Crucible of the Unbroken Guide for Beastmaster — Dawntrail 7.56

Our first board which we are given during our level 30 job quest. It is a bit daunting the first time, but overall is not too bad. A lot of the enemies here will use abilities similar to what we have seen in dungeons previously.

My recommended safe path is:

• Left at the first fork
• Right at the second fork

This gets you two camps which allows you to heal twice. If you don't need the health, you can opt for going left at either fork to get an additional item.

Every encounter on the First Board of the Unbroken, in roughly the order you meet them. Select an encounter below for its ability list and how to handle it. You will not see all of these in a single run; which ones you get depends on the path you take. A good loadout that covers everything needed for this board is:

Ice Golem Opo-opo Gigantoad Coeurl Geshunpest Behemoth Cu Sith Zu Adamantoise Colibri

In this loadout, we have plenty of damage, interrupts, cleanses, and tanks. If you find HP management difficult, you can use Ice Golem, Gigantoad, Behemoth, Cu Sith, and Adamantoise to tank for you on the stages where they're recommended.

Ice Golem Opo-opo Gigantoad

This gives you an interrupt, tankiness, and Blunt damage.

• Ossify: interruptable damage up buff
• Tumulus: small circle AoE around the Knight
• Forward Guard: applies a Regen buff and Directional Parry buff, blocking all damage from the front

• Death Spiral: donut-shaped AoE centered on the Bishop
• Black Eruption: expanding/marching circle AoE that starts on the Bishop and expands outwards in cardinal or intercardinal directions

This fight has two targets up the whole time, but it's pretty easy to manage. The Bishop will open up with Death Spiral which is a donut-shaped AoE, so just stand underneath him when it goes off. The Knight will frequently cast Ossify which gives a damage up debuff. This can be interrupted with the the Soul Crush, but it's not too spooky otherwise. After Death Spiral goes off, the Knight will start casting Tumulus, so just step away from him. After this, the Bishop will cast Black Eruption. To avoid this, stay away and wait for at least the second explosion before moving underneath the Bishop, as there will be a small safe space underneath him during the third onward. If you have trouble doing this, just stay out until it is very safe to go in.

After a bit, the Knight will use Forward Guard. You can use Snarl and Challenge to juggle aggro so either you or your beast can be behind and deal damage. After a certain amount of damage is dealt he will drop his guard and return to the normal rotation.

At this point both will likely be dead, but if not then the Bishop will cast Ancient Aero which is a line AoE that applies a cleansable Windburn DoT effect. Beyond this, the mechanics will just cycle until they're dead.

Coeurl Geshunpest Behemoth

This gives you plenty of Lightning damage and bulkiness.

• Abyssal Charge: spawns several spears around the arena that shoot line AoEs at the player
• Dismember: five line AoEs going east to west, or west to east, that cover the whole board and go off one at a time
• Abyssal Transfixion: spawns a bunch of weapons that deal damage: swords that drop circle AoEs underneath them and an axe that deals a frontal cleave from the Arch Demon Piece

The Arch Demon is similar to many enemies we've already seen of this type throughout the game. It will open up with Abyssal Charge and start targeting you, so just move out of the line AoEs. The next attack will be Dismember, which I like to dodge by just standing in the middle and stepping into one of the dangerous squares after it's gone off. The timing for this is actually deceptively tricky so it may take a few tries to figure out the rhythm. After this he will use Abyssal Transfixion which spawns a bunch of swords in the air that drop circle AoEs underneath. Move away from these swords. He will finish by spawning an axe that performs a cleave attack in front, so stand behind.

The Arch Demon will loop these mechanics until it's dead, but it will start layering them on top of each other. I recommend trying to burn it down quickly to avoid this as it starts to get hectic.

Cu Sith Zu Adamantoise

This gives you plenty of damage, Slashing damage via Zu, and tankiness.

• Void Blizzard III: exaflare/marching-style AoEs from the north
• Clear Mind: applies damage up debuff
• Arcane Blast: unavoidable AoE
• Void Flare Star: spawns a fireball that deals proximity-based damage
• Void Thunder III: cross AoE under the player
• Void Aero III: donut AoE under the Piscodemon Piece

This boss gets a little tricky, and just like with the Arch Demon Piece will get hectic the longer it goes on, so I recommend trying to just kill it as quickly as possible if you choose this path. It will open up with Void Blizzard III; look at the north wall to see where the circle AoEs are spawning. Stand in one of the "lanes" that doesn't have the circles at first. The circles will start moving southward in their lanes. Once a circle goes by next to you, move into that lane to avoid the circles coming towards you.

After Blizzard, the Piscodemon Piece will use Clear Mind and apply a damage up buff to itself and cast Arcane Blast. You can dispel the buff with something like Bloodcurdling Caw. Next the enemy will cast Void Flare Star; just move away to reduce incoming damage. Piscodemon Piece follows up with Void Thunder III and Void Aero III, so dodge accordingly. After this is another Clear Mind/Arcane Blast combo. At this point the boss will begin looping mechanics but layering them over each other, so it gets a bit hectic.

Geshunpest Colibri Ice Golem

This gives you a cleanse via Geshunpest, and then plenty of damage with Colibri, as well as extra Ice damage and tankiness from Ice Golem.

• Bedrock Uplift: expanding circle AoE
• Deadly Thrust: melee hit that applies cleansable poison debuff
• Venom Web: "Shiva circle" AoE

• Silkscreen: line AoE that applies Heavy

The Banemite Piece will open up with Bedrock Uplift. Stand next to the first circle that appears in the center of the room, and step into it when it goes off to avoid subsequent AoEs. It will follow up with Deadly Thrust, which is just a cleansable poison debuff. The Banemite Piece will then use Venom Web, which is similar to just about any "Shiva circle" AoE in the game. The center will explode first, and then a bunch of circles around the perimeter will explode in the order that they appear. Move out of the center and next to the first circle that appears on the outside, but on the opposite side of the rotation. Any safe space will do fine; just step into the center after it goes off.

After a bit the Banemite Piece will spawn three Miteling Pieces. These aren't too scary and mostly just cast Silkscreen, so dodge accordingly. At this point the boss will just loop mechanics again.

Zu Colibri Gigantoad

This gives you a lot of damage with Zu and Colibri, as well as tankiness and Quelling Wave from Gigantoad.

• Scorching Smite: frontal cone
• Allfire: spawns two fire circles on the ground and many circle AoEs
• Burning Ward: goes invulnerable and spawns wisps on the perimeter that slowly march to the center, exploding on contact to deal damage and apply a vulnerability up debuff
• Fire Call: spawns a fireball that moves towards the player and blows up on contact
• Straight Punch: strong melee hit

This boss is quite similar to the last boss from Halatali, with some small twists. The Ogre Piece will open up by jumping to a wall and casting Scorching Smite, a large frontal cone AoE. Move to the side or behind him to avoid it. After this he uses Allfire and spawns two large fire circles on the ground while also spamming circle AoEs on the ground, so dodge accordingly. The Ogre Piece will then jump to one of the fire circles and begin casting Scorching Smite again. This time before the cast finishes, he will teleport to the other fire circle before the cone goes out. Instead of standing behind the boss, stand behind where he will appear on the other circle.

The boss will then cast Burning Ward and become invulnerable. Several Wisp and Great Wisp Pieces will spawn around the arena and start marching towards the center. Just kill these before they get to the center. Use Gigantoad to add Quelling Wave to your arsenal which is ranged and deals bonus damage to the Wisps.

Once Burning Ward is done, most of the mechanics will just be looping. There is a new cast in Fire Call, which spawns a fireball that drops a circle AoE underneath it when touched so just run away from it until it despawns. Straight Punch will also be used periodically.

Cu Sith Behemoth Geshunpest

This gives you plenty of Piercing damage, a cleanse, and a large AoE to deal with the adds.

