[0:00] This is a comprehensive dungeon guide
[0:02] for all season 3 dungeons. It is
[0:04] designed with healers in mind, but
[0:06] you'll also get a lot out of it if
[0:08] you're not a healer. If you're crazy
[0:09] enough to watch the whole thing, I
[0:11] appreciate it, but you can also use the
[0:12] video chapters below to navigate toward
[0:14] the encounters that you find
[0:16] challenging. With all of that being
[0:17] said, let's begin. The first dungeon on
[0:19] our list is Arakara. It is one of the
[0:22] more challenging dungeons and also one
[0:24] with a somewhat tighter timer. In the
[0:26] first pull of the dungeon, it can be
[0:27] tricky to not draw aggro when the tank
[0:30] just runs through to the first platform.
[0:32] If you must heal, try to get ahead of
[0:35] the mobs so you will not need to run
[0:37] through them to continue toward the
[0:38] platform. Use defensives here and blow
[0:41] big cooldowns early. For example, as a
[0:43] druid, just use convoke immediately to
[0:46] get hots rolling on the group. In this
[0:48] fight, the engorged crawlers apply a
[0:50] poison debuff via venomous spit that you
[0:53] can dispel if you can dispel poisons or
[0:55] need to heal through if you cannot.
[0:57] Meanwhile, the Trilling attendants cast
[1:00] resonant barrage which must be
[1:02] interrupted for it will otherwise deal a
[1:04] big amount of groupwide damage. The mini
[1:06] boss in this fight is Ixen. Dodge his
[1:08] frontal cleave attack and interrupt his
[1:10] horrifying shrill, which deals a very
[1:13] high amount of group damage if it does
[1:14] go through. If that should happen, be
[1:17] prepared to use all of your cooldowns if
[1:19] necessary. The first pull on the next
[1:20] platform is usually also quite big, but
[1:23] the only real danger stems from the
[1:24] poison dots applied by the engorged
[1:27] crawlers. If you can dispel poisons,
[1:29] wait until someone gets two stacks and
[1:31] then use your dispel. If you cannot
[1:33] dispel poisons, make sure to be vigilant
[1:36] to be ready to commit cool downs
[1:38] whenever someone gets three or more
[1:39] stacks. The next mini boss is rather
[1:41] easy. Just make sure to dodge the web
[1:43] spray and heal the AoE damage from Call
[1:46] of the Brood. However, that damage isn't
[1:48] as bad anymore as it once used to be, so
[1:50] the fight should not be a major
[1:52] challenge. Finally, you make your way
[1:54] over to the third platform where you
[1:56] will fight Attic, the poison spider. She
[1:58] spawns poison clouds on the ground,
[2:00] which will act as space denial for melee
[2:02] DPS. From a healer perspective, however,
[2:04] the fight is quite easy and you can
[2:06] mostly focus on dealing damage as long
[2:08] as the poison bowls are properly
[2:10] interrupted. Once you have defeated the
[2:12] spider, you will make your way back to
[2:13] the large platform in the middle where
[2:14] the first boss of the instance, Avenox,
[2:17] makes its appearance. It has a
[2:19] moderately powerful tank hit in
[2:20] voracious bite. But from my experience,
[2:23] tanks don't really demand that much of
[2:25] your attention, if any, when dealing
[2:27] with it. Shortly after being pulled, the
[2:29] boss then casts Alerting Shrill, which
[2:32] deals a lot of ticking group damage and
[2:33] spawns in spiders at the locations of
[2:35] the eggs in the room. Alerting Shrill
[2:37] can be tough to heal through if you're
[2:39] not ready for it. So, make sure to have
[2:40] your healing properly ramped up before
[2:42] it hits. After alerting Shrill, there is
[2:44] no group damage going on whilst your
[2:46] teammates will be busy killing off the
[2:48] little spiders before they reach the
[2:49] boss. If they ever do reach the boss, he
[2:52] will consume them and get a 30% damage
[2:54] increase for 1 minute. This must be
[2:57] avoided at all costs, as it will be much
[2:59] more difficult to heal through the
[3:00] boss's abilities if it has consumed one
[3:02] spider and almost impossible if it has
[3:05] consumed more than one. Note, however,
[3:07] that the spiders don't actually run
[3:09] toward the boss. They run toward
[3:11] individual players. This means that you
[3:13] just need to make sure to not kite them
[3:15] through the boss. This is made easier by
[3:17] the unintuitive fact that once they
[3:19] reach a player, not that much is
[3:21] happening. One would expect that they'd
[3:24] explode or otherwise deal some
[3:26] catastrophic amount of damage, but they
[3:28] don't. They just swing for relatively
[3:30] moderate melee damage, which you can
[3:33] quite easily heal through. So, if you're
[3:35] ever out of space, choose the spiders
[3:37] hitting you over choosing to let them
[3:39] reach the boss. Shortly after spawning
[3:41] the spiders, the boss then launches his
[3:42] Gossamer onslaught, which is the most
[3:45] challenging healer mechanic of the
[3:46] fight. like alerting shrill, the
[3:48] onslaught deals a high amount of ticking
[3:49] AoE damage, but additionally spawns
[3:52] puddles underneath players that they
[3:53] need to move out of. One thing to note
[3:55] here is that you don't have much time to
[3:57] move out of the puddles. The timer is
[3:59] shorter than it is on many other
[4:01] puddlebased mechanics, so make sure to
[4:02] not get tricked by that. Although you
[4:05] can manage to fit in some casts like
[4:07] regrowth into the puddle timer, it's
[4:09] better to play it safe here. After the
[4:11] puddle explodes, it will leave behind a
[4:12] web area on the ground which denies this
[4:14] space for the remainder of the fight.
[4:17] This means the more erratically and
[4:19] uncoordinatedly your team moves around
[4:21] during Gossamer onslaught, the worse the
[4:23] space restriction in the room will
[4:25] become. Ideally, the group should
[4:27] therefore stack on or near the tank and
[4:29] then move around slowly and jointly to
[4:32] minimize this area denial. Gossamer
[4:35] onslaught is challenging for healers
[4:37] primarily because you can't really cast
[4:38] while it is going on. As a result, plan
[4:40] to commit your cooldowns during this
[4:42] mechanic and not during alerting shrill.
[4:45] This will help you stay on top of your
[4:47] movement and not make any mistakes with
[4:49] it. When Gossamer Onslaught is over, the
[4:51] boss is just rinse and repeat. So, tank
[4:54] it, alerting Shrill, kill spiders,
[4:56] Gossamer onslaught, and start a new.
[4:58] After defeating the first boss, you will
[5:00] get into probably the most puck
[5:01] unfriendly part of the dungeon where
[5:03] you'll be fighting packs of hulking
[5:05] blood guards and blood stained web mages
[5:08] on the platform. Going left is, in my
[5:10] experience, the safer way to go with
[5:12] fewer ninja pulls. But to be fair, ninja
[5:14] pulls happen here all the time,
[5:15] regardless of whether you're going left
[5:17] or right. Immediately after being
[5:19] pulled, the hulking blood guards begin
[5:20] casting Locust Swarm, which puts a quite
[5:24] nasty ticking debuff on the entire
[5:25] group, which you need to heal through.
[5:27] So, make sure to be ready to put out big
[5:29] healing immediately after one of these
[5:31] is pulled. They will then periodically
[5:33] cast Locust Swarm again every 20
[5:36] seconds. The real wipe potential in
[5:37] these pulls, however, comes from players
[5:39] failing to interrupt revolting volleys
[5:41] by the bloodstained web mages, which if
[5:43] they do go through, deal a high amount
[5:45] of damage and put a nasty damaging
[5:47] poison debuff on players. If that ever
[5:49] happens, and you can group dispel
[5:50] poisons via, for example, revival or
[5:52] poison cleansing totem, make sure to do
[5:54] so. Especially when revolting volleys go
[5:56] through while locust swarm is going on,
[5:58] you'll likely wipe. So, make sure to
[6:00] keep an eye out for them during Locust
[6:02] Swarm and interrupt them yourself if
[6:05] necessary. The spiders can be CCd, so
[6:08] you don't need to have an interrupt to
[6:09] cancel the cast. It's generally safe to
[6:12] stand inside of the Paxia as there's no
[6:14] cleave damage going on except for the
[6:16] Hulking Blood Guard's frontal, which is
[6:18] extremely well telegraphed. After this
[6:21] area, you'll get to the second boss of
[6:23] the dungeon, a noob sect, which like all
[6:25] the other bosses in Arakara, can be
[6:27] quite challenging in a park environment.
[6:29] In principle, the fight is quite simple.
[6:32] The boss periodically puts an
[6:33] infestation debuff on a player, which
[6:35] deals moderate ticking damage, and upon
[6:37] expiration spawns a swirling cloud,
[6:39] which will randomly move through the
[6:41] room, and you must avoid getting hit by.
[6:43] Over the course of the fight, the number
[6:45] of clouds will increase, but they are
[6:46] generally quite easy to avoid. This
[6:49] however cannot be said for the boss's
[6:51] second ability, borrow charge. He will
[6:53] periodically target a ranged player with
[6:55] the charge. If he targets you, you'll
[6:57] get a red arrow over your head and then
[6:59] have some time to prepare for the
[7:01] charge. After that time, he will borrow
[7:03] underground and charge toward you at a
[7:05] very high speed. I was really surprised
[7:08] by how quick the charging speed is. You
[7:10] barely have any time to move out of it.
[7:12] So, here's what you should do. If you're
[7:14] in coms with the tank, he should not
[7:16] tank the boss in the center, but rather
[7:19] tank it toward the edge of the room.
[7:21] This allows you to put more distance
[7:22] between yourself and the boss when it is
[7:24] charging. If done correctly, this will
[7:26] take care of the problem by itself. Just
[7:28] make sure to start moving laterally when
[7:30] the charge is happening. If, however,
[7:31] the boss is tanked in the middle of the
[7:33] room, as you will often see it happen
[7:34] when you're playing with pugs, you will
[7:35] need a movement CD to dodge the charge,
[7:37] and you also need to be moving laterally
[7:39] already when the charge is happening. So
[7:42] get as far away from the boss as
[7:44] possible. Then run along the edge of the
[7:46] room while it is charging and use a
[7:48] movement CD as soon as the boss is
[7:49] burrowed underground. If you're afraid
[7:51] that you will get hit anyway, pop a big
[7:53] defensive. After the charge is over, the
[7:55] boss will then always cast impale at
[7:57] your location, which is a frontal cone
[7:59] attack. So be ready to move out of that
[8:00] immediately. In addition, the boss
[8:02] spawns smaller spider ads which need to
[8:04] be killed. They cast silken restraints
[8:07] which needs to be interrupted as it
[8:09] roots players in place if it is not. If
[8:11] you can contribute your own interrupts
[8:13] and damage to the ads, as killing them
[8:14] is extremely important and failing to do
[8:16] so is one of the main reasons for wipes
[8:18] on this fight. Then the boss casts eye
[8:21] of the swarm and puts down a safe area
[8:23] in the middle of the room which you need
[8:24] to move toward as quickly as you can
[8:26] because standing outside of it will kill
[8:28] you almost instantly. Inside the area,
[8:30] the tank usually stands at the right
[8:32] side to bait the frontal while the rest
[8:34] of the group moves clockwise. The phase
[8:36] is quite easy. Just make sure to dodge
[8:38] the swirlies and heal the players with
[8:40] infestation on them. After the phase,
[8:42] the fight sequences just repeat until
[8:44] the boss is defeated. Next, you'll move
[8:46] into the final trash area of the
[8:48] dungeon. Here, you'll be greeted first
[8:50] by one of the many blood overseers,
[8:52] which have two mechanics. First, they
[8:54] periodically cast venom volley, which
[8:56] must be interrupted, for they will
[8:57] otherwise deal a large amount of
[8:59] groupwide damage. Second, they spawn
[9:01] erupting webs on the ground that players
[9:04] need to move out of. Moving out of these
[9:06] webs is very easy unless you're being
[9:07] slowed down by tainted blood. Tainted
[9:10] blood is applied by reinforced drones
[9:12] whenever they melee hit a player. So if
[9:14] your tank is not losing any aggro, this
[9:15] will usually be only on the tank. If it
[9:17] stacks high enough, he will not be able
[9:19] to move and get killed by the erupting
[9:21] webs. To counteract that, you can dispel
[9:23] the debuff from him. However, if he puts
[9:25] many of the little mobs, this can be
[9:27] quite challenging as your dispel is on
[9:28] cooldown, but they reapply the debuff
[9:30] really quickly. What I like to do is to
[9:32] simply dispel exactly when the webs are
[9:34] going out. I use Big Wig's voice to help
[9:36] me with the timing here as it will
[9:38] usually announce to me erupting webs
[9:40] when they are coming and then this will
[9:42] prompt me to use my dispel. Moreover,
[9:45] winged carriers will periodically jump
[9:47] at random players and deal a moderate
[9:49] amount of damage. However, this damage
[9:51] can become quite high if many of them
[9:52] are pulled, especially when all of them
[9:54] attack the same player at once. So, be
[9:57] prepared for some major spot healing and
[9:58] also to pre-commit your own defenses to
[10:01] prevent them from one-shotting you with
[10:03] their jumps. Finally, puddles of goo
[10:05] will cover the ground during these
[10:06] fights, and if you happen to walk into
[10:08] one of them, you will spawn a little
[10:09] blob that is going to root you in place.
