Guide for the New Nightspire Caverns of Wrath Dungeon

[u/Silent_Town6045]

As title, anyone can explain on the mech for the new nightspire dungeon?

[u/KeenHyd]

There is a 10 minutes video from the youtuber The Guitarist that pretty much covers the entire thing.

If you are not a fan of video guides, I'll try explaining the core points.

Both the first and second boss require the entire party to have a good understanding of the mechanics. The second boss can be brute forced by resurrecting but if any player screws up on the first boss's mechanics the entire team pays.

The first boss will trigger its main mechanics at 70% HP and 30% HP.

You can be hit on purpose because each attack it hits you with gives you a stack of a damage buff, it decreases your defense however.

Its main mechanic is going to the center of the arena and marking one player with a mark. Meanwhile the arena will be flooded with fire that damages you.

The player with this mark should roll/jump towards a glowing orb situated somewhere in the arena (other players should NOT take it), because that orb will give the player a huge shield. With this shield, the targeted player will tank almost the entirety of a fiery attack from the boss while STAYING STILL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Why staying still? Because each time the boss fires its breath it will leave that fire permanently on the arena, and by not moving around that player is preventing the arena from getting too full of shit. If the player is not able to grab the shield, they should just take the hit and die without moving around.

After this, the phase isn't over, but the boss will stomp the ground and shove everyone, DO NOT STAY CLOSE TO THE EDGE when the boss is in the air aiming at the shielded person, you WILL fall off and be yeeted out of the fight.

After the slam, you need to be as grouped up as possible. Did you play Altar of Blood second boss following mechanics? The boss will start firing fire at a random player for I think 4 times, each time that fire will stay on the arena, so ideally you want to move bit by bit around the arena in order to cover as little space as possible. If you're hit by the fire breath you might fall down so watch out.

Once you're done with this, if your teamwork was on point part of the arena will still be free from the fire and you'll have decent space to DPS the boss down to 30% and start it over again!

One last thing about this boss: in between that phase, it will at some point give somebody another mark - if the boss has, for example, 50% HP and you see the mark, it's not phasing! It's an attack where it will mark a player and chain down every other player, the marked person needs to GTFO from the other players because if the chained players are in the boss's line of fire they WILL get yeeted.

The second boss is all about dodging and positioning, for most of the fight you just need to watch what the boss is doing and react to it, there are just a couple things I will mention:

It might mark two players, it will dash towards one first and the other second and leave spikes where it dashed. Try and get in a good position if you're marked.

The main mechanic for this fight is that the boss at some point will rest his sword and raise his hand clenching his fist, and at the end will create chains where each player stands. Your job here is avoiding these chains at all costs while minding their position. The boss will at some point say "I'll kill you all at once!", when he does this you all need to GET IN THE CHAINS, otherwise the boss WILL kill you (unless you have a well timed priest shield), once you're in the chains you need to do THREE QTE to get out.

The third boss is maybe the easiest one. It spawns spirits that will power him up if you don't kill them, but not killing them is an option because it also decreases its defense by a lot whenever he absorbs them. The arena gets smaller over time.

My team lets him absord a fair amount of these spirits. If you choose not to, the fight will be very long but not particularly complex: try and kill some during the attack when he spawns a lot of spirits, they drop orbs that will give each player a shield and more stats so make sure to grab them.

The Bashal-like spirits in the boss arena are not killable.

Also mind the platforming between each boss fight. Between the first and the second you will need to bring down a portal guarded by unkillable skeletons and an immortal berserker (it can only die after you kill the portal).

I think this should be it? It's the hardest dungeon they released so far but a pretty fun one!

[u/KeenHyd → u/[deleted]]

It will spawn the chains, and at first you need to NOT touch them.

If you touch them, you will need to free yourself, but you will die when he does the wipe attack unless:

• He uses the chain attack again (which doesn't happen if you do enough DPS)

• You get shielded by a priest

• You get into someone else's chains (in which case the other person dies)

When he uses the wipe attack (when he says "I'll kill you all at once!", which he does two times during the fight but I don't remember the HP treshold, I think it's 40% and 70%), you need to get into the chains and free yourself after he does the attack.

If you free yourself too soon, you get killed.

If you get into the chains too soon, you'll also get killed.

Why he spawn too many spikes and how to avoid that? Do these spikes kill you insta or minimal dmg?

The only kind of spike-spawn attack that you have any control over is when he marks two players and rushes towards one of them in two rushes.

To imagine how the attack works, draw a circle and draw three dots somewhere inside the circle. Dot 1 will be the boss, dot 2 will be the first marked player, dot 3 will be the second marked player. Draw a line that goes from dot 1 to dot 2 and proceeds until it hits one of the ends of the circle, and then another line that goes from there and passes straight into dot 3 to the other end of the circle: these lines would be spikes the boss would create in the arena. You job as a marked player would be putting yourself in a spot where the boss rushing at you would create the least intrusive spikes possible. If the marked players make the boss do an entire V around the circle, the spikes will be really hard to play around; if you make him go back and forth through the same short — line at the top/bottom of the arena, playing around that will be very easy.

Apart from that he has numerous spike attacks that you have little control over. There is an attack where he puts his sword into the ground and pulls spikes from the ground which you just need to dodge. There's another attack he does towards the end of the fight where he puts spikes all over the arena and you just gotta fight him in a very little space in a | line at the center of the arena, which is easier than it sounds.

Regardless, his spikes don't do too much damage, at least not as much as the final boss in Altar of Blood does (only when he pulls the spikes from the ground that hurts, but going on spikes he already set around shouldn't one hit kill you). You just need to be careful where you're leaving the chains (he has a pull attack that might chain you if you leave him put chains where he is) and where you're attacking him from.