• Blood Rain: circle or donut AoE
• Void Aero II: untelegraphed line AoE that throws a wind orb which spawns radial cone AoEs
• Cold Caress: cleansable poison debuff
• Blood Sword: melee hit that heals her
• Beguiling Mist: applies Nightmare and spawns two purple hearts that begin moving towards each other, creating a large AoE when they connect

• Fanaticism: applies a cleansable damage up buff
• Void Fire: large circle AoE

• Sweet Steel: frontal cone AoE

Pas de Seul can be slightly daunting the first time you see her, but once you know her moves she isn't too bad. She will open up with Blood Rain; if she has her hand raised and glowing then this is a circle AoE and you need to get out, otherwise it is a donut AoE and you need to stay in. She will follow up with Void Aero II, so stand behind or to the side as she casts it to avoid it. This will spawn a wind orb that casts a bunch of radial cone AoEs, so just watch the ground and move into the safe spot.

Pas de Seul will then use Cold Caress, which is a cleansable poison debuff, followed by Summon which will spawn a Succubus Mage and two Succubus Knights. These are best dealt with by burning them down as quickly as possible; using Behemoth's Meteor should one-shot these adds with ease. Awhile after this, she will use Blood Sword which will heal her. The last ability she will use is Beguiling Mist, which applies Nightmare and spawns two purple hearts that are tethered together. These will begin moving towards each other and create a large AoE underneath when they connect, so just move away from them. After this, she will loop mechanics until she is dead.

Our second board which we are given during our level 40 job quest. It is a small step up in difficulty from the first board, but is still easily doable. As with the first stage, many enemies here resemble enemies we have seen in dungeons previously.

My recommended safe path is:

• Right at the first fork
• Right at the second fork

This gets you an early camp for healing and avoids as many enemies as possible. You can try going left at the second fork if you really need a campsite, but you may end up fighting an enemy if you do so.

Every encounter on the Second Board of the Unbroken, in roughly the order you meet them. Select an encounter below for its ability list and how to handle it. You will not see all of these in a single run; which ones you get depends on the path you take. A good loadout that covers everything needed for this board is:

Zu Ghost Coeurl Adamantoise Golem Worm Spriggan Chimera Gigantoad Opo-opo Salamander Cu Sith

This covers every encounter on this board, so you can bring the whole roster and pick out the beasts you need at each stop.

Adamantoise Zu Ghost

This gives us tankiness and Wind damage.

• Arm and Hammer: cleaves one half of the room, with the glowing arm indicating which side will be cleaved
• Deadly Hold: strong melee hit
• Hammerleap: faces a wall and jumps to it with a large circle AoE
• Heads and Tails / Tails and Heads: cleaves in front and behind, or behind and in front respectively
• Charge and Hammer: telegraphs line AoEs for charges as well as an initial Arm and Hammer glowing side, then finishes by cleaving the initial Arm and Hammer followed immediately by the other

The Manticore Piece will use Arm and Hammer right away. Go to whichever side does not have the glowing arm. He will then do it again but with the other side. Immediately after this is Deadly Hold, which is unavoidable. You can have your pet tank it for you.

After Deadly Hold, the Manticore Piece will face a wall and use Hammerleap. Run away from the wall it is facing and get far away to avoid the AoE. He will follow up with Heads and Tails or Tails and Heads, so look at what he is casting and dodge accordingly.

The most complicated mechanic in this fight is Charge and Hammer. The Manticore Piece will signal a cleave with a glowing arm, so remember which for later. He will then telegraph line AoEs on the floor that must be avoided. After the charges, move to whichever side was safe from the glowing arm. Once it goes off, move to the side that he just cleaved since he will cleave the other side after.

After this, the boss will just repeat mechanics until it is dead.

Cu Sith Adamantoise Chimera

This gives us Piercing damage with Cu Sith, but a lot of bulkiness for tanking with everyone.

• Mortal Ray: applies a Doom debuff with a 25 second duration
• Ruinous Ring: donut AoE
• Ruinous Locus: circle AoE
• Ray of Ignorance: spawns an orb that pulses circle AoEs that gradually grow in size as it casts
• Aetherial Fissure: spawns sigils that fire line-style AoEs across the arena
• Ruinous Contraction: donut AoE followed by circle AoE

In this boss, there are four squares on the ground. Stepping on these makes them gradually light up, and when fully lit up they will cleanse Doom debuffs. The boss starts the fight with Mortal Ray, so cleanse it by standing on one of the squares. It will also use Ruinous Ring followed by Ruinous Locus, so dodge accordingly. Immediately after, the Taurus Piece will use Ray of Ignorance. I recommend dropping this as far into the corner as you can to give yourself as much room to work with as possible. This will be paired with another Mortal Ray, so cleanse it the same way as before. The Taurus Piece will then use Aetherial Fissure. Look to the east and west to see which sigils are glowing first, and move out of their path. Once they shoot, move out of the other sigils' paths.

After this, the boss will summon four Ahriman in the corner which telegraph typical gaze-style mechanics, so look away. These apply Doom, so if you get it just cleanse it the same as before. After the gaze mechanic, the Ahriman become targetable so just kill them. The boss will start using Ruinous Contraction now which is essentially a Ruinous Ring followed by a Ruinous Locus. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until the Taurus Piece is dead.

Coeurl Adamantoise Cu Sith

This gives us good Lightning damage and bulkiness with Adamantoise and Cu Sith.

• Storm's Grip: spawns wind sprites in the northwest and southeast that periodically shoot line AoEs across the entire north and south of the arena
• Typhoon: knockback, and spawns tornadoes on the edge of the arena that move to the opposite side, dealing damage when touched
• Liquid Hell: spawns fire puddles on the ground that apply Burns when walked through
• Blazing Trail: jumps to either the east or west wall and shoots a wide line-style AoE
• Storm Trail: three cone-style AoEs indicated by the glowing green sigils around the boss

The Wyvern Piece will open up with Storm's Grip. The sprites it spawns stick around for the rest of the fight, so you will be dodging their lines on top of everything that follows. It will follow up with Typhoon, so ride out the knockback and then dodge the tornadoes as they cross. Next up is Liquid Hell, so dodge accordingly, but keep an eye on where the puddles land because they stay on the ground and will matter in a moment. The Wyvern Piece will then use Blazing Trail, so run behind the boss while avoiding the puddles on your way over. The sprites will telegraph that they are about to fire while you are still moving, but you are safe to get behind the boss before those go off, so do not stop halfway. It finishes the sequence by returning to the center and casting Storm Trail, so dodge accordingly.

After this the Wyvern Piece will use Liquid Hell again, followed by another Typhoon. The tornadoes are noticeably bigger the second time, so give yourself more room than you did on the first set. Blazing Trail comes next and is handled exactly the same way as before. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until the Wyvern Piece is dead.

Cu Sith Golem Worm

This gives us generally good damage coverage, as well as Earth damage and good AoE for dealing with the Zombie Pieces.

• Death Drive: creates a large AoE under the player that resurrects any Zombie Pieces in the area
• Dark Orb: massive circle AoE
• Evil Mist: spawns several orbs that pulsate with circle AoEs
• Mindjack: applies a Force March debuff to the player that causes them to run in the indicated direction when it expires

The Voidmancer Piece will open up with Death Drive. Drop it where it will catch as few Zombie Pieces as possible; the northeast and southwest both have tight spots along the wall that will only reach one, though the zombies are not much of a problem either way. Whatever comes up, kill it. Golem and Worm both have the area damage to clear them quickly. Their auto-attacks apply Wit's End, which becomes a Confusion debuff at 12 stacks, so do not let them chew on you for long. The Voidmancer Piece will follow up with Dark Orb and then Evil Mist, so dodge accordingly.

After this the Voidmancer Piece will use Death Drive again followed by another Dark Orb, both handled the same way as before. It finishes the sequence with Mindjack into Evil Mist. Get yourself into position before the debuff expires so that the forced run does not take you into the orbs. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until the Voidmancer Piece is dead.

