AK Hard, WP Hard, Keeper of the Lake, and World of Darkness

[The Stig]

Just some notes I'm gathering as I do the dungeons. In my usual tradition, I won't essay it like some others tend to do:

Currently just finished AK Hard:

AK - Hard

1st boss: It's like a mini odin. When the boss fires lasers at you (fired at our healer twice) hide behind a statue. If a status is damaged, make sure to hide behind a fresh statue next. Its charge move is unavoidable (it'll aim at you regardless).

2nd boss: When the boss goes invisible, kill the orb, you'll get a buff that counts down. When it expires, you emit a light. Run towards the stealthed boss to knock him out of invisible

Watch out for adds that appear, kill them first or they apply a bleed on oyu.

3rd boss: Very easy, no special tactics, common sense is all that is required. The circular blue swords it summons will move a bit

The slimes he places on you can be self targetted if it's on you, kill them to move again and kill the chained adds to stop his wild card move from expanding.

WP Hard

1st boss: kill spears, or it applies DoT debuff, rapidly

ON THE WAY TO SECOND BOSS: ignore the sacred standard, drag mobs out of it

2nd boss: is like a WoW shaman lol, drops totems which can be collected by players, each colour, seemingly random, grants buffs/debuffs such as damage up, fire resistance down, heavy, frog. Try to figure out which one is the damage buff one, because if left alone, the boss will absorb the buffs and will produce 5000+ damage fireballs. After you figure out the damage one, you can probably ignore the others and have the dps pick up the colour which grants damage. If you choose to ignore it, be prepared for a bit of spike damage on the tank.

3rd boss: this one places sacred standards on the floor again
I found it best to ignore them
Drag him to the side of the arena and then continuously move as he places them

He does put Sacred Idol down which will give him damage dealt up and damage taken down, so burn that down asap
An add or 2 will also appear

Each time he does put an idol/standard down, he also uses Rot Gas, quite deadly, recommend to get away from him fast
Last thing, he has a very wide cone AOE, so stand close to him if possible and get ready to dodge

Keeper of the Lake

1st Boss: bombs like the ones in brayflox hard last boss drops, we batted them to the side. they do eventually explode, I noticed this doesn't seem to hurt that much ... we pretty much ignored it and won anyway by just DPSing the boss

2nd boss: the boss's flamethrower is channeled, so don't run back in front of it until the flames disappear! it also flies around and creates fire patches on the floor like Twintania. Tank/kill adds when they come up.

3rd boss: when the face is at 91% it summons the orange dragon
dps orange dragon until a bird appears
kill bird, which drops an item on the floor which needs interaction, you need to do this to avoid the 1 shot mechanic of the boss

dps the face again and it summons the second dragon, which has a different moveset

face boss away from party due to breaths on both dragons
and second dragon has "t9 rings" is what someone described it, so dodge accordingly which is just like a series of eruptions but in a ring

go to http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/124...=1#post6331187 for dein's post on Keeper of the Lake

[Cairthenn]

I don't think Word of Darkness warrants a separate thread. I don't remember any ability names but..

Boss one:

• Haze a gaze doom attack. This can be removed by standing on the alternating glowing platforms.
• Does an arena-wide unavoidable attack split down its flank in two colors. If you alternate your color you will not take damage.
• Spawns four hourglass adds. If you kill them all, it will stop where the last one dies and after a few seconds will one-hit kill anyone in the quadrant. If you do not kill them all I don't know what happens.
• A few other adds spawn throughout the fight, pretty harmless.

If trash pull two doesn't make you laugh you have no soul.

Boss two:

• Mechanics are mainly related to adds. If you don't deal with adds in a timely manner, you will deal with a more severe add of the same element.
• When the five heads spawn, AoE them down or you will be 1-hit killed at the end of the cast.
• It has some pretty big directionals but I think everything had indicators.

Atomos is confusing if you understand it props to you just don't fall and kill the trash.

Boss three:

• Starts tethered. Doesn't remain this way for long. It's pretty tame when tethered.
• Has a charge attack, goes across the entire ~rectangular~ (WHAT?!) arena.
• Spawns a sphere that casts minium. Have -one- party get affected by this and walk into the purple void zone. They will deal with some adds in a cool fun nifty neato way.
• When those adds die, it can be re-tethered. You'll probably do that twice.

Boss four:

• All around not a cool gal.
• Probably would have a hard time taking a selfie.
• Spawns comets throughout the fight over the arena (with some intermission). These need to be absorbed by two people or a tank. If nobody is standing under one you will wipe.
• Has a move that places a target on a player and then chases them with a hard-hitting targeted attack that gives a vulnerability up debuff. It activates about fifteen times and if you stop running at all you will likely die.
• When it moves it sends a HUEG lazerbeem down the middle. Gives vulnerability up debuff.
• Pretty lengthy add phase that builds to an ultimate based on the number of adds you don't kill before they reach her. Small = 1, Big = 3 stacks. You're dealing with comets through this.
• After that add phase, there is a snake add phase. I think you can kill them, maybe not but they don't need to be. If you're in their LOS after they disappear then reappear they will heavily debuff you and then disappear again.
• There's a Qarn normal mode add phase where three orbs pop and raise a barrier that locks anyone in and out. This is a really light dps check and you -can- miss one and survive but anyone with a vulnerability debuff would easily die (~5k damage).

