What Happens if you Defeat Miraak Early in Skyrim: Dragonborn?
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What if we defeated Miraak during the first dream sequence in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Can you beat Miraak early? Let's find out!
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"One They Fear" - Skyrim
My character: 100% spell absorbtion
Also my character: Oh no, sparks and farts are too strong, help
I think skyrim without uncapper have highest caps at 85% for elemental magis it is 97,75 since you can have 85% for magic in any form + 85% for specific element - considering he could have like super buffed modded version dealing 1000000 dmg per second even highest resist + absorbtion aka dmg being only 0,34% effective would insta kill any legit game character.
@@ilikeanimeverymuch No, you can become completely magic immune without mods.. MajorSlackAttack did a video on it
@@CapOfXav maybe in unpatched skyrim yes ... but in unpatched skyrim you can make potion where wooden sword can 1 shot revered dragon on legendary.
@Carlos Medina Well mods are fun and really makes skyrim roleplay. E.g. lets say you have insightful character and somehow knew about Astrid plan on turning you on for "safety" of brotherhood. With mods you can kill her and start destroy brotherhood quest.
@@ilikeanimeverymuch spell absorption doesn't have a percentage cap. you can absorb 100% of spells with the right set up
I love how the Miraak up top is basically like “what the f**k? You’re not supposed to be up here!” and then runs away.
"Hey, I'm still getting changed Dovakiin!"
The fight with this dragon was more realistic than any other dragon fight in the game LMAO
You make me wonder how fighting a dragon in real life would look 🤔
@@Dovahkiinwastaken I recommend trying with aligators and komodo dragons in Brazil
@@Dovahkiinwastaken well I don't think anyone could defeat one alone
Had you fought a real dragon before? Not those komodo bullshits you see in the zoo!
Video game. Pretend reality one immerses self into for entertainment.
Reality. Real life.
Realism in video game. Why? Why put that into the escape from reality...
You know the game is great when people still make content out of the game even after a decade had passed.
This game shall be my family heirloom I shall pass it down to my decedents
oldsxhool runescape?
Happens when said game is being rereleased every few years.
Speaking of, would you like to purchase Skyrim: Anniversary Edition on November 11th for the PS5 and Xbox Series X?
Well, it's thanks to the Modding community that people still wanted to play this things.
@@tadoshka5170 no wrong. Been playing the game since it came out and I have literally never used a mod
Miraak was basically *YOU HAVE COME TO THE PLACE WHERE DESTINY IS MADE UNPREPARED?*
*haha DID YOU BRING THE FALSE COPY OF THIS BLACK BOOK SHAME ON YOU*
*COME, STOP SHOUTING, IT IS NOT TOO LATE FOR MY MERCY*
I’M A DRAGONBORN. HOW CAN YOU KILL A DRAGONBORN? WHAT A GRAND AND INTOXICATING INNOCENCE!
I just skipped thru morrowind's main quest the other day too lol. Only difference is there i actually can skip the main quest, unlike this dlc's
When I found Apocrypha, I was legit terrified at the horrific world that I stood in. This was not the game I expected and I love it for that.
Honestly when I entered Apocyrpha for the first time I was high enough level that I was just excited to be getting a lot of books.
When I first found Apocrypha I was mesmerized by the sky and the inky sea
The code that makes up skyrim is held together by nothing but scotch tape and the hopes and dreams of the developers 😭
And it’s not even the good scotch tape either
Not as bad as oblivion or morrowind i think
@@queenieqt2033 bruh. Morrowind coding is def less buggy
@@whitehellfire8552 ehhh, nahh. Morrowinds legendary but in 2022 mods are the only way to tolerate the game
@@queenieqt2033 at least equal to Skyrim then
I was a Argonian werewolf arch mage who was the best mage of all Skyrim. Only to get my ass beat by some dude on a island.
I was legit so angry.
