Alatreon tips.

[Aelin Galathynius]

Alatreon can start in Ice or Fire mode, The event quest Dark Star is always Ice the other one is always fire and the special assignment is always fire.
Fire mode is very weak to ice and ice mode is very weak to fire. Dragon element is effective throughout the entire fight, though not as effective as the correct element in the correct mode.
Apparently 2x Ice and 2x Fire is the best option for multiplayer.

The damage of the super attack is reduced by dealing elemental damage, if you hit the threshold to really reduce this Alatreon will flop to the ground like Velkhana does when you break off her ice. You can do this multiple times which further reduces the super attack.

If you break Alatreons horns during the Dragon mode he will go back to the element he started in, if you do not break it during Dragon mode he will go to the other one. The horns cannot be broken unless he is in Dragon mode

Since farcaster is disabled the only way to swap weapons is to cart.

Elemental mantles do work on the super attack but will not save you by themselves, standing in a health booster is your best option equipment-wise as it will give you time to eat an astera jerky


The elemental weaknesses when in Fire, Dragon, and Ice modes, respectively, are:

Fire - 0\1\3

Water - 2\1\1

Thunder - 1\1\2

Ice - 3\1\0

Dragon - 1\2\1




A guide to the fight can be found here
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/606182991215067153/730782182070550538/20200709_154620.jpg

An image of the hunter guide for the weakspots
https://imgur.com/a/RxjsNol


Anyone got anything to add to this?
Since there are so many threads complaining I figured it would be good to have one with all the tips/advice.

[Freaktacular]

Alatreon only does one kind of elemental supernova in one quest, right? If so, is his active also the same before doing one?

[Choir of VVolves]

Originally posted by Freaktacular:

Alatreon only does one kind of elemental supernova in one quest, right? If so, is his active also the same before doing one?

he can perform whatever type he's currently in. i've seen the frost and then fire later in fight.

Originally posted by Aelin Galathynius:

Since there are so many threads complaining I figured it would be good to have one with all the tips/advice.

they are complaining because the one shot is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame and no fight should have you farcasting to switch gear in the middle of it, full stop.

[BoyArmed]

Doing multiplayer I highly suggest bringing health boosters and dust of life's. If your team is successful on the DPS check you can stack and heal through Nova easily supporting each other.

Some groups are gonna hit a Wall if not one elemental state gets knocked out of him the Nova will always kill the entire group.

He also does random mini Nova's which seem to disperse as a cone in front of him. I've been behind alatreon every time that goes off and it doesn't affect me.

You can flash him out of the air during a casts sometimes.

Alatreon can also be wall banged ONLY if thrown into one of the only two rock slopes on the side of maps.

It always starts in fire active mode, second is always dragon. If you break a horn during dragon he seems to go back to fire.

If your group can break horns so far, it might be safe to say you don't need a weapon to counter his ice mode if you can break the horn Everytime.

My group went two thunder, one ice, one water as we were able to get horn break every time.

[BoyArmed]

Originally posted by Freaktacular:

Alatreon only does one kind of elemental supernova in one quest, right? If so, is his active also the same before doing one?

The Nova seems to be random, after he gets out of dragon active hell do the Nova but the Nova can either be ice, fir, dragon, or thunder. But I'm not sure. When my team broke horns his Nova was ice but he didn't go ice active as we broke his horn so he went fire after Nova was cast

[miep miep]

Originally posted by Aelin Galathynius:

Alatreon can start in Ice or Fire mode, The event quest Dark Star is always Ice the other one is always fire and the special assignment is always fire.

If you cant remember which quest is which. I think the enviroment when you are at camp shows you which element he is in. I definetly saw the surroundings of the camp both in ice and in flames.

[Nershkat]

I'd say 2 fire/ice (the opposite Alatreon starts) and 2 dragon braking at least one horn.

