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Guardian Raid T1-4: Berutooth

Clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbLOYSbU4U

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Optional Items

Panacea | Whirlwind Bomb

General Battle Mechanics

• The boss will run away automatically when it reaches 70% and 40% health.

• The boss enters its 3rd phase at 30% health.

• The boss's 2nd phase is barely any different from its 1st phase, so I will not be differentiating them.

• The boss will periodically turn red during each phase as shown below.

• You can accelerate this phase by knocking the boss.
  
• If the boss is not red when you knocked him initially, he will turn red after getting back up.

• If you've knocked the boss when it has already turned red, it's recovery attack will be a jumpback.
• The tail is able to be cut during this time, but it is not worth it because it just accelerates him to Phase 3.

Dive

• When running away, it's ideal to run away together in a group so that there is less downtime for attacks.

• If a teammate is lagging behind, that person should just run in another direction because the boss might pop out beneath them.

• Safest option is running in 4 directions away from each other.

360

• Easily telegraphed.

Freeze Bomb

• Screams and AoE circles appear. Frozen players have a high chance of getting grabbed.

Breath

• Sucks in players then breaths them away.

Charge

• Easily telegraphed.

Claw Swipe

• Double claw swipe. Easily telegraphed.

Lunge

• Easily telegraphed.

• During the 3rd phase, the iceball becomes triple.

Guardian Raid T1-1: Urunil

Clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FvffGTdsc

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Recommended Team Setup

Have Impairment

General Battle Mechanics

• His attacks will be improved when he is in enraged mode.
  

• He will periodically shout and turn red, and his stretch marks will glow.

• Knocking him will calm him down.

• Most attacks can be avoided just by being behind him. Stay clear from behind for two attacks.

• Top: Normal Mode (Knockup)
• Bottom: Enhanced Mode (Knockup)

Lunge

• Top: Normal Mode (Stagger)

• Bottom: Enhanced Mode (Knockup)

Fireball

• Urunil can throw a fireball up into the air and it will land in one of two places. 

• DPS should move to the side for this.

• Top: Lands directly behind him.

• Bottom: Lands away from him.

Quake

• Urunil will do an AoE around him if you fail to knock him down in time. Shortly after he will run away. 

• If you knock/break the boss, it will do an explosion AoE around itself after getting back up.

• Make sure to run away before it recovers.

• The boss can also do its explosion without the knockdown prerequisite. 
• It always arches its head up, shouts, and turns 180 before doing this move. 

• That doesn't mean that every time the boss arches his head and turns 180, he will do it.

• It's just that the explosion is always preceded by that telegraph.

Moveset

No Damage Backstep

• This is different from the backstep which does damage because it doesn't do a 360 while going back.

• The boss will turn towards an aggroed target.
• Then he will do a roar and then jump up and land back on someone's location.
• You will get stunned if you stand near the location.

Triple Jump

• He will turn towards an aggroed target and stomp his two feet.

• This is the telegraph that he will do 3 consecutive jumps on the person he turns towards.

• Just keep running in a straight line, do not move backwards and you will dodge it.

• He does a wind up animation before running forward. He paws the ground with his left foot.

• Below a certain health, he starts being able to charge 3x in a row.

Swipes (Three Types)

• Single swipe. Does a 90 degree right turn while doing the swipe.

• Double swipe.

• Quadruple swipe.

Guardian Raid T2-1: Chromanium

Clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFYB-6e1Ko

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Recommended Team Setup

Destruction

Heavy Impairment

Optional Items

Corrosion Bomb | Destruction Bomb | Whirlwind Bomb

General Battle Mechanics

• Use all your bombs and destruction skills on CD to break the turtle's shell ASAP.

• Your team must also use all the skills that impair the boss .

• Your team will do severely reduced damage until that happens.

• Damage done to the boss is increased when the boss experiences a full knockdown.
• You will deal decreased damage until you break the armor and do at least 1 full knockdown.
• If you just knock the boss without breaking the armor, you will deal reduced damage once he gets back up.
• IMPORTANT: Save all the skills that do not cause destruction or impairment for the 1st knockdown.
• Use all burst skills once this happens like bard ultimate and crit buff, soulmaster buffs, etc.
• After the boss runs away, you will not have to break its armor again.
• But you still will have to knock the boss to do full damage again.

• The sounds are different for both animations.

• Turtle gets back up quickly for his armor break, but a full knockdown lasts for a much longer time.

