The Lava Queen – Blessed Crucible Boss

Overview

The Lava Queen is encountered in Blessed Crucible . This one is a tricky one! There is a lot going on and pretty much everything you can see will kill you. Lava kills, fire kills, pools of lava on the floor, etc. are all dangerous. Tiny pools are not there for fun or part of the scenery, they are HIGH damage areas and you are NOT meant to stand in them. So watch your feet!

The tank should put the boss as central as possible without standing in the lava and get ready for a world of pain. Do NOT drop the boss! For all group members, you must find your positions and focus. Do NOT dance around the room, you WILL die and it is very hard to recover.

Mechanics

Atronachs – Just like the last boss, atronachs will spawn. During this fight, the lesser her health the more atronachs spawn. They will attach a beam to her and render her IMMUNE to ALL damage until the atronachs are dead. You MUST focus on those atronachs BUT be sure to follow mechanics because these can overlap with other phases.

Heavy Attack – The boss has a very hard-hitting heavy attack! If you block this you will take barely any damage (even a DPS can survive) BUT if you miss it, you will fly a LONG way and she will follow up with other light attacks while you are on the ground. The heavy is also delayed animation-wise, so be sure that you block as soon as you see her winding it up. It will hit you way before the animation has finished.

Eruptions – Randomly during the fight lava pools will erupt and fire into the room. Watch your feet and avoid these. They are small AOE but they do hurt a lot!

Flame Attack – Randomly the boss will fire flame light attacks at the group, usually at the furthest target. So keep your shields up and/or block when you see this coming.

The Wheel! – From a bird’s eye view this looks like the spokes of a wheel. She will stab her sword into the ground and erupt several fast-moving lines of fire from her to the edge of the area. These are random in direction but they will constantly fire until she stands up again.

The trick to this is range! Staying close makes it impossible to have enough time to react. As soon as you see her stab the floor, move backward and get as much safe distance as possible, watch the flame on the floor, and if it is aiming at you, simply move left and right to avoid it.

Once the phase is over, get back in again. Getting hit by this will ONE shot a DPS or a healer, so spread out, dodge the attacks and come back in…simple…effective, but done wrong, it is devastating.

Taking off vampire won’t save you…THIS will one shot anyone but a tank, and even most of those will die vampire or not. Watch your feet!

Good luck!

Tips & Strategy

• Tank: Keep the boss central and do NOT drop her.
• DPS: Focus the Atronachs when they make the boss immune.
• Healer: Maintain your position and watch for overlapping mechanics.
• Everyone: Watch your feet and move back during The Wheel!