[10:12] This is dangerous due to erupting webs
[10:14] as you won't be able to move out of them
[10:16] while rooted. If you do get rooted, CC
[10:18] the little blobs using an interrupt,
[10:20] stun, or disorientation ability. and you
[10:22] can also get out of them using freedom
[10:24] abilities such as blessing of freedom.
[10:26] Finally, the end boss in Arakara,
[10:28] Kikatal, the harvester, features a
[10:30] number of not super difficult but very
[10:33] unforgiving mechanics. First, the boss
[10:35] will periodically put cultivated poisons
[10:37] on players, which is a poison debuff
[10:39] dealing a high amount of ticking damage.
[10:41] This is the only real damage you'll need
[10:43] to worry about during this fight, and it
[10:45] doesn't happen super often. So, don't be
[10:46] afraid to use your cooldowns to heal
[10:48] through it, as you won't need them
[10:50] later. You can also dispel the poisons
[10:52] if your class has the ability. When the
[10:54] poison debuff runs out or when it is
[10:56] dispelled, the targeted player will
[10:58] spawn two poison waves moving away from
[10:59] them, and you must avoid getting hit by
[11:02] these waves. The second mechanic of the
[11:03] boss fight is cosmic singularity, which
[11:06] pulls players toward the boss after a
[11:08] short preparation period. If you do get
[11:10] pulled to the center of the room while
[11:11] this is going on, you will die. So, make
[11:13] sure that that doesn't happen. To do
[11:15] that, you need to walk into one of the
[11:16] goo puddles on the ground, which you
[11:17] already know from the previous trash
[11:19] mobs to root you in place while the
[11:20] pulling is happening. Here, it is useful
[11:23] to know that you can spawn these goo
[11:25] puddles yourself by attacking the little
[11:26] blood workers that are aimlessly running
[11:28] through the room during the fight.
[11:30] Simply hit them with an instant cast
[11:32] ability like shadowed pain or flame
[11:34] shock. They will die instantly and leave
[11:36] behind the puddle. As a healer, you can
[11:38] drastically improve the chances of your
[11:39] group not failing the pull mechanic by
[11:41] doing that a lot. Spawn as many puddles
[11:43] as possible. so that each of your
[11:45] teammates has a safe spot to go to and
[11:47] it's less likely that multiple players
[11:49] will try to get to the same spot or that
[11:51] the puddles despawn right when a player
[11:53] tries to move into them. After the suck
[11:55] is over, the boss will spawn erupting
[11:57] webs. However, you're still rooted, so
[11:59] you need to be quick to interrupt or CC
[12:01] the little mob that is rooting you and
[12:02] then move out of the puddles. The boss
[12:05] also spawns these web puddles during the
[12:07] fight, so you need to do a little bit of
[12:08] dodging throughout. I think a good way
[12:11] to approach the fight is to go in
[12:13] knowing that you don't really need to do
[12:14] that much at all. The encounter can feel
[12:17] daunting because seemingly so much is
[12:19] happening, but it's really not. All you
[12:21] need to know is that you have to heal a
[12:23] lot during the poison debuff phase and
[12:25] attack the little mobs to spawn the
[12:26] puddles. Then move toward the puddles
[12:28] when the pull mechanic is happening. And
[12:30] after it is over, interrupt them and
[12:32] move out of them. And that's it. That's
[12:34] Arakara for you. We're now moving on to
[12:37] Dawn Breaker, with which one of the
[12:38] easier dungeons from season 1 returns to
[12:41] the fold in season 3. However, despite
[12:44] its apparent simplicity, it's not
[12:46] without its challenges. The challenge in
[12:48] the first pack of the dungeon comes
[12:50] primarily from the Nightfall Ritualists
[12:52] casting tormenting ray at two randomly
[12:55] chosen players in the group. The cast
[12:57] cannot be interrupted and deals a
[12:59] moderate amount of damage. The ritualist
[13:01] also periodically puts a stigian seed on
[13:03] one player which needs to be dispelled
[13:05] before it runs out. If your group does a
[13:07] good job at interrupting the night balls
[13:09] from the nightfall shadow mages, then
[13:10] groupwide damage in the pool is low.
[13:12] Otherwise, be prepared to spot heal
[13:14] individual players taking damage from
[13:16] these casts. Ideally, you want to use a
[13:18] weak aura such as targeted spells to be
[13:20] able to see who is being targeted before
[13:23] they get hit. The second pull in the
[13:24] dungeon is usually the bloodlust pull.
[13:26] Like the first pull, it also contains
[13:28] Nightfall ritualists, but also a
[13:31] Nightfall Commander, which deals a
[13:33] moderate amount of damage to the tank
[13:35] via tainted slash. So, focus a little
[13:37] bit more strongly on tank healing during
[13:39] this pull. Also, feel free to blow all
[13:42] of your cooldowns here as the succeeding
[13:44] pulls on the two airships are super easy
[13:46] to deal with. On the airships, just make
[13:48] sure that you give a bit of priority
[13:50] healing to the player being targeted by
[13:52] bursting cocoon. Bursting Cocoon deals
[13:54] ticking damage, but also explodes for
[13:57] high damage when it runs out. So on high
[13:59] key levels, you need to make sure to top
[14:01] off your target before the debuff ends.
[14:04] The first boss in the instant is Speaker
[14:06] Shadow Crown. The fighting of whom is
[14:08] relatively straightforward, but does
[14:10] have some nuance. The boss has three
[14:12] abilities. First, it casts Obsidian
[14:14] Beam, spawning a rotating three-spoked
[14:17] star of void magic around it that you
[14:19] need to dodge. However, even if no one
[14:21] gets hit by the beams, the group takes a
[14:23] moderate amount of damage when they
[14:24] spawn. This is where the fight can get
[14:26] tricky due to how this damage event
[14:28] interacts with the boss's second
[14:29] ability, burning shadows. It puts a dot
[14:32] on a random player that also slows them.
[14:34] Ideally, you want to dispel it before
[14:36] obsidian beams hit so that the player
[14:38] can move around freely. However,
[14:40] dispelling it applies shadow shroud to
[14:42] your group, applying a large healing
[14:43] absorb and dealing ticking damage until
[14:45] the healing absorb is healed off. This
[14:47] can be quite dangerous if it overlaps
[14:49] with the initial damage from obsidian
[14:51] beams. Sometimes the burning shadow
[14:53] casts and obsidian beams will awkwardly
[14:56] overlap and you may be better off
[14:57] waiting with the dispel until you have
[14:59] healed the initial damage from obsidian
[15:01] beam. However, mostly you can simply
[15:03] dispel burning shadows instantly. Just
[15:05] make sure that you commit a healing
[15:06] cooldowns to quickly get rid of the
[15:08] healing absorb. The boss also casts
[15:10] collapsing knight spawning slowly
[15:13] growing void zones underneath two
[15:15] randomly chosen players. The tank will
[15:17] then move the boss away from these zones
[15:18] and position it in such a way that the
[15:20] group can comfortably dodge the obsidian
[15:22] beams. If you have a ranged interrupt,
[15:24] make sure to use it to interrupt the
[15:25] boss's spellcast when she's standing
[15:27] inside of one of these void zones to
[15:29] make sure that the tank can move her to
[15:30] the correct location. Finally, and
[15:32] perhaps the biggest problem that can
[15:33] happen in this fight with Parks is the
[15:35] scenario in which the group has the
[15:36] shadow shroud debuff, but the boss hits
[15:39] 50% or 0% and begins casting darkness
[15:42] comes. When that happens, the entire
[15:45] party needs to mount up and leave the
[15:46] platform, but they will then slowly rot
[15:49] down from the shadow shroud while
[15:50] flying. This can be avoided if people
[15:52] just wait on the platform until they are
[15:54] healed up, as there is a lot of time to
[15:56] mount up and get out of there. However,
[15:58] many packs won't do that, so you may
[16:00] need to commit big healing CDs during
[16:02] this phase to heal up your party before
[16:04] they hastily fly away. The next couple
[16:06] of trash pulls depends slightly on how
[16:08] your tank chooses to play the dungeon,
[16:10] but they are overall more of the same
[16:11] Nightfall ritualists, commanders, and
[16:14] also Nightfall tacticians who cast a
[16:16] black edge, a frontal cone attack.
[16:19] Despite their name, they are not very
[16:20] tactical about it, casting their frontal
[16:23] always at the location of the tank. So,
[16:25] you don't want to stand behind the tank.
[16:27] You'll also come across Nightfall Dark
[16:29] Casters, which aren't more than wannabe
[16:31] Nightfall ritualists casting an
[16:33] interruptible form of tormenting ray in
[16:36] tormenting beam, which is targeted only
[16:38] at a single player rather than at two of
[16:40] them. The first out of the three mini
[16:42] bosses then is Excreten the unbreakable.
[16:45] She cast terrifying slam, which is a
[16:47] tank hit where you must not stand near
[16:49] the tank. Additionally, she and all the
[16:51] other mini bosses cast abyssal blast,
[16:53] which deals moderate to high amounts of
[16:55] ticking damage to the targeted player,
[16:57] so some spot healing is in order. Next,
[16:59] you will fly over to Ascendant Viscoxa,
[17:01] which is a more challenging mini boss.
[17:03] She's paired with two Nightfall
[17:05] tacticians, so upon landing on the
[17:07] platform, you'll want to briefly look at
[17:09] where the tank is standing and not stand
[17:11] behind him to avoid getting hit by black
[17:13] edge. So, essentially, you will want to
[17:15] do exactly the opposite of what I'm
[17:17] doing here. This Coxria casts Abyssal
[17:19] Blast, requiring spot healing. But more
[17:21] importantly, she periodically casts
[17:23] Shadowy Decay, dealing a high amount of
[17:25] ticking AoE group damage. Make sure to
[17:28] ramp up your healing each time before
[17:30] shadowy decay hits, as it can get
[17:32] dangerous really fast if you're not
[17:34] prepared for it. Finally, you'll fly
[17:36] over to the last mini boss in Death
[17:38] Screamer, Eken Tuck. He's the most
[17:40] likely one to be the bane of pucks due
[17:42] to his dark orb ability. with it. He
[17:44] aims an orb of void magic at a randomly
[17:46] chosen player who can then choose where
[17:48] the orb is going to fly by moving around
[17:51] while the orb is forming. When the orb
[17:53] is fully formed, it will fly in a
[17:54] straight line away from the boss. The
[17:56] target player must aim the orb in such a
[17:58] way that it flies away from the boss
[17:59] without hitting anything. Because the
[18:01] amount of group damage the orb deals
[18:02] upon eruption depends on how far away it
[18:05] is when it explodes. If it is aimed at a
[18:07] wall directly on top of the group,
[18:09] everyone except the tank is likely going
[18:11] to die instantly. You can try to save
[18:13] the group with massive defensive
[18:14] cooldowns when you see that happening,
[18:16] but it might not be enough. As a healer,
[18:18] simply stand at the entrance of the
[18:20] tunnel when the orb is aimed at you and
[18:21] then let it fly past you. Watch out for
[18:24] players getting clipped by the orb while
[18:25] it is flying, as that will apply a nasty
[18:28] ticking debuff to them, which in
[18:30] combination with the orb explosion can
[18:32] be lethal really quickly. If you see a
[18:34] player take the debuff from getting
[18:35] clipped, focus your healing on them more
[18:37] strongly and apply an external. The same
[18:40] goes for players targeted by Abyssal
[18:42] Blast, who will also require some
[18:43] additional healing. Depending on the
[18:46] route, some tanks will clear a bit more
[18:47] of the trash in the courtyard area, but
[18:49] you'll often just fly to the next boss
[18:50] right away. The boss combines all
[18:52] abilities from the three mini bosses,
[18:54] except for the abyssal blasts. Bait the
[18:56] dark orb to an unobstructed area and
[18:59] chop up the group when its damage comes
[19:00] in. Likewise, be prepared for ticking
[19:02] AoE damage from shadowy decay. The boss
[19:05] will cast two dark orbs and two shadowy
[19:07] decays which you simply need to heal
[19:09] off. However, the third time is more
[19:11] tricky as it is an overlap of the dark
[19:14] orb explosion damage and shadowy decay.