• After you experience it in the game, it should be easy to differentiate between an armor break and a knock.

• The below video is reference for both knock (1st), and armor break (2nd) sounds.

Moveset

Stones

• Charges up, hops up, then fall back down. You will see something swirling on his legs.

• Either he will go back to his normal attack rotation or he will follow up with a large AoE attack.

• If you want to be extra safe, just move away regardless and wait.

• He will lift up his front two legs, and then will followup with an aftershock. Move away to a safe distance.

Cannon (2 Types)

• The cannon glows orange as it fires.

• The first type is a single cannon shot that hits multiple times in a single area.

• The cannon glows purple as it fires.
• The second type is a cannon shot which drops a orb drone that follows the target.
• If you get hit, you get stunned for a short amount of time.

• Instead of a normal cannon shot, Chromanium will fire multiple shots.
  

• Side slam. Easily telegraphed.

• Front slam. Easily telegraphed.

• Summons four orbs. When summoned, slows users around the turtle. Deals damage around the orbs.

Breath (2 Types)

• Line breath.

• Single forward jump.
  

• Double jump. Sometimes the boss likes to jump multiple times in succession.

• His cannon shot will leave behind a persistent AoE on the floor.

Guardian Raid T3-1: Dark Regi

Clips from: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvjUHajG5ks

Orsted and his guildmates

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General Battle Mechanics

• Getting hit by magic attacks will apply darkness stacks. Receiving darkness stacks reduces vision.
  

• At 4 darkness stacks, Dark Regi will blink and reappear behind the guy and attack with double claws.

• This attack does a decent amount of damage, so avoid getting too many darkness stacks.

• Keep the boss pinned to a wall so you do not need to move around much. 

• Reference below. Boss jumps back to a wall, reducing the need to chase after it.

Non-Combo Moveset

Breath

• Stationary breath attack.

• The first type is inner rain.

• The second type is an outer bombardment telegraphed by the boss standing on his hind legs.

• After the outer, will he do an AoE explosion around himself after it ends, so run away after.

• The boss turns around before doing a single swipe. This single swipe always leads into an attack.

• The 1st is a double side to side swipe. First swipes clockwise, does a 180, then swipes counterclockwise.
• Dodge by moving side to side or having a bard shield the team.

• Double frontal swipe.

Combo Moveset

Charge -> Blink or Backstep

• Telegraphed by his right leg winding up. (Left from this PoV).

• If you have a warlord, you can taunt him. Do not taunt him before he rushes.

• After charging, he can do one of two things. The first thing he can do is a backstep.

• The other thing he can do is disappear then reappear elsewhere a short duration later after charging.

Blink -> Breath or Double Swipe

• After blinking, the boss will reappear elsewhere and might use double swipe.

• After blinking, the boss will reappear elsewhere and might use breath.

Guardian Raid T2-2: Nakrasena

Clips from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqluK1IQAx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtTwO5gtBM8

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Optional Items

Corrosion Bomb + Blue Shuriken

General Battle Mechanics

• There is a slight learning curve to this fight as it can be a bit hectic for new players.

• To make this fight easier, people generally try cutting the tail off during the fight.

• You can only cut the tail when you impair the boss as referenced below in the video.

• It takes 16 cutting levels to cut the bosses tail. Grey shurikens have 2 cutting power.

• Blue shurikens have 3 cutting power. Corrosion bomb adds 1 power to all applied effects.

• So the 1st option is to use 8 grey shurikens over 2 knocks

• The 2nd option is to use 1 corrosion bomb and 4 blue shurikens to just cut the tail in 1 knock.

• Various skills from classes like Berserker and Battlemaster have cut in their skills.

Moveset

Claw Swipe (Enhanceable)

• Slams its claws down in quick succession before swiping forward.

• Attack will deal more damage when it goes through charging phase.

Double Jump (Enhanceable)

• Raises its claws upward before jumping up. The boss can do this twice in a row. It may also only do it once.

• When used after its charging phase, it will paralyze players if you get near its landing location.

Charge (Unavailable When Tail is Cut)

• Knocks back players when hit. Deals damage at landing location.

Burrow (Unavailable When Tail is Cut)

• This attack takes some time to get used to. The boss will burrow and target one player.

• There's a window in which the boss will reappear that you have to dodge to avoid the attack.

Bongos (Unavailable When Tail is Cut)

• The boss will slam the ground in rapid succession mimicing the sound of bongos.

