Elder Scrolls Online is a massively multiplayer online game. It is not a single player game. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to expect some content to require group effort.

I steamrolled him on my stamblade and magblade. Not sure what the issue is. Maybe do more than just light attack?

That fight is all about AoE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03jbgenfL5U


Or if all you want to do is light attack: (skip to 1m 33s)
https://youtu.be/22c1IloaEiA?t=1m33s

The mechanics for K'torra look good on paper, but the problem is that for a solo boss, there's no reasonable limit on the boss spawning adds and self-buffs. K'torra spawns orbs and groups of three main adds, one of which is always a Spewer, which has a powerful ranged attack. One Spewer in a mob of three enemies is always important to get rid of fast, and two or more may quickly turn the fight OP against the player. Meanwhile, if you're dispatching adds, K'torra goes into a cycle of using fairly weak moderate-range attacks, a fairly weak AOE, then rapidly starts spawning orbs and adds. There is no rational limit to the number of adds spawned; the OP effect simply ramps up until you're dead. This is where you'll die due to getting worn down by typically three or more Spewers plus a cheap shot from K'torra. And it can happen very fast, because of how the RNG seems to work. If the battle starts off with K'torra spawning two or more groups of adds, your chance of turning the tide is poor. And the battle is basically over before you've had much chance to try.

Not all builds have really strong AOEs, or ones that can be used often enough. Assuming all players can use AOE as the means to defeat the boss doesn't leave room for variety in successful player builds. IF you can spam AOEs plus DOTs, then this is an easier fight and perhaps what ZOS intended, but that's not how all players fight, not at all.

If you don't rely on AOEs, then you need to keep K'torra badly off-balance so it doesn't spawn adds and orbs. One of the more successful methods seems to be spamming light attacks or rapid repeatable skills from a middle distance while moving and closing in, then hitting with heavy attack and DOT skills at close range several times until K'torra dives into the ground to emerge on the opposite side of the area. Run to the center and repeat. Over and over and over and over and over... Until the boss is finally dead. If you can keep this up long enough and fast enough, K'torra won't get a chance to spawn the orbs and adds. At least not much. You may wind up with a group or two of adds along the way. Kill the Spewers, then deal with or ignore the rest. And hope the RNG smiles on you, because once the adds spawn, all bets are off that the fight will be winnable. Between the speed at which adds spawn and the randomness, you may simply find yourself in a position where using a potion or skill to heal will use up the split second in which you must kill adds or strike at K'torra, or the rapid spawns will take you out in the time it takes to react.

If you keep K'torra off-balance for more than 95% of the time, you'll make it as long as you stay buffed and healed. There's almost zero chances for turning the battle if you fall behind in any way, though, which makes most deaths feel like it was a cheap shot. And, in a lot of ways, it is. K'torra's own attacks are weak; the boss just has a ton of hit points. The adds' rate of multiplying is very high, and if there are two or more Spewers, the enemy wave goes OP in no time at all.

Really, if the adds were capped at having never more than two Spewers, then the cheap-shot kill chance would probably be reduced or eliminated, and you'd still have a long, challenging battle with adds, which is probably what ZOS intended. But a component of the adds goes off-balance too quickly as it is.

I solo everything on Summerset I think they should improve the the wb to be harder so it can really be called a world boss.

No story quest in this game is designed for groups of people to complete it. Most of this game is designed for single players. The only exceptions are dolmens/geysers, WBs, group dungeons and trials.

CompM4s wrote: »

DarkScatha wrote: »

I solo everything on Summerset I think they should improve the the wb to be harder so it can really be called a world boss.

I agree, it would be nice to really have a group challenge for these world bosses. Though, the summerset bosses are way harder than the ones from other zones. Thats a step in the right direction.

I actually agree that the world bosses could be a bit harder. I have seen 10+ players wipe on a Geyser boss and barely anyone dies to the world bosses. And every world boss can be soloed in Summerset, although B'Korgen is a slog to get through alone.

LoneDrkWolf wrote: »

WTF is wrong with these LBT, Foxtrot Tango programmers? Not everyone l ines to group. Not everyone wants to have to fight th things with a lot of people. Why TF can they not allow quests to scale, especially main line quests, to the number of people going in. They're becoming as bad as WoW making it so people have to group just to play the damn game.

Lol wut, not everyone likes to dps meta through 99% of group content. MMO much?

I really don't care how easily someone else beat K'Torah at level 1 with an adventurer's greatsword. I don't play this game to lose over and over because the random number generation is permitted too great a range for an L50 with a slew of champion points. I'm not a masochist and will skip this encounter and the Psijic line rather than keep bashing my forehead bloody on this deleted expletive brick wall.

I do not pay to punish myself. I don't get a kick out of being defeated. I pay to play and I pay well. I already took a year off from playing because of this boss and he hasn't been fixed yet.