[19:16] That is, the boss will fire the orb and
[19:18] cast shadowy decay immediately after it
[19:20] explodes. This is where you commit your
[19:22] cooldowns as a healer. Also, if you have
[19:24] Lumas living silk, this is an excellent
[19:27] usage scenario to absorb the initial
[19:29] dark orb impact damage. The boss also
[19:31] periodically spawns ads on top of
[19:33] players that need to be cleaved down. So
[19:35] make sure to stand close to the boss and
[19:37] not spawn them in Narnia. Finally,
[19:39] you'll fly back up to the Dawnreaker to
[19:41] meet its dark architect. The architect
[19:43] casts one of the hardest hitting channel
[19:45] damage abilities of the current season
[19:48] in tormenting eruption. Essentially the
[19:50] previously encountered tormenting beam
[19:53] on steroids. It also spawns a zone
[19:55] around the targeted player, so everyone
[19:57] must be spread out. Otherwise, this
[19:59] damage can get real dangerous real fast.
[20:02] Be prepared to blow cooldowns on
[20:04] tormenting eruption as its damage is
[20:06] hard to overstate. The architect also
[20:08] periodically spawns some additional ads
[20:10] that need to be cleaved down, but they
[20:12] are not that much of a concern for you
[20:14] as a healer. After, like Neo from the
[20:16] matrix, you have defied the architect.
[20:19] Rashaman, the final boss of the
[20:20] instance, will spawn. It's a two-phase
[20:23] encounter with the first phase taking
[20:24] place on the deck of the Dawnreaker.
[20:26] First, the boss spawns Arafi bombs
[20:29] trying to blow up the ship. To prevent
[20:30] it from doing that, you need to go to a
[20:32] bomb, click it, and then move back to
[20:34] the boss and use your extra action
[20:35] button to throw it in its face. Sounds
[20:38] easy enough, but it can be quite
[20:39] challenging due to erosive spray, which
[20:42] the boss casts shortly after placing the
[20:44] bombs. Erosive spray deals a very high
[20:46] amount of damage to the entire party,
[20:48] and you don't want to underestimate it.
[20:50] Commit your cooldowns to heal through
[20:52] erosive spray when necessary as it is
[20:54] the only really dangerous mechanic in
[20:56] the fight. Also note that you have quite
[20:58] a bit of time to pick up the bombs. So
[21:00] it's okay to let them spawn, pump out
[21:02] healing during a rose of spray and then
[21:04] pick up a bomb and bring it to the boss.
[21:06] As a healer, you will never be targeted
[21:07] by rolling acid. So you don't really
[21:10] need to worry about it. Just make sure
[21:11] you're toward the center of the room and
[21:13] not toward the edges. After some time,
[21:15] the boss will flee and you'll need to
[21:17] follow him down to the ground. except
[21:19] nobody really follows him. Just fly
[21:21] toward the town, look for the bridge,
[21:22] and then fly down the street behind the
[21:24] bridge to the center of the big
[21:25] platform. However, make sure to use your
[21:28] movement abilities because taking too
[21:29] long will kill you. In phase two,
[21:32] Rashaman is easier as he no longer
[21:35] throws bombs, so you don't need to worry
[21:36] about playing around them. Instead, he
[21:38] targets two players with spinner
[21:40] strands, which will make them place webs
[21:42] on the ground and deals a rather high
[21:43] amount of damage to them. So be careful
[21:45] to top these players up after they get
[21:46] hit so that they have 100% HP when
[21:49] erosive spray hits again. You yourself
[21:51] as a healer will never be targeted by
[21:53] spinit strands either. So you can just
[21:55] chill at the back of the platform for
[21:56] the entire fight. After the boss is
[21:59] dead, you will be transported back to
[22:00] the dawn breaker for your welldeserved
[22:02] loot if Russian does not reach out to
[22:04] you from beyond the grave and kills the
[22:06] entire party using a bug that's been in
[22:08] the game from day one. Next up, we're
[22:10] moving on to the Priaryy of the Sacred
[22:12] Flame, which is definitely one of the
[22:14] more challenging dungeons in the dungeon
[22:16] pool. The first pole in the dungeon is
[22:18] often the most dangerous one, as many
[22:20] groups will pull a whole bunch of mobs
[22:22] together in the corner at the end of the
[22:24] room. This is challenging for you as the
[22:27] healer because you need to be really
[22:28] careful with healing before the tank has
[22:30] gathered up all the mobs as you might
[22:31] otherwise draw aggro. At the same time,
[22:34] you sometimes have to heal, especially
[22:37] if the tank doesn't do a good job at
[22:38] using his defensives. Consequently,
[22:40] you'll have to be prepared to draw aggro
[22:42] early in this fight and commit big
[22:45] defensives to live through it. After the
[22:47] initial part of the pull has gone well,
[22:49] make sure to stack close to the tank as
[22:51] then the fervent sharpshooters will not
[22:53] jump away very far and can be cleaved
[22:55] down. During the pull, there are two
[22:57] main dangers. First, Captain Sulleman
[23:00] casts Thunderclap every 14 seconds,
[23:02] dealing a massive amount of instant AoE
[23:04] damage to the group. For each
[23:06] Thunderclap, you want to be able to top
[23:08] up your entire group instantly after it
[23:10] hits, as any delay in your healing
[23:12] exposes your team to the risk of getting
[23:14] killed by the fervent sharpshooters
[23:16] potshot, which they will periodically
[23:18] direct at random players. The challenges
[23:21] of the fight are further amplified by
[23:23] the inclusion of an Arafi Knight who
[23:25] casts disrupting shout. Interrupting all
[23:29] spellcasting and dealing a moderate
[23:31] amount of groupwide damage. Overlaps
[23:33] between Thunderclap and Disrupting Shout
[23:35] can be extremely lethal, so be
[23:37] absolutely on top of your game with
[23:39] topping up the team after each cast. And
[23:42] don't be afraid to leave this fight
[23:44] without any of your healing cooldowns
[23:46] remaining. Next up is Sergeant Shane
[23:48] Mail, who is much easier than Sulleman.
[23:51] She is usually played in the same area
[23:52] together with a bunch of casters whose
[23:54] spells need to be interrupted. Usually,
[23:56] these pulls are not very challenging,
[23:58] but if your team fails to execute decent
[24:00] mob control, they can get somewhat
[24:03] erratic due to high spot healing
[24:05] requirements. The only dangerous ability
[24:07] of Shane Male herself is called Lunging
[24:10] Strike, in which she leaps at a random
[24:12] player and applies a bleed debuff to
[24:14] them. However, you can dodge the leap by
[24:17] premoving while she is casting. If you
[24:19] successfully dodge the leap, it will
[24:21] deal no damage and you won't get the
[24:23] bleed. From here on out, you will need
[24:25] to kill a bunch of similar trash on your
[24:27] way to the first boss of the dungeon,
[24:29] Captain Dalecry. Depending on the route
[24:31] you have chosen, he will be paired with
[24:33] a different companion and have different
[24:35] abilities. If you chose to go the left
[24:38] route, as we did in this key, he'll be
[24:39] paired with Elena Emberllands. Dalecry
[24:42] himself applies a bleed to the tank via
[24:45] pierce armor. If you're an invoker,
[24:47] dispel it on cooldown. If you're any
[24:48] other healer, you'll need to prioritize
[24:50] tank healing in this fight much more
[24:52] strongly than on any other boss fight.
[24:54] Elena will additionally cast divine
[24:56] judgment on the tank, increasing the
[24:58] damage taken. So, make sure to dispel
[25:01] them instantly. Other than focusing on
[25:03] tank healing, you will then only
[25:04] occasionally have to heal through
[25:05] periodic ticking damage from holy
[25:07] radiance as well as single AOE hits from
[25:10] earthshattering spear. Overall, if you
[25:12] focus on tank healing a lot and then on
[25:14] group healing during holy radiance, you
[25:16] will be fine. If you're able to, you may
[25:18] want to save some cooldowns for the next
[25:20] pulls as depending on how your tank is
[25:22] feeling, they can become rather
[25:24] challenging. The main danger in these
[25:26] polls stems from the ardent paladins who
[25:29] cast sacred toll. Sacred Toll deals a
[25:31] moderate to high amount of damage to all
[25:33] players in the party. However, multiple
[25:35] paladins will never cast sacred toll at
[25:38] the same time. This means they will
[25:39] always cast it in succession. With the
[25:42] next sacred toll following a few seconds
[25:44] after the previous ones. Consequently,
[25:46] if you pull two paladins, you'll need to
[25:48] heal two successive sacred toll casts,
[25:50] but if you pull eight, you'll need to
[25:52] heal eight in a row. As in the beginning
[25:54] of the dungeon, your top priority as a
[25:56] healer is to immediately top the group
[25:58] back up after each sacred toll cast. If
[26:01] you fail to do that, the next sacred
[26:03] toll may kill you. Here, it really helps
[26:05] to make a plan beforehand and then
[26:06] practice it by playing the key a few
[26:08] times and planning out your cooldowns
[26:10] across the fight. Also, I highly
[26:12] recommend Lumar's Living Silk here as
[26:15] well, as it basically eats up an entire
[26:17] sacred toll for free and can help you
[26:19] when you've made a sequencing mistake.
[26:21] Additionally, it's really useful to have
[26:23] some kind of add-on that will announce
[26:25] to you when the sacred tolls are
[26:26] inbound. As stated before, I like to use
[26:29] Big Wig's voice for that. After all the
[26:32] mobs in the room are defeated, you will
[26:33] face Baron Brown Pike. Stack on the boss
[26:36] in the beginning until he spawns his
[26:38] rotating hammers of purity. Afterwards,
[26:40] the tank will pull the boss to the other
[26:42] side of the room so that you don't need
[26:43] to worry about dodging them. Then, the
[26:45] boss will cast sacrificial py.
[26:47] Sacrificial P is a soak mechanic, but
[26:49] it's very important that players don't
[26:51] soak it immediately. That is because
[26:53] Brown Pike will cast Castigator Shield
[26:56] shortly after, dealing a high amount of
[26:58] group damage, and you don't want that
[26:59] damage to overlap with the soaking
[27:01] mechanic. So, wait for castigator shield
[27:04] to go through, heal it up, and then
[27:07] focus on soaking. If your team soaks
[27:09] before castigator shield, be prepared to
[27:12] blow cooldowns as things can get nasty
[27:14] really quickly. The first sacrificial P
[27:17] will contain three flames. That means it
[27:20] must be soaked three times. The P will
[27:22] deal a small amount of AOE damage every
[27:24] time that it is soaked by a player
[27:26] running into it. However, the more
[27:28] dangerous part of the soak is the damage
[27:30] overtime effect, which it leaves on the
[27:31] player who is soaking it. Usually, the
[27:33] tank will soak at least one, but often
[27:35] two of the PS, leaving only one
[27:38] additional target for you to heal.
