I had to completely respec for this fight and it was an unbelievable chore. In fact I think this is what put me off pve . Gonna level vr 5-10 in cyrodiil.

I already have done 3 respecs, don't really want to have to do another one because the game makes me have to play a certain way to progress. Also, I would level in Cyrodiil, but Cyrodiil gives the smallest amount of XP that it isn't even worth it.

(It's rather long, for the short version, read only the bold text.)

This fight caught me completely off guard. I was happily questing in the zone chasing the Mane. As I was level 43, I outleveled most of the quests in the area and could pretty much smash trough any encounter without too much trouble.

Then I entered the Mane Sanctuary. No Mane to be seen, but there are 2 elite mobs. Looks like a caster and a melee. Hmm, I hate casters. If I can't nuke'm fast, they run away and hurt me, a lot. Since I'm playing as a staves Templar in cloth (main restoration, level with destruction staff), i can't let the melee pummel me too much either. I decide to nuke the fragile caster and try to heal up to face the melee afterwards.

My plan works! Hooray! I'm rather bruised, but I just beat 2 elite mobs. Where is that Mane? Ohoh, there he is, and he doesn't want to talk. Damn, I'm low on mana and the Mane is an elite too. He's even nastier than the other 2. I better try to kite him while I regen mana and get my potion from cooldown. After some frantic running, dodging, quick selfheals and a potion, I found myself in fairly decent situation again. I may yet live through this .

And then ... that *** summons his 2 elite buddies again !?! Ooooh ***. Not good. Noooot good! Crap that *** caster is firing at me from far away. Stupid Mane starts heavy attack again as the melee jerk smashes me... Ohoh, wait, aw, aaw, aaaaaw... Yeah... Dead.

Did I just go from hardly any threat mobs to 3 elite in one fight? And why are there no other players around? This can't be a solo quest? Oh boy, surely, this can't...?

Eh, why is the Mane crying that he can't take any more? He's back at full HP. Huh? Quest advances to speak to the Mane, but he's as hostile as ever along with his 2 buddies.

Oh boy, now I have to take on 3 elite from the start. All with full HP? This can't be right? I'm doing it wrong? Surely? Let's try that again and try to avoid getting hit, save some mana, be more carefull...yeah right ... dead ... try again ... dead ... getting costly ... dead ...boiling by now ... TRY AGAIN ... dead

After this I took a small break to have a chat with tech support about the quest. They responded really fast this time AND no automated crap reply. I got a friendly fellow who suggested I tried gaining a few levels. Unfortunately, the quest was level 38, and I was level 43. My gear was pretty decent so the only thing left as possible cause of my disasterous encounter: Me. I seem to suck at this.

So end of this rather painfull (and long) story? Actually: no. After my chat with the fellow from support I wanted to try if I could nuke the caster elite to see if he would respawn or not. So in I tried yet again. Before the pull, I activated 2 HoT on me. then i hit the caster with everything I had and (hooray hooray): he went down. At that point I got rather lucky as the Mane decided to do his heavy attack in a totally harmless position so I quicky started smashing the melee jerk. With my potion and a instant big selfheal, I got him down too. Awesome. Thankfully, that potion was HP+mana, so I now have some mana regeneration going and the Mane for some reason decided he would do another heavy attack or 2 rather far away from me. Big mistake from the bosscat! This gave me time to quickly swap to my restoration staff, and cast some more HoT on me. I still got enough mana to slam him hard now while my selfheals were active again. The only thing I had to hope for is that he would not summon those 2 again...and he didn't. He took the beating off his life and I advanced the quest properly this time.

Did I fight better the last time? Don't really know. I suspect I got rather lucky for once. Is the fight too hard? WAY TOO HARD for that level and especialy way too hard for a story advancing quest. If you are interested in the story (like me), encounters like these are the best way to get your frustrated as ... .

I agree that this quest is too hard at the moment. That's why I replied in this post. Maybe ZOS reads it and decides to check it out. At the very least I got a chance to vent my frustration in a somewhat constructive way

(The helpfull support fellow did say he'd pass my info on te quest on to his collegues. )

I'm struggling to do this one as well. I can't even get past the mage at the start the damage is WAY too high for a solo instance. Dunno if gaining a few vet levels will help after all the extra stats aren't that high between levels. Had this problem with another guy earlier on and had to use a cheese tactic. Mage npcs seem to have an incredibly high dps just for auto attacks

Cheesed this quest aswell by dodgerolling through the door behind me and only the main guy followed through. Derp.

I still have nightmares about this fight the only way I could beat this was to kill the 2 adds then fight the boss near the entrance when he spawns adds they didn't aggro and was able to kill the boss. Absolute chore.

I had to do this quest on Veteran 10 today. Needless to say it's WAY overtuned. This needs to be toned down quite a bit. As if the 2 elites wern't bad enough, you have ot b able to burn down the boss at 15k before becoming overwhelmed by all 3 of them.

I have the same problem as elst93neb18_ESO, I killed them @lvl vr4(i didn't find it hard just spec right) and i didn't get the kill for it? it's bugged and i can't finish the main story now?



Work around: group with a new player that hasn't done the quest resets the boss. phew.

I managed to do this mostly thanks to the nightblades veil of blades ult and reapers mark skill to regen health when killing an enemy. Killed all 5 in a row without dying.

I just got a guild mate to teleport to me in the outer room then walked into the main fight room, my grouped guild mate was able to come in with me and together we ate the three of them alive.

Died once, but got it on the second try. Here's what I did (like those above)

39 Sorc
Burned down the two elites, then Mane popped up. He had his adds and they toasted me quickly. Problem, now there are three elites.

I resurrected, then pulled each add (using Velocious Curse) from as far away as I could. That aggros just one at a time. Burned each one down easily. Then I pulled Mane the same way and no more adds (he doesn't call them a second time). Easy peasy. I just wish there was a better way to do it without dying. But what's one more repair bill...

VR5 - I found a way. Noticed that only the right hand mob got the threat symbol when I inched forward on the right hand side of the hallway. It then followed me alone. Fought it at the door. Then did the same on the left mob and finally the boss. Died 5 times before I figured this one out. Talked to the quest giver at the door.

I'm not having fun with this quest. I'm VR9 in the VR10 zone, but I don't think that is the problem. I think this might be the most frustrating quest so far for me. I'm kind of a crappy player too. Kind of silly that they nerfed doshia but leave this as is.
EDIT: So, I did it. Just had to get a little more creative with my abilities.

Trying this at VR4 (DW NB) & although I can take the first two down it leaves me dry and the boss plus spawns hand me my ****.

Is this a 'key' quest or can I skip to the next story quest 'cos if not I am not going to be progressing further...