Spriggan Chimera Golem

This gives us plenty of damage, including Fire from Spriggan, bulkiness, and two sources of Soul Crush to interrupt the Rallying Cheer.

• 1000-tonze Swipe: half-room cleave in the direction that the enemy is facing
• 1111-tonze Swing: massive circle AoE around the enemy
• 10-tonze Stomp: knockback from blue circle on the ground
• 100-tonze Slash: strong line AoE
• Rallying Cheer: interruptible cast that applies a dispellable damage up buff
• Endless Swing: starts in a corner and slowly moves towards the player while constantly spinning and dealing AoE damage when touched
• Endless Swipes: jumps to the center and spams cone attacks while rotating

This fight has two targets up the whole time, and unlike the Bone Knight and Bone Bishop it is not easy to manage. Both Tablitaur Pieces hit for a decent chunk of damage, and they do not necessarily use their abilities in the same order every time, so you need to know how to handle all of them rather than learning a sequence. They also cast at the same time, so watch both cast bars to work out which one is resolving first.

For 1000-tonze Swipe, look at which one will finish first and stand behind it, then swap sides when it goes off. 1111-tonze Swing is the same idea in reverse: stand near the one casting it second, as far away from the first as you can, then swap sides once the first has gone off. With 10-tonze Stomp, position yourself so that you are not knocked into a wall, and try to keep yourself and your beast from both eating it to keep the overall damage down. 100-tonze Slash is straightforward, so dodge accordingly. Rallying Cheer should be interrupted with Soul Crush.

Endless Swing and Endless Swipes are the hard part. Keep running away from the spinning enemy while also avoiding the cones from the other one. This is tough, and it is worth expecting to take a few attempts before it clicks. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until both Tablitaur Pieces are dead.

Salamander Gigantoad Opo-opo

This gives us access to Quelling Wave for Water damage and dispel, Blunt damage, and quite a bit of tankiness.

• Gobspin Headlops: either a donut or a circle AoE. If it's a sword held up and isn't glowing, it is a circle. If the sword is glowing, it is a donut
• Kinborrow: applies a dispellable vulnerability down debuff
• Gobbieboom Barrage: spawns waves of Gobbie Bombs with different effects. Small round bombs can be pushed with attacks and have a small circle AoE. Large spiky bombs cannot be pushed and have a large cross AoE
• Bomb Toss: small circle AoE
• Goblin Hammer: many medium circle AoEs all over the arena

• Sand Breath: frontal cone AoE
• Earthquake: enrage AoE

This is another multi-target fight, but it is way different from the previous one. The basic gist is that once again we do want to kill the targets at around the same time to prevent an infinite enrage sequence, but there is a hitch: Chewchum Popoto isn't always targetable!

The fight starts out with the worm burrowing underground. It will then move to a sandpool, indicated with a "!" over it, and cast Sand Breath. Move to that sandpool and stand behind it. Right after, Loosefrox will start using Gobspin Headlops; if he shows a long glowing sword then stay close, if it's a short non-glowing sword then get away. Loosefrox will then use Kinborrow which can be dispelled with Quelling Wave.

After a small delay, Loosefrox will cast Gobbieboom Barrage and spawn four round Gobbie Bombs in the center of the arena. The worm will then dash three times between different pools. Once it stops, attack one of the bombs so that it gets pushed into that pool. It will detonate and knock the worm up and onto its back. At this point use all the burst damage that you have available on the worm to get it as low as possible. During this Loosefrox will cast Bomb Toss so just sidestep the AoE while DPSing Chewchum Popoto.

The worm will do a set of three dashes followed by a Sand Breath, so dodge accordingly. At the same time, Loosefrox will drop four spiky bombs on the stage and also use Gobspin Headlops again. Avoid the spiky bomb cross AoEs while also dodging Gobspin Headlops. Loosefrox will then cast Kinborrow again, which can be cleansed as before. He follows this with Goblin Hammer which leaves very small safe spots, so dodge accordingly.

The next Gobbieboom Barrage will have both spiky and round bombs, which makes things a little bit spicier. Follow the worm to determine which pool it finishes in. The large bombs will detonate first, but there should be a safe space in the center of the arena. Hit a small bomb into the worm's pool while avoiding the spiky bomb AoE, and then again start wailing on the worm.

From this point on the mechanics will be repeating, sometimes layering over each other, until the bosses are dead.

Our third board and our first level 50 board! This one is deceptively difficult and may take many tries as well as leveling up of your beasts.

My recommended safe path is:

• Right at the first fork
• Right at the second fork
• Right at the third fork

This gets us two camps and a shop and can make things pretty safe. You will want to make sure you pick up some sort of paralysis resistance along the way for the final boss, such as Crimson Ribbon or G2 Antiparalysis Soul Serum.

Every encounter on the Third Board of the Unbroken, in roughly the order you meet them. Select an encounter below for its ability list and how to handle it. You will not see all of these in a single run; which ones you get depends on the path you take. A good loadout that covers everything needed for this board is:

Squirrel Raptor Cu Sith Behemoth Buffalo Ice Golem Diremite Colibri Damselfly Crab Wespe Adamantoise Coblyn Mantis

Raptor Squirrel Behemoth

This gets us a ton of damage, good AoE for the adds, and a lot of Fire damage.

• Steelripper: frontal cone
• Doubling: absorbs up to five orbs to create clones
• Menace: large circle AoE from each clone
• Crushing Blade: knockback and high damage. Cannot be knockback immuned with pet cover
• Valfodr: line AoE across the entire arena from each clone

The Cavalier Piece will open up with two Bone Bishops, so kill them while avoiding Steelripper. It will follow up with Doubling and spawn two clones that use Menace, so move to a safe corner to avoid them. After this the boss will use Crushing Blade, so position yourself so that you do not get knocked out of the arena.

Two more Bone Bishops will spawn after a bit, and Meteor makes quick work of them. This time the clones will spawn on a wall and cast Valfodr. At this point the boss should be nearly dead, but beyond this all mechanics will just be looping until the Cavalier Piece is dead.

Buffalo Diremite Ice Golem

• Paralyzing Spikes: buff on the Sahagin Piece that inflicts paralysis if hit. Cast at the start of the fight and whenever the Ymir Piece gets a new shell. Cannot be dispelled
• Water II: several baited AoEs
• Blanket Thunder: raidwide damage
• Tsunami: knockback from a wall that carries across about 90% of the arena. Cannot be knockback immuned with pet cover
• Dreadwash: interruptible cast that applies Hysteria

Spawn your Ice Golem at the beginning to get Soul Crush, then switch to Buffalo. Start wailing on the Ymir Piece's shell, but do not attack the Sahagin Piece while it has Paralyzing Spikes up. You can interrupt Blanket Thunder with War Cry. After the knockback from Tsunami, the Sahagin Piece will cast Dreadwash, so make sure to interrupt it.

Once the Ymir Piece is out of its shell, use Parting Blow and swap to Diremite. Silkscreen will root it in place so you can finish it, and then you can switch to the Sahagin Piece and finish him off as well.

Another strat is to burn down the Sahagin Piece as soon as possible before it puts up spikes, or to use Quelling Wave since it does not reflect the paralysis and your pet ignores it completely. Once the Sahagin Piece is dead you can just take care of the Ymir Piece easily.

Colibri Damselfly Wespe

We don't need anything in particular for this fight, so we will just bring a ton of damage!

• Bestial Roar: spawns three orbs and three rings that travel outward. Each explodes on reaching a wall or on contact with you. Orbs are very large circle AoEs, rings are donuts. Getting hit petrifies
• Shifting Gaze: cast from the second Bestial Roar onward. The mechanic resolves as three pairs of one orb and one ring, with the boss tethering one from each pair. The tethered one showing an eye petrifies if looked at
• Jettataura: spawns an AoE underneath you that causes Hysteria

Bestial Roar is basically the only mechanic in the fight. Look for which orb or ring is about to hit the wall and move accordingly. The small orbs will be large circle AoEs when they hit the wall, and the multiple ring shape will be a donut. If you hit a shape early it will pop prematurely, so you can hit the donut ones early if that is helpful.

