Malkorian

Malkoran: Master of Frost & Undeath

Threat Level: 🟡 DIFFICULT

A powerful necromancer who combines frost magic with extended summoning and healing capabilities. Malkoran has relatively low health (450) but compensates through Cognitively Flexible 2 (maintains 3 summons) and Improved Healing (25% stronger healing spells). The defining fight mechanic is managing multiple Ghostly Dragon Priest summons (300s duration each!) combined with his Icy Sphere AoE and self-healing loop. While individually weaker than other bosses, the summon count makes him dangerous through attrition.

The Defining Threat

Ghostly Dragon Priest Summons (300s Duration, up to 3 active): His summons are not temporary—they persist for 5 minutes (300 seconds). With Cognitive Flexibility 2, he maintains 3 independent summons simultaneously. Each Ghostly Dragon Priest has 80/s health regen + frost immunity + spellcasting. Managing 4 targets (Malkoran + 3 Dragon Priests) is mandatory.

Icy Sphere Continuous Cast (40/s frost damage, 35% slow): Deals 40 frost damage per second to health and stamina simultaneously. 35% slow for 5 seconds + small stagger. Multiple casts stack slows, creating extended immobility phases.

Healing Loop (Greater Ward + Healing Hands + Absorb Essence): Greater Ward absorbs 80 spell damage and grants paralyze immunity. Healing Hands heals everyone in radius (50 points) for extended duration. Absorb Essence drains 30 health/magicka/stamina from target. Combined, he can heal 50-80/s while preventing spell casts through wards.

Stone of Atronach (reflects spells): He equipped Stone of Atronach. Incoming spells have chance to be reflected as projectiles back at you. This is a soft counter to pure mage builds.

Cryomancy 2 (30% frost damage boost): All frost spells deal 30% bonus damage. Icy Sphere does ~52/s instead of 40/s when accounting for this multiplier.

Counter Strategies

1. Summon Elimination Priority (Melee Focus):
   • Kill Ghostly Dragon Priests before they take over the arena
   • Each summon takes ~15-20 seconds to destroy (moderate health)
   • After 45-60 seconds, you’ll have eliminated all existing summons
   • New summons he casts will be single-target, not triple
   • Focus: Kill summons → Kill Malkoran → Eliminate any remaining summons
   • This is the only viable strategy for low-damage builds
2. Frost Resistance Stacking (Defensive Approach):
   • His Icy Sphere is frost-only
   • 50%+ frost resistance reduces damage from 40/s to 20/s
   • Combined with healing, if you deal 30+ DPS you still win
   • Frost resistance also reduces slow effect (50% slow becomes 25%)
   • Gear for frost resistance; fight becomes winnable through attrition
   • Recommended for pure physical builds
3. Ranged Engagement (Safe Distance):
   • Maintain 40+ feet distance; his summons and spells have range but slow travel time
   • Icy Sphere travels 20 feet/second; ranged engagement keeps you outside
   • His melee damage is only 5 base + 84 from staff (trivial if ranged)
   • Bow damage is not frost-resisted, so it applies fully
   • Very safe but requires sustained DPS to outlast healing (40-50 DPS needed)
   • Extremely long fights (10+ minutes typical) but guaranteed safe
4. Healing Loop Disruption (Specialist):
   • Greater Ward absorbs 80 damage before actual healing activates
   • Break his ward first, then focus on direct damage
   • Continuous spell damage (DoTs) bypasses wards partially
   • Poison damage is NOT resisted; poison DoT combats his healing
   • This is difficult to execute but can end fights quickly if successful
5. Summon Dueling (Echo Counter):
   • Summon your own creatures to balance the arena (1:1 summon ratio)
   • Spawn summons faster than he can re-summon (Cognitive Flexibility doesn’t prevent destruction)
   • Essentially becomes summon-vs-summon war while you maintain DPS
   • Requires investment in summoning magic
   • Viable alternative to direct summoning but less efficient

Critical Mechanics

• 3 Ghostly Dragon Priest Summons (300s duration, 80/s regen each): Most dangerous aspect; summoned creatures have independent health regen
• Icy Sphere (40/s frost damage, 35% slow, small stagger): Primary offensive tool; sustained AoE threat
• Greater Ward (80 damage absorption, paralyze immunity): Defensive spell that extends survival
• Improved Healing (25% stronger healing spells): Healing Hands heals 50 + 25% = 62.5 points (approximately)
• Respite Perk (healing restores stamina too): Unlimited resource regeneration through healing
• Absorb Essence (30 life/magicka/stamina drain): Drains all three attributes simultaneously
• Stone of Atronach (reflects spells): Incoming projectile spells reflected as projectiles back to caster
• Deep Freeze Perk (frost spells can freeze): Low chance but can lock targets in place
• Cryomancy 2 (30% frost damage boost): Icy Sphere effectively deals 52/s vs listed 40/s
• Stability (50% longer duration for Alteration spells): Greater Ward lasts 50% longer (normally longer durations)
• 10% Weakness to Magic (base): Magic damage is slightly amplified (1.1x); pure mage advantage
• Necromancy Perk (50% longer summon duration, 3x higher level reanimations): Explains 300s Dragon Priest duration
• Cognitive Flexibility 2 (maintain 3 summons of any type): Allows unlimited summon count compared to normal limit

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Basic Stats

Additional Perks

• Can detect stealthed players, making sneak attacks impossible
• Empowered Elements You can dual-cast Destruction spells to augment their power by 125% for double magicka cost.
• Impact Dual-casted projectile Destruction spells have 25% chance of staggering His foes.
• Necromancy Undead and ghostly summons last 50% longer. He can reanimate more powerful corpses (3x higher level) that last 10x longer.
• Dark Infusion Reanimated entities have more health, higher resistance to elemental damage, and they no longer decay into dust.
• Magical Absorption Your understanding of arcane energies grants you 30% chance to absorb incoming spells, shouts, or enchantments, as pure magicka.
• Improved Healing - Healing spells are 25% more effective.
• Respite - Healing spells restore both health and stamina.
• Improved Wards - Your arcane wards are 25% more effective, absorb 25% Magicka from hostile spells, and cost 5% less Magicka to cast.
• Stability - All Alteration spells last 50% longer.
• Deep Freeze Many of - His ice spells can freeze enemies who are susceptible to frost.
• Priest Mage Armor - Protection spells like Stoneflesh are 2.5 times as strong.
• Cryomancy 2 All frost spells deal 30% more damage.
• Frost Mastery - His fascination with Frost now grants him 25% resistance to it, while Frost spells are 5% stronger and 10% less costly.
• Cognitive Flexibility 2 - mastered the art of Cognitive Flexibility and can now maintain three summons of any type.

Resistances

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