Maelstrom arena broken

goggs25

I can’t get past arena 5 because the islands that disappear will not return until I am dead. I manage to survive for 3 mins but no island will spawn back in.

SgtNuttzmeg

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

Skullstachio

Here’s a maelstrom arena guide by alcast, (remember to use a private browser like DuckDuckGo as there is a lot of Major tracker networks for some reason.)
https://alcasthq.com/eso-maelstrom-guide/

goggs25

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

I was on boss wave it’s hard to kill trolls when the boss smacks you away from troll. [snip] It’s *** stupid you have to beat boss, enemies and the ground can damage you as well.

[Edited to remove Bashing]

redspecter23

goggs25 wrote: »

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

I was on boss wave it’s hard to kill trolls when the boss smacks you away from troll. [snip] It’s *** stupid you have to beat boss, enemies and the ground can damage you as well.

Say what you want about the game. It has bugs... lots of them, but this isn't one of them. You kill the trolls and the platforms are safe. It's an intended mechanic that you'll have to adapt to in order to finish that stage. It's not broken.

goggs25

redspecter23 wrote: »

goggs25 wrote: »

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

They don't respawn. You need to kill the cave trolls before they destroy them. The last boss will destroy them too for every third of it's health bar gone.

I was on boss wave it’s hard to kill trolls when the boss smacks you away from troll. [snip] It’s *** stupid you have to beat boss, enemies and the ground can damage you as well.

Say what you want about the game. It has bugs... lots of them, but this isn't one of them. You kill the trolls and the platforms are safe. It's an intended mechanic that you'll have to adapt to in order to finish that stage. It's not broken.

I know you have kill the trolls but how do you do that when the boss keeps knocking you to the ground over and over. Why does it have to be so *** hard.

robpr

Only one boss attack knocks back, then you have cc immunity. It gives plenty of time to kill the troll, or at least interrupt them.

jle30303

Consider it to be a DPS check which you don't pass.

And it shouldn't be that hard to pass on Normal, since I'm a tank with low in both Mag and Stam, and *I* can beat this phase with about 7k dps and without even using the area's augment buff for +damage (which I suggest you use if you're having trouble.

I have not, admittedly, tried it on Veteran. It may be that I'll have to re-spec my stats into a DD and change my gear to do it on veteran...

goggs25

It’s on normal. I am a stamina Templar build. Not sure what my dps is at the moment the rubbish servers are playing up clicked on login out 3 times before the crap game would finally let me out.

hafgood

I'm a stamplar, hitting 85k at the moment, that is one of the rounds I struggle with simply because I try to take the.boss down too fast. Slow down on the boss, make sure you kill the adds and the trolls them focus the boss. When she starts to do her actions to break the ice move to the next platform.

The focus adds and trolls.again before you move back to the boss. Again when she goes to break the ice move to the final platform.

At this point grab the synergies and nuke the boss. Should get you through that round ok.

It sometimes takes me two or three attempts simply because I'm doing too much damage to her

Dagoth_Rac

Start on platform with the "wings". That is a speed and regen buff. Do slow damage to boss until a troll or adds appear. If you move around and position yourself properly you can avoid her attacks and never get knocked down. If you do get knocked down, "break free" to immediately get up and you get a period of time immune to knockdown. Kill troll as first priority, adds as second priority. Don't chase. Use a bow or class skills or some kind of ranged skill. Go back to boss. Do slow damage to boss until a troll or adds appear. Keep doing this cycle until boss flashes red. That means she is going to break platform.

Run to platform with "cup" on it. That is a healing buff. A nereid will appear when she breaks ice of former platform. Kill that as first priority unless a troll is out (trolls are always first priority). Nereids will throw you up in the air with a water spout. Make sure to step out of that. Do slow damage to boss until a troll or adds appear. If you move around and position yourself properly you can avoid her attacks and never get knocked down. If you do get knocked down, "break free" to immediately get up and you get a period of time immune to knockdown. Kill troll as first priority, adds as second priority. Don't chase. Use a bow or class skills or some kind of ranged skill. Go back to boss. Do slow damage to boss until a troll or adds appear. Keep doing this cycle until boss flashes red. That means she is going to break platform.

Run to platform with "shield" and "axe" on it. That is a defense buff and a damage buff. A nereid will appear when she breaks ice of former platform. Kill that as first priority unless a troll is out (trolls are always first priority). Nereids will throw you up in the air with a water spout. Make sure to step out of that. Nuke boss. The defense sigil will reflect ranged attacks so ignore adds. There is only 1 platform left so troll will always come to you. Make sure you have AoE skills active to kill troll as a side effect while you target boss. You were killing her as slow as possible before, now you kill her as fast as possible. The axe sigil will help her go down faster, which is why you save that for last platform, the only platform where you need to maximize damage.

Note that trolls are on a set timer, but adds and ice breaking of first two platforms are based on boss health. If you damage boss too quickly, you will get overwhelmed with adds. That is why you need to kill her slow, so you can clear out adds before doing enough damage to boss to spawn more adds. Breaking final ice platform is on a timer. This is why you save defense and damage buff for final platform. So you can do as much damage as possible and take as little damage as possible during this phase where you need to kill her fast.