Dance of Masks Arena Arvoz the First

[bigkr88]

So, Dance of Masks DLC, I get to Kenebras, and get railroaded into this arena. Fine, didn't know I'd be railroaded into the arena as I was under the impression it was optional, but fine.

Core difficulty if that matters. First fight was a cakewalk with my usual buff rounds, second fight I'm thrown against 2 dragons. Kill the chaotic good dragon. But now, I can't kill the bone dragon, Arvoz the First, because I THINK his soul ward ability is bugged. I say this because I have had him at 1 hp for multiple rounds at this point, able to consistently hit him multiple times, but he just stays stuck at 1 hp. I have no way of seeing what his 'soul' counter is at, but I did NOT swarm him with summons and a companion only died once so far (mid battle quickened raise dead ftw) yet no matter how many times I'm smacking him he just does not drop. I can't find any guides on this guy after a few cursory searches in the fight. If this entire DLC is basically locked off to me due to a gamebreaking bug in this fight that makes this dragon immortal, I'mma be fairly salty.

[Zalie]

Think you can see the counter if you inspect him, know it's visible somewhere. The problem with this boss is that he adds charges to his soul charge if he knocks down one of your characters, think it's 1 charge for each level of the character knocked out. On higher difficulties this F-ing dragon can be insane...

[BrightButHeavy]

Try to nuke him more. Dont know what worked for me, but hi died a couple of my fused chain lightning + disintegrate. Not the hardest fight on core, but in my top 3.

[Deo]

Originally posted by BrightButHeavy:

hi died a couple of my fused chain lightning + disintegrate

Out of curiosity - how much damage it does?

[bigkr88]

So, I think I found out what happened. Due to me hitting the Chaotic Good dragon with debuffs left and right, it seems like Arvoz killed the other dragon with his own breath weapon, or caused some kind of chain reaction which the made game think he did, so he got ALL THAT DRAGON'S levels (40-50ish I think?) as counters. It's also possible that since Avroz's breath can cause people to fall prone and I was spamming Mass Heal and Channel Positive Energy out of Daeran that I didn't realize my companions were actually dropping below zero.

I had the fight paused when I originally posted this, so when I went back and kept up with beatdowns (seelah is quickly becoming a go-to for these ridiculous bossfights, mark of justice is just about a necessity) I finally saw the counter on the soul description. the counter didn't appear when I first looked, not sure if that was a bug or I was just looking at it from the wrong screen or something. Either way, it turned into game of manually killing my own summons to keep them from feeding the dragon and sending any animal companions unable to do damage to the dragon to the back room you enter the arena from since that was out of range of the breaths. Luckily my PC is a dual longsword build, and I also had Arushalae and Lann to spam arrows into him to chip down those soul counters.