jrgray93 wrote: »

That's better. I'd ask a mod to close the other poll.

Did, plus changed title in the meantime.

It would have been nice if he dropped some unique loot.

I have never liked long drawn out Boss battles. Metroid anyone? Going through the game taking on mobs and trash mobs, figuring out the puzzles and who to talk to and where are the parts I really like. Getting to a Boss that is 100 times harder than anything else along the way is just tiresome.

Sure a Boss fight should be challenging, but to me, it's better to have the challenge to get to the boss. Most TES games are just that way.

Now, the Molag Bal was just a tedious long drawn out fight and I am glad that I probably wont' have to do this for quite a long time, as I have taken 3 characters past him now. All my other characters are Mules, mostly. However as a Boss fights go, it was not that bad a fight, as it just took time. Not some specific sequence of events that had to be triggered at just the right time. It meant leveraging your character's strengths and weaknesses to prevail in a long drawn out fight.

Would have found it fantastic if it weren't so incredibly easy.

I think the perceptions of this fight probably have a lot to do with what class you were when you did it. For me, Desrto Staff Mage Vampire, I was just like, "What? I have to RUN? THAT is my strategy????" I mean seriously, I am this fabulous mage who has even become a vampire as well as a famed hero throughout the lands and not only do my boon companions, the magnificent Five totally bugger off and abandon me at the last possible second to meet my final fate ALONE (yeah some extremely colorful expressions regarding their character, honor, morals and general lack of hygiene, all of which ZoS would quickly censor, come to mind over THAT one!) but the fact that I have mastered some amazingly powerful magicka means NOTHING. Nope, what "beats" the freaking Prince of Schemes is my ability to... dodge. And run away. THAT being the case... this fight lasted WAY TOO LONG. I was at first incredibly frustrated and thinking there just had to be something I was missing. Nope...the answer really was just that lame.

The fight was OK (way too easy tho), but the aftermath was a huge letdown for me.

It was okay but relatively easy when all was said an done. There were some serious balance issues in the Ebonheart Pact storyline and, for me, the Lyris Doppelganger NPC (who wasn't even the boss of the level) was way harder than Molag Bal.

I play games to entertained not bored by some lame it's got billions of HP instead of a fun fight!

I think that was the best or atleast 2nd- after Oblivion end battle in TES. Skyrim's was piece of crap, Morrowind's was ok.

The fight with Molag Bal, himself, was incredibly boring and a huge letdown. I was hoping to fight some huge manifestation that would actually require me to use my brain, not just some vaguely human-shaped-and-height form with incredibly easy to predict tells and the usual, "pissy boss mode," where he spams mobs at you for a bit.

The run leading up to him was an incredibly fun change of pace, though. Zapping everything instantly didn't get old at all and I very much enjoyed that they really did make you feel like you were imbued with the power of Akatosh (or whoever it was that you got the powers from) at that point.

However, the whole storyline is still meh, making the battle just okay. Not great. I still don't get why I have to be upset that The Prophet was actually Varen. I didn't get a choice to not care, my character's dialogue was chosen for him and the reveal wasn't even upsetting or monumental. It was just, "oh yeah I'm actually this guy." Kind of how the whole main plot was, really. Just, "oh yeah and then this happened."

Thrymbauld wrote: »

Um...can you even take damage in this fight? I don't remember a large amount of dodging, I don't remember it being overly long, and frankly I played the whole fight as if I was invincible because I never actually saw my health bar blip.

To be honest, until seeing this thread, I thought it was an interactive cut scene. I actually thought I WAS invincible during it and couldn't be killed, and that winning it was a foregone conclusion. I don't recall any point during the fight giving me an indication otherwise.

Maybe when I go through with a more fragile alt I'll see something I missed, I guess.

Yeah I tanked him the entire fight with medium armor. Blocking did quite the trick too.

Still, I thought it was good fast paced fight for a melee fighter. Lots of dodging and moving around. But I was kind of expecting more after he got down to 50%, like move faster or hit harder. The titans show up, but yeah, they go down like butter. I got the sense of accomplishment, but wanted to last a little longer.

Also, I think I was 50/VR 1 when I did it, so they may have some impact, but my gear was all from high 30s/low 40s (except 2H sword).

Mannimarco was so much harder and more fun than Molag Bal.

This fight is incredibly easy if you understand the game mechanics...


For some reason though there are some very very slow people who have a hard time with this fight and refuse to listen to you when you give them advice on how to beat it easily.

The amulet of kings amplify s all healing by like 1000% or something ridiculous.

On my templar healer with a healing staff I literally just stood my ground against molag ball....I never blocked, ran, or dodge rolled. I spammed puncturing sweep (that has a healing element to it) and would sometimes use heavy attack to regain magika. I don't even think my health bar dipped below 70%...and when it did it was back to 100% within seconds thanks to the heal on puncturing sweep.

I won the fight at 100% health without even moving and letting Molag beat on me,

On my NB the fight took a little longer since I was full stamina based but I used one ability in the NB siphoning line that did a small amount of damage and regained health.

Anyone who has a difficult time with this fight is either
A) A vampire and gets one-shotted
B ) A sorcerer who does not have 1 poiint invested in healing staff
C) A NB who does not have 1 point invested in the siphon heal
D) Refused to listen and spec the 1 point into healing staff or a healing ability and deserves to struggle terribly.

With even one low level healing ability it is easy mode to defeat him because the low level heal becomes elite thanks to the amulet of kings.

Trust me people....1 point is no big deal....spend it on a healing ability and this fight becomes a cake walk.

I loved one hitting everything

although it is a bit easy, would a liked something a little harder considering I completed it without going below 70% health using a nightblade which I'd only built for aoe farming, which coincidentally had fully broken armour

When I first did tried it I found it tough, took me several gems to get through it but both the scenes before and the fight felt... big.

I was pleased when I beat it, the fight taught me lessons about how the game needed to be played and caused me to switch to 3rd person mode which has proved key.

It was a good introduction to the original VR content.

Definitely a fitting conclusion to the main quest.