Rift: Expert Foul Cascade

Expert Foul Cascade

Krasimir Barionov

Like the standard version, this boss summons 3 phase of mobs at you. Clear them down and on the last phase of summoning, he will be consumed and change into a different mob. What he does is throw these AoE on the ground that you have to avoid and Tank and Spank it.

Matron Verosa

Also like the standard version, Matron Verosa comes with Lesch and Gurze. However, this time Lesch is much more annoying and does Staggering Blitz a lot more. Not too hard since it can be healed through. First knock down Verosa down some, then she’ll unleash Lesch. When Lesch is at around 75%, Gurze will be unleashed. Tank should face Gurze away from the group . After Gurze is taken down some, both will be unleashed. You can either kill one by one, or both at once for the achievement. Just remember to face Gurze away from the party and heal the Staggering Blitz. After both is taken down, Matron Verosa will take on the fight. She will do Death Storm like usual, which needs to be AoE healed. You can spread out, but the targetted AoE is somewhat large.

Surin Skenobar

Surin Skenobar this time is a bit different. Not only does he blink towards someone, he’ll also drop a bomb keg on the person. What you do when there’s a dynamite keg under your leg? You run. You run like hell. Oh shit, you ran into someone else! BOOM! Don’t get exploded by your keg or someone else’s or else BOOM! and no achievement for you. After the 5 kegs, AoE Heal up! Because the keg still does AoE damage. That’s all you need to know.

Sparkwing

Sparkwing is a flying birdy in a puff of storm cloud. He roams all around north east and south part of the map. He is quite far up in the sky, but if you see a lightning storm cloud that would be him. This is an easy tank and spank boss. What he does is PBAoE lightning move. So if DPS can go range, do it.  This is an Expert dungeon; people should have multi roles should they want to continue doing end-game for situation like this to make this encounter even easier.

Tephra Lord Maficros

Before you fight this boss, you actually have to clear an earth rift. This comes in a couple packs of spiders and scorpions. After that, lesser earth elemental (orelings) and these red earth elemental.  Watch out for the red earth elemental since it can do AoE move that hurts a lot, and can 1 shot. In this phase there will also be red glowing half spheres that pop around a random player. What this do is knock you up in the sky, damages you, and place a stacking healing debuff on you. Everyone should avoid it, esp the tank. When you finish the initial stages, Tephra Lord Maficros will spawn along with a sidekick that will unleash Queen Vallnara by knocking the 3 stone pillars down. You can ignore the sidekick and go straight for Maficros. Remember, the red sphere will still be there so avoid it. Also like the smaller version, it does nasty moves to close range melee, don’t stand in front. Ranged DPS would be good. Tank avoid spank!

Optional: You can kill the sidekick first before it kill the 3 things for an achievement. HOWEVER! If you do this, Vallnara gets corrupted and she’ll pop 2 spiders each instead of 1 every time she impregnates people. If you think you can handle this, ie: Heal is good and DPS is good then by all means do it. The sidekick has around 47k HP I believe. Since there will be a lot of spiders, the tank has to grab them all and DPS have to AoE them down since it will get nasty.

Queen Vallnara

This boss is annoying since the poison she spews out from her ass is barely visible. What you do is have the tank walk backwards around and grab the adds. If there are melee DPS, they better be sure they can avoid the poison by not actually meleeing at the back. They are a liability anyways so they should go ranged. Once it impregnates someone, there’s a short time the spider adds that spawns won’t do anything. The tank have to grab the adds and the one that got impregnated should be healed since it also applies DoT to them. Focus all DPS on the boss and have support heal and you can take her down.

Rift: Expert Iron Tombs

Expert Iron Tombs

Bloodmother Venoxas

There will be a new area right before Caor Ashtone. There will be two packs of spiders that need to be cleared before the spider’s lair. Watch out for getting locked out of the fight. Everyone have to step directly past the doorway in order to not get locked. Grab a support heal and the fight is simple, just focus all DPS on the boss.

The fight itself pretty simple:

• Tank it away from people.
• Occasionally there will be small and large spider spawns, the tank have to grab them.
• The room is an L shape, over time it will hop into a mound and summons more spiders.
• The second time it hops into a mound and summon more, it will have this green aura on it.
• The third time it summons, it will do an AoE move that can kill some people, so Line of Sight it after it summons.

Caor Ashtone

Caor Ashtone is just like the standard boss. This time it puts on an Aura of Decay on people. You can clear it by LoSing it for a short time. He also silences people and fear + DoT someone. Heal/dispel that person. That’s the basics of it, just Tank and Spank.

The Three Kings

Just like the standard mode, they all do the same thing. Just interrupt Laric’s Unholy Healing and you’ll be fine. However after you kill 2 of the 3 kings, there will be 5 adds at a time that appears from right and left. You can either go for the achievement killing 40 of them then the final boss or just go straight and kill the final one.

Bonelord Fetlorn

This is a new boss that appears at the orb and shades area. You have to touch every orb in order to open up the area where you obtain the amulet for your standard IT quest. The boss will emote two different things. If it said “blood boils” that means it will fear whomever it sees. If it said it wants bones, then it will summon a bone add for every person that it sees. In order to combat this, you can pull the boss to the entrance of that area and tank him there. Whenever it emotes either of those two things, everyone have to run behind the wall to LoS it. It will stop and pause for a bit, so when it comes back, you have to pull the boss back to the tanking area. The rest of the group can just go inside and heal and dps there and strafe towards the wall to LoS it.

Ragnoth the Destroyer

Also similar to the standard boss, you have to go towards Eliam’s light. However, this time it will snare people. The best way is to DPS/Heal right in the middle so you have a better running start from either side. Follow the standard procedure, don’t face the boss.

Totek the Ancient

Totek shouldn’t be too difficult to handle. Pretty much tank and spank except for his furious move. When you see the announcement/emote message, get away from there. It is a pretty large range AoE that can 1 shot. Tank the boss on a wall since it pushback. After the furious move, it will put a debuff on someone. What that does is after a few sec it will knock back the person and does a large amount of damage. Heal that person up and continue the Totek pounding. Rinse and repeat.