My point is that after hot/cold mode he always goes dragon mode, so the four hunters are weakening the first nova. If you break one horn, Alatreon won't go to the mode that no one has weapon to counter.

If the team can't break a horn, at least after the bad mode the dragon hunters can weaken the next nova.

[Waffles]

Alatreon is vastly easier to solo.

You don't have to worry about other elements not doing their job, so that's one less headache.

As much as I hate soloing, I did it with a Critical Element build with the Safi Dragon DB; full elemental augments.
Considering dual blades are literally the best elemental weapon in the game, it's clearly the MVP.

The lightning bolt attack(not the lightning rows) is one of its most vulnerable attacks, make sure to take advantage of it by dishing out free DPS.
A tip for that attack is to wait for a lightning bolt to hit near/on where you want to attack; lightning will never strike the same spot twice, making Alatreon a sitting duck for a couple seconds.

If you get stunned, you get a free cart ride to camp, so avoid taking hits in a row.

[Freaktacular]

do the horns take part damage only during the dragon active?

[Aelin Galathynius]

Ok I copy pasted the first post earlier on today before actually fighting it.

I have now fought it a few times both solo and as a group.

Seriously is this nova actually survivable?

Even standing on a health booster with my weapon already sheathed I'm dead before I can eat a max potion/jerky and that's from full hp with health boost 3.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Aelin Galathynius:

Ok I copy pasted the first post earlier on today before actually fighting it.

I have now fought it a few times both solo and as a group.

Seriously is this nova actually survivable?

Even standing on a health booster with my weapon already sheathed I'm dead before I can eat a max potion/jerky and that's from full hp with health boost 3.

what i noticed is that the power of nova only decreases if you hit certain damage cap and alatreon will fall on the ground, without that damage of nova will be the same.

[Aelin Galathynius]

Originally posted by Verto:

Originally posted by Aelin Galathynius:

Ok I copy pasted the first post earlier on today before actually fighting it.

I have now fought it a few times both solo and as a group.

Seriously is this nova actually survivable?

Even standing on a health booster with my weapon already sheathed I'm dead before I can eat a max potion/jerky and that's from full hp with health boost 3.

what i noticed is that the power of nova only decreases if you hit certain damage cap and alatreon will fall on the ground, without that damage of nova will be the same.

So when they say elemental damage reduces the nova it works like steps rather than a slide?

As in, to pluck some numbers out of thin air, do 1000 damage and the nova drops by 100 damage, do 2000 damage and it drops by 200 damage, but do 999 damage and the nova does full?

[Verto]

Originally posted by Aelin Galathynius:

Originally posted by Verto:

what i noticed is that the power of nova only decreases if you hit certain damage cap and alatreon will fall on the ground, without that damage of nova will be the same.

So when they say elemental damage reduces the nova it works like steps rather than a slide?

As in, to pluck some numbers out of thin air, do 1000 damage and the nova drops by 100 damage, do 2000 damage and it drops by 200 damage, but do 999 damage and the nova does full?

yup something like that, i mever survived a nova without alatreon falling over atleast once

[Aelin Galathynius]

Finally beat it earlier tonight. Used LBG and had a good team.

This fight really demands that all 4 players pull their weight in damage and keep an eye on each others health with dust of life/wide range.

Also don't forget your demon powders.

[DrDre44]

Originally posted by Freaktacular:

do the horns take part damage only during the dragon active?

Yes, i think they take apart damage the whole fight but can only be broken in dragon mode.

[DrDre44]

Alatreon's own armor is pretty useful against him. Just throwing this out there but you don't actually need to kill alatreon to craft it. I've been helping my buddy out and we go in with raw damage weapons and aim to break at least one part before we fail. You can get two tails if you cut and carve the tail and one wing if you break them. We only had to do it about 5 times and now he has most of the armor and is ready to try and really kill him now. I can personally somewhat reliably kill him solo with a combo of dragon weapon, alatreon divinity 2&3, and dragonproof mantle.