Today's non-veteran pledge, final boss;

Oldmanlawlor · January 2016

Tried it with two different groups and neither group could over power that self heal.

I have completed the dungeon before but I certainly do not remember that self heal being so incredibly powerful.

Is it bugged? Or was it changed and Drodda just an absolute boss of a boss now?

UrQuan · January 2016

Is that the one that drains health from a party member? If so, can't you just stop it by doing a CC break? It's been a while since I've done Direfrost Keep, but that's what I remember about that fight.

elantaura · January 2016

Break Free .... it uses person it grabs to heal itself. We ran it twice yesterday and both runs were GF. We had to let someone die just so we could kill it, As they just would not break free. Or use a mic to listen to the Break free advice! Both runs ( I run around with someone who heals my alt and I heal his)

It's actually pretty fast to take down if you do that. The third time ( for some guildies ) it was really fast.but we told them before we ran it again.

AlnilamE · January 2016

Direfrost Keep?

It's really important that the player being drained CC break ASAP. She heals A LOT with that spell. So if you are a stamina build, keep enough stamina that you can break free if you get lifted.

If every party member stays on top of that, it's an easy fight. If not, it can get rough fast.

Oldmanlawlor · January 2016

Yeah, I figured as such. There was no one talking back to me on group/area chat.

Both teams I was with would always break off from the boss when she (he?) spawns constant Atronarchs so they had no stamina to break free.

It was incredibly frustrating. It's a shame I have to rely on the group finder for this. I am in five large clans, but they all only seem to PVP.

WillhelmBlack · January 2016

Our (pug) group had no trouble at all. Fight only lasted a minute? The other bosses were harder! Must have been the DPS cutting the fight short, can't even remember a spawn of adds, I certainly didn't taunt any.

Oldmanlawlor · January 2016

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Our (pug) group had no trouble at all. Fight only lasted a minute? The other bosses were harder! Must have been the DPS cutting the fight short, can't even remember a spawn of adds, I certainly didn't taunt any.

The final boss is untanutable anyway. My Templar has all (yes all) of its points in health so I can't do much by way of damage.

Destruent · January 2016

Oldmanlawlor wrote: »

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Our (pug) group had no trouble at all. Fight only lasted a minute? The other bosses were harder! Must have been the DPS cutting the fight short, can't even remember a spawn of adds, I certainly didn't taunt any.

The final boss is untanutable anyway. My Templar has all (yes all) of its points in health so I can't do much by way of damage.

i hope you are a tank...otherwise pls change your attributepoints or don't group at all O_o

edit: even as a tank....rly???? why????

Oldmanlawlor · January 2016

Because the difference to a magic attack from 0 magicka to 30 magica is 100 damage.

It's ridiculous.

My VR16 is a Templar tank, all points in health. The two rings and neck give me magic Regeneration.

cschwingeb14_ESO · January 2016

My tank templar also has some healing gear and DPS gear. While not maxxed, it's handy to swap in some pieces for encounters where a tank (or extreme tankyness) is not really needed. IE, half of the bosses out there

Destruent · January 2016

Oldmanlawlor wrote: »

Because the difference to a magic attack from 0 magicka to 30 magica is 100 damage.

It's ridiculous.

My VR16 is a Templar tank, all points in health. The two rings and neck give me magic Regeneration.

On my NB-Tank i have all points in magicka, so i can easily swap between DPS and tank. When playing tank i usually do around 4k..5k ST-DPS and 5...20k AoE-DPS, so i think it's not wasted. I also tanked all group content (except sanctum...usually have to dps there) ingame, so i think it's viable.
are you playing with 50k+ HP, spamming blazing shield and not blocking at all? It's really funny to see such tanks, but you can help your group more, if you lower your health a bit ^^

failkiwib16_ESO · January 2016

This sounds like a lack of dps issue. This boss is doable with low dps, however it becomes very difficult... The higher the overall dps of the group is, the less you have to deal with annoying boss mechanics in dungeons

bryanhaas · January 2016

Oldmanlawlor wrote: »

Tried it with two different groups and neither group could over power that self heal.

I have completed the dungeon before but I certainly do not remember that self heal being so incredibly powerful.

Is it bugged? Or was it changed and Drodda just an absolute boss of a boss now?

You could always sorta cheat and take a level 30 in with you, I had dungeon first timers last night last blazed through it.

Ourorboros · January 2016

What's the problem? We three manned it at v16 yesterday and our group has only been running dungeons about six weeks. Try finding a youtube showing the dungeon mechanics. The rest is just knowing basics of combat, i.e. dodge or move, stay out of red, etc.