Soloing DLC World Bosses

Almakor

As more players focus on the newer content, it because harder to find people to help take down World Bosses in older content. I do know there are some builds that can let you solo these. If anyone can recomend some I'd appreciate it.

FrancisCrawford

It depends on the boss. Sometimes during events I get frustrated when nobody else shows up and try a boss myself. Usually I fail. Sometimes I succeed. It's mainly a matter of avoiding literal or near one-shot mechanics, and then of generally avoiding/blocking/shielding/outhealing damage.

In one case there was a boss slightly west of the eastern road in Northern Elysweyr. I was on an Oakensoul nightblade archer I almost never use in serious fights. My companion died partway through the fight. I had sustain issues. But spamming Vigor was enough to get me through, so I prevailed.

robpr

Ordinary dungeon dps build is enough to solo 90% of them except those few that have broken mechanics. Slot source of Major and Minor resolve (all classes have some kind of Major Resolve + Minor Resolve from green Vigor morph) plus maybe Minor or Major Protection (Temporal Guard and Revealing Flare) and you are good to go.
If you struggle with healing yourself, companion with healing skills or Ring of Pale Order will do that for you. Then what is left is to learn which attacks one-shot you and which are not.
Some bosses have stunlock with interrupt mechanic, for those you need Precognition morph of Undo or a alive companion with a melee weapon, they can bash pretty well.

Join a guild, most of socials are willing to help if you just ask in the chat.

I would not try to do Northern Elsweyr dragons or Harrowstorms on chars that is not Oakensorc or DK, but those are certainly possible, just margin of error is slim and you are risking wasting 15+ minutes when dragon heals back to full on unfortunate fly-by or unblocked followed by a fart from skeleton add.

Almakor

I'm mostly try to get Slayer's Ansei deck fragment from the WB's in High Isle. It's becoming difficult finding groups.

jaws343

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Almakor

jaws343 wrote: »

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Can you please give the details on that Oakensorc build?

MudcrabAttack

I was just on the PTS with a Stamina-based Arcanist in clockwork city soloing world bosses there, then some of the glowing portals in craglorn that spawn dozens of enemies and a gargoyle. I also went into vet vateshran. It was just to get a feel for it compared to a nightblade since those were the last places I soloed on the live server. Some of world event stuff was tricky to defeat on a squishy nightblade, but it was more survivable on Arcanist.

Prebuff with Inspired scholarship to build more crux and free damage

Next for a ton of mitigation, Pre-buff with
Unbreakable fate
Runeguard of freedom

Lastly the fighting involves a combination of ground AOEs with Cephaliarchs Flail to build crux, and pragmatic Fatecarver for a nasty beam and strong shield (which is buffed by all the mitigation picked up from the two soldier of Apocrypha skills). occasionally reapply buffs when they run out.

Red CPs that helped a lot were Ironclad (because it stacks with other armor mitigation), bastion (for the shield buff), and bracing anchor (because it’s 20% block mitigation stacks with the other 15% Arcanist block mitigation)

FrancisCrawford

Almakor wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Can you please give the details on that Oakensorc build?

Obvious choice of Oakensorc gear right now is Sergeant's Mail and Undaunted Infiltrator, assuming you have the patience to farm a lightning staff in one of them. Plus Oakensoul and something with a nice 1-piece bonus, e.g. Slimecraw.

Having a stat set instead of Undaunted Infiltrator doesn't hurt THAT much, and:

• Spider Cultist is easier to farm a lightning staff in.
• Order's Wrath can be crafted.
• Spell Power Cure is easy to get a lightning staff in, but only is good if you're running Critical Surge for the frequent (over)heals.

When soloing I often go with Crushing Shock/Wall of Elements (either morph)/Elemental Susceptibility/Twilight Matriarch/flex. That leaves out Daedric Prey and (sometimes) Unstable Familiar, but gets me Major Breach and near-perfect Off-Balance uptime. In some fights a high fraction of my skill casts could be Twilight Matriarch. Hardened Ward is also a consideration, and I think it's being buffed today further.

Precise weapon and Thief Mundus may not be the best choices. Do your own arithmetic based on the specifics of the rest of your build.

