Can’t Beat Malak

I follow the guides also, but somehow he ends up getting his rage meter to 20-25 before I can get 2 shreds on him. I have been re-modding Mission for high offense, and Z for high speed. However, Malak is still getting two extra attacks per turn, and I can't keep up with the rage meter. On my third try, I had him at 2 shreds, but I was able to knock out the Left side tubes, and the droids. However, he then somehow went into an enrage and it was all over.

You wanna slow play it. Focus on taking out the droids over and again to keep the rage meter down and give time for Z to land 4+ shreds.

And while it feels counter intuitive you want Malak to absorb some of the pods like crit immunity and tenacity. That way you don't pick up so much fear.

I am the OP. Took me 3-4 hours worth of attempts but I eventually got it. Total RNG fest. I believe the strategy I ended up going with was to put 1 stack of armor shred on each droid and then I tried to get as many as possible on Malak. Slow play it so you can get more stacks on Malak. Just because a special/unique is ready to use doesn’t mean you should use it. I think I had 5-6 stacks on Malak when I finally defeated him. Always feed TM to Zaalbar. Mod Zaalbar for speed, Jolee HP, JKR/Mission/Bastilla for offense.

"Dethjin;c-2052622" wrote:
Don't shred the bots, only shred Malak. Get the first drain triggered, lower the Crit immunity jedi's hp so that he drains that one. Then kill the rest jedis, kill bots but only after you get stack of shred in. You want to have 2 bots up when Zaalbar has shred ready. Avoid Malak completely untill 5 shred stacks. Then kill Malak.

Crit immunity is they key for Malak encounter. Give him the buff so you cannot get feared (you cannot crit Malak), then you can aoe as much you want (obviously not too much so that Malak doesn't get to drainlife any of the other Jedi's).

Are you suggesting they give malak crit immunity before the shreds? If so that's terrible advice since zalbar has to crit in order to place an armor shred.

@Urias_Fenris
Had the same at first try. It means your offense is not strong enough. So I remodded JKR and Bastilla for offense and did it easily in second try. Did it with T3 (no Mission)

I have the same issue as original poster. I have 5 stacks of shred on malak and he is only one standing, then he one shots Z and is unkillable. Does not matter how much prot or health Z has.

The Dark Path I did in one try. I have tried light path many times.

Without knowing your gear levels, it sounds like mods are the issue. You need Z and Jolee to be fast, but everyone else should be loaded up with Offense mods.. primary %, secondary.. whatever you can get your hands on. If you're getting 5 shreds on him and still losing, it's really just coming down to a dps problem.

Gonna agree here, I did it with min gear requirements but my arena mods and making mission and Zbar super fast and it was no issue. I replayed it for fun last Go around and without changing mods(meaning not my arena mods but low level ones) and way higher gear levels all around, I didn’t even come close to beating it.

Am I missing something?

You’re supposed to be lowering Malak’s enrage counter when you destroy the droids and tanks and it’ll drop by 3. But when I do, it’s technically 2. He looses 3 but gains 1 right back without even taking a turn, thus I can’t keep up with them and leads to wiping out my team each time.

All of my team are g12+ and speed 230+, reven is 264 and bastilla is 274. One attempt i had 6 shreds on malek and malek was only one standing, he one shot Z even tho he had prot+ up, then one shot mission...then i did not have enough dps to withstand his constant healing. He absorbed one jedi.

At the start its very diffucult to keep him above 50%, then at the end its nothing but healing...