Has something happened to Molag Bal

Valerien · March 2015

This is the first time I have fought Molag Bal since the 2.0 patch and I'm not sure if his been changed or just bugged or what happened.

The first thing I noticed he wasn't throwing any fireballs of doom at me as I progressed through his hoard of trash. I put this down to maybe stealth working as intended or maybe they were a mechanic too far or a bug, As when I got to him his back was too me I still flew through the air but had to guess that he was trying to hug me to death cause the animation stayed on his back.

Next the first phase of the fight, all fairly standard, though he did seem to have more health than I remember or I had less stamina somewhat more reliant on stand attacks but that could just be remembering it differently. Next though when the titans land and breath fire he remained, makes the fight a little different in that you cant block their attacks so easily if his stunning you. Once they were killed we went back to the third phase with fireball added into the mix. At one point things were looking dicey so I drank a healing potion only it was pretty close call due to an unfortunate moment of lag. Which made me wonder if its impossible to die in this fight?

So has the fight been changed so it is no longer possible to die against Molag Bal?

Zershar_Vemod · March 2015

I ran that final quest with him while my character was naked (rapid gear decay bug back in the day), it was hard to die in that quest aside from accidentally running over the edge of one of the paths.

Betahkiin · March 2015

Considering that the fight with Molag Bal is in a way, the final showdown with the boss of the expansion, I think I turned too simple compared to other fights I had with lesser chiefs along the journey.

I think this was somehow intentionally (with the help of the benefit of divine power) to give greater importance to the evolution of history and avoid frustration at the final stage of it.

In my case achieves beat on the first try (and for quite some time, for 2014) with a Templar (Tank) equipped with the basics found in open world missions, (nothing special).

I do not know how this difficulty now, but long ago, it was not an impossible fight.

SLy_Kyti · March 2015

The fight's been changed to be in line with the reward given at the end.

Naor_Sarethi · March 2015

He got bored and out of protest over the lack of his real title he refuses to give you a real fight.
Serves you right puny mortal.

Sacadon · March 2015

I've come to the conclusion that this was never meant to be hard, but all flare instead. Sadly I think it's WAI.

Chuggernaut · March 2015

The only thing I noticed different was they added a huge outline to walls you need to burn through which silly. I've got another dude on deck to run the mission in the next day or two, I'll grab a screen shot to share.