Once Shifting Gaze is up, handle the orbs the same way as before, but make sure to look away from the ones with the eye telegraph as they resolve. When it casts Jettataura, just move out of the puddle created on the ground. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until the Catoblepas Piece is dead.

Ice Golem Damselfly Wespe

We just bring our highest damage beasts and an interrupt for this one.

• Hatch: two eggs hatch if they are not killed before the cast bar ends
• Caustic Vomit: interruptible damage buff cast by the add
• Crossbreeze: plus-shaped AoE
• Flying Frenzy: AoE tank buster
• Ferocious Fore Carve / Ferocious Rear Carve: tether that cleaves in front or behind respectively. Does not break eggs
• Airy Pursuit: AoEs that follow you

The whole fight is about the eggs. Killing one gives the Zu Piece a permanent damage buff, and they have very little health and will also break if an AoE is dropped on them. The adds from Hatch are a different story, since killing them does not give the buff and they do not have much health. Two eggs will hatch, so kill the two adds and interrupt Caustic Vomit if you need to.

Everything else is a matter of keeping your AoEs off the eggs. Drop Crossbreeze in the middle and move out once it locks in place. Do not drop Flying Frenzy on your pet, and stretch the Ferocious Fore Carve and Ferocious Rear Carve tethers until they turn purple to minimize the damage. For Airy Pursuit, drop it at a wall and run straight across to the other wall.

Buffalo Crab Behemoth

• Landslip: spawns golems and knockback lines that move you about half the room. Cannot be knockback immuned with pet cover. The golems shoot lines and then become adds
• Sand Tempest: blind plus orbs that explode in circle AoEs. The blind cannot be cleansed
• Earth Shaker: cones on you and your pet
• Earthrender: three baited AoEs

The Lakhamu Piece will open up with Landslip, which pushes you about two golems' worth of distance. Position yourself so that no golems are looking directly at you after the knockback. The golems will then come to life, and you can stun them with War Cry and finish them with Parting Blow. After this you can swap to Crab and burn her down with its Water damage.

Do not stack with your pet for Earth Shaker. When Earthrender is cast, just move out of the three puddles that appear under your feet, and when Sand Tempest is cast, just move to a space not occupied by orbs. Beyond this, the mechanics will just repeat until the Lakhamu Piece is dead.

Behemoth Buffalo Adamantoise

This just gives us good AoE, tankiness, and damage.

• Emergency Order: the boss jumps away and starts spawning waves
• Healing Water: Flowertenders constantly AoE heal the Sabotenders
• ??? Needles: circle AoEs that go off in the order of their numbers
• Cover: Guardia takes all damage in place of the Campeador
• Seedling Needles: raidwide damage with the boss on the ground, donut with the boss in the air
• Needle Gnarl: circle AoE

• Wave 1: two Flowertenders and Sabotenders
• Wave 2: four Soldado and Sabotenders
• Wave 3: Guardia, Campeador and Sabotenders

Use Meteor to kill the adds that spawn first. War Cry is good on the second wave once they are grouped up, and then you can finish with Shield Charge.

Adamantoise is really good tankiness and deals Lightning damage. Finish off the last set of adds with Shield Charge and kill the large enemies (Guardia then Campeador) to win!

Behemoth Colibri Cu Sith

This gives us AoE for the adds and a lot of Piercing damage for the boss.

• Song of Torment: tank buster
• Unmooring Melody: untelegraphed. Jumps to a random wall and channels a cone that applies a stacking debuff, confusing at 16 stacks
• Feral Lunge: jumps to a random wall, then a line AoE
• Summon: summons three normal zombies and one tethered to you. The tethered one binds you if you make contact with it
• Dead Man's Dirge: donut with her wings spread, circle AoE with her wings together
• Distant Tune: summons three sets of orbs that explode in circle AoEs
• Inviting Verse: forced march. Paired with an Unmooring Melody, but the march does not happen until she stops singing

Try to keep a Shield Charge charge on hand, as gap closing is valuable here. The Siren Piece will open up with Song of Torment, so tank it or have your pet tank it. When she casts Unmooring Melody, quickly run to her and stand at her side; this is a FAST cast, so make sure to get over there quickly! When she casts Feral Lunge, stay out of her path.

The adds from the first Summon can be killed with Meteor. Dead Man's Dirge happens right after, so look at her animation and dodge accordingly. Inviting Verse will resolve right after an Unmooring Melody, so position yourself to run back towards the center afterwards; the debuff indicates which direction you will run.

Adamantoise Colibri Cu Sith

We don't need anything special from our beasts, so we just bring a mix of tankiness and high damage.

• Gyrocleave: vertical line AoE
• Beastly Aura: knockback north and south of the boss
• Gluttonous Goring: jumps to a side and floats with the axe hanging below. Several swords spawn that do circle AoEs, and the boss does a massive circle AoE
• Gluttonous Gutting: jumps to a side and holds the axe behind. Several swords spawn that do circle AoEs, followed by a frontal cleave
• Thunderbolt: line tank buster
• Overpowering Point: baited line AoE
• Deadly Demesne: spawns cages and floating daggers. The cages detonate their tile and the four adjacent tiles, and the daggers hit the tile in the direction of the blades. The cages bind you if you stand in one
• Molten Metal: baited AoE that leaves a sword which then explodes in a proximity AoE

The auto-attacks are cones, so do not stand near your pet. The statues on the side will wake up if hit by AoEs, primarily from the line attacks, so when those target you make sure to aim them so that you don't hit the statues. If you do, just kill the adds that spawn. She follows something of a timeline, but the order of mechanics isn't always the same, so pay attention to each as it's happening to know how to resolve it.

For Gyrocleave, stand in the cubbies on the side of the arena. For Beastly Aura, position next to her to get knocked back directly into one of the cubbies on either side of the arena. Gluttonous Goring wants you at the cubby on the opposite side, and you should move early, with Sprint recommended here. Gluttonous Gutting is the reverse, so stand behind in the cubby the boss is occupying.

With Thunderbolt, make sure you don't hit both yourself and your pet. For Overpowering Point, move out once you see the AoEs lock in. Thunderbolt paralyzes, so use a serum if you got one (or passive resistance elsewhere). You should be able to pop them at the beginning of the fight and still have plenty of time to defeat her. Molten Metal should be dropped in one of the far cubbies, and then move to the other side after dropping it. Beyond this, all mechanics will just be looping until the Guttler Piece is dead.

This board is actually a bit easier than the third board in my opinion, but it's no pushover. If you see any poison resistance from shops or treasure chests, make sure to take it as it makes the last boss significantly easier. Something like Angel Robe will completely trivialize it.

My recommended path here is:

• Right at the first fork
• Left at the second fork
• Right at the third fork

This lets us maybe skip a fight, get a camp, and then only fight one normal enemy before the boss while also guaranteeing another shop.

Every encounter on the First Master's Board, in roughly the order you meet them. Select an encounter below for its ability list and how to handle it. You will not see all of these in a single run; which ones you get depends on the path you take. A good loadout that covers everything needed for this board is:

Mantis Damselfly Wespe Behemoth Worm Geshunpest Coblyn Adamantoise Diremite Drake Gigantoad Spriggan

Mantis Damselfly Wespe

We mostly just bring high DPS beasts here to skip as much as possible.

• Plummet: three rows of three AoEs
• On the Properties of Quakes: answered by standing in the levitation circle
• Magical Mallet Theory: turns you into a slime. Stuns you while transformed, but only deals 1 damage
• On the Properties of Floods: damage and knockback unless you are a kappa
• Ultimate Focus: dispellable magic damage buff
• On the Properties of Darkness: raidwide damage
• Windfeather Whisper: summons a feather add with an unavoidable knockback
• Check Out: summons books that do pairs of circle AoEs, in the order their mouths open

For Plummet, stand out of the first row and move in after it goes off. On the Properties of Quakes wants you in the levitation circle when it goes off, and for On the Properties of Floods you will want to turn into a kappa. For Magical Mallet Theory, step into the slime puddle to turn into a slime.