[27:40] However, the second P and every second P
[27:43] after that will contain five flames
[27:45] instead of three, making the soaking
[27:48] mechanic much more dangerous. Plan to
[27:50] commit your cooldowns around these
[27:52] larger soaks. Track the soaking debuffs
[27:54] on your teammates to determine who will
[27:56] need the most healing, especially those
[27:58] players with two stacks of the soaking
[28:00] debuff will require your priority
[28:02] healing. Ideally, you'll have some
[28:04] classes like rogues or DKs who can soak
[28:07] without taking the debuff. Overall
[28:09] though, the fight is not that hard. Just
[28:12] remember to top up the group after each
[28:14] castigator shield and know that your
[28:16] cooldowns are best used during the
[28:18] soaking phase, especially when there are
[28:20] five soaks instead of three. Then the
[28:23] last room in the dungeon also contains a
[28:25] couple of new enemies with some new
[28:27] challenges, but you will still need to
[28:29] watch out for a few sacred toll casts.
[28:32] The most dangerous of the new enemies
[28:34] you'll face here are the light spawn.
[28:36] They target individual players with
[28:38] purification which deals a very high
[28:40] amount of ticking damage. Focus large
[28:42] amounts of your healing on these
[28:43] players, especially when a simultaneous
[28:46] sacred toll cast is going off as this
[28:48] overlap is very dangerous. Apart from
[28:50] that, the packs require a lot of mob
[28:52] control as the risen mages cast fireball
[28:55] volley which must be interrupted at all
[28:57] cost. Another sneaky little danger comes
[29:00] from the risen footmen who explode for a
[29:02] moderate amount of group damage when
[29:03] they die. So you should monitor their
[29:05] health bar and be prepared for this
[29:07] damage. If they are stunned while they
[29:09] die, this damage will not happen. But
[29:11] don't count on pugs reliably stunning
[29:14] them. In the first area of the room, the
[29:16] fights can be quite challenging, but if
[29:18] you can, you should hold on to some of
[29:20] your cooldowns for Sir Brown Pike. He
[29:22] deals a lot of ticking AOE damage as an
[29:24] aura for the entire time that he is
[29:26] alive. So be prepared for some high
[29:28] consistent healing output that may
[29:30] require cooldown usage. If you're
[29:32] playing with a good tank, you'll likely
[29:34] be able to focus on group healing for
[29:36] the most part. However, if the tank is
[29:38] not so good, you will also need to deal
[29:39] with substantial tank hits that can make
[29:42] the healing significantly more
[29:43] challenging. After brown pike, the rest
[29:45] of the dungeon, including the end boss,
[29:47] is quite easy. So, feel free to use all
[29:49] of your cooldowns on him if necessary.
[29:53] Finally, Prius Merrey is the final boss
[29:55] of the dungeon, and she's actually
[29:57] rather easy to deal with. She has two
[29:59] dangerous mechanics that you need to be
[30:01] aware of. First, she casts Blinding
[30:03] Light, during which you will need to
[30:05] turn your character away from her to not
[30:07] get blinded. If another player gets
[30:08] blinded, you can dispel it. The blind
[30:11] deals a moderate amount of group damage,
[30:12] which you'll need to heal through. I
[30:14] like to pre-cast an AoE group heal, such
[30:16] as spirit bloom, for example, so that it
[30:18] goes off immediately after blinding
[30:20] light hits. The second dangerous ability
[30:23] is inner fire, which is simply a ticking
[30:25] AoE damage radiating from the boss
[30:27] during some phases of the fight. It
[30:30] deals moderate damage per tick and isn't
[30:32] very difficult to heal, but you should
[30:34] stay on top of it. Commit your healing
[30:36] cooldowns whenever inner fire takes
[30:38] overlap with the damage hit from
[30:39] blinding light. At 50%, the boss runs to
[30:43] the top of the platform and gives
[30:44] herself a shield, calling a bunch of
[30:46] small ads to her side. This is usually
[30:48] where you use your blood lust to get the
[30:50] shield off her as fast as possible and
[30:51] limit the number of ads that are
[30:53] spawning. The ads will die automatically
[30:55] over time, even if no one is damaging
[30:57] them. But they run at random players, so
[30:59] make sure to put some distance between
[31:01] yourself and them. Also, if you see that
[31:03] ads might reach you or one of your
[31:05] teammates, this is the moment to blow
[31:07] all of your defensives. And that was
[31:09] Priaryy, which I found to be quite a
[31:11] satisfying dungeon once I had figured
[31:13] out how to correctly deal with multiple
[31:16] successive sacred toll casts. Next up,
[31:19] we are moving to Tatsavves, or more
[31:21] specifically the streets part of the
[31:23] dungeon. Mechanically, it's one of the
[31:26] more challenging dungeons, but in terms
[31:28] of healing requirements, it is rather
[31:31] average. Upon entry, you will
[31:33] immediately fight Gale Warden Zomaras
[31:36] and a few of his henchmen. The fight is
[31:38] quite easy, but you should watch out for
[31:41] his radiant pulse, which deals a large
[31:43] amount of initial damage and then some
[31:45] damage over time. The next pull is
[31:48] usually the bloodlust pull, and it is
[31:50] quite challenging. It contains an
[31:52] armored overseer who periodically places
[31:55] a rotating beam splicer on the ground.
[31:57] When a player gets hit by it, the beam
[31:59] deals a high amount of ticking damage,
[32:01] so watch out for the debuff on your
[32:03] teammates and commit your healing
[32:05] cooldowns if they get hit. I don't think
[32:07] it's possible to see where the rotating
[32:09] arms of the beam are going to spawn. So
[32:11] when you see the orb on the ground, move
[32:13] away from it as they might spawn
[32:15] underneath you otherwise. However,
[32:17] what's more dangerous than the beam
[32:19] splicers are the glyphs of restraint put
[32:22] on individual players by the
[32:23] interrogation specialists. Glyph of
[32:25] restraint reduces the targets movement
[32:27] speed by 40% and deals a high amount of
[32:29] ticking damage. However, it can be
[32:31] dispelled. Be quick with your dispels
[32:34] here as there will be more glyphs going
[32:36] out than you have dispels available. So
[32:38] you don't want to fall behind too far.
[32:40] If you're playing in a group, ask
[32:42] players who can to dispel themselves.
[32:44] For example, rogues can dispelled with
[32:45] Glock of Shadows. And finally, the
[32:47] support officers will continuously cast
[32:49] spells your team needs to interrupt. If
[32:51] hyper light bows go through, individual
[32:54] players will take high damage. If
[32:56] hardlight barrier goes through, the
[32:57] entire group will take pulsing damage.
[33:00] Afterwards, you'll face a bunch of the
[33:02] same mobs as well as the next mini boss
[33:03] in Portalman Zohon. Immediately upon
[33:06] being pulled, he will unleash a Radiant
[33:08] Pulse, dealing high amounts of damage to
[33:10] the entire party. So, be prepared to
[33:13] deliver huge heals immediately. Also, he
[33:16] will likely cast Radiant Pulse again
[33:18] during the fight, so be ready for that
[33:20] as well. Other than that, the fight is
[33:22] easy. Just interrupt the empowered
[33:24] glyphs of restraint cast and dodge all
[33:26] ground effects. You will then face
[33:29] Zofax, the first boss of the dungeon.
[33:31] The fight is really easy as well, and
[33:33] there's only a few things to look out
[33:35] for. First of all, again, dodge all
[33:37] ground effects. Second, he periodically
[33:39] casts impound Contraband, which will
[33:42] silence two players and deal a moderate
[33:45] amount of damage to them. They will
[33:46] remain silenced until they pick up the
[33:48] weapon that spawns on the ground, which
[33:51] is highlighted by a subtle golden beam
[33:53] toward the ceiling. However, impound
[33:56] contraband does not deal ticking damage
[33:58] after being applied, so you have plenty
[34:00] of time to collect your weapon if it is
[34:02] targeting you. Finally, the boss casts
[34:05] interrogation on a DPS player, which
[34:07] will lock the targeted player in a cage
[34:09] and deal moderate ticking damage to
[34:11] them. Focus your healing on that player
[34:13] until your party has broken the cage by
[34:16] dealing damage to it. Also, don't stand
[34:18] in front of the boss as it is moving
[34:20] toward the cage. After the boss, you'll
[34:22] face Tracker Zakors. Again, avoid the
[34:25] beam splicer and dispel the tank
[34:27] immediately when he is affected by
[34:28] lockdown as that is a full stun on the
[34:31] tank. The ancient core hounds and the
[34:33] enraged eye horn in the next section are
[34:36] very easy to heal. So, you shouldn't run
[34:38] into much trouble here as long as the
[34:39] interrupts are going out properly. Just
[34:42] make sure to dodge the fire breath of
[34:43] the hounds. Next, you'll get to the
[34:46] Grand Menagerie, the second boss
[34:47] encounter in the dungeon. The fight is
[34:49] rather easy. First, Alcrux targets
[34:52] players with gluttony, allowing them to
[34:54] collect the orbs on the ground, which
[34:56] normally need to be avoided. For each
[34:58] orb collected, they will get a 5% damage
[35:00] increase due to devoured enema. However,
[35:03] gluttony also deals a moderate amount of
[35:05] damage to the targeted player. So, make
[35:07] sure to keep an eye on them. When
[35:09] gluttony runs out, it transfers to the
[35:11] nearest other player. So, make sure to
[35:14] stay away from the gluttony target
[35:15] because you don't want to be the one to
[35:17] whom the damage buff is transferred.
[35:19] However, the orb collection mechanic
[35:21] only comes into play after the next boss
[35:23] acolyte will spawn. This usually happens
[35:25] before Arrox is defeated, and if the
[35:27] tank is not vigilant, you will get
[35:29] aggro. So, be careful to position
[35:30] yourself far enough away from the center
[35:32] of the room or behind the tank to avoid
[35:35] this problem. Echolyte will release the
[35:37] orbs that need to be collected with
[35:39] gluttony via venting protocol. Also, he
[35:42] has a tank hit in flagagillation
[35:44] protocol and he casts purification
[35:46] protocol. Apparently, the guy really
[35:48] follows the protocol. Purification
[35:51] protocol spawns two big circles around
[35:53] players. You can dispel one of them and
[35:55] the other one will run out, dealing a
[35:57] large amount of damage to everyone
[35:58] standing in its area. However, the
[36:00] dispel target will not take any damage.
[36:02] If you're a priest, you can also use
[36:04] mass dispel here. Note also that
[36:06] Gluttony continues to be applied to
[36:07] players even after Alcrux is defeated.
[36:10] Finally, Vensa Goldfuse will join the
[36:12] fight. Whirling Annihilation pulls all
[36:14] players toward her, so make sure to run
[36:16] away from her until the cast is over.
[36:18] Also, she periodically targets an
[36:20] individual player with chains of
[36:21] damation, which roots them in place
[36:23] until they are destroyed. Chains of
[36:25] damination deal a moderate amount of
[36:27] ticking damage that you'll need to heal
[36:28] through. After defeating the Menagerie,
[36:31] you'll face a bunch of mobs in the
[36:32] market area. Noteworthy enemies here are
[36:34] the veteran spellcasters who cast hyper
[36:36] light salvo at one player but hitting
[36:40] all players standing in its path. So
[36:42] when the group is clumped up, the spell
[36:44] can get real nasty real fast. It is a
[36:46] channel spell and will always release
[36:48] the first tick, but you should then
[36:50] immediately interrupt it. Other than
[36:52] that, just keep an eye on the tank as he
[36:54] often takes a decent amount of damage in
[36:56] these poles. Depending on the route that
[36:58] the tank is taking, you might face
[36:59] commander so far next. Ideally, the tank
[37:02] will pull him off the little platform
[37:04] he's standing on, as that will make the
[37:05] fight substantially easier for you as a
[37:08] healer. The fight is quite
[37:09] straightforward. The mini boss will link
[37:11] two players together via lethal force,
[37:13] pulling them toward each other. As a
[37:15] healer, you'll also be frequently
[37:17] targeted by this debuff. If you get
[37:19] bound to another player, run away from
[37:20] him until the tether automatically
[37:22] breaks after some time. Make sure to not
[37:24] get pulled into any of the shock mines
[37:26] on the ground or into the player to whom
[37:28] you are bound. If two players do
[37:30] connect, they will take high amounts of
[37:31] ticking damage, but the damage is
[37:33] manageable on most key levels. The third
[37:36] boss of the dungeon is the postmaster.
