Kill 5 Void Creatures

SeaGtGruff · February 8

Players like to go to the Library of Arkthzand for this endeavor, but everyone is so quick to kill every void creature they see that the task takes much, much longer than it needs to.

Here is the fastest way to do it:

When the Shade Colossus appears, DO NOT KILL IT QUICKLY! Instead, just lightly tap it, or block its attacks, or whatever-- but leave it alive.

After a couple of seconds, it will spawn 2 Summoned Shades. KILL THOSE INSTEAD!

After a couple more seconds, it will spawn 2 more Summoned Shades. KILL THOSE!

If you want to go ahead and kill the Shade Colossus after that for the 5th void creature, fine.

But if you want to help out your fellow players, you can just wait and kill 2 more adds-- making 6 void creatures killed-- and leave the Shade Colossus for others.

Fortunately, the respawn interval of the Shade Colossus appears to have been shortened, so if everyone keeps insta-killing the Shade Colossus before it can summon any adds, just keep waiting for it to respawn until you manage to kill it 5 times.

But it is much, much quicker to complete the endeavor by repeatedly killing the adds-- as long as no other players are around to keep insta-killing it.

mdjessup4906 · February 10

Someone needs to sticky this.

Faerugue · February 10

mdjessup4906 wrote: »

Someone needs to sticky this.

Agreed ... or have it as an intro when you enter the Library ...

KekwLord3000 · February 10

aint no way it's gonna happen.
The reach boss was unkillable for ages cause people kept dpsing the boss when they shouldn't have until zos reworked the mechanic.
People go unga bunga on the boss/mobs and you can't expect anyone to go slow (even if it's for their benefit)

Chrisilis · February 10

This was super helpful, thank you! Got to the boss and there were 20 other people there but he just kept respawing over and over with no downtime. Me and my groupmate knocked this out in under a minute

Mik195 · February 10

Or if ZOS really wants to include this endeavor, maybe they could add a few more locations?

DenverRalphy · February 10

They're all over Blackreach. You don't have to just farm the WB. Nighthollow keep and the library have some too. There are other locations, just all in the same zone.

freespirit · February 10

Just kill the Voidmother WB in the Reach you'll get it done first kill. a lot of her adds are void creatures!

SeaGtGruff · February 10

I can’t solo the WB, otherwise I might do that even though it would take longer. The Shade Colossus and its adds are very easy to kill, even for newbies and lowbies, which I think is why so many players flock to it for this endeavor.

AcadianPaladin · February 10

@SeaGtGruff I have gone to Ark Library area and killed shades but wasn't sure what /where was the shade colossus you spoke of. So I paid the library grounds a visit. I found it straight out the front/center entrance of the library at the end of the 'sidewalk'. What you describe is both accurate and helpful. I put my tank companion (Mirri) onto it and used light attacks to kill the shades as they spawned. Got 2 or 3 spawns of 2 shades each killed before Mirri killed the colossus. Good to know, thanks!

freespirit · February 11

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I can’t solo the WB, otherwise I might do that even though it would take longer. The Shade Colossus and its adds are very easy to kill, even for newbies and lowbies, which I think is why so many players flock to it for this endeavor.

But you won't need to solo it, when this endeavor is up there are always people there and a couple of AOE's will tag enough creatures for the kill.

I got all 5 way before the boss went down.

SeaGtGruff · February 11

freespirit wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I can’t solo the WB, otherwise I might do that even though it would take longer. The Shade Colossus and its adds are very easy to kill, even for newbies and lowbies, which I think is why so many players flock to it for this endeavor.

But you won't need to solo it, when this endeavor is up there are always people there and a couple of AOE's will tag enough creatures for the kill.

I got all 5 way before the boss went down.

I'll keep that in mind the next time the endeavor comes up, but I had already completed it in Blackreach.

I do enjoy soloing the Dwarven WB that's a bit to the south of the Library. It takes me a while, since I don't do a lot of damage, but I thoroughly enjoy prolonged fights with bosses and adds that are challenging to deal with in a long fight. Most of the time one or more additional players will join me in the fight, which is certainly welcome, but I have fun taking it on solo.

The WB in the Reach overland, on the other hand, is currently beyond my meager abilities. I'm not sure if it's just that I haven't learned how to deal with the mechanics, or what, but I don't mess with her unless there are other players around.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · February 11

Whenever this is the endeavor I go and put on the Shade Polymorph and stand in a random spot outside the Arkthzand Library.