I want to help you, I really do. But I'm genuinely terrified of what Zeni will do if they find out I have a useful combination of Templar class skills.

But… When I was a healer I preferred to take the pinion rather than get stuck with portals, there are easy enough ways to deal with the dot. When you do get the portals, use Aurora Javelin. It's cheap, fast, and gives a distance bonus.

I'm not a Templar, but I have seen them in action plenty of times.

Firstly, the second person to grab the pinion will most likely avoid the first portal phase each time the boss "resets". What I mean by "resets" is when after the boss finishes it's blue phase and dips to the ground and remains immobile for a short period, she essentially "resets", the DOTs clear and the red fire phase begins again.

If you can negotiate the second position in the pinion rotation after each time the boss "resets" it will limit the amount of portals you have to do. But you need to grab the pinion the second it becomes available for this to work. General rule, if you have the bosses agro, you can't get portals unless everyone else is dead.

If you do get portals, vampires bane or radiant oppression are the go to skills. You should be able to one shot a portal using these. If you can't, it's a gear issue. Either your max magic or spell damage is too low. Note that these skills can channel the boss by accident if it's too close to a portal, so be ready to block cancel a misfire. You can also slot a destro staff (you should be using this already to provide important group buffs like elemental drain) and use force pulse. You should be light or medium attack weaving these skills to ensure your closing the portal in one-shot.

On awareness....The best position to close portals is circling the center of the room just outside the pinion platform. As with any fight, things will happen behind you, it's your responsibility to have enough awareness to not get run over by the boss during blue phase as she moves through the rooms center. AS well, you must keep your head on a swivel and anticipate portals forming behind you.

At some point two people will get portals. BEFORE the fight begins speak with your group about splitting the room in half, either left or right side, or light or dark side works. When this occurs the two portal people should call out which side they will take and close the portals on their respective sides while helping the other person when possible.

Finally, if you're the groups healer you must be able heal while doing portals. This means you close a portal, breath of LIfe (BOL), close portal, BOL, close portal, BOL, close portal, BOL.....until all the portals are done.

Note: When the blue phase is over and the boss "resets" and is immobile on the ground, no one is taking damage. As a healer, this is your time to regen your resources for the next portal phase or when one of you group members needs a lot of heals due to a huge DOT.

For that particular boss i use harness magicka on my healer for the protection and regen.
Since my spell dmg is high (3k buffed) i can easily 1-shot those portals with Vamps Bane or Force Pulse.
Also, you need to run around constantly having full view of the room to hit all those nasty portals.
Pop a mutagen or rapids every once in a while so.

My sorc can one shot the portals from range with destro staff, but I agree that seeing them is the hard part. Like @Cuyler, I found circling the inner platform while scanning the outer wall was the best way to see them.

Perhaps you taking too long to close them? I had that problem. This worked for me:
1) increase spell damage and magicka polls and decrease mag reg. Had to adjust some gear and skills;
2) radiant destruction. You have to block cancel the skill and move on to the next. With enough spell damage one crushing shock is enough.
3) lots of practice.

Why do you run around to cast radiant destruction? You just need to hang around the platform and can easily hit any portal.

beerninja wrote: »

spin the camera around and use dark flare for portals. For the boss use cold damage abilities as she has 0 cold resistance. ice comet, destructive reach with ice staff, etc. Keep either mutagen or rapid regen on people at all times.

The cast time on Dark Flare makes me disagree with this. By the time you locate and target the portal, then wait for flare to cast and connect, it spawned at least one add, and possibly an additional portal.

Many factors here:

If you are decently geared and have about 3200 spell damage buffed like me, you can one shot the portals with a heavy attack on resto staff.

Best way to do this is to zoom out all the way, keep camera spinning one way while turning your character the other. You will see every portal that spawns and kill em quick.

If you lower geared I recommend popping structured enthropy before portal phase and using dark flare. Dark flare has a cast time but it hits hard. All you need to do is cast flare and move camera away and start looking for the next portal. You do not need to sit here and wait for the flare to hit, just know if you used structured, dark flare SHOULD one shot them. I hope this helps.

