Elban is disgustingly OP

[nipletgaming]

Is it me or is Elban way too disgusting?

1. He has an ability that marks the ground and even if you avoid it you still get stunned...

2. His lifestealing ability somehow kills you right before it ends like it is a scripted cutscene or something

3. The most infuriating part is that everytime you die he gets stronger

HOW in the everloving ♥♥♥♥ are you supposed to beat him?

[lordanthrax]

Elban can be frustrating when you're underleveled and only middling-well geared. He's not a facetank kind of boss unless you outlevel and gear him significantly. He has 3 main attacks.

Drain Life: When you see him using this, run away to break the effect, or he'll quickly kill you with it.

Devastating Assault: When you see him using this, run out of the circle where he's going to attack, or again he's going to kill you.

Eviscerate: When you see the arrow pointing at you, run away enough that he can't charge and hit you. It'll stack a bleed on you that will eventually kill you.

This means it's hard to get a lot of uptime on Elban. So you have to be patient, learn his patterns of attack, and chip away. If you still struggle, try to level up some more and get some better gear/improved skills for your character.

[nipletgaming]

Originally posted by lordanthrax:

Elban can be frustrating when you're underleveled and only middling-well geared. He's not a facetank kind of boss unless you outlevel and gear him significantly. He has 3 main attacks.

Drain Life: When you see him using this, run away to break the effect, or he'll quickly kill you with it.

Devastating Assault: When you see him using this, run out of the circle where he's going to attack, or again he's going to kill you.

Eviscerate: When you see the arrow pointing at you, run away enough that he can't charge and hit you. It'll stack a bleed on you that will eventually kill you.

This means it's hard to get a lot of uptime on Elban. So you have to be patient, learn his patterns of attack, and chip away. If you still struggle, try to level up some more and get some better gear/improved skills for your character.

thanks for the advice and surprisingly i managed to beat him before this comments but i'll keep it in mind for the next 4 times i want to replay the stage

[lordanthrax]

Originally posted by niplet:

thanks for the advice and surprisingly i managed to beat him before this comments but i'll keep it in mind for the next 4 times i want to replay the stage

Once you're leveled and have some decent gear he's pretty faceroll. Note on Normal you can also drop the mob level back down to make it even easier once you finish the campaign. Now, in Trials, Elban is one of the bosses you can face, so you'll need to be ready to deal with him there, too. Fortunately, the same tactics still apply.

A tip: Trial bosses are on a rotation, it goes as follows.

Trial 1 and every 5 after: Magroth
Trial 2 and every 5 after: Broken Dragon
Trial 3 and every 5 after: Elban
Trial 4 and every 5 after: Garm
Trial 5 and every 5 after: Kara

Generally speaking, if you're trying to farm trials you'll be shooting for Kara, but when trying to push (take on the highest possible for Leaderboard rank) you'll have to face whoever you can reach.

[cmc]

I am currently level 70 with a champion level of 28, loaded up with legendary gear and a but load of haste, and my attacks are either maxed out or very close to it. This bugger still one shots me. Oh sure, I can run for a little while, but it ALWAYS gets me. The Android version of this boss wasn't this hard!

[Z0k]

when im battling eblan i just wait for him cast drain life so i have to check when the "hear icon" show up on my health bar as soon i see it i just start running away so it breaks and i start to hit him all i can until the cycle repeats and the heart shows again. its a bit annoying for me because clicking to move out sometimes dont works because i clicked an invalid terrain and i die.

never ever try to run away from him with warrior tackle or jump, for some reason bugs the attack and it keep draining your life even if you die. or at least that what happened to me because the effects of drain life stuck forever until i exit the level.

[Tsel13]

Normal Mode: As a 46th level Mage with epic and legendary gear.
I survived and defeated Elban.
The two skills that helped the most was:
Paradox = 7 Levels
Mage Armor = 7 Levels
Activating Paradox at the second before Elban 1 shot me allowed me to survive with 1/4 of my health while kiting him.

[Cyanmurder]

I just face tank Eban in Heroic, even with his assassination skill, I stood there and took it without even dying. I drop him in 10 seconds. (mage class)

[lordanthrax]

In the ordinary missions, Elban is a joke once you're 70 and have some decent gear/skills. It's the Trials where he'll kick your ass if you don't watch and obey mechanics.

[Cyanmurder]

Originally posted by lordanthrax:

In the ordinary missions, Elban is a joke once you're 70 and have some decent gear/skills. It's the Trials where he'll kick your ass if you don't watch and obey mechanics.

He still easy even in Trial and that other dragon too, all on heroic

[lordanthrax]

Originally posted by SUPERFLY:

He still easy even in Trial and that other dragon too, all on heroic

Try facetanking him up around TL 98 and get back to me how easy he is.

[The Old Taylor Swiftsz]

Honestly Garm the Keeper is even worse. He literally has a DoT skill that continues draining your health to the point where it's impossible to recover your health more than the damage you take so you end up dying no matter what. It's almost impossible to fight him without dying because there's no way to avoid his ridiculously overpowered attacks.

At least for Elban there are ways to avoid his attacks as well as strategies you can use to kill him without dying yourself. Garm however is impossible to kill without dying yourself cause there's no way to avoid his drain attack. I'm max level with plenty of champion level skill points allocated and I still can't kill Garm without dying. He's far worse than Elban although Elban is pretty annoying to deal with too.

The overall damage scaling in this game is seriously imbalanced and definitely needs improvement.

[lordanthrax]

The trick with Garm is to use the circles that spawn on the ground to protect and heal yourself. They can be really hard to see depending on the terrain and brightness, though.

[Cyanmurder]

Originally posted by lordanthrax:

Originally posted by SUPERFLY:

He still easy even in Trial and that other dragon too, all on heroic

Try facetanking him up around TL 98 and get back to me how easy he is.

Already done it, all my gears are endgame. Blacksmith max out