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Empress's Grace

• The latest update on Nov. 20th in Korea buffed the Empress's Grace engraving. It's now a staple engraving. 

• When detonating 4 card stacks with Ruin Skills, the damage increases by 30% and you regain 20% mana cost.

• The 1st Book is from exchanging 700 Boss Rush tokens (Antares Coins). You need 100 of them.

• They can be bought from the AH if you don't want to farm that much.

Emperor's Edict

• The latest update on Nov. 20th in Korea buffed the Emperor's Edict engraving. Would rather have others for PvE.

• The card gauge gain is increased by 50%. The chance of the Emperor card appearing is now 20%.

• The damage done when using the Emperor Card increased by 30%.

• The 1st Book is bought for 13k pirate coins at Pirate Village Atlas.

Grudge

• Engraving pictures are self-explanatory.

• The 1st engraving requires 3 unique books. They come from Goblin Island Max Epona Reputation, Slime Island [Slysburg] Max Epona Reputation, and Island of Sublimity (West Sea).

• The 2nd engraving requires 3 books. They can drop from Island of Serene Sabbath Boss + Reward Box (Low Drop Rate), Blue Hole Island (Auction), and Illusion Island (ultra fucking low drop rate, fuck this island).

• The 3rd engraving comes from T6 Akates Raid (GR23). You need 20 of them.

Invincible Evasion

• When using your spacebar, you gain invincibility for the duration of the spacebar give or take half a second.

• Drops from Tier 2 Calendar Bosses.

Max Mana

• Self-explanatory. Mana regeneration is also calculated as a percentage of your total mana.

• Increasing mana increases your mana regeneration. (Need confirmation)

• The 1st engraving requires 3 unique books. 1 from Blackteeth's Haven quest reward box, 1 from Fugitive Village quest reward box, and another from Island of Freedom quest.

• The 2nd engraving requires 3 books, all of which can drop from Harmony Island reward boxes.

• The 3rd Book is from Auction at the end of Kaister Phase 4 16-Man Abyss Raid.

Picture Source: 

http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=230603&site=lostark

https://lostark.game.onstove.com/News/Notice/Views/713

http://lostark.inven.co.kr/dataninfo/item/?datagroup=etc&itemclass3=32500

Senior (High Grade) Summoner Engraving

• The latest update on Nov. 20th in Korea buffed the Summoner engravings. It's now seeing more usage.

• All Ancient Spirit Skills cost 1 less core/bubble to use. Damage of most skills are increased by 15%.

• Skills such as Sticky Moss Swamp are not affected and identity skills are not affected.

• The 1st book is obtained through Boss Rush Exchange Merchant (Antares Coins). 

• Each book costs 700 Antares Coins and you need 100 of them.

Blitz Commander

• Summoners that use this engraving spec into Shuldi with 10% increased movement speed.

• This was one of the most popular summoner engravings before Senior Summoner replaced it.

• The damage increase is discussed and tested in this YouTube video. 

• Assuming a max move speed of 140%, there is a 5-7% damage increase for the 1st engraving.

• The 2nd engraving gives a 10-11% damage increase.

• The 1st/2nd/3rd engraving requires 20 books from Cube/Elite Cube/Dimension Cube.

Grudge

• Engraving pictures are self-explanatory.

• The 1st engraving requires 3 unique books. They come from Goblin Island Max Epona Reputation, Slime Island [Slysburg] Max Epona Reputation, and Island of Sublimity (West Sea).

• The 2nd engraving requires 3 books. They can drop from Island of Serene Sabbath Boss + Reward Box (Low Drop Rate), Blue Hole Island (Auction), and Illusion Island (ultra fucking low drop rate, fuck this island).

• The 3rd engraving comes from T6 Akates Raid (GR23). You need 20 of them.

Picture Source: 

http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=230603&site=lostark

https://lostark.game.onstove.com/News/Notice/Views/713

http://lostark.inven.co.kr/dataninfo/item/?datagroup=etc&itemclass3=32500

Guardian Raid T4-2: Lava Chrome

Clips from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hvM-ULT0xA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8Ue7wrULk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpTc1tHePCU

Just right click the YouTube video and click loop to get it to behave like a GIF.

Recommended Team Setup

Bard | Destroyer

Heavy Impairment

Destruction + Penetration Skills

Recommended Items

Corrosion Bomb | Destruction Bomb | Whirlwind Bomb

General Battle Mechanics

• Lava Chromanium operates almost the same way as regular Chromanium.

• You must still break its armor, but both destruction and penetration skills work on its armor.

• Consider using a corrosion bomb before having your party apply any parts destruction effects.

• Lava Chromanium does not inherit the "must break armor to start dealing normal damage" mechanic.

• Every time Lava Chromanium runs, you must break its armor all over again.

• When the bosses armor is still intact, the boss will periodically call down meteors every ~18 seconds.

• The meteors knock you down and deal a decent amount of damage.

• After breaking the bosses armor, the boss will run away after ~3 minutes.

• To prevent the boss from running away during this time, you must knock the boss.

• Knocking the boss makes it so the 2nd and 3rd knock become easier.

• The boss will always run shortly after the 3rd knock. (Unconfirmed, I need more info)

• The boss takes extra damage when knocked just like regular Chromanium.

• Because the boss doesn't run away unless the armor breaks, sometimes teams would just bring full damage team comps with few parts destruction skills to DPS the turtle down.

• The boss will periodically spawn volcanoes.

• Usually teams only kill one volcano to make sure they have room to DPS as referenced below in the video.

• Teams may sometimes use a whirlwind bombs or ults to hit both the volcano and boss to not lose DPS.

• If you opt to not kill at least 1 volcano, make sure to drag the boss out.

• The volcanoes will spew rain around itself after a time.

• The volcanoes will explode after a time. Make sure you're not near the volcano when it happens.

• It has a large explosion radius as you can see in the below video.

• At around 30% health, the boss will periodically use an AoE flame that spreads outwards.

Moveset

Rain

• This move is only used when the boss still has its armor. Burrows into the ground and then uses rain.

• The boss may use this move after a "lunge forward - turn body slam" chain or after a single lunge forward.

• While the boss may not always burrow after these attacks, the burrow is always preceded by these attacks.

Flame Breath (2 Types)

• The boss telegraphs this by gathering air and by "sliding" to its aggroed target before using the attack.

• The attack zone covers a 180 degree cone.

• This flame breath is also telegraphed by gathering air and "sliding" to its aggroed target.

• Instead of covering a 180 cone, it covers a straight line.

Body Slam (3 Types)

• Frontal body slam.

• Side body slam.

• Turns and jumps while doing a body slam.

Cannon

• Single cannon shot AoE.

Bombardment

• Multiple small AoEs.