Ultimate Focus into On the Properties of Darkness can be dispelled, but it doesn't hit that hard either way. After Windfeather Whisper knocks you back, gap close with Shield Charge. For Check Out, note which books have their mouths open and move away from them, rotating as they go off. Beyond this, the mechanics will just repeat until the Strix Piece is dead.

Behemoth Worm Geshunpest

• Extremely Bad Breath: rotating cones that apply paralysis, blind and heavy. All cleansable
• Tremblor: knockback from the boss
• Vine Probe: line AoE in front

• Seedlings: apply poison on auto-attack. Cleansable
• Carrion: slow add with heavy hitting autos. Applies vulnerability, heavy and paralysis in melee range, and the paralysis is cleansable
• Ochu: casts Acid Mist, a circle AoE that leaves a toxic puddle

Our main strategy here is to just burn the boss down as soon as possible and ignore mechanics. Start by spawning Geshunpest to borrow Scouring Ash, then switch to Behemoth. Make sure you're never in front of the boss, and use Meteor to dispatch the adds.

Use Scouring Ash if you get hit by any debuffs, and use Parting Blow to kill subsequent adds before switching to Worm. There is not too much else here, so just avoid the AoEs and burn down the boss.

Mantis Damselfly Wespe

This has a pretty high chance of just being a loot node, but the boss isn't too bad if you get it. We'll just bring high DPS beasts to burn it down and avoid mechanics.

• Budding Thorns: summons three saplings with expanding thorns that slow you but prevent draw-in effects while you are inside them
• Floral Trap: binds you for two seconds and draws you in afterwards. If it lands, the boss eats you and gains a damage buff
• Rotten Stench: stack marker
• Queen Hawk: add that casts Final Sting if it is not killed in time
• Acid Rain: AoEs that follow you

Stand in the thorns to prevent the Floral Trap draw-in, and do not stand in front after the suck or it may still eat you. You can take Rotten Stench alone if you want to avoid your pet taking damage.

Floral Trap will eat the Queen Hawk and instantly kill it with no damage buff, so for the later Floral Traps, position yourself so that you don't get pulled in but the Queen Hawk does. For Acid Rain, keep moving to avoid the AoEs. Beyond this, the mechanics will just repeat until the Corpse Flower Piece is dead.

Mantis Damselfly Geshunpest

Once again we just bring really high DPS beasts, but we bring Geshunpest to borrow Scouring Ash at the beginning just in case we get Frostbite.

• Icy Torment: two variations. Floating icicles cleave the sides with the middle safe, and ice sucking in cleaves the middle with the sides safe
• Rime Wreath: circle AoE that applies a cleansable DoT
• Withering Eternity: AoE DoTs covering the arena with two safe spots on the cardinals. Follows up with Sheet of Ice, which is six baited AoEs
• Cauterize: stores four half-arena cleaves, ending with a knockback

For Icy Torment, if the icicles are on the side then just stand on top of the boss, and if there are no icicles then avoid the center and stay on the boss's sides. For Rime Wreath, get away if possible to avoid the damage.

Withering Eternity is pretty tough. Move to the safe cubby, then avoid the Sheet of Ice AoEs. They drop much slower than you expect, so just don't panic and avoid them as you drop them in place. For Cauterize, watch where the dragon telegraphs the lines and dodge accordingly, finishing with positioning so the knockback doesn't send you into the wall, and kill the ice sprites during it. Beyond this, the mechanics will loop until it's dead.

Coblyn Behemoth Geshunpest

There is not much going on here with beasts, we just want tankiness and damage.

• Rippling Evisceration: circle AoE then a donut
• Sweeping Evisceration: tether. The boss dashes to you and cleaves in front, then behind
• Malady: spawns orbs that give the boss a damage buff. The orbs can be popped by standing on them, which gives stacks that cause Hysteria at five
• Fivefold Fallout: four raidwides ending in a knockback. Can be pet cover immuned
• Desolation: two casts of line AoEs in front
• Grim Fate: multi-hit tank buster
• Sea of Pitch: three baited lingering AoEs that inflict Hysteria if you stand in them

For Rippling Evisceration, stay out and then move in. Stretch the Sweeping Evisceration tether until it is purple to minimize the damage, then move behind, then in front. Malady will spawn a bunch of orbs, so take up to four at a time and wait for the debuff to time out before grabbing more, soaking them 4-4-2 to get rid of all of them.

The boss will use Sweeping Evisceration right after Malady, and will then move to the center for Fivefold Fallout. For Desolation, move out of the front. Grim Fate can be tanked by your pet or by you. For Sea of Pitch, kite around the boss and don't stand in the puddles. This will repeat until it is dead.

Adamantoise Spriggan Geshunpest

This gives us tankiness and also utility to deal with some of the mechanics present here. Lightning damage is a nice bonus.

• Flamethrower: frontal cone
• Confound: interruptible confusion debuff

• Bug: slowly walks to the orb. If it is not killed in time the boss casts Object 199 for a damage and regen buff
• Drone: baited line AoEs
• Footman: follows you with decently damaging autos, and periodically casts a circle AoE
• Cobra: casts Noxious Nova, which applies poison. Cleansable, but each cast applies a separate stack
• Dreadnaught: frontal cone

Start with Spriggan to get Soul Crush. Dodge Flamethrower and interrupt Confound, then handle the adds as they spawn: kill the Bug, avoid the Drone AoEs, and so on.

This boss dies FAST, so you can even just bring the Mantis, Damselfly and Wespe combo and burn it down before anything even really happens.

Gigantoad Mantis Damselfly

We mostly just take damage here, but Gigantoad has good Water damage and tankiness for us.

• Earthen Ring: donut. If there is a tether it comes from the other golem
• Plaincracker: large circle AoE. If there is a tether it comes from the other golem
• Rock Wall: spawns walls with spikes. The spike side is hit once all of the walls have spawned, and stuns
• Stoneshower: six floating rocks. Normal rocks are circle AoEs, while glowing rocks shatter and become donuts
• Outcrop: frontal cone
• Obliterate: knockback. Can be pet covered
• Self-destruct: enrage

There are two golems to kill, and a separate enrage after both are dead. They occasionally change positions by tethering from one to another, and when that happens the next attack will be coming from the golem that is tethered. The mechanics don't necessarily happen in the same order every time, so keep an eye on the cast bars to see what is happening.

For Earthen Ring, stay close, and for Plaincracker, get WAY away. With Rock Wall, look at where the spikes are: if they're facing the middle of the arena, get out, and if they're facing out, get in. For Stoneshower, look for the cracked rocks and stay underneath them. Outcrop wants you standing behind or to the side, and after Obliterate you can gap close, or have your pet take it with Snarl.

After both golems are dead you will see the heart of a golem become targetable. Kill it before Self-destruct finishes.

Behemoth Worm Spriggan

We're bringing plenty of AoE and also an interrupt for this.

• Rustling Breeze: glowing hands means side cones with the middle safe, and a glowing face means a frontal cone with the sides safe
• Falling Leaves: summons adds
• Arboreal Storm: circle AoE that expands into donuts, knocking you up if it hits
• Acorn Bomb: spread AoE that applies sleep

• Slugs: cast baited AoEs
• Sapling: continuously gains regen and damage stacks, and scales very high
• Biloko: casts Natural Nurture, which heals the Treant Piece for ~5% of its max health
• Diremite: casts line AoEs in front

Start with Spriggan to get Soul Crush, then swap to Behemoth. Multiple add waves spawn in this fight and the boss doesn't do too much itself. When Rustling Breeze happens, either stand in front or to the sides depending on the telegraph.