[Rehn]

Expanding on 1st WoD boss:
failing to destroy all hourglasses in a certain time limit will force the hand to stop, and bind all thats caught in the quadrant, which is guaranteed death to all in it. So the hourglasses are a DPS check. Destroying them all in time will allow you to move freely even if you are in the bad quadrant.

[The Stig]

Sorry, I meant Keep of Lake, unless you ninja edited my topic title lol, but yes lets include WoD too.

edit: noticed i kept spelling keeper of lake as "keep" lol... I'll fix that when I finish the dungeon

[Kaisha]

WP HM -
1st boss - Burn it, get one DPS to deal with the angons
2nd boss - Gets one +dmg stack for every cycle of its totem drops if they aren't all picked up. Easy to just burn it and ignore them
3rd boss - Doom is removed by topping the target's HP off.

Keeper of the Lake gimmicks:
1st boss - knockback bombs and keep them away from the boss
2nd boss - Flamethrower is continous damage for 5 seconds, so get away from it
3rd boss - The non-dragon add drops a shield generator which protects you from the full room OHKO AoE if you interact with it


Did an SR of WPHM, ended up clearing it in 16min 10s. The one pull with three mamool sets is absolutely nasty to heal though without full CDs.

[Dein]

red totem: damage buff
green: frogs you
One of them decreases fire resistance
2 other colours I've not figured out yet though

Actually the red totems decrease fire resistance. I picked one up while tanking him and I started taking around 4.5k Firespits when the boss had 1 stack of det buff. The bluish totems give the damage up buff.

From what I saw during the Keeper of the Lake:

1st boss - Canisters get dropped all over the place with 2 types of them, auxiliary and main fuel tanks. You can knock the aux tanks all over the place like the bombs in Bray Hard but the main tanks are too big to be knocked around. The boss can ignite the tanks with Flamethrower and cause them to blow up after a short time. Tank explosions can cause other tanks in the blast radius to also ignite so you can get a chain reaction. Biggest thing to note is that the main tanks have an unavoidable explosion and do about 1.7k to a tank in damage and that the boss will occasionally draw in everything that can move to his current position. This includes players and aux tanks.

2nd boss - Pretty standard fight. Flamethrower will do continuous damage to the area it aims at after it starts going off so don't move back in until you see it stop the animation for it. The boss will go to one edge of the arena as well and mark someone as it's position for where it'll fly towards and leave pools of fire. 4 adds spawn halfway as well and the boss will start leaving more pools up at a time but that's about it.

3rd boss - Avoid his aoes and focus on the dragons when they revive. After a set amount of time it seemed that a bird-like add from the first boss will come in and it must be burned down quickly. The boss will start channeling an unvoidable aoe that will kill anyone but a very well geared tank unless you click on the mini generator the bird add drops. Other than that, it's a pretty simple fight with lots of aoe to avoid.

[Cairthenn]

The first add for the final boss in KotL you need to keep far, the second close. Otherwise they get a vulnerability down buff. The tethers may change slightly as well to indicate, don't remember.

[Shenrien]

To expand on WoD first boss, its doom gaze attack. If you turn your back to the mob when it is going off it will not doom you, much like petrifaction and any other gaze attacks in this game.

[kisada]

anyone get tank body yet? would like to see a screenie

[Kirbyprime]

So, any one of these dungeons SR'able?

[fliprock]

So, any one of these dungeons SR'able?

AK seemed to have good spots for large pulls

[Sho]

First boss of WoD will cockblock bad players like a motherfucker, lol.

[Taim Meich]

anyone get tank body yet? would like to see a screenie

There you are:

[kisada]

thanks!

[Almalexia]

One detail about the dragon pets in Keeper of the Lake: if you pull them too far from Midgardsormr, the tether will begin to wobble like Vassago+Allagan Bomb and the dragon will get 50% damage reduction.

[Sigmakan]

I think the orange dragon needs to be pulled away from Migardsormr, while the blue dragon needs to be pulled towards Migardsormr. Thats at least what we observed last night

[Vuitton]

Atomos platforms in WoD:

Three platforms for all three parties. Each platform has two levels with the fight happening on the top level. The top level has a circle that will activate jumping circles on the lower level on another party's platform. Throughout the fight Atomos will target someone to be inhaled. They need to move themselves away from the rest of the party as Atomos will inhale everyone around the targeted player. It's conal. Atomos will then spit out the targeted person and anyone else inhaled to the lower level. The other parties will then need to have activated the jumping circles that will be used to get back on the upper level. An add or two spawn throughout the fight that need to be killed. If nobody is on the upper level where Atomos is the party will wipe. He will also cast shockwave that will knock everyone off the platform. You can avoid this by standing directly under him.

[agrotc]

Is there anyway to avoid the Abandonment > Hysteria from Cerberus after it uses Ululation?
Having the MT get hysteria and then start running around randomly is a bit annoying.

[Yukari]

Is there anyway to avoid the Abandonment > Hysteria from Cerberus after it uses Ululation?
Having the MT get hysteria and then start running around randomly is a bit annoying.

If you're next to someone, Abandonment doesn't become Hysteria.

[ebil]

Is there anyway to avoid the Abandonment > Hysteria from Cerberus after it uses Ululation?
Having the MT get hysteria and then start running around randomly is a bit annoying.

Tooltip says something about staying near your comrades (party members) while it's up. I usually just try to stack with people.

edit: beaten