Miraak does not absorb dragon souls.

[1=2]

In the final battle, when he sacrifices his first dragon, he doesn't actually absorb the soul. Only my character's position triggers the soul absorbtion, and only I can absorb it. So Miraak never heals, and he stays invulnerable in the middle.

I own all DLCs, and have installed all unoffiial patches. I've used LOOT to upload them correctly. I've tried killing him slowly, with ebony daggers. The only thing I haven't successfully tried is to kill his two dragons before I kill him, but they resist Dragonrend, and I can't hit them if I'm being attacked by Miraak. My dragon also keeps landing and inadvertently killing me whenever I use him and target the other dragons, so that's out of the realm of possibility.

What now?

[Gamer4Evah]

use the console command resurrect to force him out of invulnerablty.

[1=2]

That did help a little bit: now his two dragons are dead, but whenever I beat him down to a third of his health, he goes invulnerable and shouts at his dead second dragon again.

[Gamer4Evah]

Again. use the console command resurrect.

[1=2]

What I mean is that I've tried that, and now I'm doing the following:

(1) Miraak at full health.
(2) Beat down to a third.
(3) He goes invincible, shouts at his second dragon.
(4) Resurrect, goto (1).

I'm just gonna look up how to skip the fight.

[Gamer4Evah]

use one of these solutions. courtesy of the UESP site.

After Miraak is defeated his corpse may fall through the floor preventing his items from being looted. Pc22.png Using the console command player.moveto xx01fb99 will bring you to the place that Miraak fell to. It is right below the place you fight him, on standable ground. You can also use the command tcl to turn off collision to clip through the floor, loot his corpse, then move back up to the surface. Use tcl again to turn collision back on.

The battle with Miraak is scripted. When Miraak drops below 20% health, he will become ethereal and head to the pool in the center of the platform. After killing a dragon and absorbing its soul, he will regain full health and continue the fight. This cycle must happen twice in order to complete the battle. However, if you deal enough damage in a single strike or spell to bring him below 10% health, he will kill a dragon, absorb its soul, but will be unable to regain full health. This will cause him to stay ethereal, making the fight impossible to complete. PC Only This bug is fixed by version 2.0.7 of the Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.

Pc22.png Open the console, click on Miraak, and type resurrect 1 or ResetHealth. This should bring Miraak back to full health, causing him to drop the ethereal effect and continue the battle.
Reloading a save should fix this. You may want to make a save before fighting Miraak, as the last autosave checkpoint is before the dragon riding tutorial.
Becoming fully hidden may fix this. There is a stack of books that sneaking behind should suffice.

If none of the above options work, Dragonrend Sahrotaar only. Once he lands, kill him. It may take a while, but he won't attack you. After you kill him, Miraak should almost immediately absorb Sahrotaar's soul, and the fight can continue.

[♡Dusty✧*。]

How did you get past this fight? I'm having the exact same problem as you. Where I get Miraak down to a third of his health. He shouts a a dragon to bring him down. Shouts to kill the dragon. But does not absorb its soul.

[1=2]

I forget exactly where I found it, but I googled something along the lines of "How to skip Miraak fight". Not feeling so well right now, I don't really have the energy to go searching. I definitely used console commands.