[37:38] This is often the puck killer because he
[37:40] has some very unforgiving mechanics if
[37:42] people don't know what to do. First, he
[37:44] will cast hazardous liquids spawning
[37:46] little puddles on the ground which need
[37:48] to be soaked. If they are not, they
[37:50] spawn void zones on the ground and deny
[37:51] that area of the room for movement. The
[37:54] group usually can't soak all of the
[37:56] puddles, so just make sure to soak those
[37:58] toward the center of the room. For each
[38:00] puddle soaked, the player will get a
[38:01] ticking magic debuff. Dispel the player
[38:03] with the highest amount of stacks after
[38:06] the puddle soak is over. Immediately
[38:07] after the soaks, the boss will cast fan
[38:10] mail, which is a relatively strong
[38:11] ticking AoE damage effect. Therefore,
[38:14] you'll face an overlap of the debuffs
[38:15] from hazardous liquid as well as the AoE
[38:18] damage from fan mail. Ideally, ramp up
[38:20] your healing while soaking the ground
[38:22] effects already. This part of the fight
[38:24] is also when you want to commit your
[38:25] healing CDs. After fan mail finishes,
[38:28] the boss will cast money order, which is
[38:30] a group soak dealing moderate amount of
[38:31] group damage. Just make sure that the
[38:33] group is topped up before it hits.
[38:35] Finally, the boss will then spawn
[38:36] unstable goods on the ground. Pick up
[38:39] one of these pieces of luggage and throw
[38:40] it into the activated vent at the side
[38:42] of the room. The activated vent is the
[38:45] one with a bunch of white debris flying
[38:47] toward the ceiling. After throwing the
[38:50] luggage into the vent, the boss will
[38:51] repeat the same cycle of hazardous
[38:53] liquids, fan mail, money order, and
[38:55] unstable goods until he is defeated.
[38:58] Before the next boss fight, you'll need
[39:00] to play the market event to gain entry
[39:02] into the theater. Here, you need to pick
[39:04] up the item and bring it to the marked
[39:06] position on the mini map. However, to be
[39:07] honest, I just stand around and wait for
[39:09] someone else to do it. So, don't take my
[39:11] word on how exactly how it works. Also,
[39:13] picking up the items is sometimes bugged
[39:15] and can kill your key. Let's just hope
[39:18] you have teammates who vote in favor of
[39:19] abandoning the key if that happens.
[39:21] Otherwise, you might just stand around
[39:23] there for 20 minutes. Thanks, Blizzard.
[39:26] After completing the market event, you
[39:28] will enter Mser's Oasis, or as I like to
[39:30] call it, Mser's chamber of unending
[39:33] boredom. As a healer, your job is
[39:34] usually to sit down at the drum set.
[39:37] Doing so will grant you an extra action
[39:39] button. Whenever notes spawn on the
[39:40] ground, turn your character toward them
[39:42] and hit the extra action button to play
[39:44] the notes. When you have played 12
[39:46] notes, you will get a damage, healing,
[39:48] and haste buff via tempo up. You want to
[39:51] maintain that buff for the duration of
[39:52] the fight by playing new notes when they
[39:55] appear. Other than that, simply dodge
[39:57] ground effects and contribute a bit of
[39:58] damage to help your team break the
[40:00] boss's shield before his final warning
[40:02] cast finishes. Finally, you'll face
[40:05] Soazi, which is, in my opinion, one of
[40:07] the best designed boss fights in the
[40:09] season. The fight is relatively
[40:10] straightforward, but requires some quick
[40:12] thinking. When the fight begins, the
[40:14] boss will spawn a bunch of teleporters
[40:15] on the ground with a symbol on them.
[40:17] Walking into a teleporter will instantly
[40:19] teleport you to the other teleporter
[40:21] with the same symbol. Then the boss
[40:23] casts Shri, requiring you to use the
[40:25] teleporters. You can see where the Shri
[40:27] is spawning by looking for the little
[40:29] white circle on the ground. From this
[40:31] circle, waves of white energy will
[40:33] expand and deal high amounts of ticking
[40:35] damage to anyone getting hit by them.
[40:36] This means that you will need to find a
[40:38] way to get inside of the Shy circle
[40:40] without getting clipped by its edge.
[40:42] that is you need to teleport inside it.
[40:44] So identify a teleporter that leads to
[40:46] the inside of the Shuri and take it
[40:48] before Shuri reaches your location. As a
[40:51] healer, your attention is additionally
[40:52] taxed by phase slash, dealing a moderate
[40:55] amount of taking damage to three
[40:57] randomly chosen players in your group.
[40:59] Occasionally, the boss will teleport to
[41:00] a different quadrant in the room and
[41:02] start casting double technique, which
[41:04] needs to be interrupted. If your group
[41:06] fails to interrupt before the cast is
[41:08] complete, you will wipe. Thus, find your
[41:10] way to the quadrant that the boss is in
[41:12] via the teleporters before the double
[41:14] technique cast finishes. Double
[41:16] technique needs to be interrupted twice.
[41:18] You can minmax the double technique
[41:19] interrupt by delaying the second
[41:21] interrupt until the cast has almost
[41:23] finished, essentially giving you free up
[41:25] time on the boss. However, be careful to
[41:27] not delay the first interrupt as the two
[41:29] successive spells are on the same
[41:31] underlying cast bar. That means if you
[41:33] interrupt the first cast at the very end
[41:35] of its cast bar, the second cast will be
[41:37] almost instant. So, I hope this helped
[41:39] you get a better handle on what to keep
[41:40] an eye on as a healer in streets. We now
[41:42] move on to the other part of the
[41:44] Tatsavves Mega Dungeon, Gambit. Gambit
[41:47] is a bit of an odd one. On the one hand,
[41:49] it's super easy and the timer is so
[41:51] forgiving that you can't help but wonder
[41:53] who signed off on the dungeon timers in
[41:55] this season. However, the dungeon also
[41:57] has some major challenges that can be
[41:59] real showstoppers for Pugs. The dungeon
[42:02] starts off relatively easy. Most of the
[42:04] time, the tank will do a big bloodlust
[42:05] pull at the beginning of the dungeon,
[42:07] including Merk Bryan Fishmancers, Merk
[42:09] Bryan Shell Crushers, and a Coast Walker
[42:12] Goliath. The major thing to watch out
[42:14] for is the tidal stormed from the
[42:16] Goliath, dealing a high amount of AoE
[42:18] group damage. So, be ready for that.
[42:20] Otherwise, if the pull and the ones
[42:22] after that are properly controlled,
[42:24] there's very little going on. interrupt
[42:27] the cry of Mergle McGurgle when you see
[42:30] it go off as it is a 50% damage increase
[42:33] to all the mobs around the caster. The
[42:35] first boss, Hillbrand, is similarly
[42:37] easy. There's pretty much nothing to
[42:39] heal except the occasional purifying
[42:41] burst. The only thing that can really
[42:43] kill you is failing to start moving
[42:45] quickly when purged by a fire is going
[42:47] off. During the sanitizing cycle
[42:49] intermission, one of the players needs
[42:50] to go to the front console, after which
[42:52] the edges of the front console will
[42:54] display one room each. The other four
[42:56] players need to pick up the runes in the
[42:58] room by walking through them and then
[42:59] bring the correct rune to the correct
[43:01] side console as indicated by the front
[43:04] console. So, for example, if the front
[43:06] console shows the orange rune on its top
[43:08] right side, you need to bring the orange
[43:10] rune to the console in the front of the
[43:11] room and to the right. After the first
[43:13] boss is dead, you will get to an area of
[43:15] the dungeon where the trash becomes more
[43:17] dangerous. The danger is primarily
[43:19] driven by the hourglass tight sages
[43:21] casting brackish bolt at random targets.
[43:24] They cast all the time and the bolt
[43:25] deals a high amount of damage. So, if
[43:27] your tank pulls a lot of them, you may
[43:28] need to commit healing cooldowns and be
[43:30] really on point with spot healing. In
[43:32] the footage you see here, it was still
[43:34] bucked and they only targeted the tank,
[43:36] but that's no longer the case. So, you
[43:37] need to heal everyone. Contribute to
[43:40] controlling the mobs using your utility
[43:42] if you can. The second boss, Time
[43:44] Captain Hooktail, is the first
[43:46] showstopper for pugs, and it has a
[43:48] couple of mechanics you'll need to
[43:49] consider. First off, every player in
[43:51] your party will periodically be targeted
[43:53] by cannon barrage, which you need to
[43:56] move out of and which will spawn lava
[43:57] zones on the ground that persist for a
[43:59] long time. To minimize the area denial
[44:02] from these lava puddles, it is essential
[44:04] that everyone in your team except for
[44:06] the tank is stacked up in the same place
[44:08] and moves slowly together while the
[44:11] cannon barrage is happening. That way,
[44:13] you will retain as much space in the
[44:15] room as possible. You can start at the
[44:18] edge of the wall as you see here, or
[44:20] even better, a little down the shoreline
[44:21] behind the boss. Then move slowly
[44:24] clockwise around the edge of the wall.
[44:27] If the fight isn't yet over when you
[44:28] reach the opposite shoreline, ideally
[44:30] the entire party will double back to the
[44:33] starting spot. Dodging the falling
[44:35] cannon barrage is usually quite easy,
[44:37] but some players will randomly get
[44:39] targeted by anchor shot, which drags
[44:42] them toward the shore. If you get
[44:44] targeted by anchor shot while the cannon
[44:46] brush is coming down, be quick to move
[44:48] against its pole to not get hit by the
[44:50] falling lava. Okay, got it. Dodge lava
[44:53] puddles and slowly move clockwise.
[44:55] Second, Corair brutes will spawn
[44:57] periodically at the shoreline and run
[44:59] towards players to attack them. Their
[45:01] attacks deal very high damage and you
[45:03] don't want to get hit, which is also the
[45:05] main reason to stay away from the shore
[45:07] and toward the wall. It is the tank's
[45:09] responsibility to hit the cosair brutes
[45:11] with the boss's infinite breath, which
[45:13] will kill them. If he does this well,
[45:15] you don't need to worry about the brutes
[45:17] too much. However, remember that the
[45:19] tank must aim the breath at them, and
[45:21] you can help him do that by not
[45:22] positioning yourself awkwardly behind
[45:24] him or by kiting the mobs into the
[45:27] breath if the situation allows for that.
[45:30] Finally, the healer mechanic of the
[45:32] fight is called time bomb. Time bomb
[45:34] applies a magic debuff to two players in
[45:36] the group, causing them to take
[45:38] increasing ticking damage, but also
[45:39] giving them a 30% haste buff. When you
[45:42] dispel the debuff, the entire group will
[45:44] take a moderate amount of AOE damage.
