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  idk

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  For the guards, until you can burst them down fast enough walk around them once they start breathing fire. To not try to kite them as they move to fast, but you can walk a tight circle around them and they do not spin fast enough. If you can drop ground dots during this great, but your focus here is avoiding damage. Add what you can as you get used to waling around him.
  
  Once they stop breathing fire you should be able to kill them without huge issue.
  
  Edit: but you are not alone with finding him a challenge during your early clears. The entire fight becomes much easier with time and will eventually become routine. Just walk around him and you will be fine. He does make a noise when he starts breathing the fire, but until you get comfortable with the fight you will probably have to work off visual cues. I did .
  
  Edit: your gear is fine. It is a matter of what works for you in there and if you are making it to the final boss and only the guards are a real issue then I would not change the gear. vMA is more about seeing and avoiding damage. As you get used to each of the rounds you will find you get used to when and where everything spawns and instead of reacting to what you see you will already be where you need to be when something is spawning. ofc, that takes time spent in there getting used to everything.

  Edited by idk on March 26, 2019 12:49PM

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  MJallday

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  Aralon wrote: »

  Hey guys, I am doing my first run of VMA on the Xbox. I got up to the last boss, but I just can’t seem to beat it. My biggest problem, even up to the last boss, are the ceremonial guards.
  
  With their fire breath, I am finding myself spamming my shield or heal just to stay alive not getting the chance to actually damage it or running out of Magicka.
  
  The boss seems simple enough, but that guard is killing me in the first part, or after the platform when I need to drop down to clear my stacks.
  
  Basically, any advice anyone can give me would be appreciated. I am a magplar, with 400 CP. I am running Skoria, 5 piece spell strat, 5 piece mother’s sorrow.
  
  Thanks!

  
  Ok... so lets go through the basics.
  1. So the first thing is vamp. make sure you are not vamp stage 3 or above.
  2. the crem guards are your absolutely priority.
  
  so i suspect you know this, heres how i do it on my magplar.
  
  Before the Fight starts - Make sure you have an Ulti ready. (destro ideally)
  Boss spawns in the centre, nuke him as much as you can. Either block or dodge roll out of the skulls.
  He teleports. you need to interrupt ASAP. use force pulse or just a bash. if you bash, get the hell out of that circle, it will kill you. at this poitn the boss should be about 80-85% if not lower.
  The boss will spawn the healer and the crem. i tend to ignore the healer, but watch where the crem and boss spawn. they will be close. if not, kite them. Drop your ulti now! - ideally on both the boss and the crem. The crem should melt in your destro ulti even with nothign else, but make sure you keep moving. if you stand still, youll die.
  the boss might require a dodge roll/interupt or 2, but by this time, and assuming your destro has hit, you should be at 70%.
  
  the boss will go to the centre and the clanfeer will turn up, i use this time to heavy attack to get some resource back and switch my tri-pot to my potion of immovability. heavy attack the clanfeer (itill go down in about 3 heavy attacks) and go up into the portal.
  
  pop the immovability pot. and go to the first crystal. the trick here is DOTS DOTS DOTS! - use shards, wall of elements, whatever youve got. its the dots that will do the trick. i also tend to heavy attack on my lightning staff like mad perminantly (ut theres is probably a better way)
  you need to keep moving. i got to the crystal on the right first, just make sure you dodge roll out of the aoe/move as needed . your immovabliity pot will prevent you from getting knocked down, but you wont be able to avoid the bashdown, so you need to be behind the wall which is circling,.. keep one eye on it, the first wall moves slowly clockwise (which is why i go to thr right first).
  
  youll see him smash the wall, and then you can finish dpsing the crystal if its not done. rince and repeat with the second and third crystals (including the pots) - but bear in mind the wall gets faster and faster AND the soul churn damage will become unhealable if your up there too long. it is a dps race in that respect.
  
  IF you get knocked down in between crystals. run straight to the centre of the map - drop a destro ulti in the centre of the map, and let the crem melt in it, you then get a bit of time to kill the clanfeeer before going up again. (thats why HA's are important upstairs to build that ulti up!)
  
  note at this point , you still havent used any sigils! -
  
  if you do get knocked down, the wall speed resets - so it becomes easier. But rememeber that trick with the destro / centre map!
  
  anyway, once youve mastered that, boss will port downstairs.
  
  first thing you do is grab the sheild sigil. that will reflect damage back at the boss.
  next you go and bash the boss to interrupt.
  you then stay near the boss. grabbing the gold ghosts as needed. they are your absolutely priority. drop dots, and everything you can on the boss. at this stage he doesnt do too much damage.
  youll see a guy come in and do a summoning. kill him!! otherwise youll be in a world of trouble in a minute.
  rememebr to keep one eye one boss, and ghost will keep coming.
  at that point you should have grabbed 3 ghosts and the crem should have spawned.
  do the soul exposion and freeze the crem/boss
  drop an ulti on the crem (and ideally the boss) - kill that crem, but melt the boss, use the other sigils.
  to be honest he should be down at this point.
  
  hope this helps. it takes practice practice practice!!
  
  

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