Kill the first Falling Leaves wave with Meteor. The second add wants to be burned down really quickly, but if you struggle you can bring something like Diremite instead to push it away and give yourself more time. Arboreal Storm will happen at some point, so just wait for the first cast to go off then stand just outside the boss's sand puddle.

The third add is the Biloko. Have your pet Snarl for Acorn Bomb, then interrupt Natural Nurture and focus the Biloko down. Otherwise just burn the adds down as they come.

Mantis Damselfly Spriggan

We don't need anything specific here, so we're really just bringing damage.

• Scalding Scolding: jumps to a side and cleaves in front
• Meltdown: marker. Line tank buster that binds and then knocks back, leaving three fire puddles along the path
• Fiery Fury: three knockbacks from purple circles. Cannot be knockback immuned
• Massive Explosion: interruptible raidwide

• Bomb: leaves fire puddles when killed
• Grenade: the boss is immune while this is alive. Constantly casts raidwides, and gains an increasing damage buff each time it takes damage
• Snoll: explodes in a circle AoE when it dies
• Pyrobolus: several cone AoEs in all directions

The Progenitrix Piece will jump to a side and use Scalding Scolding, so move to its side to avoid it. Adds will spawn after this, so just kill them as soon as possible, but be mindful of the AoEs when they do die.

Kill the Grenade before it reaches 16 stacks or you will die. For Pyrobolus, avoid the cones. This one is not too bad, and everything repeats until it is dead.

Coblyn Diremite Drake

If you got poison resistance, you can bring more DPS instead of Coblyn and Drake.

• Toxic Breath: the boss backsteps and then shoots a lingering cone that applies poison
• Toxic Vomit: four baited puddles
• Fuming Vomit: AoEs that spread into eight moving clouds. The clouds inflict a slight knockback if touched
• Wriggling Phlegm: baited AoE that spawns a slime. The slime moves toward the nearest puddle and explodes on touching one
• Cauterize: the boss flies to one of the sides and does a line divebomb that spawns moving clouds like Fuming Vomit, ending with a knockback from the middle
• Salivous Snap: tank buster

For Toxic Breath, move to the wall behind Borgny and stand to the sides when it jumps. With Toxic Vomit, if you have poison resistance you can just stand still; otherwise use Vulcanize or Smoldering Scales to reduce the damage, or just have your pet tank it for you. Try to drop the puddles on the wall.

Avoid the Fuming Vomit puddles and the poison clouds that spawn. The boss will use Toxic Breath again, so avoid it as before. For Wriggling Phlegm, drop it away from the Toxic Vomit puddles if possible. Once the ooze spawns you can use Diremite's Silkscreen to root it and burn it down; if it reaches a slime pool it will explode, dealing damage and applying a damage down to you.

Watch for Cauterize while the boss is in the air. Salivous Snap can be tanked by either you or your pet. Beyond this, just burn down the boss as the mechanics repeat.

This is our final board and it looks extremely daunting, but once you know the mechanics is pretty straightforward.

My recommended safe path is:

• Right at the first fork
• Left at the second fork
• Right at the third fork
• Straight at the final fork

This yields us the most consistent path with the fewest elite enemies, as well as a camp right before the final boss.

Every encounter on the Second Master's Board, in roughly the order you meet them. Select an encounter below for its ability list and how to handle it. You will not see all of these in a single run; which ones you get depends on the path you take. A good loadout that covers everything needed for this board is:

Golem Worm Ghost Behemoth Karlabos Raptor Opo-opo Drake Mantis Colibri Cu Sith Gigantoad Ice Golem Adamantoise Geshunpest

This is a powerful team with good damage, tankiness, and utility when needed. If you are able to get Paralysis resistance for yourself or beasts, it will be helpful for the last boss in this board.

Golem Worm Ghost

This gives us a lot of tankiness, Earth damage, and a cleanse.

• Heat Lightning: summons three sprites that cast line AoEs. They have low health but can be ignored
• Charged Lightning: frontal half cleave
• Electric Shock: large circle AoE
• Aetherial Offering: enlarges any sprites still alive, which makes their lines bigger
• Erratic Blaster: tank buster with paralysis. Cleansable

Start by spawning Ghost to get Scouring Ash just in case you end up with paralysis later, then summon Golem. You can have the Golem tank most of the fight for you including the tank busters. The boss will open with Heat Lightning, so either eliminate the sprites or dodge the lines if you're able to. When the boss uses Charged Lightning, just move behind.

After a while, the boss will use Erratic Blaster. If this hits you and you get paralyzed, just cleanse with your borrowed ability. If it hits the Golem, I recommend switching to Worm and having it tank the rest of the fight. The boss will then use Electric Shock so move away, then back in after it goes off. Mechanics will repeat until the boss is dead.

Behemoth Worm Colibri

This just gives us solid AoE damage and burst damage for finishing the Mindflayer.

• Void Water III: spreads that drop puddles. Standing in a puddle reduces your lightning resistance
• Void Thunder III: AoE tank buster that explodes in a cross in the shape it leaves
• Arcane Utterance: summons four orbs that shoot lines in the directions of their arrows
• Arcane Enhancement: tethers the orbs to become larger and shoot larger lines
• Void Paralysis III: raidwide plus paralysis. Cleansable
• Void Flare Stare: proximity AoE

• Myconid: leaves spore zones when it dies. Standing in one poisons you, and it is cleansable

Kill the Myconids in the puddles spawned by Void Water III to prevent the AoE poison. The boss will use Void Thunder III, so just make sure you're not in a water puddle when it goes off, then dodge the cross AoE.

The boss will return to the center and use Arcane Utterance. If you use Worm's Bottomless Desert, the Heavy will buy you more time as the Mindflayer Piece will take longer to return to the center. Note the orbs that get tethered with Arcane Enhancement and dodge the line AoEs they spawn, as the empowered orbs will have much larger ones.

The boss will then use Void Paralysis III, and I recommend having your pet tank this and then swapping it out to the next one. For Void Flare Stare, just move to a corner opposite the flare star. This repeats until it is dead.

Behemoth Worm Geshunpest

We're just bringing these for AoE damage, tankiness, and a safety cleanse.

• Provision: swaps to the other weapon
• Ripples of Gloom: cleansable blind
• Veil of Darkness: the boss goes invisible and summons bombs and a deepeye. These adds also become invisible unless you are close to them. Light sprites spawn after a while and are always visible
• Swoop (sword): dashes forward to the wall and casts a large cone toward the center
• Swing Round (sword): large circle AoE
• Swoop (club): dashes forward to the wall and casts a massive circle AoE that also knocks back if it hits
• Swing Round (club): large knockback

• Bomb: repeatedly casts Explosion, and self-destructs if it is not killed
• Deepeye: casts a gaze after a while that petrifies if looked at
• Sprite: casts a cone toward where it is facing when it dies

Spawn Geshunpest to start to get Scouring Ash, then switch to Behemoth. The boss has two weapons and its attacks change based on which it is holding, and the auto-attacks inflict a vulnerability of the opposite weapon. Whenever it swaps weapons with Provision, swap between yourself and your beast tanking.

For Swoop, stay out of the front and note where it's jumping: with the sword, follow it and stand at the side, and with the club, move away. For Swing Round, the sword wants you to move away, while the club wants you to stay close and get knocked back so that you don't hit the wall, and Shield Charge is helpful here.

When it uses Veil of Darkness, keep note of where the invisible adds are. Meteor can take out many at once, and you should prioritize the bombs and then the deepeye. Aim a dying sprite's cone toward the boss to reveal it, and a good time for this is when the boss jumps on you. Ripples of Gloom just wants the blind cleansed, but it's not too bad otherwise. Beyond this, the mechanics will loop until it is dead.

Behemoth Worm Adamantoise

Again we're just taking AoE damage and tankiness as needed.

