I'm not sure what class your wife is, but this fight is a complete joke and letdown as a Nightblade. The Amulet of Kings completely breaks the fight and many people consider the Titans to be the hardest part.

Here's how to beat it as a NB.

1) Get a ranged weapon. It doesn't really matter if you haven't leveled 1 because it can be level 1.

2) Stay at max range and cast your healing siphon. Re-cast whenever it ends. This is what breaks the fight. The heal is a % of the damage done and because the amulet increases your damage exponentially, you will be fully healed every 2 seconds. If he can't kill you in a 2 second span, then he can't kill you.

3) Spam basic attacks from your ranged weapon. You can use other higher damage ranged skills if you have them, but they are not needed.

4) Whenever you see him about to launch into the air, turn and run directly away to get out of range. Start attacking again as soon as he lands.

Rinse and repeat. It's possible to not even take damage during the fight. You are far enough away that you should just be able to walk around his ground attack.

For the titans... The fighters guild skills work wonders. AoE works wonders. Because of the amulet, they should all die in 2 hits. Silver bolts just mows these down.

Even if I wouldn't have blocked the adds nothing did any damage to me in god mode. I took molag bal down without ever being under 70% health during the entire fight. The only thing that killed me this entire quest were the 4 skeletons torturing Mannimarco.

Yes he is an easy fight if you are running away.

I think the people that are having problem with Mannimarco and Molag Bal are players without self heal. I am playing a sorcerer using crystal blast, endless fury, Rapid regeneration, combat prayer and boundless storm in boss fights and I have never had any problem. Of course the fight can take a bit longer but I usually don't get below 40% in boss fights.

Or simply avoiding them.. My bowplar more or less stayed at max range for the entire fight.. His fireball pattern is ridiculously predictable after the first few and I ended up pretty much just running from one side to the other and simply backing away whenever he started his jump... (That said I had the fighter's guild reward as a bow, which meant that even my light attacks took him down pretty hard.)

Thank you, this thread really helped in understanding the blocking and running away... so much easier once you understand the tricks... I'd left this last quest along for weeks because I felt I needed a good 2 hours if not more to work it out, but reading the above comments got me through 1st time I tried after reading them

Vuron, your advice on the NB was invaluable to me! Thanks for shareing!

I sort of found these tactics to work. I could get him down 70% quite easily by running and using my bow abilites. But often when I reached the end of the arena, he managed to land a hit on me, which resulted in me losing 10% of my health. By the time I reached the stage where the titans spawn I was on 60% health, usually. Blocking the titans works brilliantly. But (I do not know whether this was a glitch or was as intended), Molag Bal did not disappear for the bit when the titans appeared. He often blocked my shots that were intended for the titans. Trying to deal with the titans as Molag bal continues to hit you is near impossible - rarely I managed to progress onto the next stage, and when I did, I was on very low health.

Playing a NB, I was prepared to need multiple tries... but surprisely I defeated the big villain at my first one.
It's almost a pity; sure I lost some details I'd like to see ;D

You might add that an absolutely PERFECT internet connection is needed for a number of these fights. I'm using the best you can get where I play (MidEast, sigh, expat) and I'll flatly guarantee adding a few hundred ms of latency makes it harder. Or near impossible, would be another way to put it.

Finally, I think that would work for anyone. However, a couple of other points, don't bother reskilling, you don't need it. DO, however, arrange armor, jewelry, etc to max out recovery, in particular health recovery. MB can hit for 1100 at a pop, you never want health to be below that mark, ever. So run, sprint, run, sprint, health is at 100% then spend some it it hitting on him, he throws you back and stuns you for a second, then run some more. Just be patient and you'll get him. If I can whack that big ugly bugger, anyone can.

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Just did this today for the first time, it was quite anti climactic. I didn't block the titans at all, I just ran straight into them and AOE'd them, they died quickly. MB did not hurt me much, I made sure to block him when he telegraphed and stay out of the red cone/circles, pretty much the same stuff we learned from 1-50. From reading the forums I was dreading him, but killing him on the first try with a moderate amount of effort, certainly no more effort than some of the quest bosses, was a bit disappointing.

Out of curiosity, which class did you play?

As a vamp templar with Destruction staff, I died a lot (several failed attempts) until finally successful using these ideas:

1. make sure to get to Vamp level 1 before you go into the Harborage. You should be able to finish before you get to Vamp level 3 - every bit of health regen helps.
2. Respec and/or enchant your armor and/or use food to get some decent health buffs, to avoid being one-shotted by MB's frontal cone attack. You need a lot of Health.
3. Get a good set of armor in your current level, with best set options and enchant levels you can afford - every bit helps.
4. Use Immovable (Heavy Armor) to avoid being pinned by MB's smash.
5. Use Heals to get back to full health anytime you get damaged. (Templar instant heal was nice, Restoration staff also works, and/or potions)
6. Use at least one DoT or Siphon-type skill on MB, e.g. the Mage Guild Degenerate ability.
7. Kite using any sort of ranged attack available, mainly (instant cast) magic or weapon light attacks (to avoid draining your stamina).
8. Avoid the big frontal cone and his jump in the air attack (red areas). His other attacks are fairly weak. I tended to run FORWARD out of his circle when he was trying to jump on me, as it's easier to see where I was going, and avoid getting trapped.
9. Block when the Titans attack. I was only able to kill one - then the other three just stood there and did nothing further - possible bug?
10. Keep moving. Keep your PoV scrolled well out so that you have GOOD visibility of the arena and obstacles nearby.

Note: you have to get MB down to about 3% of his health before the fight ends (used to be 30%?), and then suddenly your attacks stop working, and he crouches down in front of you; there is then an execution scene of sorts.