Daoin

Two words 'Tank Companion' eventually maybe a couple still hard solo the rest doable

fred4

For what it's worth, here's my carry tank build:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=478307

This will solo any boss that doesn't self-heal in comfort, typically at about 15K DPS single-target, but much more if there are adds. E.g. basically all bosses but that Murkmire self-healing boss. The Unfinished Dolmen in Wrothgar was once considered the hardest WB. Maybe it still is. This build will do it without breaking a sweat. I don't have that on video, but I have something much harder, the first boss of Shipwright's Regret on vet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuCXG3RRuxk

The build is designed both as a solo build and dungeon tank. I used Pale Order instead of Markyn in the video and I needed the Tormentor resistance in that fight. In general, though, it's better to swap out Tormentor for something else in solo play, such as Wretched Vitality, Pillar of Nirn, or simply a Maelstrom 2H back bar and another 5 piece, such as Order's Wrath, in place of a mythic / monster set.

A Brawler tank, such as the above, will make soloing bosses really comfortable. It is overkill in most cases. A magplar spamming Sweeps has much better single-target damage and usually suffices for tankiness. To get a little more tankiness into a magplar without sacrificing too much damage, try shielding / crit sets, such as Hexos Ward and Iceheart.

Then, of course, there are the lightning heavy attack / Oakensoul builds. Such builds have always been known for soloing, even before Oakensoul was a thing and Empower in it's current state. That said, I'm not actually sure they are as easy to play as the above. You have the advantage of being ranged, but you need to more actively heal and protect yourself. I don't play those kind of builds, but imagine casting shields and/or heals inbetween heavy attacks is a good idea. If a boss is pure single target you can also swap out the ubiquitous lightning staff for a resto staff, as the first resto passive provides a big heal at the end of every heavy attack on those builds.

fred4

FYI, the reason I use Precognition on both bars is that that ultimate can break you out of some (but not all) otherwise unbreakable stuns. I'm not aware those happen with any world boss. It's more of a thing when you try to solo some specific dungeons. However part of the build concept was using Strategic Reserve CP for the health regen. In other words I don't usually use my ultimate at all on that build.

If you are on a templar or arcanist, Gaze of Sithis and leaning on health regen via Strategic Reserve is another thing you could try. It makes sense on those classes, and on heavy attack builds for that matter, since you're channeling and can't block a lot of the time. That said, not having the block mitigation is a real, palpable drawback in my experience. It would certainly be an issue against the Minotaur in vet Vateshran and in the video I linked. Blocking is cheaper and quicker than dodge rolling. It's also much more effective than any amount of resistances and any shield, no matter how large. I ultimately decided to stay away from Gaze of Sithis, even on my magplar.

jaws343

Almakor wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Can you please give the details on that Oakensorc build?

It's the standard Oaken+StormMaster+Sergeant heavy attack build. Although I flipped over to Noble's duelist since it has more solo play damage than Storm Master.

And skills wise, Prey, Matriarch, Scamp, Crit Surge, Hurricane, Storm Attro. And lots of heavy attacking.

Almakor

jaws343 wrote: »

Almakor wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Can you please give the details on that Oakensorc build?

It's the standard Oaken+StormMaster+Sergeant heavy attack build. Although I flipped over to Noble's duelist since it has more solo play damage than Storm Master.

And skills wise, Prey, Matriarch, Scamp, Crit Surge, Hurricane, Storm Attro. And lots of heavy attacking.

Which did you replace, StormMaster or Sergeant?

jaws343

Almakor wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Almakor wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Honestly, soloing world bosses is less about builds and more about player skill and fight mechanic knowledge. As long as you know the fight and are prepared to counter the mechanics, you should be able to solo it.

But, for context, outside of a few bosses that have escape mechanics, I've soloed every other boss on my False God, Mother's Sorrow sorc. With a mix of mythics and monster sets over the years.

Also soloed quite a few on an oakensorc setup. Pretty sure I could also solo them all on it as well but no real reason to try.

Can you please give the details on that Oakensorc build?

It's the standard Oaken+StormMaster+Sergeant heavy attack build. Although I flipped over to Noble's duelist since it has more solo play damage than Storm Master.

And skills wise, Prey, Matriarch, Scamp, Crit Surge, Hurricane, Storm Attro. And lots of heavy attacking.

Which did you replace, StormMaster or Sergeant?

Storm Master