• Mana Manifestation: summons adds at an AoE
• Shockwave: knockback from the middle. Can be pet cover immuned
• Dark II: frontal cone
• Forsaken Fount: spawns several orbs that periodically pulse AoEs, with larger orbs producing bigger ones

• Gremlins: the red gremlin applies physical vulnerabilities, and the rest just attack
• Vodoriga: baited AoEs
• Bavarois: knocks back when killed, and spawns nine puddles that increase fire resistance and lower lightning resistance while you are in them
• Pudding: stack marker
• Flan: spread marker plus lots of AoEs
• Dahak: Tail Drive is a cone behind, and Rotten Breath is a cone in front

Kill the gremlins with Meteor and Parting Blow. Kill the Bavarois before the Pudding spawns, and position yourself so that you don't get knocked out of the arena.

Stand in a puddle to reduce the damage from Pudding, but stand out of them for Flan. Beyond this, just avoid the AoEs and keep killing the boss.

Behemoth Gigantoad Karlabos

This gives us good AoE for the initial adds as well as a dispel and Water damage for later.

• Burning Cyclone: jumps to a side and then does a frontal cone. Spawns fireballs that do periodic circle AoEs, and when they stop one turns into a tornado that does a donut
• Blaze Spikes: dispellable. Reflects damage when the boss is attacked
• Mangling Fang: tank buster

• Barbmole: casts Needles Out, which makes it reflect with a stacking bleed when attacked. Cannot be dispelled. Also casts Seeding Needles, a large circle AoE
• Abbadon: eats morphos and gains regen stacks. It will not gain regen if the morpho is low health when eaten
• Morpho: applies stacks that confuse at 16. Confuses you if killed normally, and must be eaten by the Abbadon

Spawn Karlabos to get Quelling Wave, then swap to Behemoth. Follow the Drake Piece to the wall and avoid Burning Cyclone, and cleanse Blaze Spikes with Quelling Wave. When the Barbmoles spawn, kill them with Meteor and Parting Blow.

When the Abbadon and Morphos spawn, kill the Morphos and then the Abbadon. If the Abbadon gets close to the Morphos it will eat them and gain a regen. One strategy is also to have the Abbadon eat all the Morphos and then just kite it until the regen falls off, though on standard mode you can just kill the Morphos quickly.

Raptor Opo-opo Drake

This gives us plenty of damage and also Drake for Smoldering Scales.

• Electric Absorption: tethers three pillars and absorbs energy into the hands
• Grounding Jolt: four AoEs from each hand. The hand that did not absorb energy does a smaller AoE. Rotates before attacking from the second cast onward
• Missile: line AoEs that track you and lock in when the lasers turn red
• Thermobaric Charge: baited very large knockback. Cannot be pet cover immuned
• Diffusion Ray: frontal cone
• Summon: summons four spinner-rooks, which is a damage check before the bar fills
• Atomic Ray: heavy hitting raidwide damage. Pet cover will not take this damage for you

Start with Raptor and DPS the boss. Note which arm isn't channeling during Electric Absorption, as the safe spot during Grounding Jolt is far away from the boss in the direction of that arm. Thermobaric Charge will send you from corner to corner; it's a huge knockback that can't be tanked with Snarl, so drop the charge in a corner and get knocked back to the other corner, and Shield Charge is good here.

For Missile, stand still until the missiles lock in, then move out of the line AoE. For Diffusion Ray, just stand to the side or behind. Kill the rooks when the boss casts Summon, swapping to Opo- opo for Blunt damage to kill them.

Watch your health for Atomic Ray, or dedicate a pet to sacrifice for it if needed with a Ring of Sacrifice. You can also swap to Drake and use Smoldering Scales to dramatically reduce the damage you take. After this, it's just the same mechanics as before but layered over each other and sometimes a little faster, repeating until the boss is dead.

Mantis Colibri Ice Golem

This just gives us a lot of damage and an interrupt through Ice Golem.

• Summon: summons two lamias on the first cast, then one lamia and four cyclops on the second
• Petrifying Regard: tether. Baited petrify cone that damage buffs lamias and petrifies cyclops when it hits them. Also has rotating versions. Being petrified by this kills you instantly
• Impassion: self vulnerability down and damage buff. Cannot be dispelled
• Rippling / Constricting Evisceration: spawns two sets of lines that fire cones in the order they spawned. Rippling is circle then donut, and Constricting is donut then circle

• Lamia: attempts to revive any dead lamias. Otherwise does basic circle AoEs
• Cyclops: casts circle AoEs covering the entire arena when spawned. Instantly dies to any damage while petrified, and casts line AoEs in front afterwards

Start with Ice Golem to get Soul Crush, then switch to Mantis. Burn down the adds, but make sure not to bait Petrifying Regard onto the lamias. When one lamia dies, the other will try to raise it, so interrupt that with Soul Crush. Another lamia will spawn after, so interrupt and kill it too.

Four cyclops will spawn next. Bait a cone onto one to petrify it and kill it in one hit, then kill the other cyclops. If they're still up when the boss starts rotating with Petrifying Regard, you can petrify them again and one shot them.

Dodge Rippling Evisceration and Constricting Evisceration by avoiding the lines and staying out or in as appropriate, then swap positions to avoid the second AoE. This repeats until it is dead.

Mantis Colibri Geshunpest

Once again this is just a lot of damage plus a cleanse.

• The Dragon's Roar: donut plus a breath
• The Ram's Roar: circle AoE plus a breath
• Rushing Roar: tether. Casts the breath after dashing
• The Ram's Keeper: marker. Drops an ice puddle that expands and freezes if touched
• Cacophony: lightning orb that follows you and explodes
• Toxic Tantrum: raidwide plus poison. Cleansable

Grab Scouring Ash from Geshunpest then swap to Mantis. The attacks will mostly follow some sort of order, but it's best to just be prepared for all of them. Three of its attacks are paired with a "breath": fire from the lion cleaves in front, lightning from the dragon cleaves left, and ice from the ram cleaves right.

The breaths will be paired with the roars, so note which are being cast and which head is glowing, and dodge accordingly. Stretch the Rushing Roar tether until it is purple at the edge, then dodge the breath. Toxic Tantrum applies a poison DoT, so either cleanse it with Scouring Ash or have your pet tank it.

Cacophony will spawn an orb, so just avoid it, but watch out for the roar and breath that happen at the same time. Drop The Ram's Keeper at the wall and then move away from it to avoid it expanding. This repeats until it is dead.

Mantis Colibri Cu Sith

Here we're just frontloading damage but bringing some good Piercing as well.

• Banish: posed like a sphinx is a donut, standing normally is a circle AoE, and flying is a half-room cleave on the glowing wing side
• Numeric Riddle: covers the floor in tiles numbered 1 to 9
• Assignment: gives one or two debuffs, each asking you to stand on a matching tile when it runs out. All Prime is 2, 3, 5 and 7; All Even is 2, 4, 6 and 8; All Odd is 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9; All Three is 3, 6 and 9
• Mnemonic Riddle: the boss asks which of four beasts is a certain classification. The beasts turn into little mandragoras and shuffle around, and you click the correct answer. Answering correctly rewards a heal and a 30 second damage buff, while answering wrong or timing out gives paralysis and turns the four beasts into adds
• Lost Hope: spinning pointer debuff above your head that only lets you move in the direction of the pointer

The Banish pose can be hard to tell apart, so watch it carefully. If it floats up, stand on the side opposite the glowing wing. If it's on the ground with its front feet together, stay in for the donut, and if it's on the ground with its front feet apart, get away for the circle.

Numeric Riddle is a raidwide followed by a number riddle, so stand on a square that corresponds to a correct answer! It follows with Mnemonic Riddle; note what it says and follow the beasts as they jump around, then interact with the mandragora that the correct beast turned into to solve the riddle. After this you can resume blasting the boss. Lost Hope can make dodging tricky, but you can definitely kill it before this happens.

