Aion Riftshade

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I am planing my first Stella NM run with my ranger. Gear should be ready -> full ultimate+15 and already did EM with 4 ppl

So would like to have a Checklist for Mechanics in NM for DDs (Points where i'm not sure are marked with "--") :

1st Boss:

-sb handels the switch

-kill explosive & healing adds

- stay in the light

-- Stay close to other group members? Stay behind the Boss?

2nd Boss

-Stay behind the boss

-handle your ladder when adds spawn

-if the Boss casts (dont know the exact name) on you go away from the rest of the group

3rd Boss

-stay out of the blue circles on the ground

- if electric wave is announced -> blue adds

- sb handels the shield adds

--what are the other adds for? green and red ones? Do i have to bother them in any way?

4th Boss

- if the Boss pulls, go on >15m range

-avoid red ground

-stay behind the boss

-- so now the mechanic i dont get in EM:

--fly to the position of the boss

-- Kill adds and activate switches

-- 3 Members port to other platform and make the switches there

-- jump in middle when it gets free

-- back to main area and normal mechanics

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Do i have forgotten something or is there something wrong? Want to avoid a fail-run so i would appreciate useful tipps by more experienced players.

Quote from TheLink

3rd Boss

-stay out of the blue circles on the ground

- sb handles the towers (blue circles) with red adds

"--stay close to other group members": After the light appears he casts "blinding attack" or smth. It's dmg is shared by the one targeted and the other players standing around him, so stand next to that person, because otherwise he'll be oneshot.

"--what are the..." The Red one can be used to destroy a generator, which then results in the "blue circles on the ground" disappearing. Not necessary, but quite nice sometimes.

"--so now the..." It's exactly like you wrote it. Fly up -> Kill Ads -> Activate all six switches (three on each platform) -> Jump onto the middle platform -> Main Area

1st boss:

You are not a tank, so you dont have to always be in the light.

You need to go stack with other people when boss is casting „blinding attack?“ (he will do that once he is in the light).

If you get a bomb (red debuff) after blinding attack you need to go away from group so only you get the damage

2nd boss:

Skill is named „epidemic“. If target is someone else, i usually just go as close to tank, sometimes it helps to not get it, when people are late moving out. If you have epidemic debuff on you boss 180° frontal aoe insta kills you (so react fast and you can survive).

3rd boss:

Green add paralyze -> dont touch

Red adds deals small aoe insta kill damage. 1 person needs to kite red add to the little blue tower, sleep or root it and kill it from afar. Ranger is really good for this because of sleeps. Destroy tower -> blue circles gone.

4th boss:

Before entering boss room mark 3 people who will teleport, if you wanna be safe decide on 4th one who will tp if someone from 3 dies. After 4 blue grounds boss will fly up the platform. It can either be left or right. All group goes to the side the boss is in. At the end of runway there is upstream -> you need to glide on it, when you get to platform immediately hit the boss once to interupt his healing cast, then kill adds around him. Be careful to not step in the middle (below boss). Once you kill adds portal to other side opens, 3 people tp. All 6 switches must be used and then you can jump in the middle platform (it lights up blue). After boss aoes glide to the side you came from and interupt the boss from healing. From then on stage 1 begins again.

THANK YOU for these helpful hints! Helped really a lot…

Just one question: Where are these towers for the red adds in the room of the 3rd Boss? Didn't have to deal with them this time, but for future runs it would be good to know.

Ii think they appear randomly in one of the four places - top/bottom/left/right to the boss

The greens adds are more likely for a hard mode version in the future. To paralyse an add or the boss. But just ignore, but if ur runs are getting boring, taunt one to keep ur group on its toes.

In addition to what Myriani said i just want to add:

At Draug, start the boss before you activate the 'Strange Switch' to start the wall timer before light is coming up. This way you'll assure that you won't get killed by the flood.

At Shiamon, when boss casts epidemic, the target has to go away from the group, i think 15+m. Staying near the tank won't always solve the issue as you can still get it there. Deliberate strike is frontal conic aoe and a very easy way to avoid it is to be 180° of the boss, check on whom he casted deliberate skill and then you can easily avoid it.

At Paplap, very important to assign people who deal with yellow and red bombs. Red is pretty simple, templar/AT or classes with ranged skills can do it pretty easily. Kill the bomb near the spawned tower. stay 10+m away from it when it explodes if you're not a tank with massive defence otherwise u'll get one shot.

With yellow bomb it is important for the bomb to be really close to the boss when it gets killed.

At Daeva Mob Leader, after you glide only interrupt the boss once you landed on the platform and not while u are jumping otherwise boss will still heal.

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In addition to what Myriani said i just want to add:

At Draug, start the boss before you activate the 'Strange Switch' to start the wall timer before light is coming up. This way you'll assure that you won't get killed by the flood.

At Shiamon, when boss casts epidemic, the target has to go away from the group, i think 15+m. Staying near the tank won't always solve the issue as you can still get it there. Deliberate strike is frontal conic aoe and a very easy way to avoid it is to be 180° of the boss, check on whom he casted deliberate skill and then you can easily avoid it.

At Paplap, very important to assign people who deal with yellow and red bombs. Red is pretty simple, templar/AT or classes with ranged skills can do it pretty easily. Kill the bomb near the spawned tower. stay 10+m away from it when it explodes if you're not a tank with massive defence otherwise u'll get one shot.

With yellow bomb it is important for the bomb to be really close to the boss when it gets killed.

At Daeva Mob Leader, after you glide only interrupt the boss once you landed on the platform and not while u are jumping otherwise boss will still heal.

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I want to point out that the bombs Pathfind around objects, other mobs, including minions... so when you are aggroing the yellow mob next to paplap, it needs to be next to him, most classes have some kind of root skill, so if u struggle u can root it in place. same with red, most classes should be able to do red, including painter (using the time binding skill, or other skills in that daeva chain)