• The boss will then ground its tail and mini AoE's appear. It is best to just run away from the boss.

Laser (Unavailable When Tail is Cut)

• This attack is telegraphed by its tail charging up and turning its head to the aggroed player.

• Then it will shoot its laser twice and paralyze anyone hit.

• You can avoid this attack by just running from side to side. No space required.

• Make sure to avoid running into your teammates.

Lightning Strike (Unavailable When Tail is Cut)

• Uses the same animation when it's charging up through its charging phase.

• AoE will target one player. Make sure not to run into your teammates.

Guardian Raid T4-4: Titalos

Clips from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I73DLJMrKAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOl4L7xXYs

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Optional Items

Scarecrow | Dark Bomb | Molotov | Adrophin | Whirlwind Bomb | Panacea (Removes Petrify CD Debuff)

Recommended Runes

60% Earth Resistance | 100% Earthquake [Disorient] Immunity | 30% Wild Beast Damage

Optional Engravings

Urgent Rescue

General Battle Mechanics

• Some teams like to use a scarecrow at the beginning of the fight to draw aggro from the boss.

• They use this time to just dump all their DPS on the boss.

• Since the boss TPs 2 more times, a scarecrow is used at the 1st encounter and the other 2 TP encounters.

• The boss enter its 2nd phase after its 1st TP.

• Usually a scarecrow is saved for when the boss enrages, which will be discussed below.

• The boss will summon 2 sandstorms shortly after the fight begins.

• These sandstorms aggro onto players and moves towards them very slowly.

• Standing in the sandstorms will apply a MS debuff on you. Getting 3 of these stacks will petrify you.

• After the sandstorms are created, the boss will periodically do an earthquake move as indicated below.

• Unless you have 100% Earthquake Immunity, you will be shocked for 10 seconds.

• After a short while of doing the earthquake, the boss will do a one shot move.

• You can time the one shot move by counting the number of moves the boss does.

• The boss usually does it after 3 moves used. 

• If the move animation takes a long time, ex. rolls, it will do it after 2 moves used. 

• To avoid the one shot, you must stand in the sandstorm to get 3 stacks and get petrified to become invincible.

• Players can prep 1 or 2 stacks of the debuff to make sure you get 3 stacks in time.

• The invincibility effect still lasts for a bit after wearing off.

• In RU, the one shot mechanic, doesn't one shot anymore.

• Getting petrified gives you a 30 second debuff where you can't get petrified again. In RU, it's if you get hit.

• If you can't get petrified again before the boss uses its one shot ability, you should run away.

• Either go into the next area or make sure to run until the boss is on the edge of your minimap.

• In RU, the one shot mechanic, doesn't one shot anymore.

• If the boss kills someone during the one shot move, the boss will enrage.

• The boss's attack speed and damage will increase.

• The sandstorms disappear and he will not do the earthquake/one shot mechanic anymore.

• Instead, an AoE will appear around himself and damage all surrounding players.

• To get the boss back to its normal state, you must knock the boss.

• Once the boss gets back up, it will lose its AoE and go back to doing normal things.

Moveset

Bomb (2nd Phase)

• During the 2nd phase, the boss will start using this move periodically.

• It has the same telegraph as the sandstorm summon.

• A circle will spawn on the ground. Unless someone stands on top of the circle, bombs will continually spawn.

• Typically, the bard or a ranged class stands on the circle.

• When you get near the bombs, they explode.

Rolls 1-D

Rolls 2-D

Breath

Charge

Stomp

Swipe

Backstep

Guardian Raid T4-3: Icegaia

Clips from:

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

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Recommended Weapon

Lightning Weapon (Not Bard)

Optional Items

Whirlwind Bomb

Recommended Runes

60% Water Resistance | 100% MS Reduction Immunity | 30% Wild Beast Damage

Optional Engravings

Urgent Rescue

General Battle Mechanics

• Frostgaia's attacks apply a MS debuff. Getting 10 stacks freezes you.

• When Frostgaia tries to do its 1st ever evolution, regardless of whether or not you break it, it will evolve.

• The evolve is signaled by this scream and this means the boss has done its 1st evolution.

• When the boss TPs away after its 2nd evolution, it will always start at its 1st evolution afterwards.

• If the DPS of your team is high enough, Frostgaia will evolve to 1st evolution without doing the mechanic.