I'm a werewolf harbringer arch mage vampire lord dragon born with insane powers and crazy strong gear; got brought down by a sparks spell lol
@@MrMaxzillion I'm a werewolf vampire lord uchiha(mod) dragon born with limitless capabilities and hundreds of spells yet I was one shotted by mzark
Im a former werewolf/vampire the slayer of alduin murderer of the dark brotherhood turner of the fate of a war summoner of storms and LITERAL DRAGONS and i still lost to some little baby sparks and farts worse than my own
I'm a stat nerd, love game mechanics, how combat gameplay rules work. Skyrim's system is a contradiction, a mess. It's total disrespect 😂
@@a.m.7438 yeah but you probably never played the DLC if you can't be in on the joke here bro
6:15 "With my new ebony arrows of slaying, I drop Mirrak." **hits him with glass arrows**
That’s actually hilarious when you got on the dragon. It’s like a movie you jump on the dragons back and it is trying to knock you off and still fight you while you are on.
“What happens if you kill miraak early”
The artifacts of the legendary dragonborn suddenly become utter shit because you came too early
Aren't they shit regardless?
Thus why I love the mod that makes all leveled unique items their best version. It doesn't even noticeably break the balance of combat
@@leechesg this isnt bc of leveled items. Miraak just wears a different worse version of his set while in the cutscene
@@SMTAdriMark I think OP was just making a joke about levelled loot. If you kill a boss early, their loot is uncharacteristically bad.
@@leechesg maybe but miraaks cutscene clothes are literally worse than the normal ones. The cutscene ones are basically like adept robes
Miraak’s spark spell and karliah’s poison arrow are some of the most infuriating things.
Tobad you can't actually kill Mirrak, no, Tentecacle Man kills him.
That always made me upset how he was so powerful that we couldn't deafet him and a God had to get involved
Install the mod, Miraak follower. You are able to make him a friend by bending his will to yours, and then after the fact so you can kill him if you want without the intervention of hermaeus Mora
@@5226-p1e thx
Well to be fair lore wise, miraak should be many times stronger than you. He has more knowledge of the voice and help from mora. The only reason you even can kill him is because mora helps you.
@@SMTAdriMark
I agree, however miraak had Mora help him since he first came to apocrypha.
Mora only favored you when miraak attempted to defy him, which I find funny because all miraak wanted is free agency outside of apocrypha.
I mean we didn't see mora try this for the last DB, I mean to keep you there.
I often think of how the story would have played out if miraak escaped without the intervention of the last DB stopping him.
I actually started writing a fan fiction about it, but I never finished the story.
@@SMTAdriMark Yeah he is literally the FIRST Dragonborn lol, he has like two centuries over you. Doesn't matter if you become the leader of all factions within a month and achieve 100 magic resist or whatever, he learned so much from Mora that he may as well know how to bring you to your knees despite your resistances.
Skyrim is such a power fantasy for some people that they go all bratty and petulant when they get brought down for even a second.
man Dragonborn is my favorite expansion pack of all time
@SUBJECT M01 it’s just awesome fighting a practical “god” like you and it’s so cool
@D_ans I didnt like most of the New Vegas DLCs and don't like souls Bourne games
@D_ans old world blues was great and one of my all time favorites though
Wait apotheosis mod, I believe it would rival or even surpass dragonborn dlc
for me RDR: Undead Nightmare
00:52: Scripted sequences in an open world game where i am supposedly free to do anything. My character who is completely immune to magic somehow gets knocked to the ground with just this particular sparks spell and no other sparks spell?
I play a Lich with 115% spell absorb, lol
Hey just pretending to be weak that all we do when our mc is soo op
You literally started the first few minutes of the game in a scripted sequence in an open world, and it lets you do one of two things after the script stops.
Its to show how powerful he is, otherwise he wouldn't be a threat. Its why we need to weaken his power and gain out own power ups before we face him
@@the_dropbear4392 + he's a dragonborn too lmao
4:10 - Little info about the "enemies" you found there:
They're the rieklings that can spawn when you're in combat during the world, if you finished the thirsk mead hall quest line, aiding the rieklings.
Seeing that dragon trying to kill the Dragonborn as he was riding him just did it for me 🤣
1 thing I hated when playing this quest Legit was the fact that if you kill him too fast in the actual final battle it glitches the game.
Same with harkon
Same with Ancano too
I feel like Metamonger hasn't been in a video for a while. I really liked his humor. Anyone else?
