Vateshran Hollows minotaur boss (Green area)

krachall

I just ran Vateshran Hollows for the first couple of times on Normal. It wasn't too bad and I enjoyed figuring out the mechanic-heavy fights.

The only fight that was frustrating was the final boss in the green zone. I did that zone last (I did Blue > Red > Green) and while the fight wasn't hard, it took almost as long as the rest of the dungeon combined.

Once the minotaur got to the point where he was changing colors, I couldn't get him to change platforms so I could damage him. And when he finally did change platforms, he would switch to the color of that platform immediately, becoming invulnerable again.

I probably cycled through "interrupt the summoners" phase 12 times before finally killing the boss. I'd be on a blue platform. He'd jump over and immediately turn blue. I'd change platforms and he would just stay on that one shooting fire at me. Forever. Eventually, he'd jump to red but immediately turn red. I'd grapple to blue and he would stay on red forever, shooting fireballs at me. This went on for ages.

What's the trick? Should I stay on the plantform while he's invulnerable and wait him out?

kwinter

From what can tell it’s bugged been that for several months. Worst vet. It use to be once you went to a new platform the boss would immediately jump to you but not anymore

fizl101

I think the answer is wait for the bug fix for the final boss fight. I haven't run it since the bug came in, but I know it has been complained about on the forum

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/590312/vateshran-minotaur#latest

kringled_1

You can't wait him out. My most reliable way to get him to jump is to be in melee when I grapple away. Moving to the farthest point away on another platform will usually get him to jump, but it takes long enough that he'll probably be just about ready for another invulnerability phase.

krachall

Thanks. That's frustrating.

I may change my order to Blue > Green > Red so I'm not fighting him at his strongest and I'll still get the two buffs I want (health and stam).

kringled_1

You won't be able to get the stamina buff in that order, it's only available if you've cleared red.

krachall

Dammit. Oh well. Back to spending 25 minutes on a 3 minute fight I guess.

krachall

One more question: I have collected at least 3, maybe 4 of the green Endurance remnants but my character page only shows 1 for a 1000 point bonus. Aren't I supposed to get 1000 for each one I collect? Or is it a max of 1 for a total bonus of 6000?

Also, today I learned that if you defeat the mini boss in the green zone, your grapple automatically interrupts the "burn the whole platform" casters when you land.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Been bugged since November, my advice is move on to something else. Not worth the headache.

My 2 cents, this was a cool fight on paper, but they over desinged the mechanics. They should just remove the invulnerability phase until they can fix the bug(s) associated with this fight. I would rather people just be able to nuke this guy than spend 20 minutes on a fight that should take 3.

Necrotech_Master

krachall wrote: »

One more question: I have collected at least 3, maybe 4 of the green Endurance remnants but my character page only shows 1 for a 1000 point bonus. Aren't I supposed to get 1000 for each one I collect? Or is it a max of 1 for a total bonus of 6000?

Also, today I learned that if you defeat the mini boss in the green zone, your grapple automatically interrupts the "burn the whole platform" casters when you land.

its +5000 for the initial big fragment
+1000 for each small fragment (max of 5)
total = 10k max buff

i think the buff in your character window is not showing how many fragments you collected, but the stats still go up accordingly

to my knowledge the casters are only auto-interrupted on normal, on vet you have to manually bash them

Haquor

fizl101 wrote: »

I think the answer is wait for the bug fix for the final boss fight. I haven't run it since the bug came in, but I know it has been complained about on the forum

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/590312/vateshran-minotaur#latest

Its super annoying. But if you want a clear or a weqon etc you can still do it. That fight just takes much longer than normal causr you randomly get opportunities to burst it.

Ive done it a few times on vet this week to get my last perfected weapons.

It is a rediculous bug that is overdue for fixing.

krachall

I've completed it 6 times now and the minotaur fight is just strange. On one run, it took ages. On the next run, it went like I assume it was meant to go on normal...He changed platforms soon after I did and stayed vulnerable for long enough to damage him.

Then my last run, I quickly got him to 0.9% and then he wouldn't budge and wouldn't change colors. I basically ignored him and just started randomly grappling around, killing archers, and doing trick shots with the grapple bow. Eventually he jumped to me and I was able to finish the fight.

And I'm seeing how the loot rewards are going to go. I'm only doing this for the bow. I got a DW set, a second DW set, a S&B set, a second S&B setd, a resto staff, and a lightning staff. With two more staves and 3 2h'ers left, I guarantee I'll need 6 more to get the bow.

Emmagoldman

kwinter wrote: »

From what can tell it’s bugged been that for several months. Worst vet. It use to be once you went to a new platform the boss would immediately jump to you but not anymore

Ok, thought so. I just came back after a year break and the boss wouldn't jump and by the time it did, was back to the same color hope it gets fixed soon!

krachall

One thing that seems to help (and it very well may be just complete coincidence) is grappling back and forth between the same two platforms. So grapple away from him then right back then away then right back and eventually he'll join you on a platform with the right (for you) color.