Save up a nova use crushing shock and breath of life to heal yourself when it turns into a harvester drop your nova to destroy the balls and then kill it

Yet another problem that could have been avoided if they hadn't nerfed Doshia into the ground...

I remember having trouble with the Lyris Doppelganger back then with my first character, so I went back, outlevelled her, came back and killed her.

With my other characters I didn't have that problem anymore (since my class builds were much better this time and I knew a lot more about "how to eso"), but I also did it at levels a bit higher in the first place, if I remember correctly.

Later, when dungeons etc. were changed to scale with you, I was worrying that I would mess it up again, but I didn't. That was a relief.

Your options now are the following: although dungeons/bosses scale with you, you still can go back, level up several times to increase your attributes and get more skillpoints, and most importantly: improve your skills. A destro staff with all skills available and all passives unlocked can deal a LOT of damage. So even when the Harvester is still your level (which will always be the case now), you have much better chances to beat her.

As a matter of fact, I have to catch up 3 parts of the mainquest today, starting with the Doppelganger. I'll go in with a full skill level 50 destro staff with all passives and all needed skills with their morphs unlocked. Wish me luck^^
Oh, and good luck to you, of course

Salacious wrote: »

This boss annoys me. Ever since they made the solo dungeons scale with you, I have not wanted to log in. You cannot out level her

I beat the last naga boss by out levelling her and coming in and one shotting her.

How do you beat Lyris now? Lyris the companion is a joke. and as a Templar I feel weak. Even with staff or shield. Mind you I haven't used staff enough to have any good skills in it (destro staff that is)

Ideas? I am more glass cannon then not. Level 30 with sword/shield and staff.

Hmmm I fought her at v3 (had a corrupt character and was given a new one I had to level from v1) *after the patch* and spanked her like a naughty child on my NB.

As a templar, resto staff her, shard or javelin the balls, BoL yourself. Rinse repeat.

Oh and heal whoever you brought with you and they will keep fighting.

If you're a Templar then use a mixture of healing, Puncturing Sweep, Dark Flare and Heavy Resto Attacks (with Breath of Life perk). Watch them for their heavy attacks, they have two.

The first is a direct range attack which stuns but they have a tell movement (which I don't quite recall now, but I recognise when fighting) and it can be dodged/blocked.

The second is an area style attack where 4 "beams" sweep out in opposite directions, stunning you if you are in the way, which then creates the balls of healing. It is signalled by her sweeping her hand backwards behind her head. If you shift so that you are between their side and their front/back and about "5m" away they'll miss you. You can make use of the balls by breaking them and getting the healing for yourself. The balls are created when the beam hits a unmoving solid so try to keep them away from the walls. Don't allow them to absorb the balls of healing if possible.

It gets frustrating if they get you with the Area Attack and then hit you with the Direct Range Attack.

I've seen a lot of people talk about how hard this boss is, but I've been through that quest with 7 different characters, and I've only ever died to it once. It's no different from standard harvester tactics (which those of us who fought Doshia pre-nerf had to learn much earlier - I think my first character was level 7 or 8 when I had to learn to fight harvesters through a lot of trial, error, and getting killed). Keep doing single target damage to her, make sure you draw her into an area where the feasts won't spawn directly on top of her, and then when the feasts spawn take them out before they get to her (AoEs are good for this, or ranged attacks).

Salacious wrote: »

and as a Templar I feel weak. Even with staff or shield. Mind you I haven't used staff enough to have any good skills in it (destro staff that is)

Ideas? I am more glass cannon then not. Level 30 with sword/shield and staff.

I am a L17 Templar and I am sweeping the floor with mobs. I have only developed the Staff for now. I think a Templar is one that benifits from a fully developed primary weapon before developing a secondary weapon.

I fought my first harvester last night and I have to say it was pretty easy. Use the Ultimate that sweeps your spear around (I forget what it is called) and you will kill all the orbs, heal your self, and really damage the harvester.

If your stick is not developed, then use the Charge skill in the Class to take out the orbs, you can time it so that you can hit all 4 of them, or at the very least 3 of them.