• Example of evolution sequence:

->1st Evolve Attempt or High DPS->Scream Signals 1st Evolution->Evolve Attempts->2nd Evolution->TP Away

->Find Boss Again->Starts at 1st Evolution->Evolve Attempts->2nd Evolution->TP Away

• When first encountering the boss, the boss will land and deal damage at landing location and fly back up.

• The second landing deals no damage.

• You still have to break the boss during the evolve phase much like Hellgaia's evolution attempts.

• When the boss reaches its 2nd evolution, it will not attempt to evolve anymore.

• Instead you must impair the boss so that it runs away and restarts at its 1st evolution elsewhere.

• After the boss gets back up, it will always do 2 Sky Attacks. It will then scream and TP away.

Moveset (New Moves Added During Evolves)

Sky Attack (1st Evolution)

• Jumps up into the air and flies back down. Annoying to dodge because of fast attack speed.

Frontal Swipe

• Single wing frontal swipe. Can do it multiple times in succession.

Double Frontal Swipe (1st Evolution)

• Frontal swipe with right then left wing. Still has access to single swipe.

Triple Frontal Swipe (2nd Evolution)

• Frontal swipe with right, left, and then both wings in the front. Still has access to previous frontal swipes.

Charge

• Telegraph for this charge is straightforward.

Upgraded Charge (2nd Evolution)

• Flies up a bit before charging forward. Replaces the normal charge.

Up (2nd Evolution)

• Flies up and lands at a location after a short while. Don't get near the AoE until after the boss lands.

Beak Lift

• Self-explanatory.

Double Peck

• Self-explanatory.

Side Wing Swipe

• Self-explanatory.

Tail Swipe

• Self-explanatory. Safe spot is right on Frostgaia's butt. Can do it multiple times in succession or just once.

Clips from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sY_YV-cm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C41vbmDhnAQ

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Recommended Items

Shield Talisman | Water Bomb

Recommended Runes

60% Fire Resistance | 100% Burn Immunity | 30% Wild Beast Damage

General Battle Mechanics

• Yoho goes through 3 phases. She starts at the 1st phase and everytime she TPs, she enters the next phase.

• Yoho's 2nd and 3rd phase give her access to upgraded and/or new attacks.

• Throughout the battle, you will have a chance to attain an attack buff which greatly increases your AP and AS.

• This attack buff applies a burn debuff on you so make sure you have 100% burn immunity.

• The most common method is when the boss uses her breath attack.

• Getting hit by the fire will give you this attack buff.

• Have a bard shield before entering the fire or use a shield talisman.

• She will usually use her breath shortly after she turns pink.

• Yoho does this ring move during 1st phase.

• When the move ends, the person with the lowest health gets the attack buff (not percentage health).

• Since bard's are usually the one with the lowest health, they have to use spacebar to get out of the ring.

• You see in this video, the bard gets the buff at the end of the move, which shouldn't have happened.

• You cannot just walk out of the ring because it pushes you back towards Yoho.

• Yoho does move during 2nd phase.

• You must get hit by 3 orbs to get the attack buff.

• Yoho periodically does a 360 spin move that causes random areas on the floor to be on fire.

• Does no damage.

• Since these fires can sometimes interrupt with DPSing, players throw water bombs on those areas to clear.

• Do not waste a water bomb on such a small area like this berserker though.

1st Phase Moveset

Clones

• Screams, TPs, screams again, does a 360, and spawns a clone that also does a 360.

Flash

• Faster version of charge.

• Telegraphed by Yoho kneeling a bit before going further.

Jump

• Telegraphed by Yoho kneeling down and getting ready to leap.

Random Fireballs

• Arches her head up and screams before firing fireballs in random directions.

Targeted Fireballs

• It's sometimes easy to tell who is the target of this attack because she just slides across the floor.

• She fires two projectiles for the 1st phase version.

Charge

• You should be used to the animation of charges by now. Yoho's charge is nothing different.

Sky Drop

• Turns toward an aggroed target, screams and flies up into the air, then drops down on the target.

• Can be avoided by just running. If you don't feel confident, just use a dash move.

Stomp

• Turns toward an aggroed target and does a single stomp.

Tail Swipe 360

• Same telegraph as her spawn fires on random areas move, except this actually damages you.

Tail Swipe Back

• Telegraphed by Yoho bending her head down a bit before bringing her tails up and swiping down.

Tail Swipe Side

• She will look at the side she will tail swipe just like Calventus.

• Yoho will then swipe her tail at the side she was looking at from the other side.

