How to Defeat Vaylin in SWTOR KOTET Chapter 9

Learn how to prevail against Vaylin in the final fight from SWTOR KOTET Chapter 9. Explanation of all mechanics and tips to make your task easier and quicker.

Vaylin’s special attacks and mechanics explained

This guide is written in a way so even someone, who is playing on their first character ever, would be able to follow and complete the boss fight. There are no additional mechanics in Veteran and Master Mode.

Purple “Melee-Only” Aura

The fight against Vaylin in Chapter 9 of Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion to SWTOR has some similarities to the fight against her in the end of Chapter 8. She still has the “Melee-Only” Purple circle.

You have to stand in this circle when you are dealing damage to her using your abilities. If you are outside, any damage you deal, will be reflected back to you.

Force Blast

A two-second long channel attack that can be interrupted. Doesn’t hit too hard. You may want to keep your Interrupt ready and available for Force Slam, though.

Force Overload

An eight-second long channel, marked on the ground with a giant faded red circle.

Run away from it or stand with your back against a pillar or the staircase in the middle of the arena. You can wait for it to end outside of the marked area.

If this attack hits you, you are knocked far back and if you have nothing behind you, you may fly out of the platform and be forced to restart the whole fight.

As soon as you see the purple explosion, you can go back to Vaylin. Remember her melee-only aura/requirement.

Force Slam

The Force Slam is Vaylin’s most important attack you should know about. This is a fifteen seconds long channel that MUST be interrupted. If not, it takes a large chunk of your HP and you are unable to act for the duration of her Slam attack

Tips and Strategies for the fight

Don’t attack Vaylin from distance. She still has the same purple circle around her to indicate the area you have to stand in and damage her.

Even if you are playing a Ranged DPS class, you must stay next to her. Save your CC breaker for her Force Slam.

If you have entered the fight without the support from Lord Dramath, you may need to heal yourself often by stepping into the green Healing Circles (Healing Memories) that will spawn from the front and back of the arena.

• If you freed Lord Dramath at the end of Chapter 7 on Nathema, you will face Vaylin alone in Chapter 9.
• If you decided to keep Lord Dramath, he can make this fight very easy and much quicker.

When the healing Circles appear, you can lure Vaylin into them. Each time she steps on one of the Healing Circles, they will take roughly 20% of her HP straight away and stun her for a short time.

Be careful and plan ahead. If you aren’t certain you can make it until the next Healing Circle spawns, it’s better to take the HP regen.

If you opt for the “running away from the Force Slam mechanic” instead of taking the knock-back, you can time it so you combine running out of Force Slam with luring Vayling into the Healing Circles after the ability channel is over.

If you are at half HP or lower, take the Heal. If you have high enough HP, lure Vaylin into a green circle to damage her.

When moving around the area, don’t run too far away from Vaylin as she will jump to you and stun you briefly, dealing additional damage in the process. You can move slowly towards your next Healing Circle instead.

Vaylin Fight Video Walkthrough

I have recently done this in Story Mode with a character (Sith Assassin), whose gear is 100% obtained from the main mission reward boxes and the fight is quite a lot longer and more challenging, but still easy enough when the mechanics are not new to you. Sadly, I didn’t record that for a video. Instead, I offer you my first Vaylin Kill with my Sentinel.