Indeed
I was expecting this to be a ‘what if you killed Miraak before Alduin’ video but I was pleasantly surprised.
Man, I can't wait to get out of the hospital and play some skyrim
Hope you're out by now
Sooo... everything turn out alright??
RIP
Im alive hahaha, I got to play skyrim, it was very nice
@@damianosplay9457 ayyyyyy
I really didn't realize this wasn't on Swankybox's channel for a hot second LOL
Fun fact: If you don't attend your marriage while you're in Miraak's cutscene, it breaks and you can pickpocket all of his stuff. Funny thing is how he only uses Sparks and Flames if he catches you pickpocketing.
When you search “help Miraak” via console commands, you can see that he has multiple NPC IDs.
I do not recommend summoning any of his IDs as some lead to a potential permanent screen blurs, visual filter effects, etc.
However, I still find it interesting that Miraak would have so many different copies of himself.
He's both the first Dragonborn and like, 95% of them, too.
I remember having a glitch occur where when Miraak tries to heal by killing his Dova friends, instead of him absorbing the dragon souls I did and he just stood in that one spot on low health waiting for the souls to come and he was unkillable.
Its an annoying bug and it happens when you start the Dragonborn DLC playthrough and Miraak didnt absorb any dragon souls throughout the whole questline.
He was just too shocked by you absorbing the dragon souls to die.
Miraak has different versions indeed. He also wears the same gear but with different enchantments on it. The enchantment at 4:40 on Miraaks's mask of Frost Resistance 50% and Frost spell damage by 25% increased isn't on the final version of the mask you can loot; it's only a added magicka enchantment.
Damn, Miraak was just vibing with his dragon and seekers til you came along and unmade reality.
I started this quest right after the 1st main quest thinking it was part of the story ☹️ HE BEEN ROBBING ALL MY DRAGON SOULS
Yeah, happened to me too, bro. MF took all my dragon souls, so I couldn't progress the story. He was way too powerful at that stage, so I had to defeat him Dark Souls style, rage and get good. Hated this guy.
Wait what lvl were you I was lvl 13 I spent hours trying to kill him and I refused to revert to lvl 8 again to avoid it
Would have reverted to 8@@nolanlandheer332
When you said kill miraak early, I immediately thought "what in his temple before it burnt down from dragons and he took his bitch ass over to our boy herma mora?"
“So we give him an arrow for his birthday”. That line cracked me up.
Title: what happens if you defeat Miraak early?
Video: narrating an early Miraak fight
7:12 when he killed jim and said he was invisible look in the back ground you can see his body falling
The very first time I played Skyrim, I went to Solstheim and faced Miraak as a baby level 9 without any clue what was about to happen.
I have no idea how I did it. But I took him down.
*gets knocked down my Miraak*
Swanky - "lol i'm dragonborn"
*defies physics and steals a dragon*
Swanky - "YEEEHAAW"
The first time I fought miraak in the lil arena he fell off the edge and softlocked my game :))
How have I never heard of HorrorScoped before?! This content is awesome and the commentary is top notch! Definitely subbing!
TL;DW: nothing. he's essential until the encounter you're supposed to kill him in.
THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE VIDEO.
No no. We also learnt that if you break the game in the middle of scripted, animated cutscenes, it can make it pretty glitchy.
(Checks RUclips comments)
Ok some of us learnt that. Not all apparently.
When I first saw the title, I thought "this kinda like swanky box for non-Nintendo games" and then I clicked on the video and realized that this literally is swanky box
you killed the actor who wait at the stage while the director's away. poor guy
I remember breaking the final fight with Miraak and skipped the intended death sequence by performing a death animation, I don't know how but that's Bethesda for you. The game progressed mostly as normal.
"Camped out, like a good Eagle Scout" lmao. Kudos.
I'm guessing that he is considered essential according to the storyline until it's actually time to kill him.
That’s funny enough to take the bad grades I will get tomorrow for not doing my homework
Got to thinking... maybe I'm the Dragonborn, and I just don't know it yet?
The seekers blast you until you die from the damage, it takes a really long time if you are a high level, I was 261. My character was sitting there for a minute at least just taking the shots.