Here you go, hope this helps

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EDIT: We've also done this fight more recently using two sorcerers with overload in just over a minute with this tactic and with these abilities.Vampires Bane is by far the best ability to use on portals.

Snipe or Force Pulse

And stay in the middle of the room.

Get a decent tank that can survive more than 5 seconds without heals and have him STAND still with the boss until she becomes blue.
When she goes blue the tank starts running away until one of the group members gets the portals, whoever doesn't have portals take the pinion, then the tank takes it back and she drops, rinse and repeat.

You stay in the middle, run clockwise or counterclockwise around the pinion and use any skill that does more than 7.5k dmg to close portals when they pop out.

With decent DPS you only have one turn when one person has to close ten, if the healer gets that turn some adds will pop out most of the time. When you have portals togheter with another DPS have him close them by himself while you focus on healing and only close the ones that spawn really close to you, if he can't solo close the portals get a decent DPS.

Fully charged heavy attacks take out the portals.

I tank this boss with ease. Everyone needs a little self sustain and the pinion should be grabbed as soon as it pops by anyone available. When she falls to the ground if yheir are adds clear them. This battle is a marathon not a race. Just keep calm and its smooth.

What I do as a healer:

First thing to know is that this first is hard to do with a random group of 4 people. If one of those 4 never did it before, yeah, there are going to be wipes.

The hardest part about the portals is finding them. It sounds dumb, but the color scheme doesn't make it easy to see. Third person all the way. Once you know what to look for it does get easier.

I just use Radiant destruction on the portals. It's 28 meters and all you need. If adds are still getting through, that's because you aren't identifying them and attacking them quick enough.

When you say a billion portals, I am guessing you are referring to the last part of the fight where 2 people get them. Yeah, there are a lot at the point! Just us RD on them.

You shouldn't have to change your build too much. The only thing I do is slot harness magicka because all that damage is magic.

You should know that unless the boss has a blue flame, she does not do that much damage. Indeed I tend to stay put even if I have aggro and DPS her. I only move when she spins around and a red circle spawn underneath you.

Don't get too discouraged with the fight. We all struggled with it at first and then once you get used to it, it isn't too bad.

Few more tries and a much more patient (and skilled) group allowed me to learn the mechanics.

Vampires Bane turned out to work the best, as if it didn't initially destroy it the dot would. Speaking of the dot, another portal wouldn't spawn until that portal was gone in early phases, allowing me to assess the team. The javelin just wasn't doing enough damage and I didn't enjoy being locked out while using Radiant Oppression.

The garbage advice that the lovely dps told me about standing aside a wall in third person did more harm than good. Standing in the middle, or at least near the middle, allowed me to spin the camera and see any portals that popped up. While I'm not as good as a dps at closing them, very few ads make it through. Occasionally I do miss a portal of course, as a white blob in a fiery black-and-white haze can be hard to see. But these are rare and I've improved quite a bit.

First run I finished, I got an infused light armor Kena helmet.

Pink_Violinz wrote: »

Few more tries and a much more patient (and skilled) group allowed me to learn the mechanics.

Vampires Bane turned out to work the best, as if it didn't initially destroy it the dot would. Speaking of the dot, another portal wouldn't spawn until that portal was gone in early phases, allowing me to assess the team. The javelin just wasn't doing enough damage and I didn't enjoy being locked out while using Radiant Oppression.

The garbage advice that the lovely dps told me about standing aside a wall in third person did more harm than good. Standing in the middle, or at least near the middle, allowed me to spin the camera and see any portals that popped up. While I'm not as good as a dps at closing them, very few ads make it through. Occasionally I do miss a portal of course, as a white blob in a fiery black-and-white haze can be hard to see. But these are rare and I've improved quite a bit.

First run I finished, I got an infused light armor Kena helmet.

Way to go! awesome loot!