ESO Bal Sunnar Dungeon Guide

Argonian Behemoth

Argonian Behemoths are large reptile enemies who should always be taunted by the tank, as they can hit quite hard. They have a lot of health compared to most other trash enemies in the dungeon. They will periodically stomp on the ground dealing AOE damage – you can see this AOE on the ground expanding from their feet a few seconds beforehand, so you should back away to avoid this.

Telvanni Mobs

There are a few different types of Telvanni mobs in the dungeon, they normally hang around in small groups and are sometimes accompanied by one or two larger enemies. Some of these are melee focused while others are mages who will cast AOE and cleave spells at players. The tank should try to taunt as many as possible and keep them stacked up so that the DPS players can easily deal with them.

Nix-Ox

These are large enemies who will charge into melee and should be taunted by the tank. They can spawn green orbs that damage group members. The orbs should be interrupted or destroyed.

Peryite’s Vessel

These are small undead enemies who can be found in packs in the latter parts of the dungeon. The tank should aim to keep them under control so the DPS players can easily deal with them.

The boss doesn’t have too many mechanics, but there are a few things that you need to keep an eye on.

Teleport Mechanic

Kovan Giryon will periodically teleport around the room. When he does this, he will go to the edge of the room and create a large rectangular AOE field in front of him, that will cross the entire width of the room. He’ll then port to another location and do it again, before the fight resumes normally. You should make sure to avoid these AOEs.

Shadow Phase

At 65%, 45% and 20% health remaining, the boss will go to the middle of the room and enter a shadow phase, where he cannot be damaged. Some adds will spawn during this phase, which the tank should taunt and stack.

Poison Blast

The boss will periodically explode a poison AOE around him. This is just a normal boss-centered AOE that is very common with ESO bosses – you get a couple of seconds warning to get out of the area before the explosion happens.

Kovan Giryon Hardmode Mechanics

On Hardmode, Kovan Giryon will have 8.2 million health. The execute phase is a bit harder in Hardmode, as there will be shadow versions of Kovan around the edges of the room casting the same AOEs that we talked about in the Teleport Mechanic section above.

There’s also one extra mechanic that you have to deal with in Hardmode.

Poison Phase

The boss will periodically cast poison on all group members. This is a small AOE that follows you around and can’t be purged. Because it’s an AOE, if you stand on someone else during the poison phase you will both take double damage.

The DoT from the poison hits quite hard, so the group should ideally “soft stack”, which means standing fairly close to one another without being so close that you overlap the poison AOEs on top of each other. This allows everyone to be healed effectively.

Roksa the Warped has a couple of dangerous mechanics that you need to be familiar with to succeed in this boss fight.

Darklight Orbs

Every so often, Roksa will spawn darklight orbs at the edge of the room, which will tether to a player. The orbs need to be destroyed within a few seconds, or else the tethered player is killed. You can destroy the orbs by attacking them, but it’s more efficient to interrupt them with a skill like Crushing Shock. As soon as their tether is interrupted, the orbs will self-destruct, saving you the trouble of damaging them.

Darkness Phase

At 70% and 40% health remaining, the boss will plunge the room into darkness. There will be two light areas which players should stand in. Staying in the darkness for too long will cause you to die. During this phase there will also be some adds that you need to kill.

Tank Beam

After the Darkness phase ends, the boss will shoot the tank with a beam that lasts for about 10 seconds. There’s no way to interrupt this, the tank needs to mitigate the damage as best as they can while the healer focuses healing on them. After this finishes, the boss will return to the main fight area and you can resume as normal.

Roksa the Warped Hardmode Mechanics

On hardmode, Roksa has 12.9 million health.

Apart from that, the fight is mostly quite similar, but enemy attacks will do more damage and the increased health obviously means that the fight will take longer.

One thing that’s important for the tank and healer to be aware of is that the tank will be hit by three beams at a time instead of just one in hardmode, considerably increasing the damage that they take.

Matriarch Lladi Telvanni has the following mechanics that you need to watch out for:

Vomit Cone

She will often target the tank with a very wide and very long vomit attack cone. This will follow the tank around so they should face away from the group and stay as still as possible when this is happening. Ideally the tank should stay fairly close to the edge of the arena with their back to the wall, giving the rest of the group as much space as possible to move around.

Poison Storm

At 70% and 35%, the boss will fill the room with a huge poison AOE that deals damage to everyone. You’ll need to heal through this for a few seconds, after which a synergy will appear that gets rid of the poison and stops time, stunning the adds for a few seconds. The adds take more damage when this is active, so you may find it useful to save your ultimates and drop them on the adds after using the synergy.

These are green blobs that look the same as the Voriplasm adds found in some other dungeons and locales in ESO. The tank should taunt these, and ideally, they should die in cleave damage from the DDs. However if your AOE damage is quite low then you might want to focus them down to make sure that they aren’t too much of a resource drain for the tank.

The puzzle consists of a large totem in the middle of the room and three smaller ones on the edge of the room, along with four levers. The levers will rotate different blocks on the large central totem. For the purposes of the explanation, let’s number the blocks on the large totem 1, 2, 3 and 4 (from top to bottom). The goal is to match up the symbols on the large totem with the symbols on the smaller ones.

Blocks 1 and 2 should match the rightmost totem, blocks 2 and 3 should match the central totem, and blocks 3 and 4 should match the leftmost totem. The solution is randomized in every dungeon instance.

When you solve the puzzle, the cages will be unlocked allowing the prisoners to escape. You and your group members will get a buff called Strength of the Ancestors, which gives 300 weapon and spell damage for the remainder of the dungeon.

Urvel Drath Secret Boss Mechanics

Urvel Drath has 4.1 million health. Since this is a secret boss there is no hardmode available for this fight.

Beexilko

Urvel Drath is accompanied by a captive Argonian Behemoth called Beexilko. This add will start the fight at low health but will gradually regenerate until he is strong enough to break free. He will then attack Urvel Drath and stun him for a few seconds, helping you out. Urven then hits Beexilko with a lightning spell which will put him back to his original stunned state.

There are four laser beams around the edges of the room, and a totem pole in the middle of the room. There are also two different types of rock that block the lasers – the smaller rocks can reflect the laser, while the larger ones cannot.

The goal is to make all four lasers hit the central totem pole. You’ll need to reposition the small rocks in order to make this happen. The solution is randomized in every instance, so you’ll have to do a bit of trial and error each time you do the dungeon, if you want to unlock this secret.