So, like others, I spent about two hours on the first level. Breezed through it without any hint of difficulty until around floor 10, but it was nothing hard really. Just noticed the mobs weren’t dropping over dead like they had on lower floors. As I moved up each floor though, the difficulty got harder. Which is expected. I reach floor 17 and clear it, arriving at the floor boss. I had 79 or 80 anima powers, with a great balance of offense and defense. I had collected around 80 souls, so I had that buff to my dps, plus several other very large buffs to my attack power that I picked up through other anima powers. And, I had between 55k and 60k hp. I get to this floor boss, the Empowered Imperial Consular, and he’s unbeatable for me. I was handling him fine, and then all of the sudden, all of my abilities are locked and I literally cannot do anything. Can’t use defensive abilities, nothing. Because of this, I cannot stop his Sin Bolt, which hit me for over 42k damage. I barely manage to survive and use my Enraged Regen and Impending Victory abilities to heal up. I had the anima power that allowed my pummel to knock an enemy back and stun them for a few seconds. I was also using my Intimidating Shout to buy myself some time. Didn’t matter though. Every single time, just as I nearly had him dead, all my abilities would lock up a second time and he would nuke me. I lost all my lives on him, and therefore could not complete the quest.
Every time, those Sin Bolts would hit for massive damage. They were also coming in a frequency that was faster than all of my cooldowns, so there was really no way to avoid eating the occasional one.
I’m very annoyed that a story progression quest is locked behind this. I don’t mind running it at all. It’s not that. It’s the fact that you get all the way to the end and hit a wall that you cannot break through or climb over. Again, it wasn’t a gear or dps issue. I was burning him down just fine. It was whatever he does that freezes all of your abilities. Whatever it is, it’s not a damaging ability. I’m reviewing my combat log and the only damage that appears on there is Sin Bolt and Melee. I didn’t even see him cast anything.
I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if so, maybe you know what is going on and how I can prevent it next time. This has happened multiple times over the weeks that I have been running Torghast. For me at least, the floor bosses give me much more trouble than the final boss.
Also, it’s very annoying that there are no vendors available for most of the tower. Just in the first few levels. Make sure to get everything you possible can at the beginning, because you won’t have another chance after that. Granted, there are a ton of anima power drops along the way, but you’re somewhat at the mercy of chance.