I totally agree with how odd the cinematic is. With how much shots I could tank, I could easily take out Miraak and his minions right there. Only leveled up once during the storyline, but I totally got so much stronger for my rematch.
Its to show how strong he is, and shows why we need to get the dragonshout power ups and weaken his hold before facing him
Uhh, that might be a problem. What if you have insanely high HP and HP regen by abusing Fortify Alchemy+Fortify Enchanting?
Do you just get stuck?
Pretty sure it's just a scripted length. With 1k hp and a constant 7x hp regen and 100% spell absorption, it still ends.
1:27 did this mf really say "crossbau"
Zesty ahhh bau..
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I liked how it showed how powerful he is because I would talk trash of how powerful I was and then miraak showed my place, until I defeated him
Him: this is just a casual level 30 game. No crazy mods.
7:18 Casual 720 damage glass arrows
i remember the first time i played, i completed all black books as soon as just possible by waiting and reloading everything on every fight, then doing quests that hint miraaks existence etc while i am just there like "what do you mean he is supposed to be one of the end bosses"
I did something similar. I just wanted black book powers. I was sad too find them all, but at least he had a nice robe. I then found out that it was recommended to fight him at level 70 or higher. I was only level 35. Stealth archers are really too OP.
@@MagipieMM I am currently level 20 and trying to do that quest line. Maybe I should stop. What I don't understand is just why they give you this quest so early if you shouldn't defeat him as soon as possible
RPG MC: I have completed all of the side quests and have grind my way to the highest level. No one can defeat me!!!
Cut scene: Yes, but actually no.
"But then i realized, Miraak's been lifting" XD
Obsidian would've let us bop miraak to death the second we first meet him.
You killed Miraak before reaching level 60? Congratulations, you just screwed yourself out of a max level sword.
5:20 as far as I know, Apocrypha is a worldspace the same way Tamriel is, where all the cells exist together in the same world. Cells are relatively small with "outdoor" worldspaces, so the "map" where you appear the first time reading the book is a different cell than the one where the final fight takes place, but you moving to the tower from that place still took you to the final fight cell, because the final fight cell is close enough to be visible, since they're in the same worldspace.
So basically, the place where the final fight takes place is accessible by reading that first book and no-clipping, because it's a different cell in the same worldspace close by.
Does that make sense?
It’s just a different plane of existence. Stop being weird
@@buttsmcgee50 I'M NOT WEIRD YOU'RE WEIRD 😭
Like a microverse
I think it's interesting that this version of Miraak's robe (the unofficial one) actually doesn't do what is says it does, this robe says that it does the same thing that the Archmage robe does but it actually does not do any of that there is no magic regen or any of it, if you check your active effects while you are wearing just the robe and no other piece of the outfit you will find that the robe only grants only 20% spell reduction to alteration spells, but one thing i find to be weirder than that is in spite of granting a small reduction to alteration the robe is not affected by a fortify alteration potion, however it is worth noting that if you drink a super fortify restoration potion before you put on the robe and then equip the robe the robe will grant no casting cost for alteration spells and this will last for as long as you leave the robe equipped but if you remove it the effect will be lost and you will have to drink another resto potion, so all in all the robe is pretty damn cool in my opinion.
What's funny, is that if you kill miraak to fast, the quest breaks and soft locks you there on the tower.
Miraak is so powerful that we can't even end him .
lol he says u have no idea about dragon born powers but he died a second later
Umm I just destroyed him TODAY and I get this video in my feed....
Miraak was one of my favorite quest lines in the whole game.
I had a more dialogue for Serana mod and when I reached the first book I waited to see if she was going to say anything looking back and forth between her and the book, after about a minute or so I decided she had nothing to say, but as soon as I picked it up she entered dialogue with me and broke the cutscene of me getting sucked into the book and appearing in Apocrypha with Miraak, so when Miraak started talking I started stabbing.
“miraaks been lifting” 😂
🤣
4:39 Interesting the mask of cutscene-Miraak has the effects of the Dukaan-mask (50% frost resistence and x25% frost damage) not the effect of the actual Miraak mask (+40-70 points of magicka), but the Mask you get from the Miraak-clone on the tower has the normal enchantment (you can briefly see the effects at 6:54 ). Also the armorrating of both versions is way higher than it's supposed to be 56 points instead of it's usual 23-27 points.
