Welcome to our Normal Elden Hollow Guide!

Table of Contents

• Akash gra-Mal
• Chokethorn
• Nenesh gro-Mal
• Leafseether
• Canonreeve Oraneth

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Normal Elden Hollow Basics

Why Run Normal Elden Hollow?

Well for the same reason you should run all the normal dungeons, normal does are useful for three player advancements. First, the one time normal dungeon quest will always give a skill points. Second completing the dungeon’s quest and the completion achievement will grant Undaunted experience. Finally, running the normal dungeon for a part of the daily pledge will give the player a chance for a blue monster shoulder. In my personal experience this dungeon is amazing for helping new players learn boss/aoe awareness that they’ll need to know for the hard Veteran Dungeons or Trials.

Where to go?

Basics

The basics for this dungeon should be the same for any normal dungeon. Every mob pull the tank will want to pull all the mobs together making it easier for the dps to aoe burn the mobs. Also try and pull entire rooms full of mobs unless it is too difficult. Overall not to much for basics in a normal dungeon outside of proper mob pulls and letting the tank hold the bosses and have the dps’s burn, burn, burn.

Location of Bosses

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Akash gra-Mal

Hitpoints: 1155677 (at CP 160)

Mechanics:

This fight is an interesting and fun one, even though it doesn’t hit that hard it is perfect for to teach dps aoe awareness. Overall the boss can be an easy burn with almost any group composition. The boss uses three abilities, the first acting like a reverse uppercut, instead of knocking the player backwards the player will be knocked to the group for a lot of damage unless it is blocked. The second ability the boss uses is an aoe overhand swing. The boss will follow the player it is aggro’d too, however if it is the tank, the attack can be easily mitigated. Note: This ability can help teach new dps’s awareness. Finally, the boss will cast a forward conal aoe attack that will damage and knockback anyone in front of them unless the ability is blocked.. This only does a quarter damage to dps so the ability isn’t much to worry about. Note: Again the forward conal aoe can help teach new dps’s awareness and it is suggests to fight the boss from the back instead of all around. The abilities have a loose pattern it follows and that helps determine what ability will be used next. conal -> overhead swing -> knockdown -> conal -> knockdown -> overhead swing

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Chokethorn

Hitpoints: 1320773 (at CP 160)

Adds:

• Stranglers (Summoned)

Mechanics:

Chokethorn can actually be a difficult boss especially if your dps’s don’t pay attention or your group has a low burn power (low dps). This boss as three abilities of note. First, like stranglers this boss will pull a player to it dealing minimal damage but is a pain and will interrupt rotation since there is a slight delay before you completely get pulled in. Next, Chokethorn will summon healing strangers that have low heath that start to heal the boss, it is minimal healing to the boss, however it does stack up. I’d suggest groups with low dps to have one dps work on the boss and the other dps kill the healing strangers because then the boss will heal faster than you can burn. Finally the boss has a large aoe attack that expands from Chokethorn. This ability will do about 90% of your health even through block and if it is aggro’d on you, will definitely kill you. This is a player awareness test because this is a large damage aoe and can wipe the group so if you want to train players on not to stand in “red stuff” this is an amazing boss.

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Nenesh gro-Mal

Hitpoints: 369816 (at CP 160)

Adds:

• 2 Darkfern Flamerender: 56133 HP (at CP 160)
• 2 Darkfern Healer: 54482 HP (at CP 160)
• 4 Darkfern Digger: 82548 HP (at CP 160)
• 1 Darkfern Stalker: 82548 HP (at CP 160)

Mechanics:

This boss is located patrolling in between one group of mobs. Before starting to burn the boss down you’ll need to kill all the adds because they’ll become a nuisance, furthermore let the tank taunt the boss so it isn’t running loose and attacking your healers/dps’s. Ability-wise, this boss definitely seems like the lightning brother to Akash gro-Mal. His abilities are composed of a sorcerer’s lightning form which deals barely any damage at all, a two-handed uppercut ability which deals decent damage unless it is blocked then it is almost completely useless and finally a mage fury like ability that the boss will cast down on himself, however unluckily for the boss this ability can be interrupted. Overall this boss has to be the easiest in the dungeon and a group should have no problems managing him and the adds.

 

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Leafseether

Hitpoints: 693406 (at CP 160)

Adds: 

• 1 Alit: 198116 HP (at CP 160)

Mechanics:

I can’t tell which was easier Leafseether or Nenesh gro-Mal, so I think they’ll be on the same level of easiness. The boss was easily burnable after the Alit add was killed and most of the times the boss won’t even be able to hit you besides it’s single target bite. However for the sake of knowledge the boss has two abilities of any note. First the boss will jump up and smack down whoever it is aggro’d on, however once it jumps you can strafe to the side and completely dodge the attack. Then the final attack is a conal aoe and the boss will have a sucking animation then a chomp animation. Just like the first ability step to the side and completely avoid any damage at all.

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Canonreeve Oraneth

Hitpoints: 1320773 (at CP 160)

Adds:

• 4 Darkfern Skeletons

Mechanics:

This boss has to be the best fight of the entire dungeon due to having a large set of good abilities and not too hard of a fight, however she can still wipe a group if they mess up. Her first ability is works similarly to lightning form except Canonreeve Oraneth will spawn a frost circle at her feet instead of turning fully to lightning, thus same effect, different visuals. Next Oraneth will pull back her hand and will throw a ball of poison at whoever she is targeting. It deals decent damage if the player isn’t being healed and since it is a ranged ability the player can roll dodge away from it. Generally after the boss uses both of these abilities she will cast a stun aoe at the players feet which will pull the player down, it can be dodged out of or the player will need to break cc. After a few seconds this aoe will spawn four Darkfern Skeletons that the group will need to aoe burn down. Finally the boss has an ability much like Chokethorn which will be casted an aoe that grows out from her feet. This ability will one shot players if they aren’t blocking or roll dodging out of. If this ability kills more than two people then she can definitely wipe the group. However, overall the fight isn’t the tough ESO has to throw at you but it makes for some good player awareness training.