Hunter's Grotto (Green Arena)
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Walking through the green portal in the Choosing brings you to the Hunter's Grotto. This arena wing is inspired by the realm of Hircine, the daedric prince of the hunt, and therefore “forest-themed”. You will encounter Spriggans, Lurchers and other wildlife creatures here.
On the first part of your journey through the Hunter's Grotto, you encounter a few Alits, Fire Shalks and Spriggans. Either burn them down or skip them. The first mob you can't simply run by is the Troll Gatekeeper who is guarding the door to the next part of the area. He shouldn't pose a real threat to you, but make sure to get out of his ground-smash AoE, this is his most dangerous attack as it deals high damage and could kill you.
The next part of the way leads past optional mobs: two Fletcherfly Hives and a few Fire Shalks. Next you will find a giant Bristleback Gatekeeper. When you engage it in combat, it won't take damage at first. To change this, you need to kill the “Blessed Spriggan” that spawns as soon as you get in fight with the Bristleback. (It spawns on the opposite to the gate, next to the little torch.) Killing the Spriggan grants you a buff named “Blessing of the Grove” which enables you to damage the Bristleback. You shouldn't have any problems with this mob. The conal charge attack can be interrupted (this did not always work reliably on the Public Test Server though), blocked or easily avoided.
Note: If you did the Brimstone Den before going to the Hunter's Grotto, you can now take a little detourto the right/south-east. Run down the stone stairs there, towards a river of lava. If you have completed the Brimstone Den, you will be able to use the Brimstone Orb mechanic here to cross the lava. Run down the lava river, into the cavern. At the end you will find a green orb, the Essence of Endurance, a buff that raises your Stamina. Collecting this will spawn Endurance Remnants on random locations inside the Hunter's Grotto. Collecting these will raise your stamina even further.
You now have to face the first boss of this area.
Boss 1 Shade of the Grove
Boss Health: [HP: 1'424'694 / 1'709'633 / 2'421'980]
Your enemy here is the Shade of the Grove, a spirit who can possess other beings. In this fight, it will alternate between three named lurchers who share the same health pool.
To start the fight, kill the three Spriggans in the middle of the room. This will refresh your Blessing of the Grove buff and awaken the first of the three lurchers.
Lurcher Mechanics
As soon as the three Spriggans are dead, the first Lurcher will start to attack. There are three different ones, and they have different attack styles:
- Marbana: Flame damage
- Rofsuta: Poison, Thorns
- Saagranth: Water
When you get the Lurcher's health to 80%, the first one will become inactive and the next one awakens. From now on, the active lurcher will change every 20 seconds. Once the shared health pool reaches 50%, two lurchers will be active at the same time, but only one of them is vulnerable!
The vulnerable lurcher has a yellow glow around it, pay attention to this. Every 20 seconds, the glow switches to a different lurcher. At 20% health, all three lurchers will be awake simultaneously, with still only one being vulnerable. Always focus on the one glowing yellow.
Spriggan Mechanics
When the fight starts, several Blessed Spriggans will appear around the place. From time to time, one of the Spriggans will start channeling a beam/tether on your character. By doing this, the Spriggan wants to steal your “Blessing of the Grove” buff. You need to stop this by interrupting the spriggan quickly. You can either run to the Spriggan and bash it, or use a ranged interrupt skill such as Crushing Shock or Venom Arrow.
If you fail to interrupt in time and the Spriggan successfully manages to steal your buff, your screen will turn blue and you will not be able to damage the lurchers at all. You then need to get a new Blessing of the Grove buff by killing one of the Spriggans. The Spriggans don't deal damage but they have quite a bit of health and resistances and the need to kill them is completely avoidable and an unnecessary waste of resources (and time), so I really, really recommend you rather learn to interrupt their channeling attack instead of letting them steal your buff. :) The game even gives you an on-screen warning as soon as one of them starts their tether attack (absolutely no add-ons are needed for this), so pay attention to this.