That's really weird behaviour you just wouldn't expect to find.
It's interesting that his namesake helm you loot early is the pre-release copy wherein it boosts frost resistance on top of increasing magicka, before it was changed to only provide a magicka bonus. That one is much more interesting than the one you acquire in the story.
This is when I realized he was lifting haha thats good
Skyrim is a masterpiece.
You wouldn't need 200 mods installed to enjoy a "masterpiece". The unmoded vanilla game is a steamy pile of shit.
@@arezkipodcastkabyle2674 You don't need 200 mods installed to enjoy Skyrim tho. people who played on launch day didnt have any mods and had a blast playing it. there really is no limit of shitting on bethesda lmao.
@@arezkipodcastkabyle2674 hi yes i play the unmodded game(with the 3 dlc’s) and get back into it once every few months
@@arezkipodcastkabyle2674hard disagree. I've got 1100 hours in the game and only something like 20 mods, none of them big, and I still enjoy the vanilla Skyrim stuff.
Plus look at the reviews and sales stats when it was released. They speak for themselves.
I think the reason that he is on the tower and at the first black book spot is because that miraak is linked to a different black book which means that it probably has its own id
Hilariously, I had Better Vampires mod on, and a group of vampires spawned behind me during the cutscene as it was nighttime, causing all of the enemies to attack them, and the dragon got stuck in the floor, arse-up. I had to open console and "recycleactor" to have Miraak mount the dragon as normal. The Seekers will stop attacking you eventually, no matter how long it takes, you're scripted to leave once Miraak isn't visible anymore.
And now imagine games in the future where this is possible...
I guess miraak are the friends we made along the way
I remember my fight with this guy. I used that imperious curse tight deal that comes with phenderix. He just stood there watching the dragons fight come up and when they both eventually died and their skeletons somehow landed in a very sexual position (yes I have screens), I killed him.
Nothing like two dragon skeletons going at it 💦
"What if you do something you're not supposed to in a Bethesda game?"
Considering they're held together with old gum, band-aids, and scotch tape...
_Gee, I can't possibly imagine what would happen_
When you go to Kynesgrove with the blades chick Alduin actually has a health bar. Wonder if its possible to kill him there?
Went back on a another run, not rushing like the last time, and the health bar was gone....gotta get there soon enough i guess
Nah, you can't, you don't damage him. I got a trainer and made my character level 999 with every skill at 999, enchants that didn't break the damage, to shot him, magic, noclip and one shot him, but he is not taking damage. I was wondering that as well for a long time and had to try it out
@@RovilleX ahhh man, that wouldve been pretty cool. Thanks for taking the time to do that actually. I dont think i wouldve gotten around to it. Very much appreciated
With my new ebony arrows of slaying *fires a basic glass arrow*
Really shocked to see there's another Miraak. He must have a hocrux
Mirrak: Ahh Dragonborn. I have been hoping to confront you and destroy you! But alas the plot says we cannot yet fight! See you in 5-10 hours.
Miraak up top was like "APRIL FOOLS!"
Lmaoo this current playthrough I'm playing I literally went to solstien immediately, as soon as my player was free to travel and I completed the bleak fall narrows and dragon mission I went to solstien (rest in peace all the different variants of my character that died until I hit level 20 and could actually fight the *ash hoppers* ) and ended up beating mirak first thing (which actually made his gear absolutely garbage. All the spell and shout absorption stats only went up to 10-15 % and that was about it). But I will say it was satisfying going to the grey beards for my "initial training" when I literally just beat the *first dragonborn who was basically a god in himself* like yea sure give me training you old goats. WHAT CAN YOU TEACH ME THAT I DON'T ALREADY KNOW😂
man screw ash hoppers.
@@mrhalfwit972 honestly, the fuckers are vicious
You should break Metroid prime 2 by going in the last portal you come out of in the game!!! Normally it’s too high to jump to, but it’s always activated and leads to the last boss of the game.
I have wondered about that for years myself. This would make for an intriguing Sequence Break video.
