I have ‘defeated’ Molag Bal today! Yet why is it in quotes? If you don’t mind being spoiled (or have played the main questline fully), just click the spoiler in this post.
\nIf not, then don’t. It’s that simple.<\/p>\n
Now, the area I thought I was screwed and felt I was forced to do dungeons? Actually I wasn’t. Infact, you’re supposed to quest here normally. There were Level 44 quests that helped me get up to 45. Yet I never got my Level 45 single player questline until 48 (which is my current level at the time of this post).
\nIt had me gathering allies for the city (and also getting to these two areas to the West and East of Coldharbour). After I did, we arranged a War Council on how best to deal with Molag Bal (as a window of opportunity had opened up). But there was a sad, yet known thing when it comes to waging wars; there will always be casualties.. and we lost a lot of brave men and women (even several old quest NPCs).
\nBut their sacrifice didn’t go in vain. None of them did. Especially during the final battle with Molag Bal.<\/p>\n
It was nothing like I’ve done in WoW. It wasn’t a copy of the Molten Front. I do like this. Yet I just wish the Groundskeeper didn’t say what she did by acting like, this is my base of operations.<\/p>\n\n
The spoiler part is basically, we managed to destroy the Planemeld (the very thing that would pull Nirn into Coldharbour). It was just afterwards, Varen (the Prophet) called me to The Harborage. Got sent back to Coldharbour and did some standard killing of Daedra. Even saw the one that killed me, being endlessly tortured by Molag Bal. There was an option to actually free him or just continue on, I felt “Though he killed me and caused my friends great pain… not even he<\/em> deserves eternal hell by the hand of Molag Bal.” and let him loose. Was kind of hoping he would actually help me with the final battle(realize that torment is much worse), but that was the last time I saw him. My friends questioned my sanity, but I felt he deserved another chance. Though it just seems like his plot just disappeared off the face of Nirn. That was pretty disappointing.<\/p>\n After some standard killing of Daedra in Coldharbour, it was time for me to make that very tough…but firm (and final) decision; which of the three companions will die, so I will have the power of the Amulet of Kings to defeat Molag Bal. Afterwards… I was hoping I was going to turn into a dragon (like what happened at the end of TES4:Oblivion) and burn everyone alive. But instead I was supercharged with the Amulet of Kings, which literally made me OP. I wrecked so many faces, so quickly. No one could stand in my way. Doing so, I got sent to some location in Oblivion. It was different from Coldharbour. It felt warmer and more inviting. Here I was able to get my character’s soul back. Now he can get married and raise a family, and my Skyrim char would exist. But Molag’s spirit actually showed up, acting like this is what he wanted me to do. He knew I would eventually defeat him. . Though I’m not sure if I should. After what I (my char) went through, wouldn’t he just want to go to a bar in Windhelm, invite everyone that helped him to defeat the Prince of Schemes and drink Mead to the ones that didn’t make it? . I have ‘defeated’ Molag Bal today! Yet why is it in quotes? If you don’t mind being spoiled (or have played the main questline fully), just click the spoiler in this post. If not, then don’t. It’s that simple. Now, … Continue reading
\nI chose Sai Sahan, as he had the most convincing speech of the three I had to choose. He said how he would be honored to die, and I just felt I made the right choice.<\/p>\n
\nAnd at the end, Molag Bal picked me up and was preparing to squish me like a bug. But I was all “Great dragon god, give me strength!” and literally burned him alive.
\nThen I had to defeat a smaller version of him as the final battle. Was pretty intense (especially mid fight when he decides to summon adds), but as long as you run around and dodge his attacks, he’s pretty easy to defeat. He’s so much easier than the bosses I faced in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
\nThe coolest (yet also most confusing) thing was when I had him down to 8% health. He landed infront of me, looking exhausted. I’m sitting there freaking out, mashing my arrow keys to get away thinking he stunned me. Then suddenly my char spawns a fucking Greatsword and slashes Molag with it. That was pretty badass. I was not expecting that to happen. Usually of most final boss fights, the boss collapses on the floor and dies. You don’t actually do an awesome finisher like that.
\nPlus my character looked so badass when he did it.<\/p>\n
\nHe says that Tamriel is safe — for now. But as long as Oblivion exists, there will always be a threat. He also says what I’ve done has attracted the other Daedric Princes, and warns how there are even worse ones than him. Oblivion’s timeline shows he’s right.
\nBut I wonder if this hints at future DLCs (beyond the upcoming Imperial City one) for this game. Will it actually stretch into all five Single Player games until we have dragon raid bosses? Would be awesome. Yet it’s also a bit troubling, as this means no more Elder Scrolls games.
\nAlso, I really doubt our chars would live to be 200+ years old between expansions. Even your char in Oblivion likely ‘dies of old age’ before the release of Skyrim.<\/p>\n
\nSo anyway, the game actually gives the player something to do after the main questline. And it doesn’t involve gearing up or raiding, but starting the questline as another faction. Basically what I said before. Yet it seems to start as early as Level 48. Yet when I arrived, everyone’s at V1 (Veteran 1), or Level 50. I should be able to take on these enemies.<\/p>\n
\nA long rest would be nice. Instead my character’s all “Actually, I’m bored. I wanna do more!”<\/p>\n
\nWell, I feel like personally taking a break. Head back to Skyrim (maybe even play the 1,000 years in the future version).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"