[45:47] Now, theoretically, it would be best to
[45:49] minmax the dispel so that your teammates
[45:51] can benefit from the haste buff for as
[45:53] long as possible. However, my
[45:54] recommendation, especially for beginners
[45:56] who are not that familiar with the fight
[45:58] yet, is to just dispel both of the time
[46:00] bombs on cooldown. Those were all of the
[46:02] mechanics. The main challenge of the
[46:04] fight comes from its back end when your
[46:06] team can no longer run along the wall
[46:08] and would need to double back to the
[46:10] start. So try and keep your healing
[46:12] cooldowns for that part of the fight as
[46:14] it can get quite hectic. After defeating
[46:17] Hooktail, you'll be teleported to the
[46:19] final room of the dungeon. If you've
[46:20] done well, you might just have 15
[46:22] minutes left because the timer and the
[46:23] key is so ridiculously forgiving. The
[46:26] trash in this room poses some unique
[46:28] challenges for healers. The main one
[46:29] being the adorned starse seeker spawning
[46:32] a wandering pulsar. After the pulsar
[46:34] spawns, there will be a short leniency
[46:36] period after which it will continue
[46:38] pulsing high amounts of AoE damage until
[46:40] it is killed. Therefore, your team needs
[46:43] to focus down the pulsar quickly before
[46:45] the damage gets out of hand. If your
[46:47] group fails to do that, have your
[46:48] healing cooldowns handy to heal a lot of
[46:50] AoE group damage for a long time. Other
[46:53] than that, the trash is pretty
[46:54] straightforward with focused ritualists
[46:56] casting hyperllight bolt, which deals
[46:58] spot damage to individual players if it
[47:00] is not interrupted. Expect some
[47:02] hyperllight bolts to go through as
[47:04] players will likely hold their kicks for
[47:05] the unstable rift casts which must be
[47:08] interrupted as their completion will
[47:10] likely wipe the group or come close to
[47:13] it. And at last, you get to Soia, the
[47:16] final boss in Gambit, and it's a very
[47:18] challenging encounter for the healer. At
[47:20] the beginning, there really isn't
[47:21] anything to heal until the boss spawns
[47:23] the first collapsing star. Similar to
[47:26] the pyrus of Baron Brownpike and Priy,
[47:28] it will spawn a void zone on the ground
[47:30] with four charges that need to be soaked
[47:33] before the timer expires. Each time a
[47:35] stack is soaked by a player running into
[47:36] the void zone. Collapsing star will deal
[47:38] a high amount of ticking damage to
[47:40] everyone in the party. The goal is to
[47:42] soak one charge, then let the debuff run
[47:45] out, then soak the next charge, let the
[47:48] debuff run out again, and so on. If you
[47:50] fail to let the debuff run out, for
[47:51] example, because two players soak at the
[47:53] same time, the damage will likely cause
[47:54] a wipe. Therefore, it is best when one
[47:57] player does the soaks by himself.
[47:59] Ideally, this player is not you, so not
[48:01] the healer. Although one would think
[48:03] that the healer is the ideal player for
[48:05] the job as he's also in charge of
[48:06] healing the group back up and can
[48:08] therefore best estimate when the next
[48:10] soak is in order, running into the
[48:12] collapsing star causes a major knockback
[48:14] which makes healing very difficult,
[48:16] especially if you need to cast or you
[48:19] would need to be in melee range to heal
[48:20] effectively. So wait for someone else to
[48:23] do the soaks. Only start doing them
[48:25] yourself when there's evidently no one
[48:26] else feeling responsible or bothering to
[48:28] help. Collapsing stars fall during the
[48:30] entire fight and they are the main
[48:32] challenge for you as a healer. After
[48:34] pushing Sia into phase two, she will
[48:36] gain an immunity and spawn stars in the
[48:38] room while casting hyper light jolt.
[48:41] Hyperlight Jolt connects each player to
[48:43] another player with a red arrow and
[48:45] every player needs to position himself
[48:47] behind one of the stars so that the red
[48:49] arrow head goes through it. If done
[48:51] correctly, all stars will be hit and the
[48:52] hyperllight jolt phase will be over,
[48:55] resuming the boss fight. If one of the
[48:57] stars is missed, she will cast
[48:58] Hyperllight Jolt again until all stars
[49:00] have been hit. However, try to avoid
[49:03] that if at all possible because
[49:04] Hyperllight Jolt deals damage to
[49:06] everyone when it is cast and for each
[49:07] successive cast, it deals 25% increased
[49:11] damage. As players will be spread out
[49:13] very far during the Hyperllight Jolt
[49:14] phase, it can be even more challenging
[49:16] to heal that damage. Finally, Solia will
[49:19] occasionally shatter the stars in the
[49:21] room via energy fragmentation, causing
[49:23] them to explode into little shooting
[49:25] stars that you need to dodge. As a
[49:27] healer, a bit of metal preparation for
[49:29] the Solia fight goes a long way. Be
[49:31] ready to heal the collapsing star stacks
[49:33] quickly and effectively. This is also
[49:35] where you'll likely commit your
[49:36] cooldowns. Then, be prepared to
[49:38] emergency pump heals if your group fails
[49:40] to hit all five stars during hyper light
[49:43] jolt, as you will need to top everyone
[49:44] up before the second cast finishes.
[49:46] Ideally, have a cooldown mentally set
[49:48] aside for this scenario. For example,
[49:51] revival or healing tide totem would be
[49:53] useful here. For our next dungeon, we're
[49:55] moving on to the halls of atonement. If
[49:57] the timer in Gambit is relaxingly
[49:59] forgiving, the timer in halls is
[50:01] exceptionally tight, which puts
[50:03] additional strain on you as a healer, as
[50:05] the pools will likely need to be big. At
[50:08] the start of the dungeon, you'll likely
[50:09] be getting into a big pole with blood
[50:11] lust, often on the left side of the
[50:12] platform. The main danger in this pool
[50:14] stems from the shard of Hulkas and his
[50:18] thrash cast. Thrash deals a very high
[50:20] amount of group damage and will require
[50:22] your full attention. Apart from pumping
[50:25] big heals to get through thrash, you
[50:27] will need to dispel the mark of
[50:28] obliteration debug from your teammates,
[50:30] which will deal a moderate amount of
[50:32] damage when it expires. However, you'll
[50:34] need to sometimes let some of them
[50:36] expire, which is usually not a super big
[50:38] deal. Sometimes you'll also need to
[50:41] decide between dispelling Mark of
[50:42] Obliteration or the tank debuff tainted
[50:45] armor, which increases the tank's damage
[50:48] taken by 2% per stack. If you feel that
[50:51] your tank is struggling, prioritize
[50:53] dispelling him. Otherwise, prioritize
[50:55] dispelling Mark of Obliteration instead.
[50:57] There are two more noteworthy enemies
[50:59] you'll face in the first area of the
[51:01] dungeon. The first are depraved hound
[51:03] masters, and they're bears. You'd think
[51:07] that they'd have hounds, but all right.
[51:09] Generally, they aren't very dangerous.
[51:11] But it is of paramount importance to
[51:12] interrupt their loyal beasts cast, which
[51:15] will greatly empower their bears if it
[51:17] goes through. If that happens, the bears
[51:20] will get very big and very red.
[51:22] Absolutely be alarmed by that and commit
[51:24] an external like pain suppression or
[51:26] iron bark to the tank preemptively as he
[51:29] might just get mauled by the bears. The
[51:31] second noteworthy enemies in this area
[51:33] are the stoneborn slashers. Generally,
[51:36] you don't need to worry about them too
[51:37] much. That is until they cast disrupting
[51:40] screech, which will deal a moderate
[51:42] amount of group damage and interrupt
[51:43] your spell casting. To avoid being
[51:45] silenced, stop casting when you see the
[51:47] disrupting screech going off and use
[51:49] instant cast abilities instead. Again,
[51:52] an add-on like Big Wig's voice is highly
[51:54] recommended to deal with this ability
[51:56] comfortably. After all threshy boys have
[51:58] been defeated, the first boss of the
[52:00] dungeon, Hulk, will spawn in. The boss
[52:02] fight is relatively straightforward.
[52:04] Everyone needs to stand at the red
[52:05] circle around the boss and they will
[52:07] otherwise get feared. If someone does
[52:09] ever get feared by standing outside of
[52:10] the circle, you can dispel them and hope
[52:12] that they'll realize where to go. For
[52:14] healers, the boss has two damage events
[52:16] with the same damage pattern. First,
[52:19] heave debris throws debris at a random
[52:21] player and deals moderate groupwide
[52:23] damage on impact. Ideally, you want to
[52:24] position yourself on the opposite side
[52:26] of the boss from where your tank is
[52:27] standing to bait the heave debris cast
[52:29] away from the boss's movement direction.
[52:32] Second, crumbling slam is also a debris
[52:35] throw, but it happens on the tank. This
[52:37] is another reason for you to stay away
[52:39] from the tank, as any erratic tank
[52:41] movement might otherwise cause the
[52:43] debris to land on your head, killing you
[52:45] instantly. All in all, the debris throws
[52:47] aren't very challenging to heal. So,
[52:49] just run your normal healing rotation,
[52:51] and you will be fine. Ever so often, the
[52:53] boss will cast refracted sin lights,
[52:55] spawning beams around him, which you
[52:56] will need to not get hit by. Usually,
[52:58] this phase is a no-brainer, but it can
[53:00] get challenging if the tank did not
[53:01] properly position the boss and the
[53:03] ground is full of debris puddles. If
[53:05] that is the case, expect to be
[53:06] delivering a lot of healing to your
[53:08] group. Although this scenario is not
[53:10] very likely, this is where your healing
[53:11] cooldowns are used in the fight, so hold
[53:13] them for this rainy day. After Harkas
[53:16] has been defeated, you'll make your way
[53:18] up the stairs, facing some old enemies,
[53:20] but also some new ones. First, you will
[53:23] still need to be on the lookout for
[53:24] disrupting screeches from the slashers
[53:26] to not get silenced. Second, you will
[53:28] fight some stoneborn reavers, which deal
[53:31] a moderate to high amount of damage to
[53:32] the tank. So, tank healing is something
[53:34] to look out for in these poles. Also,
[53:36] the stone bone reavers will cast turn to
[53:38] stone, turning everyone around them,
[53:40] well, to stone if people fail the
[53:42] mechanic and stand in the spells area.
[53:45] This will stun them for a long time, but
[53:47] it can be dispelled. From my experience,
[53:49] it's mainly the tank who will
[53:51] occasionally get turned to stone, so be
[53:52] ready to dispel him instantly. The
[53:55] second boss in the dungeon is Echelon.
[53:57] He will periodically summon ads to his
[53:59] side, which need to be cleaved down.
[54:00] When the ads die, they turn to stone.
[54:03] The player targeted by Stone Shattering
[54:05] Leap will then need to run on top of the
[54:06] little stone figurines to permanently
[54:08] remove them from the fight or they will
[54:10] otherwise respawn later. Players hit by
[54:13] Stone Shattering Leap will suffer
[54:14] moderate to high amount of ticking
[54:15] damage afterwards, so be prepared to
[54:17] heal them. Usually only one player gets
[54:19] hit, but be ready to heal multiple
[54:20] people just in case. Overall, the fight
[54:22] is very easy, but can get tricky when
[54:24] the ads are not killed quickly enough,
[54:26] are not properly assembled in one place,
[54:28] or the player targeted by leap does not
[54:30] destroy the stone forms, which will
[54:32] cause them to resurrect. In that case,
[54:34] you might find yourself in a fight with
[54:36] many, many ads dealing high amounts of
[54:38] damage rather erratically to players in
[54:39] the party. Therefore, try not to use
[54:41] your cooldowns to heal through the
[54:43] regular damage of the fight and hold all
[54:44] of them for the possibility of the fight
[54:47] going really wrong in the later stages.
[54:49] After defeating Echelon, you will face
[54:51] more of the same enemies on your way to
[54:53] the third boss, high adjudicator Elise.
[54:56] She casts unstable enema on two players,
[54:58] dealing a moderate amount of ticking
[55:00] damage. Dispel one of them instantly and
[55:02] the other one when your dispel comes off
[55:04] cooldown. Ideally, dispel melee players
[55:06] first as they have a harder time
[55:07] spreading out and the debuff damages
[55:09] players right next to the target as
[55:10] well. Apart from that, the boss will
[55:12] occasionally spawn a ghastly parishioner
[55:14] which will deal moderate ticking damage
[55:16] to the group for as long as it's alive.
[55:18] It needs to be kited into one of the
[55:20] enema vessels at the side of the room at
[55:22] which point it will disappear and the
[55:24] group damage will stop. Overall, the
[55:26] fight is not very hard to heal, but you
[55:27] need to focus on players with unstable
[55:29] enema on them while the ghastly
[55:31] parishioner is alive, as they'll be
[55:32] taking damage from both abilities at the
[55:34] same time. Also, the fight can get
[55:36] challenging if someone fails to kite the
[55:38] mob, and this is where your healing
[55:41] cooldowns will be best placed. The final
[55:43] trash mob in the dungeon is a mini boss
[55:45] by the name of Inquisitor Cigar.
