how do i defeat malkoran

[H4RRY]

he is so bloody strong and kills me 2 hits with his annoying ice storm any answers help

[H4RRY]

its driving me crazy

[Spirit]

one of my favorite boss fights ever. he is always a challenge

try using paralyzing poison and shooting him. if nothing else it gives you chance to kill his allies first. if you have conjuration summon something to distract him

[alexander_dougherty]

Get behind a pillar to kill the shades, that way he can't one shot you with a spell, then wait until he approaches and kill him with a sword..... resist shock enchantments help too.

[Master Talon]

the Meridia quest (Dawnbreaker) and anything kills him actually

[John]

1- Get some boots with frost resist
2- Get the Lord Stone near the Shrine of Mehrunes south of Dawnstar for 25% magic resist
3- Dodge his attacks, they are quite slow and easy to dodge

[mikk011]

This topic recently came up in the Special Edition forums. Here is what that thread had to say. https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/3128289956322257973/ I hope it gives you some more things to try.

[Master Talon]

Originally posted by mikk011:

This topic recently came up in the Special Edition forums. Here is what that thread had to say. https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/3128289956322257973/ I hope it gives you some more things to try.

technically it's not off topic since it's still about a quest in the game

[mikk011]

Originally posted by Master Talon:

Originally posted by mikk011:

This topic recently came up in the Special Edition forums. Here is what that thread had to say. https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/3128289956322257973/ I hope it gives you some more things to try.

technically it's not off topic since it's still about a quest in the game

I wasn't complaining; I referenced that thread because it had several possible ways to answer your question about how to kill Malkoran.

[258789553873]

I normally avoid that quest until I'm level 20. It really shouldn't be given to you at 10. What makes this particularly annoying is once you enter the room, the door locks behind you, meaning you have no way to escape other than by killing him, which from my experience isn't really doable at level 10. Yeah, you can dodge him forever, but if you're level 10, you probably won't have enough dps to actually kill him. I seriously sat there fighting him for over half an hour once without making ANY progress. I concluded from that experience that killing him at level 10 is completely undoable, and so now I just avoid it until later.

In your situation, I would just reload the last save from before you entered the room, or more ideally, before you entered the temple, and come back once you're level 20.

That said, a quintessential mod for me is 'timing is everything'. Besides letting you delay certain quests that really should be done at a higher level, it also lets you space out the vanilla quests so you don't get inundated with all the dlc quests at the start of your playthrough. And yes, you can delay meridia's quest, along with all the daedric quests. I also like to use it to delay the hearthfire quest, because as-is it occurs at too low of a level for you to do the necessary house quests for two of the three hearthfire holds, which means you ALWAYS get the letter from Falkreath even though its supposed to be chosen randomly from all three holds. Personally, I set it for the mid 20s somewhere. The highest level quest (the one from Dawnstar) requires you to be level 22 to start it, just for a measuring stick. Of course, it would appear the quest still can't happen unless if you've done something for the other two Jarls before you get the quest, but either way I'm sick of getting that letter from Siddgeir in every single game.

[Master Talon]

Originally posted by mikk011:

Originally posted by Master Talon:

technically it's not off topic since it's still about a quest in the game

I wasn't complaining; I referenced that thread because it had several possible ways to answer your question about how to kill Malkoran.

it wasn't my question. I didn't start the thread

[H4RRY]

Thanks everyone i did finally defeat him. What i did is i usee shouts to knock the corrupted back and shoot them then when it came to malkoran himself i healed up and went in with my bow just after upgrading archery so that bows do 60% more damage
Btw im level 14

Anyway thanks everyone

[Mulletguts]

Barbus the dog works for me

[bucephalus]

I've taken advantage of Barbas' immortality (he's Essential until the end of that quest) a few times myself, but my preference for stealth archery makes his desire to charge everything he sees...less than useful, shall we say.

[Ghaazi]

I used the Sithis finger to spawn one of those creatures to attack Malkoran. The creature whittled him down to the spirit form. From there I was able to attack him fast enough to kill him.

[wr0nic]

I just saw this thread after i killed him this weekend. As a North (50% frost resist) and a vampire (another 50%) it was just a joke. I did not know he is that hard to beat without this. funny