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Guardian Raid T3-4: 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

Heavy Impairment

Destruction + Penetration Skills 

Optional Weapon

Recommended Items

Corrosion Bomb | Destruction Bomb | Penetration Bomb | Whirlwind Bomb

Recommended Runes

Fire Resistance

Recommended Engravings

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

 

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.

Eruption (2 Types)

• The 1st type is exactly the same as the move used by regular Chromanium.

• The second type of eruption is used after a set attack sequence.

• Gathers air near his legs before jumping up -> Turn Body Slam -> Lunge Forward -> Eruption.

• If you have a warlord in your party, the warlord can always interrupt the boss by taunting.

• You can see the boss being taunted in the middle of its attack sequence.

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.

Body Slam (3 Types)

• Single lunge.

• Double lunge.
  

• Double lunge but switches directions after the 1st lunge.
  

Cannon

• Single cannon shot AoE.

Bombardment

• Multiple small AoEs.

Guardian Raid T3-3: Calventus

Clips from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN7ZWl208vE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-GDSCke3sU

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

Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Optional Weapon

Light Weapon

Optional Items

Molotov | Panacea | Talisman | Flash Bomb

Recommended Runes

Dark Resistance

Optional Engravings

Heavy Armor | Shield Penetration (50% Extra Damage vs Shields)

 

General Battle Mechanics

• The bosses dark attacks will apply a stacking debuff. Each debuff reduces armor by 10%.

• The boss has 2 phases and an enrage phase. When you first encounter the boss, it will be in his 1st Phase.

• When the boss TP's away, it will start at his 2nd Phase.

• The 2nd phase is signaled by an AoE rain. There are 2 situations where this can occur.

• The 1st situation is after the 1st knockdown. After getting back up, it will do it's AoE attack.

• If you don't knock the boss, the boss will automatically use the AoE rain after ~3-4 minutes.

• This starts the 2nd phase.

• During the 2nd phase, the boss will periodically call down 4-5 dark orbs that move toward the boss.

• The orbs can be staggered and the boss will not absorb them when the orbs are being engaged.

• Allowing the boss to absorb ~4-5 orbs will enrage the boss. The enraged mode is signal by this attack.

• Enraged mode will give the boss new and stronger attacks as well as higher attack speed.

• You will also know when it's enraged when its eyes glow blue and leave an afterimage when moving.

• The boss will still call down orbs, but these orbs are grayish in color and don't move to the boss.

• Moving close to these orbs will make the orbs move toward you.

• They explode on contact and apply the armor debuff.

• Once enraged, you have to knock the boss to make it go back to its 2nd phase.

• This is shown below. Once the boss gets back up from its knockdown, the stationary orbs disappear.

• The soulmaster ult is not the one clearing the orbs.

Moveset (1st Phase)

Tail Swipe

• The tail swipe can be confusing for newer players.

• The tail swipe telegraph is easy to notice. The boss will look back at the side it wants to swing its tail to.

• The tail will be brought down in the middle. The boss will move diagonally to the other side.

• Then the boss will tail swipe the side it was originally looking at.

• Easiest way for melee to dodge all future swipe attacks is to stand diagonally to the boss's back.

• This way, you dodge the initial tail swipe slam down the middle.

• Then you move towards the middle where the tail landed to dodge the swipe.

Charge

• The boss will telegraph its charge. There will be an AoE around himself at the end location of its charge.

Double Pound

• Self-explanatory.

Single Pound

• Self-explanatory.

Double Pound into Single

• Self-explanatory.

Combo Pounds

• When the boss switches aggro, the boss likes turning around and following up with a pound attack.

Sky Attack

• Jumps up into the air for a bit before landing forward and doing a cone AoE attack.

Sky Drop

• Flies up into the air before landing back down on a target.

Backstep

• No damage for 1st phase backstep.

Moveset (2nd Phase - Inherits 1st Phase Moves)

Upgraded Backstep

• The backstep during the 2nd Phase spawns whirlwinds that move forward.

• 2 whirlwinds spawn in front before the whirlwinds on the side.

• You can dodge the whirlwinds as shown below if you're in front when this happens.

Rain

• Flies slowly up into the air before using its rain attack.

• Safe spot is in the middle. Before it lands, make sure to dash out of the safe area before it lands.

Shadow Ball

• Arches its back before launching a shadow ball at a target.