[55:46] Overall, the fight is easy, but you will
[55:48] need to deliver a decent amount of group
[55:50] healing during his display of power
[55:52] cast, which deals ticking damage to the
[55:53] group, and then some additional damage
[55:55] when it expires. Occasionally, you'll
[55:57] also be fixated by some of the smaller
[55:58] ads, so make sure to bring them in
[56:00] cleave range of the boss. Also, the mini
[56:02] boss will heal himself on occasion,
[56:04] which is normal. And last and least, the
[56:07] pompous, the incompetent, the
[56:09] unremarkable Lord Chamberlain. In this
[56:11] fight, there will be nothing for you to
[56:13] do until there is. First of all, simply
[56:16] dodge all of the ground stuff as well as
[56:18] the flying statues. Second, when he
[56:20] casts the door of shadows, he will draw
[56:22] all statues toward him. So, make sure to
[56:25] move away from him and not get hit by
[56:27] them. Then, he will push the statues
[56:29] away from him in a straight line. And
[56:31] so, you also need to make sure to not
[56:33] get hit by that either. This push away
[56:35] also deals a hefty amount of group
[56:37] damage, which you quickly need to heal.
[56:39] Afterwards, the boss will start
[56:41] channeling ritual of woe, projecting red
[56:44] beams of sinful energy at each of the
[56:46] statues surrounding him. Each beam needs
[56:48] to be soaked by one player positioning
[56:50] himself between Lord Chamberlain and the
[56:52] respective statue. If that is done
[56:54] correctly, there will be a low amount of
[56:55] kicking damage going on throughout this
[56:57] phase, but it's very easy to heal.
[56:59] However, if the boss's beam connects
[57:01] with one of the statues, all hell will
[57:03] break loose. In this scenario, the group
[57:05] will take catastrophic amounts of
[57:07] ticking damage, and you should be
[57:09] prepared to commit all of your cooldowns
[57:10] immediately to somehow be able to live
[57:13] through it. After the phase, the boss
[57:15] will return to his insignificant
[57:16] existence until it is cut short by your
[57:19] inevitable victory. Were it not for the
[57:21] tight timer, Halls would actually be
[57:23] rather easy, but as it is, you can't
[57:25] really make many mistakes in the dungeon
[57:26] and still time it, let alone two chest
[57:29] it. The same, however, cannot be said
[57:31] for Ecodome Aldani. here. It feels like
[57:34] the two chest is pre-programmed into the
[57:36] game code. EcoDome really is one of the
[57:38] easiest dungeons and might be Blizzard's
[57:40] tests of easier mechanics that do not
[57:42] need any combat add-ons to solve
[57:44] effectively. Nevertheless, there are
[57:46] some challenges in Ecodome that we'll
[57:47] take a look at now. Most of the time,
[57:49] you'll do a blood lust pull at the start
[57:51] of the dungeon, including voracious
[57:52] gorges and overged mites. Voracious
[57:55] gorges cast gorging smash, dealing a low
[57:58] amount of groupwide damage and spawning
[57:59] puddles on the ground that need to be
[58:01] avoided. Overged mites cast gorge which
[58:04] must be CCD as it deals a heavy amount
[58:07] of single target damage as well as
[58:08] triggering over gorged making the mites
[58:11] explode upon death similar to the
[58:13] bombshell crabs in floodgate. Therefore,
[58:15] it is paramount to CC the gorge cast. If
[58:18] your group fails to do that, prepare for
[58:20] very heavy healing when the overched
[58:22] mites die. Afterwards, you'll face
[58:24] Azaka, the first boss in EcoDome. It
[58:27] regularly spawns frenzied mites which
[58:29] jump at individual players. To be able
[58:31] to AoE them down effectively, the group
[58:33] should be stacked up. The longer the
[58:35] mites are alive, the more damage they
[58:37] will deal. However, they will usually
[58:38] die very quickly, so that's not usually
[58:41] a big problem. The boss also casts toxic
[58:44] regurgitation, which spawns a circle
[58:46] around two players, causing them to drop
[58:47] a void zone when the debuff expires.
[58:49] Upon expiration, the two players
[58:51] targeted by toxic regurgitation will
[58:53] take a moderate amount of ticking
[58:54] damage. After two applications of toxic
[58:56] regurgitation, the boss will cast
[58:58] devour, drawing all players in toward
[59:01] himself and also spawning frenzied mites
[59:03] that are drawn toward him as well. Your
[59:05] goal in this fight is to prevent the ads
[59:07] from reaching the boss as that will
[59:08] cause it to feast on the mites, healing
[59:11] it for 5% HP and giving it a 15% damage
[59:14] buff for 1.5 minutes. The effect stacks,
[59:16] so the consumption of multiple mites can
[59:18] get dangerous quickly. Other than that,
[59:20] devour deals a moderate amount of
[59:22] ticking damage to the entire party. Use
[59:24] your healing cooldowns in this phase if
[59:26] necessary. Now, the puddles that were
[59:28] previously left on the ground by the
[59:30] toxic regurgitation will slow down the
[59:32] mites. So, focus on those mites on the
[59:34] other side of the room first, which are
[59:36] running toward the boss more quickly.
[59:38] Focus on the mites inside of the void
[59:40] zones later. If nothing goes wrong, the
[59:42] fight is usually really easy, and you
[59:44] might want to save your cooldowns for
[59:45] the next pull, which is more
[59:47] challenging. After defeating Azakar, you
[59:50] will get into a fight against an
[59:51] overcharged sentinel. At the beginning
[59:54] of the fight, it has a shield, but as
[59:55] soon as the shield is removed, it will
[59:57] radiate unstable core until it is
[60:00] defeated. Unstable core damages players
[60:02] in the group every 1.5 seconds and
[60:05] spawns a void zone under their feet. As
[60:07] your highest priority, do not linger in
[60:08] the void zone as it deals a very high
[60:10] amount of damage. If you're a ranged
[60:12] healer, you may want to stay away from
[60:14] your group so as to not clutter up the
[60:16] ground with void zones for your DPS. If
[60:18] you're a mele healer, try to stack with
[60:20] your DPS or your tank to overlap void
[60:22] zones and preserve more space. The pull
[60:24] also includes tamed ruin stalkers who
[60:27] cast warp. Naturally, you want to dodge
[60:29] these cast, but note that CCing the warp
[60:32] cast will cause it to be cancelled and
[60:34] the mob will not recast it. As a result,
[60:37] welltimed CC can prevent the ruin
[60:39] stalkers from dashing outside of the
[60:41] pack and not taking any damage from
[60:43] group cleave. Finally, the wastelander
[60:46] ritualists in the pool cast arcane bolt
[60:48] which needs to be interrupted as well as
[60:50] arcing energy which needs to be
[60:52] dispelled. If the pack is played
[60:54] sloppily, healing requirements can be
[60:56] really high. So, don't be afraid to use
[60:58] your cooldowns on this first pack. It is
[61:00] one of the more challenging ones in the
[61:02] dungeon. You will face similar pulls
[61:04] until you arrive at the second boss or
[61:06] bosses Tabat and Awaz. Who makes these
[61:09] names? The boss will occasionally spawn
[61:11] a binding javelin on two players which
[61:13] needs to be killed. The longer the
[61:15] javelin is alive, the more damage the
[61:17] players will take. So get ready to ramp
[61:19] up your healing if DPS is low or players
[61:22] don't focus the javelins properly.
[61:24] However, the mechanic is usually quite
[61:26] simple to heal. The same is not
[61:28] necessarily true for the next phase in
[61:29] which the boss teleports to the center
[61:31] of the room and casts warp strike at
[61:34] individual players from the edges of the
[61:36] room. A warp strike needs to be kited in
[61:38] such a way that goes through the boss.
[61:39] So, everyone needs to position
[61:41] themselves in such a way that the boss
[61:42] is between them and the point of origin
[61:44] of the warp strike. Getting hit by the
[61:46] warp strike causes a moderate amount of
[61:48] damage. However, because all players
[61:50] will be dancing around the boss strike
[61:51] to bait their warp strike, what happens
[61:54] often is that they get hit by more than
[61:55] one of them. And this is where the fight
[61:57] can get real dangerous as the damage
[61:59] from warp strikes stacks causing players
[62:01] to tick down quite quickly. Therefore,
[62:03] you'll want to hold your big healing CDs
[62:05] for this phase and be ready to unleash
[62:07] them at a moment's notice. When enough
[62:09] warp strikes have been kited through the
[62:11] boss, it will cast destabilized, which
[62:13] effectively makes one boss two bosses
[62:15] and therefore serves as a damage amp
[62:17] phase. Use your bloodlast here if it is
[62:19] ready. After the damage amp, the fight
[62:22] sequences just repeat until the
[62:23] encounter is over. In the final trash
[62:25] area of the dungeon, some new enemies
[62:27] appear. Wastelander packed speakers cast
[62:30] erratic ritual, dealing a moderate
[62:32] amount of ticking damage to the entire
[62:33] party. However, compared with some other
[62:35] group damage events like radiant pulls
[62:37] from Tatsavves, the damage is quite
[62:39] easily manageable. Before the last boss
[62:42] in the dungeon, depending on how the
[62:43] tank pulls, you might face two of them
[62:45] at the same time, which poses a bigger
[62:48] challenge and will definitely require
[62:49] the use of some of your healing
[62:51] cooldowns. And at last, the final boss
[62:52] in Ecrodome is Soulcribe, and it will
[62:55] try to take your soul, but gently.
[62:58] First, she casts Whispers of Fate, and
[63:01] then Ceremonial Dagger, dealing some
[63:03] initial damage and shattering your soul
[63:05] from your body. It will reappear into
[63:07] one of the lines radiating from the
[63:09] boss, and you will need to collect it
[63:10] before the cast time finishes. If you
[63:12] fail to collect your soul before then,
[63:14] you will receive the debuff wounded
[63:16] fate, reducing your haste by 30% and
[63:19] dealing a moderate amount of ticking
[63:20] damage. Be on the lookout for teammates
[63:22] with the debuff and prioritize them with
[63:24] your healing. Now, there are two other
[63:26] versions of the soul collecting spiel.
[63:29] First, Dread of the Unknown, where
[63:30] you'll need to collect your soul quickly
[63:32] and then spread out to avoid hitting
[63:34] other players with the ring spawned
[63:35] around everyone. When Dread of the
[63:37] Unknown is cast, your soul will always
[63:39] spawn really close to you, so don't look
[63:41] in places that are far away. Second, the
[63:43] boss will cast eternal weave, spawning
[63:46] not one but three souls. However, like
[63:49] the others, it's quite simple. Just
[63:50] immediately start running at the soul
[63:52] that is inside of the cleave area, then
[63:54] collect the other ones. The cleave areas
[63:57] will shift occasionally, and it might
[63:58] shift onto a soul that was previously
[64:01] outside of it. In this case, again, run
[64:03] toward that soul first, otherwise it
[64:05] will get shattered and you will suffer
[64:07] from wounded fate. Overall, the healing
[64:09] requirements in this fight are low, and
[64:11] if everyone focuses on collecting their
[64:13] souls, the fight, and to be honest, the
[64:15] entire dungeon is really easy. And
[64:18] finally, Operation Floodgate is one of
[64:21] the more healing intensive dungeons in
[64:23] this season. The first notable trash mob
[64:25] here is the Shreddinator. He casts
[64:27] shredation, spawning saw blades on the
[64:29] ground and dealing a very high damage to
[64:31] anyone foolish enough to stand in them.
[64:33] Monitor the shredation cast on the name
[64:35] plate and start moving laterally before
[64:37] the cast finishes. If done correctly,
[64:39] you will not take any damage from
[64:41] shredation. The shreddinator also has a
[64:43] frontal cone attack in flamethrower, so
[64:45] don't stand in front of it. All of the
[64:48] shreddinator's damage is technically
[64:49] avoidable, but what you'll find as a
[64:51] healer in perks is that people manage to
[64:53] get hit anyway. Apart from the
[64:55] Shreddinators, the more dangerous
[64:56] enemies to look out for in the first
[64:58] area of the dungeon are the Venture
[65:00] Company surveyors, who throw dynamite at
[65:02] random players, dealing high amounts of
[65:05] single target damage. Especially on high
[65:06] keys, people can get one shot when they
[65:08] are targeted by two of them at the same
[65:10] time. They also cast surveying beam,
[65:13] which channels a beam of fire at a
[65:15] target and deals very high damage.
