Slow Monster, Dragon Breath, and other Surtur Strats
5 years ago
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The most annoying thing about Surtur is his ability to run from you. You could save scum your way around it, but it tends to be slow. There are two interesting ways to do it without too many save reloads though.

  1. Dragon's Breath: Get a Very Old or Ancient Dragon and lure it in position so that it's breath hits you and Surtur. This is usually pretty easy as Dragons tend to spawn near him. Surtur appears to be especially weak to Green Dragons (he appears to have a lot of elemental resistance, but not poison res). He seems to die in 3-4 Poison breaths, which tends to make this the fastest way to kill him.

  2. Slow monster: Whenever he runs, reload and cast this on him. Eventually he'll be unable to escape. I'm assuming his chances to disappear are based on your dexterity versus his, and this evens the playing field a lot. Sleep Monster might also work for this, but Slow seems like it lasts longer.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
United States

Minor correction, Surtur is immune to sleep monster. Only slow monster works.

United States

I definitely agree on the critting. I can't find any hard info, but it appears that two-handed swords have a better chance to crit from reading the combat logs. It also helps to stack weapons with To Hit and Damage. Honestly, the weapon stacking is a major game changer against Surtur. Having more stacked mods than the game intends works in your favor because unlike stats, they don't overflow.

I once killed Surtur in 3 hits doing this, but unfortunately, it just isn't usually feasible grab that many weapons and still get a decent time.

Ooh, I'll be sure to add my findings to the doc as well!

Edited by the author 5 years ago
United States

I actually think you aren't that far off on a lot of this. There's really not much known about some of the finer details of mechanics in this one. I'll add some more when I think of it. One of these days I'll get around to writing down the shopping priorities I use as well.

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