Still fairly green on all the LE mechanics, but thought this was kinda strange. After struggling with Lagon, I finally got one of my characters (Bladedancer) to beat him. For me, the most frustrating part was having to start the battle over from scratch.
Fast-forward a few weeks, trying again with an L52 Necro. I got past the first phase OK, but my Life was too low to survive Phase 2 so I went to the first Monolith to bump my level up. Coming back as L60, with better resistances/gear, I tried again. I beat Phase 1 again - or I thought it was Phase 1 - then the fight was over and the quest completion dialog started.
How did I skip Phase 2? Was it introduced in the M patch to keep your previous progress?
Yeah, thatâs what I thought as well. I wonder if itâs because I wasnât actually in the chamber with Lagon while the fight was going on. I could see the chamber, interact with it via spells/summons. But I could not see Lagon at all. I was blocked from entering by one of his tentacles.
I seem to remember a post sort of recently about someone that was playing in a party and his friend couldnât get inside Lagon as well due to the tentacles. Maybe that was similar to what happened to you. Maybe your summons went ahead and âclosedâ the tentacle gates and that screwed up the fight mechanics.
I often have no phase 2 because I kill him at the first phase 1. Very strong chars with powerful DoTs can do that readily, especially on early Lagon fights at low corruption. You hear the phase transition noise and the flooding effect begins to appear announcing the end of phase 1, but he just dies then.
While this fight was with my strongest character, I canât say it was so strong that Lagon just rolled over. Is there an internal timer that dictates if/when the next 2 phases get triggered?
Thereâs an indicator on the floor in the middle in front of Lagon when youâre fighting him. The moon eventually gets full and thatâs when the second phase starts. If youâre able to kill him before that then there will be no second or third phase. Iâm not sure if there is an indicator for the transition from the second to the third phase.
Does the 3rd phase also have the same indicator? Because that would explain what happened to my retaliation FG when fighting him: he âdiedâ while still having quite some health and the tentacles stayed behind, still attacking.
In light of this information, it would make âsenseâ that the time for the 3rd phase just ran out and I automatically âwonâ.
Does that mean that you can win the Lagon fight by just evading and not even attacking?
No, you have to actually kill him. I donât think there is an indicator for the final (3rd) phase. The only indicator I believe is his health, which is taken care of by attacking the tentacles.
That seems weird then. With the retal FG the fight was really slow. And Lagon disappeared and loot dropped, along with blessing selection, with the health bar still showing and still at about 1/4th or 1/5th life remaining.
Just went to Lagon and tried it. Didnât damage him the whole fight and stood for 10 mins on 3rd phase and nothing happened. Then I proceeded to kill him (which was another 15 mins ) and this time he died like normal. No tentacles left alive this time. So I guess that other time was some weird glitch (or they silent fixed it with latest patch, since I did report it).
) and this time he died like normal. No tentacles left alive this time. So I guess that other time was some weird glitch (or they silent fixed it with latest patch, since I did report it). 