Gigantoad Behemoth Ice Golem

Here we need tankiness, AoE damage, and an interrupt.

• Gigantic Rage: crouching with the club in front is a circle AoE, the club held in both hands overhead is a behind half cleave, and the club swinging one-handed is a front half cleave. All of them knock back if they hit
• Smashing Stamp: marker. Line AoE in front, with a smaller red rectangle inside it near the boss that will kill a slime standing in it and absorb its element

• Slimes: cast Rupture, and self-destruct if it is not interrupted. Crushed slimes turn into several tiny ones
• Cyclops: casts Camaraderie, which heals the boss for 5% of its max health if it is not interrupted. Also casts frontal lines

Start with Ice Golem to get Soul Crush then swap to Gigantoad before pulling. When the boss uses Gigantic Rage, note the animation and dodge accordingly. It can be very tough to learn the animations, so I recommend just standing away on its sides and moving immediately when you see the telegraphs until you are comfortable with them.

When the boss spawns a slime, bait Smashing Stamp onto it. When the boss crushes a slime it absorbs that element and gains an extra effect after a Gigantic Rage ends: a lightning club leaves a tower under you, so stay in it, and a fire club leaves an AoE under you, so move. Avoid hitting a slime with the same element as the club, or it will grow large instead of dying.

With two slimes up, have the boss crush the one with the opposite element to the club and then interrupt the other, and you can blow up the second when the next Smashing Stamp happens. The little slimes can be taken out with Shield Charge, but Meteor works well too. Kill the Cyclops adds if you see them, then resume killing the boss.

Behemoth Worm Ice Golem

Here we're basically just bringing AoE and tankiness again.

• First Wave: six Swordsmogs. Just kill them
• Second Wave: three Mogbreakers. They cast large circle AoEs when they spawn
• Third Wave: three Kinged Kupocasters and Kinged Kupocurers, either two and one or one and two. The Curers cast Pom Flood and the Casters cast Pom Flare, and each applies a vulnerability of its element
• Fourth Wave: three Kupocasters. Exaflares that grow larger as they move
• Fifth Wave: three Kupocurers. They do an AoE in a triangle connecting them
• Sixth Wave: one Kinged Swordsmog, one Mogmugger and two Melomogs. The Mugger steals your tokens and leaves after a while, the Melomogs spawn bubbles that heal and buff the Swordsmog, and the Swordsmog damage buffs itself and does raidwides

There isn't much of a strat here, we're really just killing the moogles as quickly as possible. The waves are on a timer and will start even if you have not killed all of the previous mobs.

Kill the first wave with your AoE. On the second wave, stand at the wall without a moogle. On the third wave, focus down a pair since those stacks would ramp faster. On the fourth wave, avoid the exaflares and kill the adds, and on the fifth wave you just kill them. On the sixth wave, step on the bubbles to pop them.

Gigantoad Behemoth Geshunpest

Here we're just bringing tankiness, AoE, and a cleanse again. If you were lucky enough to get Doom resistance earlier you can ignore many of the mechanics here! The Ahriman does tend to reward extremely strong loot and can be worth it if you've been healthy so far.

• Roulette: pulls and binds you to an hourglass and spawns a rotating cursor. The hourglass cleaves in the cursor's direction when it dies
• Stare: no cast bar. Line tank buster
• Double Vision: applies a random debuff. Sad means stand in red, and angry means stand in white
• Curtains for Rank 5: raidwide that also kills any pet whose rank is a multiple of 5
• Flare: proximity AoE that also hits your pet

• Dirty Eye: casts a gaze that inflicts Doom, which cannot be removed
• Hapalit: occasionally inflicts burn on its target. Cleansable

Start with Geshunpest to get Scouring Ash, then swap to Gigantoad. Gigantoad is a solid tank here, so you can have it tank for a while for you. Kill the Roulette hourglass while the cursor is not pointing at you; if you have Doom resistance, this can be used to kill adds.

Double Vision works like World of Darkness, so stand in the opposite half to your debuff. The debuff appears a second or two before the Double Vision cast goes off. When the summon happens, just kill the adds as soon as possible, look away from the Ahriman, and cleanse the burns. Once again Meteor is solid here.

Release a pet of a rank divisible by 5 before Curtains for Rank 5 if you need to, otherwise it dies immediately. When Flare happens, just run to a wall away from your pet. This repeats until it is dead.

Golem Worm Ghost

• Meteor Impact: drops five rocks on you. A rock will explode if it is too close to another
• Lightning Barrage: gives two rings to a tower
• Charybdis: raised arm is a circle AoE, and on the ground is a donut
• Ecliptic Meteor: you must be behind a meteor, and your pet must be behind one too
• Meteor: multi-hit stack marker. Does not drop rocks despite the name

• Lightning Sprite: the boss is immune until all of the sprites are dead. Shoots cross-shaped attacks, and also seems to shoot lightning puddles
• Giant: casts Grand Sword, a frontal cone that destroys any rocks it hits

This is going to be very similar to any other Behemoth we've ever seen in the game, with some slight twists. The Energy Towers gain a ring when hit by a lightning puddle and two stacks from Lightning Barrage. Interact with them to release their energy, and if they reach three rings they detonate and stun you.

Save at least one Meteor Impact rock for later, and make sure not to drop them too close to each other. For Lightning Barrage, stand next to a tower to transfer the debuff and step away once you see the circle under the tower. The sprite crosses do not charge the towers, but the puddles do. Nothing too spicy here, it will die fairly quickly if you end up fighting it.

Adamantoise Colibri Geshunpest

This is essentially just for tankiness and damage.

• Vanishing Daggers: four sets of daggers spawn and go off in the order they spawned. They turn invisible after a while
• Point Maker: two sets of daggers spawn next to the boss, and the boss and the daggers fire line AoEs baited on you
• Unseen Force: binds you and teleports behind or in front of you, then throws a dagger that gives a debuff. When it times out you are knocked very far, in the direction the dagger was thrown relative to your character. The distance is from the north or south pocket to the opposite one
• Deadly Demesne: as in the Guttler Piece encounter, plus a variation where the cages have a circle of daggers facing inward that close in on the cage in an AoE
• Molten Metal: baited AoE that leaves a sword which then explodes in a proximity AoE
• Thunderbolt: as in the Guttler Piece encounter, but it also gives the boss a stacking damage buff
• Greater Strength: two sword adds spawn that make her immune and give a stacking magic damage buff. She spams raidwides while casting either Guttler Glutter, a knockback from the middle, or Searing Axe, a proximity AoE from the middle

Many of her moves carry over from the Guttler Piece encounter, and the only differences are Thunderbolt's stacking damage buff and the extra Deadly Demesne variation. If you don't have paralysis resistance or are low on HP, I recommend having a pet tank it for you and then swapping it out to the next pet. Once again you benefit more from knowing all the attacks rather than memorizing a specific timeline, and we handle most of the stuff the same as the first time we saw her.

Remember the Vanishing Daggers order before they disappear. For Point Maker, avoid hitting the statues on the sides. With Unseen Force, she will throw a dagger into your back or your front, and when the debuff expires you will get knocked in a direction corresponding to where the dagger hit you: front means knocked back, and back means knocked forward. When this is comboed with her Gluttonous attacks, you need to stand with her and position yourself to get knocked back. If she's doing the Gutting where you need to be with her, then gap close after and stand behind her. Otherwise if it's Goring, you can just ride the knockback to the other cubby to be safe.

The Deadly Demesne with the circular daggers looks spooky, but isn't too bad. Look at the two squares that are drawn in two corners, and stand in a corner along the opposite diagonal to drop the Molten Metal AoE then move away from it after the AoEs have gone off.

When she starts casting Greater Strength, kill the two swords and note what she is casting so you can reduce damage. You will either be close to get knocked back to a cubby or go far away to a cubby to avoid the proximity damage. After this, everything more or less repeats until she is dead, and it gets hectic the longer it goes on.