codestripper wrote: »When I teleport up, should I be trying to hit the boss from range while destroying the crystals, or focusing on just the crystals?
Ignore the boss, he cannot be damaged while you're up top. Focus the crystals down as fast as you can but don't blow your ult on them.
Is it normal to get knocked off 4-5 times before finishing off the crystals?
Generally a good strategy is to watch for his channeled attack (where he throws a skull at you) and either block or roll-dodge it. This prevents you from getting knocked off and allows you to keep DPS up on the crystals. Also, there is a pattern to it:
When you first go up, he will fire 1 skull at you, then charge up to blast you off the platform, when he is charging up, find the shield he spawns that circles the arena and stay behind it, that will prevent you from getting knocked off by his blast attack. After this initial blast, he will cast 2 more skulls at you, then blast, and repeat. Generally you should only ever see 2 or 3 of these phases.
After the crystals are destroyed, will the boss teleport up again and start the crystal phase over?
No, after the boss goes down, grab the shield and power sigil immediately and throw your destro ult on him. He will not go back up and you need to kill him as fast as you can. Do not let him collect ghosts, and ignore all other adds.
Edit: I should also note that if you don't want to use the sigils, the best strategy is to inturrupt him immediately to prevent him from casting skulls at you, wait for him to teleport, then destro ult on him. This way he stays in one place long enough to get the full effect of it.
Edit2: While i'm at it I would like to recommend you switch to blue food though, as a pet sorc you should have plenty of sustain through heavy attacks (if not you need to work on getting in more heavy attacks). This will give you more health and more max magicka which means you'll do more damage.
In terms of your build you're sitting pretty, here is mine for a reference, (not saying you have to follow it, just use whatever skills fit your playstyle)
This is something I need to work on. I'm still pretty inexperienced in the arena so I run out of magicka very quick from using shields. A few times I teleported up and had almost 0 magicka to put AOE on the crystals. I ended up putting a few points in to health so I could use Witchmothers but I will adjust this as I get more comfortable.
codestripper wrote: »This is something I need to work on. I'm still pretty inexperienced in the arena so I run out of magicka very quick from using shields. A few times I teleported up and had almost 0 magicka to put AOE on the crystals. I ended up putting a few points in to health so I could use Witchmothers but I will adjust this as I get more comfortable.
Something that might also help is getting a vampire bite. You will take some more fire damage but honestly, it's pretty negligible. Even more so that you're a dark elf like me. It's hardly noticeable and you get the extra 10% magicka and stamina regen for free. The undeath passive is also pretty nice tbh. Another thing that might help is grabbing the regen sigil (trophy) before going up, not only does it give you insane health regen, it also boosts your magicka regen. I used to do this when first learning the stage.
If you have any more questions feel free to ask, I've been playing pet sorc for almost 4 years now, an I've run this arena too many times to count lol.