This boss is quite dramatic but simple. however, will be a challenge for many groups especially the tank since she hits SO hard. Pay close attention to mechanics and don’t get caught out bar swapping during a heavy attack.  The boss needs to be taunted at all times and try to keep it turned away from the group. Most of the attacks will one-shot a dps or healer no matter what.

Wasps – Nice and easy, two wasps spawn during the fight multiple times, they have a heavy attack that should be blocked and a charge that should be blocked. They can be chained and CC’d so if the tank pulls them into the boss you can make pretty short work of them. Not a MAJOR issue, but should be dealt with so you don’t have too much going on in the room at once.

Rain! – The boss will channel multiple poison-type rains hits from the sky which must be avoided as they deal high damage, but usually, during this stage, she fires secondary LARGE aoes at individuals (usually two at once) THESE will stun you and/or one-shot you. If you are a dps/healer avoid these at all costs or die. They are very easy to see, don’t panic, just step aside and get out of the way. They spread before they burst so you have plenty of time!

Winds – At low health (under 30%) the boss will occasionally cast purple winds around the room. These are not specifically targeted at the group they just fly around for a few seconds. Avoid these as they deal moderate damage and slow you down. not ideal to mess with during stacked mechanics.

Heavy Attack – The boss will spin her staff at the tank much like Relequen in Cloudrest, and then hit with a HIGH-hitting heavy attack. If the tank doesn’t block this or have full health while blocking, they are dead!

Cone Attack – The boss does have a frontal cone attack usually followed by or connected to several small aoes that move across the floor. They don’t hit THAT hard but you want to avoid these if possible.

Lurcher – The lurcher is a large add which will spawn during the fight usually 70% health! The lurcher should be considered your primary target. There is no RACE to get him down but the sooner he is out of the room the better for the sake of simplicity. Be aware he follows the mechanics of the other lurchers in the dungeon so he can have a shaking fit and fire aoes and also has a HUGE spread shot in front of him. If you see it, taunt it and kill it.

Stranglers – As soon as the first boom phase is over and the adds start spawning, stranglers will start spawning on a timer, almost every minute. There are generally 2 placed randomly in the room. These must be killed immediately. They stun and pull and the last thing you want is for a tank to get stunned during a heavy attack or a dps to get stunned during the boom phases, so focus on these asap!

Immunity Buff – After the first boom phase the boss will summon a ground aoe which has a purple color inside spreading. Once it reaches its full size (very quickly) it will become solid. If the boss is standing in it at this time it will be immune to ALL damage for the duration. This does run out over time but then another will spawn and so on, throughout the fight.

As demonstrated in the video, you can deliberately allow her to be immune so you can deal with health % mechanics while not pushing her over the edge. OR you can simply move backward out of the aoe and the buff will be removed. keep her feet out of it and it will never be a problem, or be clever about it and use it to your advantage. Some people can use this as an ultimate building opportunity.  Bear in mind the boss DOES hit harder during immunity if she is glowing purple.

RED RED RED!!!! (aka BOOM Phase) – Typically it is common knowledge that the boss goes into this phase at 70% and 30%. Technically this is not true. The FIRST phase happens at 80%, and THEN it is on LOOSE health percentages AND a timer. It TRIES to push about 80,60,40,30 BUT it also tries to fire roughly once per minute give or take a few seconds.

What you are looking for is the boss will slam her staff into the ground and red roots will shoot under the floor in 3 different directions. Each one will spawn a red creature that must be killed within 12-13 seconds else the cone aoe it is spreading will blow up. The trick is to kill a couple of them and make a safe space to stand in.  Regular vet or regular normal difficulty you can survive the boom if you are buffed heavily but be careful. Hardmode however? BIG difference!

HARDMODE – The boss has a LOT more health, the Lurcher has WAY more health, and everything hits harder but the majority of the mechanics are the same. Except for ONE!  The RED RED RED BOOM phase is MUCH harder and although the game generally doesn’t have many “DPS checks” this one is HIGH!

Instead of 3 creatures spawning with big explosion mechanics, you get 4! YOU MUST kill TWO of them and they MUST be polar opposites of each other position-wise. That way there will be two safe spaces to stand in. If you only kill one, you will have nowhere to stand and if you kill none, the same applies.  This mechanic on regular vet you can survive, on hardmode you will all die no matter what. NO way out!

You MUST when this mechanic happens, apply as much damage as possible. Technically they have just over 430k health each and two must die. Over 12-13 seconds or so you could argue that both players need 33k dps each, but it is not as simple as that. Applying that with current group buff variables alters what you can and cannot bring AND you are avoiding other mechanics while jumping from one target to the other. It’s not like a dummy hump stack and burn. This will take some tactical application of your skills to get the most burst in a short period of time.

Work together, if you kill two dogs, you will live, if you don’t you will die.  33k on paper looks low (technically 66k per dps if you split up, which I do not advise). But believe me, in mechanics it is a struggle.  This ONE phase (not the rest of the fight) ***IS*** a DPS check!

Good luck!