Dire Wolves
From time to time, the boss will spawn two wolves into the arena. They deal a bit of physical damage, which is not a big threat, but they can get annoying if there are too many of them. Just make sure the first pair of wolves is dead until a second pair spawns in. If you have good AoE damage, this shouldn't be a problem at all.
Beating this boss grants you the Grappling Hook and allows you to continue further through the Hunter's Grotto. (PSA: If you want to continue immediately, don't use the green portal that appears – this will port you back to the Choosing entrance area.)
Example Boss Fight Video
If you want to watch the whole boss fight you can watch the video here.
After The Boss
The room where you fought the Shade of the Grove has two exits. The one on the right leads to the final boss of the Hunter's Grotto, the one to the left leads to the optional boss of this area. Note that you can only do the optional boss if you have played through the Brimstone Den (= the red area) before. If this is not the case, save yourself some time and do not go through the left exit here as it will lead into a dead end for you.
Using the exit on the right will lead you towards a waterfall. Use the Grappling Hook to get across and into the cave. The three Cliffstriders and the salamanders are optional, the only mandatory mob to kill here is the Ogre Gatekeeper. Killing him removes rubble from the next Grappling points and makes them usable. The next section leads past some more optional Cliffstriders, up to an Haj Mota Gatekeeper. After you killed the Haj Mota, continue up the cliffs ahead. Up there, you will face the final boss of this area.
Boss 2 Rahdgarak
Boss Health: [HP: 2'743'858 / 3'292'630 / 4'664'559]
Rahdgarak, a minotaur, serves as the final boss of the Hunter's Grotto. His arena consists of four platforms, two of them are glowing blue, two are glowing orange. Each platform has grappling posts and a Reach Channeler at its inner corner. Grappling onto Rahdgaraks platform starts the fight immediately. This fight is very stamina intense, be prepared for this!
Opening Phase
The first phase of the fight is an easy “warm-up”.. Rahdgarak will use his different abilities. Make sure to dodge or block the heavy attack he does with his hammer, this will oneshot you. His charge attack is very annoying as well, as you need to break free if you let it hit you. At 95%, he will jump to a different platform. You need to follow him by using the Grappling Hook. He will occasionally jump between platforms until his health reaches 80%. Once this happens, more mechanics come into play.
Rahdgarak's Invulnerability / Color change
At 80% of his health, Rahdgarak will start to glow either blue or orange, depending on the platform you are standing on when this happens, and become invulnerable. You need to grapple onto a platform with the opposite color to be able to damage him again. He will change his color every 30 seconds from now on (but only if you manage to deal damage to him during this period of time. Kiting him around on the very same platform and waiting that he becomes vulnerable again does not work, as he will not change his color then.).
Archers
When Rahdgarak changes his color to become invulnerable, he will spawn two archers on the platform he is standing on. They have really little health and if you need resources, it is a good idea to kill them after casting Consuming Trap on them. This makes the very stamina intense fight a lot easier, especially for magicka characters who don't have any other source for stamina return.
Reach Channelers
Just as Rahdgarak's health is down to 65%, the four Reach Channelers on the inner corner of each platform will start performing a fire ritual. You need to interrupt this. Channelers who aren't interrupted within 20 seconds will set the platform they are facing (the one diagonally from them) on fire. Standing in this fire will kill you within seconds. Because of Rahdgarak's color change mechanic you should always interrupt at least two mages; one on a red and one on a blue platform, so you have each type of platform available to damage Rahdgarak. The Channelers will constantly retry to perform their ritual, make sure you always keep an eye on them. (You have 20 seconds to interrupt them, and then another mere 20 seconds until they start channeling again.)
Example Boss Fight Video
If you want to watch the whole boss fight you can watch the video here.
After The Boss
After defeating Rahdgarak a portal will appear. This will finish the Hunter's Grotto and you can move to the next arena.
Essence & Remnant Map
In this picture you can find the Essence and the Remnant Orbs. To gain access to the essence you need to have cleared the red arena already because you need the lava orb mechanic to get there.
Essence and Remnant Orbs Hunter's Grotto
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