear

MattT1988 wrote: »

I’m guessing your struggling with the last boss’s drain attack? It really isn’t that difficult. Break free when she grabs you in her drain attack ASAP. You should be able to save enough Stam for it. If your a magic character and are struggling with Stam, switch to the tri-stat food for the fight.

No but I do see people struggle on it. So I thought to about talk it for others.

ArchMikem

Big thing. You need a couple end game DPS who know wht they're doing. You need to be burning her down in case she gets some healing done if one of your group cant break free right away. Those heals are massive and if you cant break free consistently then the fight is pointless.

Always make sure youre holding in your stamina like a poo. Especially for Magic characters. If you're dodge rolling every which way you'll be sucked to death cause you cant break free. Then someone will have to revive you and the boss probably healed back to full.

Shadzilla

Still trying to pay for a carry, no luck yet.

teiselaise

Can't remember when I did it but I have the bust ^^

Cpt_Teemo

Break free asap, only thing to it mostly

FloppyTouch

Pugs make it hard bc they dodge roll out of the big red circle after she ports then they don’t have stam to break free. She ports to the furthest away player seems to be the healer. I tell everybody soon as she ports walk away. This way u have stam to break free. This is a very easy dungeon but people don’t listen and make the fight much longer then it needs to be.

MattT1988

Tasear wrote: »

MattT1988 wrote: »

I’m guessing your struggling with the last boss’s drain attack? It really isn’t that difficult. Break free when she grabs you in her drain attack ASAP. You should be able to save enough Stam for it. If your a magic character and are struggling with Stam, switch to the tri-stat food for the fight.

No but I do see people struggle on it. So I thought to about talk it for others.

Yeah sorry bud. I read your post again.

SilverIce58

Still haven't tried to do it yet, even tho I need the mask. But whatever. Maybe I'll get around to trying it after finishing all the zones on my main.

Armatesz

I just had to do the dungeon today on vet and I was the only one in the group that was breaking free... I was the healer... not cool -.-'

Armatesz

I should add that I was forced to leave that group so did not complete it yet...

Drummerx04

Just like... dps her, break free if she grabs you, don't stand in her red circle. Maybe use vigor or something if she light attacks you.

There's really nothing crazy here unless your dps is depressingly low, which for brand new players may be a real problem.

firedrgn

I have farmed solo except for,last boss.

Completed it with group a few times.
Never on,hard mode tho.

agingerinohio

Yes, I found that drinking tri stat potions helps with having enough stamina to roll dodge, block and break free helped with my healer each time I have been there. Although today was particularly lag infested, was able to complete it two times. Before today I used to farm it to get the bis helmet.

RANKK7

One of the most dangerous places to run as a healer if pick up group, the risk is very serious, 15 minutes fight I thought was insane, until one day I've experienced 45 minutes, I'm not joking, they couldn't break free but they were very stubborn, it's been some kind of transcendental experience, it's been pleasant in the end to see the two guys happy, the tank I think was dead, I was dehydrated and I've drunk a lot of water after that, at present I only run it as DD if pug.

LordGavus

I have plenty of times.

However I also failed to complete HM a few times due to players not breaking free or constantly getting one shot.

With a good group it's no problem, but with the randomness of a pug it can cause some issues.

Xoelarasizerer

Super easy.

Break out of her stun on random player is the no brainer for every iteration of the fight. Nobody likes a boss that can heal themself if it is a team mate's fault.

For the Veteran bonus, everytime she teleports around, she winds up and performs a powerful area attack, the kind of "powerful" that even a hearty tank build shouldn't wanna take any chances with. 'Tis the obvious "get back!" moment as soon as she vanishes from your offensive line of sight.

On HM, the frosty ants "could" also be a problem if your team is lacking swole nuclear DDers. But that's the kind of "could" like weapon dyes "could" come out before Transmutation.