Triple Shadow Ball

• An orb appears at the front before the boss splits it into three orbs that go outward.

Moveset (Enraged Mode - Inherits Previous Phase Moves)

Enraged Charge

• When enraged, its charge becomes almost instant and he uses it back to back.

Enraged Shadow Ball

• Arches up and uses a huge shadow ball attack.

Guardian Raid T3-2: Regioros Brothers

Picture Image: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=212659&site=lostark

Recommended Team Setup

Any

Optional Weapons

Fire Weapon (Ice Regioros) | Light Weapon (Dark Regioros)

Optional Runes

Water/Dark Resistance

General Battle Mechanics

• Their attack speed has increased but their attacks have not changed.
  

• The bosses will periodically teleport every minute unless being engaged in battle.

• One person handles Dark Regioros and the others with fire weapon handle Frost Regioros.

• After Frost Regioros has died, the 3 go and help kill Dark Regioros.

• If you see both bosses at the same position, wait until 19:00, so they will teleport away.

• If during the battle, a boss TP's away onto the other, just run away and wait for the next minute to come.

Guardian Raid T3-1: Levanos

Clips from:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k-p21RiJa4

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Recommended Weapon

390 ilvl Fire Elemental Weapon (Extra Damage vs Levanos)

Recommended Items

Beginner Bomb

Optional Items

Corrosion Bomb | Destruction Bomb | Penetration Bomb | Molotov

Recommended Runes

Earth Resistance

General Battle Mechanics

• Levanos has the same armor mechanics as Chromanium.

• Destruction and penetration both work on Levanos, but penetration skills are less consistent.

• Unless you're using penetration skills at the right angle, it won't affect the boss at all.

• The boss's armor break animation is shown below.

• The boss will periodically try to regenerate it's armor. The animation is below.
• You must impair the boss during this time or else you will have to break its armor all over again.

• At around 30% health, the boss will turn red and start Phase 2. 
• The boss also regains its armor back so you must break its armor again.

• This is one of the bosses normal moves, but he is likely to use it after a core kill.

• The boss will periodically summon up to 4 cores. You must kill these cores ASAP.
• The core will usually teleport to another place after spawn.
• Prenerf KR, the boss would usually TP during the 3rd core because teams could not kill the core in time.
• I doubt that will be the case in RU. If the boss does TP away, you have to break its armor again.
• You may want to use molotovs on these cores but again, I doubt that will be needed on RU.

• The cores have mini versions of the bosses attacks, which are shown below.

Moveset (1st Phase - Above 30% Health)

Whirlwind (2 Types)

• This is a move that is the most dangerous for unprepared players.
• The telegraph is distinct and easily recognizable. 
• The boss will raise its arms in the air and bring them down quickly before doing the attack.

• This second type of whirlwind has almost the same telegraph, but the boss does it a lot slower.
• The boss will then use whirlwind while moving forward.

Bombardment

• The sound the boss makes for this move is very distinct. The boss will raise its arm up high for this attack.
• The AoE's appear around an aggroed target.

Ghost Jets

• Hard to describe the telegraph for this move but you will get used to it after a while.
• It's also telegraphed by 4 blue spawn points that center at the boss.

Rain

• The animation for this move is fairly slow. You will have ample time to notice the move.
• After a short while, AoE's will come falling down.

Smash (2 Types)

• Raises its arms before bringing them down to attack the front.

• Almost the same telegraph as the previous move, but will do a huge frontal AoE cone as well.

Backstep (3 Types)

• The boss has 3 possible followup attacks to its backstep ability.
• The first possible is bombardment.

• The second possible follow up is the smash frontal AoE cone.

• The third possible is a moving whirlwind.

Moveset (2nd Phase - Below 30% Health)

Cage

• RU will most likely have the nerfed cage move where the cage radius is large and very forgiving.
• Players trying to exit the cage will be pulled back inside and take damage.
• The cage will wear off after a while.

Upgraded Ghost Jets

• During the 2nd phase, the ghost jets spawn away from the center of the boss.

Snare

• The boss can place down snares during the 2nd phase.

Guardian Raid T2-4: Berutooth

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

Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Impairment

Optional Items

Panacea | Whirlwind Bomb

Recommended Runes

Water Resistance | Stun Immunity (100%)

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.

• The boss will periodically try grabbing players. The telegraph is easy to notice and the arcana below dodges it.

