Barrow Thane

This boss's marks deal a fixed amount set for its level (73), in place of the blow multiples below: a move you could dodge 1,240 damage, a hazard 1,085 damage, its signature failed 1,704 damage, burning ground 372 damage a second. More levels and better gear mean more health, so the same hit takes a smaller part of it. Armour, shields and barriers turn aside at most 20% of it.

It shouts: "The niches open! The dead rise!" 1/2/3 Draugr (level 72) come and attack the boss's target.

WhenAt 75%, 50% and 25% of its health, once each.

TipCut down the newcomers first: whoever holds the boss keeps holding it, the others turn on the helpers. Use your area skills here.

A strip 1.8 tiles wide and 14 tiles long at the farthest of you, marked 1.6 s ahead: 2 × a normal blow; 1.5 s later it comes back down the same strip (1.5 ×).

When9 s into the fight, then every 14 s.

EnragedEvery 10 s.

TipStep 0.9 tiles to the side, and stay out until it comes back.

A wall walks across the hall at 2.5 tiles a second with 1 gap(s) 3 tiles wide, marked 2 s ahead: 2.2 × a normal blow to whoever it passes. It throws you 3 tiles back. From 4 players two walls come one after the other.

WhenFrom 50% health, every 40 s.

TipWalk to a gap before it reaches you.

Every 2.3 s the one holding him takes a stack of Broken Armour (4% more damage a stack). Whoever stands 1 s in a lit challenge ring takes him over: the last one's stacks fall off and that ring goes out for 8 s. Alone, a ring clears your own stacks.

WhenThe whole fight.

TipTake turns holding him: the second holder waits by a ring.

A 90° cone 4.3 tiles long at the one holding him, marked 2.5 s ahead: 1,704 damage to whoever it reaches, and their stacks of Broken Armour add to it. Taken over from a ring during the wind-up, the cleave is wasted and he reels 2 s.

When6 s into the fight, then every 12 s.

EnragedEvery 9 s.

TipWhen the rings glow, take him from one.

Every 20 s he calls the one who hit him hardest into the ring: they are his target for 5 s. A ring taken within 1.5 s of the call answers it.

WhenAt 25% health.

TipThe tank waits in a ring and takes him straight back.

It flushes red and rages: its normal blows come 1.3× as often, and all its blows are 15% harder.

WhenAt 30% of its health; it lasts to the end of the fight.

TipThe last part is the most dangerous: save your strong skills and potions for it, and dodging the marks matters more than ever.