Lord Harkon

Lord Harkon: Vampire Lord & Daedric Servant

Threat Level: 🔴 DANGEROUS

An ancient vampire with mastery of Daedric magic and multiple summons. Harkon combines drain life/vampiric drain damage absorption with ranged summons (Gargoyle, Revenant, Reanimate) that split your focus. Fire weapons and spells are highly effective due to his 75% fire weakness, but his 95% frost resistance makes cold builds ineffective. His invisibility phases are punishing—you cannot maintain DPS during Vampiric Invisibility windows.

The Defining Threat

Drain Life Spam (Dual Absorption): Deals 75 health + magicka + stamina damage PER SECOND while he absorbs that damage as healing. A single 5-second cast heals him for 375 HP while draining you for 375 points across three attributes. This is self-healing + resource drain combined.

Vampiric Drain (Secondary Absorption): 25 health damage to you + 15 health absorption per second to him. Lower damage than Drain Life but applies faster and has longer duration (up to 20s if uninterrupted).

Triple Summons (Mandatory Tanking): Maintains Gargoyle (60s), Revenant (60s), and Reanimate Corpse (60s) simultaneously. Managing 4 targets (Harkon + 3 summons) means your damage is split across multiple threats. Summons tank damage while Harkon casts absorption spells.

Vampiric Invisibility (20s Invulnerability): Becomes invisible for 20 seconds, ending all current damage application. DoTs tick during invisibility (poison works) but direct damage is lost. During invisibility, he regens stamina/magicka freely.

Sanguine Vampiris Disease: He carries this disease; spreads on hit. Infected characters take 1/s drain and lower all attributes by 10%. Manage infection status or accept stat penalties.

Counter Strategies

1. Fire Damage Build (Primary Counter):
   • Harkon has 75% fire weakness (takes 175% damage from fire)
   • Fire enchantments on weapons are 1.75x more effective
   • Fire spells deal amplified damage (1.75x base)
   • Combines with any penetration perks for total damage formula: Base × 1.75 × (1 - enemy resistances)
   • Recommended: Fire-enchanted melee or Fireball spam
   • Avoid frost (95% resistance makes it pointless)
2. Poison + Attrition Stacking:
   • Apply poisons that deal DoT damage (works during invisibility)
   • Poisons stack: multiple applications = multiple ticks
   • During invisibility, poison ticks 20 seconds uninterrupted
   • Combined with fire weapons: fire for direct damage, poison for invisibility phase damage
   • Requires sustained engagement (5+ min fights typical)
3. Summon Focus (Eliminates Damage Spreading):
   • Kill summons immediately when summoned (Gargoyle first, low priority for later summons)
   • Each destroyed summon = 25-33% less incoming damage
   • Kills Harkon’s tanking strategy
   • Risk: Focuses your damage away from Harkon, extending fight duration
   • Recommended only if your damage to Harkon is very low
4. Resource Stacking + Restoration:
   • He heals 75 HP/s from Drain Life; you need 100+ DPS to overcome
   • Use restoration spells or high-healing items to counter drain effects
   • Vampiric Invisibility is a 20s rest period for both of you; use it to heal/rebuff
   • Essentially converts to resource war (who has more total HP/stamina/magicka)
   • Works for high-healing builds (Restoration 100, multiple healing spells)

Critical Mechanics

• Dual Drain Absorption (75 health + magicka + stamina per second): Harkon heals while draining you; interrupting this spell is critical
• Vampiric Invisibility (20s invisibility): Ends all combat engagement; DoTs continue but directional damage stops
• Sanguine Vampiris Disease (1/s drain if infected): Lowers all attributes by 10; manage through restoration or disease cure
• Poison Immunity (200 points): Base poison doesn’t apply; only special poisons work
• 95% Frost Resistance: Frost damage is nearly useless; avoid cold builds
• 75% Fire Weakness: Fire damage is 1.75x effective; mandatory inclusion in build
• 1/s Health Regeneration: Combined with drain life healing, his total healing can reach 76/s in optimal scenarios
• Paralysis Immunity: Cannot be crowd controlled via paralysis
• Summon Duration (60s each): Up to 3 summons active simultaneously; re-summoning happens at end of duration

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Basic Stats

Resistances

Materiel Protection

Additional Perks

• War Axe Focus I - His basic war axe skill increases damage and armor penetration with one-handed chopping weapons.
  [Damage x 1.05, +10 Armor Penetration]
• Sword Focus I - Your basic skill with one-handed blades enhances your attacks.
  [+8% attack speed, +7 armor penetration]
• Finesse - His training enhances your power attack damage by 3%
  for every piece of Evasion armor or clothing currently equipped, for a maximum of 12%.
• Penetrating Strikes - One-handed power attacks are easier to execute, and further penetrate enemy armor.
  [-50% power attack stamina cost, +5 armor penetration]

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