• If players get CC'd, they are priority targets for getting grabbed.

• When someone gets grabbed, make sure to use as much impairment skills to break him free ASAP.

• During the boss's 3rd phase, any player he CC's, will be a priority target for his Charge attack.
  
• This CC includes his tail swipe and his freeze bomb.

• The boss has a high tendency to telegraph who his next aggroed target is and who he will use his next attack on. When he has chosen a target to attack, he will "slide" to face him and use a skill as shown below.
  

Moveset

Tail Swipe

• One of Beru's most annoying moves especially for melee is his tail swipe attack because it stuns you.

• It's telegraphed by him swaying his tail in the direction of the swipe before attacking.

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 T2-3: Hellgaia

Clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4B0S4uBGE

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Recommended Team Setup

Bard

Heavy Impairment

Optional Items

Panacea | Talisman | Whirlwind Bomb

Recommended Runes

Fire Resistance | Burn Immunity

General Battle Mechanics

• Most of Hellgaia's attacks apply a burn debuff which can stack.

• Gaining too many burn debuffs will make your health disappear relatively quickly.

• Use a panacea in case that ever happens to remove the debuff.

• Every 40 to 50 seconds, Hellgaia will try to evolve. The team must use their impairment skills to interrupt.

• If you fail to break the boss, the boss will create an AoE explosion around him.

• Most teams on Korean release did 431, i.e. Break the first 4 evolves, let it evolve, break the next 3 evolves,let it evolve, break.

• I don't know how much easier it is now to break Hellgaia on RU.

• During the time you want to let him evolve, have a bard either ult so you can keep damaging the boss.

• Either that or all of you run away from the boss. Sometimes a bard shield may even be enough.

• There are 3 phases, with the 2nd and 3rd phase adding a new move and an upgraded move.

• The sequence goes like this: 1st phase -> evolve -> 2nd phase -> evolve -> 3rd phase.

• After it evolves 2 times, it won’t try to evolve anymore. You must knock the boss ASAP.

• After you knock the boss, the boss will do a sky attack, then shout before running away.

• Having it run away resets it back to the 1st phase.

• If your team don't have enough impairment, consider doing 331 or maybe even less breaks.
• Other variations include 401, where you try and reset the boss asap to the 1st phase.
• This is because the sky attacks during 2nd phase are one of the most annoying attacks in his kit.

Moveset (1st Phase)

Swipes (2 Types)

• Tail swipe. Safe area is right up on Hellgaia's butt. The damage cone is away from the butt.
  

• Wing swipe. Again, the safe area is right on Hellgaia's butt.

Beak Attacks (2 Types)

• Single beak attack which sends you flying up to the bosses backside.

• Double peck on the ground which staggers.

Fireball

• Fires a projectile.

Charge

• If you're caught at the front, it will send you flying backwards at the end of the attack.

Moveset (2nd Phase) (Inherits 1st Phase Moveset)

Upgraded Fireball

• Single fireball turns into three.

Sky Attack

• If you're standing directly on Hellgaia's butt, you will have an annoying time trying to dodge this attack.

• Her body blocks you if you try dashing through her.

• Best to stay on the left side or right side of the butt.

• This way you can still back attack and dash perpendicular to the boss.

• This upgraded charge leaves a trail of fire.
  

• Hellgaia will slowly ascend into the sky and bombard you with fire. 
• Use the nearest ladder or rope to move to another area unless you're super confident in dodging its attacks. Its attacks won't hurt you there.
• After a short time it will land.

Guardian Raid T2-1: Chromanium

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

Recommended Team Setup

Destruction

Heavy Impairment

Useful Items

Beginner Bomb

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 T1-4: Dark Regi

Clips from: 

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

Orsted and his guildmates

Recommended Team Setup

Any

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.

• 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 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.

Backstep -> Breath

• Backsteps into a breath attack. Make sure to either chase ASAP or run away from the breath.
  

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 T1-3: Ice Regioros

Clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FliADn3W07g

Recommended Team Setup

Any

General Battle Mechanics

• Most players (melee) have problems dodging this one skill where the boss jumps backwards.

• After jumping backwards, he uses frost breath as shown below.

• This move is telegraphed by doing a 360 while backstepping.

• You just have to ready to dodge ASAP after it backsteps.

• Sometimes it does a shout before doing it, but not all the time. This is also a telegraph for another move.

• 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.