Walk

• She will walk into a straight line like a model on a runway. As she does this, rain will fall down.

Upgraded Clones

• Instead of one clone, she will spawn clones in all cardinal directions, east, west, north, and south.

• Easy to avoid for ranged by standing 45 degrees to Yoho.

• Melee can just dash back in after the real Yoho does her spin.

Upgraded Flash

• Yoho does flash three times in a row during 3rd Phase.

Rain

• Arches her head up, screams and rain will fall down.

Upgraded Random Fireballs

• These random fireballs now leave the floor burning.

Upgraded Targeted Fireballs

• Instead of a pair of projectiles being fired, there are now two pairs of projectiles.

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Heavy Impairment

Recommended Weapon

Earth Weapon

Recommended Items

Corrosion Bomb | Grey Bomb | Grey Shuriken | Blue Shuriken (Optional)

Recommended Runes

Lightning Resistance | Paralyze Immunity | Insect Damage

Recommended Engravings

Vital Strike (+10% Neutralization Effect) (On Warlords/Destroyers)

General Battle Mechanics

• Heavy Armor Nakrasena introduces some new mechanics.

• When you first knock the boss, you must throw use destruction on the tail to break the tail armor.

• You must reach a destruction level of 6 to break the armor. 3 grey bombs work and/or skills as well.

• If you miss the first opportunity, you will be able to break it the next time you knock the boss.

• After you have broken the tail armor, you will be able to cut the tail the next knockdown.

• Unlike above, shurikens will not go through the body or the wall.

• You must reach a cutting level of 12 to cut the tail.

• You may use a corrosion bomb and 4 grey shurikens to cut the tail, or 4 blue shurikens.

• After the tail is cut, the boss will be unable to use certain moves. After it TPs, you will do this all over again.

• Experienced players would just not cut the tail because the boss would never TP away if it wasn't cut.

• Periodically, Heavy Nakra will go through powerup charging phases as indicated below in the video.

• You will see an electric charge starting near his tail going down to the center.

• Each electric charge that reaches the center powerups the boss up to a max of 3 powerups.

• Each powerup gives Nakrasena access to more moves.

• To interupt these powerup phases, you must use your impairment skills on the boss.

• A successful impairment during this phase does not count as a natural knock for bomb or cut.

• The boss takes less damage during this charging phase until it finishes or gets back up from the break.

• If an electric charge has reached his center, he keeps his powerup even after you impair him.

• This counter carries over to the next powerup phase up to a maximum of 3 powerups.

• On his 3rd successful electric charge, he will use an AoE outwards.

• If you know you won't be able to break the 3rd charge in time, just run away.

• After this, he will no longer do anymore of his powerup phases. This resets after TP.

Thunder

• Same telegraph as the powerup move. Easily dodgeable.

Upgraded Side Claw

• His side claw swipe is upgraded. He gathers an electric charge at his claw then swings it to the side.

2nd Powerup Moves

Bongos

• Does the drums/bongos before calling down lightning AoE.
• Unlike T2 Nakra, the safe spot for T4 Nakra is directly behind the bosses' hind legs.

3rd Powerup Moves

Burrow

• Burrows into the ground and spawns 5 scorpions. The boss doesn't chase you.
• Recommended method of dealing with the scorpions is running together to the left or right.
• This gives you a wider view and lets you gather them up so you can AoE them all down.
• If you don't kill the scorpions in time, they will eventually have an electric AoE surrounding themselves.
• Getting hit by these will chain paralyze and damage you.

Upgraded Bongos

• Same telegraph as regular bongos. Only addition is that 8 electric AoE's are spawned.
• Same safe spot as regular bongos.

General Moveset

Breath

• The boss may do a pair of breaths, or back to back breaths.
• Getting hit by these breaths apply a slow stack and burns most of your mana.

Charge

• The boss can rush forward twice or once.
• If doing it twice, the boss will raise its claws up after finishing the first charge and then charge again.
• At the end of the 2nd charge, the boss will jump up and deal damage at landing location.

• Charge one time.

• Warlords can cancel the charge by taunting.

Side Tail Slam

• The boss tilts to the side before bringing down his tail to the other.

Leap

• Leaps, does a somersault and lands at another location.

Jump

• Same as T2 Nakrasena.

Side Claw Swipe

• Same as T2 Nakrasena.

Frontal Claw Swipe

• Same as T2 Nakrasena.