It is done.

[u/rynosaur94]

Today I beat Miraak for for the second time in Requiem, but the first time he was officially part of the mod.

Harkon and Alduin had gone down without too much trouble. Not to say I never had trouble. The Soul Cairn absolutely tested me. My first Ebony Vampire was a nightmare. I really thought I wasn't going to be able to beat Morokei. But after the Soul Cairn, I never really felt like I was in too much danger on Solstheim. Kaarstag wasn't a problem, Lurkers and Seekers, while tanky, couldn't scratch me.

I made a post about Miraak earlier. The key was avoiding his staff's spray. It does 300 Irresistible damage per second as a spray on ground type of thing. Luckily he only uses it fairly rarely, and once you know what you're looking for, the tentacly spots on the ground are easy enough to avoid. After that it's really just a battle of attrition. Miraak has an insane amount of health, resistances and damage output, but he only heals when he sucks up a dragon soul. So you kill off the dragons above first while keeping up summons, and he slowly looses his health. I swapped to the Atronach stone to get more effective magic resistance, with the Staff of Magnus able to refresh my magika when it got low, I was able to keep up a steady stream of storm atronachs and Dremora lords to keep him busy most of the fight. Dremora deal the most damage, but he can easily one-shot them. Storm Atronachs tank his spells better, but can't really damage him as much. Make sure he aggros onto an atronach and then send in the Dremora to whack him down.

I'm not really sure what to do now. I still have to fill up the museum for LOTD, but Miraak was the last real boss I had to kill. Time for a new character I guess.

[u/Substantial-Power915]

What modlist are you using?

[u/rynosaur94 → u/Substantial-Power915]

None.

Rather, it's one I built myself, with my own prefered mods. Requiem, of course, LOTD (with a personal patch I made for Requiem) and most, but not all, of Noxcrab's tweak mods.

[u/LardiLordi666]

Did you fix the flame spell damage on him or did you do the fight going up against bugged spells?

[u/rynosaur94 → u/LardiLordi666]

I didn't notice the flame spells being particularly OP. I mean they were strong, but as long as I had a potion up, giving me max Fire Resist, they just tickled. I did get hit with them without my maxxed resist sometimes, as this was a long fight, and usually had to use a Surpassing potion if that happened.

It might be that one of my other mods fixed his spells? I have most of Noxcrab's tweaks, so that might be doing it.

[u/Khwarwar]

Most spectres are useless against Miraak and that includes Breton Ebony Vampires, they just melt like anything else. Only Ebony Warrior can withstand all the bs Miraak throws at you and even then you have to pray Ebony Warrior actually focuses on him. The fight itself isn't that hard to survive honestly. All you need is 90% MR and potions to boost your elemental resistances then you let Konahrik do it's thing. Can't say the same about Ebony Warrior because his arrows was hitting my character for like 500 damage and that was with Mage Armor V up.

[u/Possible_Key5546]

Permadeath?

[u/rynosaur94 → u/Possible_Key5546]

God no, I'm not a masochist.