cant beat malekith

[Glory]

currently been stuck longer than fire giant wtf is this boss

[Haru]

Publicado originalmente por Fel:

That "norm" really depends on the player's own skill as well as how much of the content you explore.
The only reasons to keep your level low are for the challenge or for PvP.
If you are not into either of those, getting more levels is only beneficial, and you get plenty of runes without farming for them if you explore and do the various dungeons that are all over the place.

It's fine to want to keep yourself at a low level if you have a reason for it, but if like OP you are struggling there is little reason to not go beat some dungeons (and their bosses) for a big chunk of runes and level up.

Another thing to note is the +9 on the flasks, the cap is at +12 and all of the sacred tears are before cumbling farum azula.
It won't magically make you better at the game to have better flasks of course, but healing more with each flask can help when you are struggling against a boss (assuming you have enough time to heal during the fight of course).

120 is not low level, lol. It's high end game level across the board with how NPCs scale. At the point you start going over that, nearly all of your primary stats suffer from diminishing returns. Like sure, over levelling 100% helps incrementally, but 150-180 range is pretty out there for a base game play through across the board, unless you're explicitly going out of your way to grind. And no amount of additional incremental stat increases mean zilch if you're being killed by the exact same mechanics on loop.

[Haru]

Publicado originalmente por brownie689:

Publicado originalmente por Glory:

i didnt really think i needed anymore i was under the impression at some point the bosses where just gonna one shot you anyway

you need 60 vigor to even think about surviving an attack from most bosses in this game. Especially the DLC.

Or using damage mitigation tools effectively. That helps a whole bunch and often gets ignored.

[Fel]

I have not been grinding, at least not explicitly (dying and going back to get my runes in mog's blood swamp several times did end up giving me a couple extra levels I guess).
I did defeat all enemies I came across and finish all dungeons, without using any kind of boost towards runes, but I still have a large majority of the rune items I got along the way, which are enough for a good few extra levels.

Of course, my level 175 when I started crumbling azula was high since I did go to mog and cleared the way to Malenia before going there, but I was around level 150 when I defeated fire giant.

Going to all of the dungeons along the way and not going out of your way to skip enemies gives you more than enough runes to not have to grind (and to even make grinding a bit meaningless).

Of course, I understand that not everyone will do all of the content, but level 120 being labelled as end game means that you don't really do much side content, probably none except for the ones that have a reward you need for your build.

[Haru]

Publicado originalmente por Fel:

I have not been grinding, at least not explicitly (dying and going back to get my runes in mog's blood swamp several times did end up giving me a couple extra levels I guess).
I did defeat all enemies I came across and finish all dungeons, without using any kind of boost towards runes, but I still have a large majority of the rune items I got along the way, which are enough for a good few extra levels.

Of course, my level 175 when I started crumbling azula was high since I did go to mog and cleared the way to Malenia before going there, but I was around level 150 when I defeated fire giant.

Going to all of the dungeons along the way and not going out of your way to skip enemies gives you more than enough runes to not have to grind (and to even make grinding a bit meaningless).

Of course, I understand that not everyone will do all of the content, but level 120 being labelled as end game means that you don't really do much side content, probably none except for the ones that have a reward you need for your build.

Another factor is perhaps the lack of runes spent on arts, equipment, items, buff items, etc, and upgrades, so on and so on. Mohg's area can skew things a bit as the rune yield there is enormous compared to anywhere else in the game.

[Fel]

I found the haligtree to be a bigger source of runes overall, in part because the zone is much bigger and has a lot more "bosses" (several non-respawning as well as a lot of tougher enemies).
For Mog's area, the red ones give a lot of runes but the whole second part is only filled with zombies that give very little (and that are annoying to kill).

Funny enough, the whole area of crumbling azula might give you more runes than Mog's, with 3 proper bosses and quite a lot of enemies that drop a decent amount of runes.

[Meewec]

Publicado originalmente por Fel:

For Mog's area, the red ones give a lot of runes but the whole second part is only filled with zombies that give very little (and that are annoying to kill).

the palace approach ledge is the farming spot. you can either shoot the bird in the water below to have it run off the ledge over and over or you can kill the collection of albinauracs sitting around on the ledge.

[Glory]

finally it is done after 7 weeks and 90-100 attempts its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over thanks for the help and advice guys time to get stuck on the very next boss for another month cuz i suck

[Sc0rpiTr0n]

Publicado originalmente por Glory:

finally it is done after 7 weeks and 90-100 attempts its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over thanks for the help and advice guys time to get stuck on the very next boss for another month cuz i suck

Great work!

If you're stuck again just ask for help or advice.

[Fel]

The next boss can definitely be a huge pain, what you want is a fairly quick weapon to stagger him (most attacks will stagger him).
You'll also want a high resistance to magic and holy (especially magic) since it's a boss that spams spells.

Anyway, congrats on beating Maliketh, all that's left to the main story are 3 bosses, two of which have vastly different phases, all of them can be quite deadly so good luck.

[Velber]

you definitely need a better weapon bro, and better stats

[Haru]

Publicado originalmente por Glory:

finally it is done after 7 weeks and 90-100 attempts its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over thanks for the help and advice guys time to get stuck on the very next boss for another month cuz i suck

proud of u