[65:17] However, the surveying beam cast can be
[65:19] interrupted, and its damage can be
[65:21] avoided by moving while it is channeling
[65:23] onto you. That is if you can move. Some
[65:26] pulls include both surveyors as well as
[65:28] venture company architects who cast nail
[65:31] gun at random targets, rooting them in
[65:33] place and applying a high damage bleed.
[65:36] When a target rooted by nail gun is also
[65:38] targeted by the surveying beam, they
[65:40] will likely die unless you react really
[65:42] quickly with externals like pain
[65:44] suppression or life cocoon. Generally,
[65:46] these packs are best dealt with by
[65:48] controlling them. And as a healer,
[65:49] contributing as much as you can to CCing
[65:51] the mobs can reduce the healing
[65:53] requirement quite a bit. The first boss
[65:55] or second, depending on the route, is
[65:57] Big Mama, who is surrounded by dark fuse
[66:00] mega drones. The goal of the fight is to
[66:02] kill the mega drones quickly. They cast
[66:04] maximum distortion, which must be
[66:06] interrupted because it deals high
[66:08] pulsing AoE damage if it is not. They
[66:10] also cast Doom Storm, targeting a random
[66:13] player and flying toward them. Big Mama
[66:15] will also frequently cast electro crush
[66:18] on the tank, dealing moderate damage and
[66:20] some damage over time. Therefore, keep
[66:22] an eye on the tank during this fight.
[66:24] Also, she will target a player with
[66:26] sonic boom, dealing high damage to
[66:28] anyone who gets hit by the disc as well
[66:30] as silencing them. When you are targeted
[66:32] by sonic boom, move away from the boss.
[66:34] Apply a movement speed buff to yourself
[66:35] and move laterally to avoid getting hit.
[66:38] If your group fails to kill the drones
[66:40] quickly, Big Mama will apply Kilob block
[66:42] barrier to herself, reducing her damage
[66:44] taken by 80%. And also dealing a
[66:47] moderate amount of pulsing AoE damage to
[66:49] your entire party. This can be very
[66:51] dangerous because as soon as the drones
[66:53] are dead, she will then begin casting
[66:55] jump start, pulsing a high amount of AoE
[66:57] damage onto all players for 12 seconds.
[67:00] Make sure to monitor the HP of the
[67:01] drones diligently and start ramping up
[67:03] your healing before they die, as it can
[67:05] be easy to fall behind when jump start
[67:07] hits you unprepared, and you still need
[67:09] to use a couple of global cooldowns to
[67:10] set up your big heals. Generally
[67:12] speaking, you will need one or multiple
[67:14] healing cooldowns to heal through jump
[67:16] start. When jump start finishes, Big
[67:18] Mama will leave behind an expanding
[67:20] puddle of electricity on the ground,
[67:21] permanently, denying that space of the
[67:23] boss arena for the rest of the fight.
[67:25] So, begin the fight at the edge of the
[67:26] room and not in the middle. After the
[67:28] jump start cast is over, the boss then
[67:30] resummons the mega drones and the cycle
[67:32] repeats until she is defeated. After Big
[67:35] Mama, there is one more notable enemy in
[67:37] the blood warer, which casts warp blood,
[67:40] dealing a moderate amount of damage to
[67:41] all party members, but also applying the
[67:44] same amount as a healing absorb. As a
[67:46] result, the cast deals very high damage
[67:48] to the entire group, and you will
[67:50] usually need a healing CD to power
[67:51] through one blood warp cast. Expect that
[67:53] the blood warper casts two times if your
[67:56] party does okay damage. The next boss is
[67:58] the demolition duo. It is one of the
[68:00] easier fights, but does have some
[68:01] challenges. As the main mechanic of the
[68:03] fight, Kiza casts a big bada boom,
[68:06] planting six bombs at random locations
[68:07] in the room. The bombs must be destroyed
[68:10] before their timer runs out. This can be
[68:12] done in two ways. First, Kiza will cast
[68:14] kinetic explosive gel on one player,
[68:16] which you need to dispel when they are
[68:18] near one or multiple bombs. Be careful
[68:20] here, as the gel deals a moderate amount
[68:22] of ticking damage and also hurts a lot
[68:24] when it is dispelled. If your target has
[68:26] low HP, top them up or apply an external
[68:28] cooldown to them before you dispel.
[68:31] Second, Bront targets random non-tank
[68:33] players with barreling charge, which
[68:35] needs to be aimed at the remaining
[68:36] bombs, which will be destroyed when he
[68:38] runs through them. Avoid getting hit by
[68:41] the charge as that might kill you. You
[68:43] have five opportunities to clear the
[68:44] bombs. Gel, three charges, and another
[68:46] gel. Because you can clear multiple
[68:48] bombs with each of these abilities,
[68:49] there's usually some redundancy. But if
[68:51] your group fails to clear the bombs, the
[68:53] explosion is normally not a one-shot.
[68:55] Just get ready to do some big healing.
[68:57] Over the duration of the entire fight,
[68:59] Kiza will cast quickshot at random
[69:01] players, dealing a moderate amount of
[69:02] damage. This is where the real danger of
[69:04] the fight lies. Monitor your party's HP
[69:06] closely and quickly heal targets that
[69:08] get hit. Finally, the bosses need to die
[69:11] at the same time. If that is not
[69:12] managed, it's better to kill Kiza
[69:14] slightly before Bront, whose tank hit
[69:16] will then get successively stronger, but
[69:18] he can usually be played safely for 20
[69:20] to 30 seconds. You will also have to
[69:22] fight a pack of disturbed kelps, who
[69:24] apply a heal to themselves in
[69:25] restorative algae, but the cast can be
[69:27] interrupted and the buff can be purged.
[69:30] They also cast jettison kelp, which
[69:32] deals a high amount of AoE damage and
[69:34] must be CCed, otherwise it can
[69:36] potentially wipe the group. You may be
[69:38] tempted to hold on to your healing
[69:39] cooldowns because of the upcoming boss
[69:41] fight, but if you see that the pack is
[69:43] not properly controlled, you must be
[69:44] willing to use them or your party will
[69:47] likely die. From this point forward, the
[69:49] healing challenges of the dungeon kick
[69:51] into higher gear. First up is Swampface,
[69:54] who applies razor choke vines to your
[69:55] teammates, but not to yourself. The
[69:57] vines damage all of your team members
[69:59] throughout the entire fight, requiring a
[70:01] moderate amount of healing. The vines
[70:02] also bite players in packs of two,
[70:04] snapping them back together if they move
[70:06] too far apart. As a healer, you will not
[70:08] have to deal with this. However, if one
[70:10] player dies and there's only four of you
[70:12] remaining, then you will also have to
[70:13] play this mechanic. Moreover, the boss
[70:16] will cast mudslide, which is a frontal
[70:17] that needs to be moved out of. The usual
[70:20] strategy in Pugs is to always move
[70:21] clockwise, which I found to be a silent
[70:24] understanding that is not often even
[70:25] vocalized in chat anymore. At regular
[70:27] intervals, swamp phase casts awaken the
[70:30] swamp, dealing a high amount of damage
[70:31] to your party over 4 seconds and
[70:33] spawning water waves that need to be
[70:35] dodged. The awaken the swamp phase is
[70:37] the main challenge of the fight, and you
[70:38] should make sure to have your main group
[70:40] healing spells available, as well as be
[70:42] ready to commit one additional cooldown
[70:43] during this phase. Start by using your
[70:45] shorter cooldowns first because they
[70:47] will rotate back at the end of the
[70:48] fight, which usually lasts between 2 and
[70:50] 3 minutes. Use your longer cooldowns in
[70:53] the middle of the fight. Finally, the
[70:54] boss casts sludge claws on the tank
[70:56] after awaken the swamp ends, which deals
[70:58] a ton of damage, but I found it to be a
[71:00] non-issue because the tank doesn't
[71:01] usually have take any other damage
[71:03] during the fight. In the underground
[71:05] area after swamp phase, you will have to
[71:07] deal with the electricians who apply
[71:08] overcharge to a random player, which
[71:10] needs to be dispelled. Make sure to
[71:12] dispel it quickly because the debuff
[71:13] goes out more frequently than it can be
[71:15] dispelled. If overcharge expires without
[71:17] being dispelled, the target will be
[71:18] stunned for 6 seconds. Finally, the most
[71:20] dangerous mobs down here are the dark
[71:22] fuse jump starters, especially when you
[71:24] fight two of them at the end before the
[71:25] last boss. Their battery discharge pulls
[71:27] us a high amount of AoE damage onto the
[71:29] entire party and requires you to move
[71:32] out of the electric puddles on the
[71:33] ground. The end boss, Gizel Gigazap, can
[71:36] also be rather difficult. Be especially
[71:38] wary of his first turbocharge cast. When
[71:40] playing with pugs, it happens often that
[71:42] the tank awkwardly chains the jump
[71:44] starter pack onto the boss and the group
[71:46] is not at full HP when the fight starts.
[71:48] However, the boss will immediately go
[71:50] into his turbocharge AoE when he is
[71:52] pulled. Therefore, be on your toes after
[71:54] the jump starters die to be ready to
[71:55] heal another large AoE event right away.
[71:57] If you have any cooldowns left from the
[71:59] jump starters, the first turbocharge
[72:00] cast is a good point to be pressing them
[72:02] because others will rotate back up
[72:04] later. And it's important to stabilize
[72:06] the encounter early. After casting
[72:07] turbocharge, the boss will drop a bunch
[72:09] of water puddles from the ceiling, which
[72:10] you can freely walk through without
[72:12] taking damage. And you can also stand in
[72:14] the ground effect when they drop.
[72:16] Nothing associated with water deals any
[72:18] damage to you during this fight.
[72:20] However, you do not want to linger near
[72:21] the water because the boss will also
[72:23] cast Gigazap on two targets,
[72:25] electrifying any water puddles in an
[72:27] area around these targets. Gigazap deals
[72:29] a high amount of initial damage and
[72:31] applies a damage over time effect. This
[72:33] can be quite challenging to heal,
[72:34] especially if your teammates don't use
[72:36] their defensives properly. Be ready to
[72:38] commit externals such as pain
[72:40] suppression or life cocoon to heal
[72:42] through this damage. Next, each player
[72:44] will get a leaping spark spawning near
[72:46] them, which needs to be kited into a
[72:48] non-electrified water puddle. It then
[72:50] disappears, electrifying the water in
[72:51] the process. Walking into electrified
[72:54] water will stun you and kill you, so be
[72:56] careful. As a healer, it's also good
[72:58] advice to kite spark into puddles that
[73:00] are further away so that the melee pairs
[73:02] can take the puddles closer to the boss.
[73:04] Finally, Thunder Punch is a tank hit
[73:06] that deals moderate to high amounts of
[73:07] damage, knocking the tank back. If they
[73:10] play well, this is not super dangerous,
[73:11] but if they don't, the tank can get
[73:13] knocked off the platform or be knocked
[73:15] into an electrified puddle. In that
[73:17] event, be ready to emergency heal a DPS
[73:20] player who has aggro comed the tank or
[73:23] if he is stunned in a puddle, use a
[73:24] displacement spell such as leap of faith
[73:27] to get them out of there. After the
[73:29] leaping sparks, the boss cycles back
[73:31] into Gigazap and then turbocharge,
[73:33] starting the sequence in you until he is
[73:36] defeated. Overall, this season packs a
[73:38] number of interesting healing
[73:39] challenges, but if you've made it to the
[73:41] end of this guide, you should now be
[73:43] prepared to tackle them. And if you're
[73:45] here, thank you very much for watching
[73:47] this super long video. I appreciate it a
[73:49] lot. If you still haven't watched
[73:51] enough, watch this video to learn more
[73:53] about common healer mistakes and this
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[73:58] all the healers in season 3. Like the
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