@@adamgray1753 Same here, want to know so bad. I’m guessing the portal is just inactive and if you step into it nothing happens since it’s just a graphic, but if it actually works it could be the biggest speed run finding in all of prime 2
I wish I could do this on the PS5 SE/AE version. I'm often stuck when fighting Miraak, unless I remember NOT to equip my most over-powered Dragonbone weapons.
The scripts for the final fight aren't working, hence the friendly tower Miraak. Since the quest of the Miraak fight isn't active yet, you get that. If the final quest and the final fight's "stage" is active, he'd aggro.
Also if you use the potion glitch to create op weapons, when you attack him he soft locks because the dragons only give him a set amount of health
Maybe the miraak down below was some random guy that the real miraak controlled through the bend will shout or something
I could be clad in fully enchanted daedric armour with 85% magic resistance and 1300+ armour rating, but a few sparkly fingers seem to be too much for my character to handle
Maybe the true Miraak are the friends we made along the way.
I enjoyed these content!, well done
okay the reason miraak was on the tower is 99% because legit they created his existence there and that cutscene together whether one was before or one was after, but clearly they didn't finish development of the first black book cutscene too soon before the tower fight assets. NOT JUST THAT --- but clearly they didn't form the dragon health renewal (the dragons theirselves) assets other than the dragon we see in the cutscene WERE created quite longer than Miraak was after the first black book cutscene....because if they're going to include Miraak on the island because it appears as if during the creation of this cutscene having every other asset (building-wise) around, they went ahead and included what they had already created which was Miraak's character identity and SOME of the fight which they were CLEARLY (either) already working on during the creation of that cutscene...or after they finished that cutscene, during development within this time somewhere inbetween completing that cutscene and before game release, there was a medium period where they went ahead and included whatever they could asset-wise into the first cutscene's surround environment. This period where they had already conceived certain functionalities within the Miraak fight on the tower was (although uncomplete) included in the first cutscene without removal TO SAVE TIME on development WHILE including the tower in the environment so that people don't (not) see something that was there in the future which could've been seen almost moments after depending on how fast the player played. But not removing the (at this time current) Miraak asset tower? Well, i'll tell you the majority isn't that they wanted to save time. The majority of it is that players aren't intended to noclip into the fuckin....tower dude. That's why Miraak's there in a different map session. Guaranteed.
Fun fact
In the final fight with mirak if you are a high enough level then when he heals himself he won't heal all the way and he will stay ethereal so you can't hurt him
Because of that bug, I never finished the DLC.....and that was like ten years ago when it was new lol
Rip
So that's why there are several sets of Mirak armor and weapons in the coc qasmoke room
A great way to kick off April ☺️
Great quality. Dunno why you only have 70k subs. You deserve more buddy!
because he took 8 minutes to answer the title's question with "nothing".
reminds me of my days killing ulfric stormcloak the moment i meet him
This question is kinda dumb..but dont you have another RUclips channel that does pokemon challenges?
Fun fact: Miraak was the second strongest Dragonborn until you the new dragon born bested him
So here's the thing, there was always 2 Miraak's, the weaker version who tells u everything and would send u back to the reality and the one in Apocrypha who would steal ur powers as Dragonborn to reek havock on both places solstine and Skyrim, they used a weaker version once cause they want the battle to last a life time (which is 2 hours) the Dragons were supposed to be in the fight on the second visit cause Miraak stole them from Skyrim in his less figured form, thus making the fight more challenging if u strike him 1st the dragons (even urs) start helping him, making the fight a true life time (3 days) trust me I found this out on accident cause I thought it was like the final boss fight in DKC (Donkey Kong Country) where the boss never says anything.
I can honestly say that I've only completed the dragonborn DLC and its entirety once I got skyrim in January 2012, currently 2400 hours
Imagine if the second you saw Miraak you straight up fuckin tackled his ass. He wouldn’t know how to react probably.
I have seen videos where the use the Thu um to control dragons and they have saved miraak, idk if that is a mod
It's a mod. All you get is the option to summon him rather than reset skill trees. Not worth it IMO
Not what I thought you would talk about. Thought you where gonna kill him early then see whT would happen to the story