Corrupted Skynest (Hard)

Boss: Nightmare Kelsaik

Key Mechanics

Parasites - A new mechanic to hard mode and super annoying. Every time kelsaik does a random double claw, he will apply this debuff to someone.

• Its determined by if Kelsaik is enraged or not.

  If Enraged = Closest player
  If Not Enraged = Furthest player
  

It stacks to 3 times total and does nothing UNLESS you get 3 stacks. It lasts for 3 minutes and refreshes duration when you take a new stack.
At 3 it will deal 100k per second for the entire duration and does NOT fade on death. If you ever get 3 stacks you are gonna be on the floor until its fully gone.

If the tank or healer ever reaches 3, wipe it up as you will never recover.
An important note is that Kelsaik has forced double claws he will do after certain mechanics, these will NOT apply parasite ever.
The forced claws always happen:

1. After a Big Jump

2. After he gives the entire room a red or blue debuff

   A Song of Fire and Ice

At 85% Kelsaik will roar, kding everyone unless kaia’d and youre immune to damage briefly, like Tenacity. He will then grow his ice and fire wings and roar, killing anyone hit.

The roar will send anyone hit initially to the wall and then continue dealing massive ticking damage to anyone still in the radius.
This roar is iframeable, blue shieldable, and smokeable by ninja.
Smoke bomb being the best one as it prevents both the knockback AND the ticking damage entirely.

Iframing roar:

Blue Shield from the back:

Ad spawn on death - Immediately after the initial , Kelsaik will give everyone a debuff for the majority of the fight:

This will spawn a mob on you if you die at any point. These mobs can be aggrod by tank but spam aoes that fuck your life up between knockdowns and aoes, think harrowhold skeletons. They will despawn after about a minute or until you murder them.

Kelsaik will gain 2 new buffs until they are removed later in the fight.These reduce Kelsaiks damage taken by anyone with the matching color debuff by 25%.

Fire Resistance

Ice Resistance

Push Kelsaik to 83% to trigger his main mechanic, hardest one in the fight for hard mode.

IN/OUT Mechanic - At 83%, Kelsaik will do the IN/OUT mechanic, only on hard mode it happens twice back to back.
Hes going to tell you 3 things:

1. A color: red or blue
2. Where that color is going to be: in or out
3. Do you need to take the same as debuff or opposite?

Graphic settings for this is utmost importance if you want to learn this without calls, as one of the tells is entirely particle based.
So Kelsaik will roar and spawn a message that either tells you take same as debuff or take opposite of debuff.
The message is unreliable due to it easily getting pushed off the screen by another message.

The much easier way to tell is when the mechanic starts is to see if Kelsaik is enraged or not.

• If he says Feel the fear / NOT enraged= take same as your debuff
• If he says Feel the anger / IS enraged= take opposite of debuff

Kelsaik will also glow either fire or ice, this tells you a color.
Kelsaiks wings will also glow with a graphic OR THEY WONT. This tells you where the color he glowed is going to be (in or out).

Here the wings are not glowing with ice/fire:

Here the wings ARE glowing with fire/ice:

80% intermission - At 79%, Kelsaik will spawn 2 adds, one red and one blue.

A secondary bar will appear beneath the temp bar with a graphic on it. There are multiple steps to this:

1. You need to kill the add that is the same color as the secondary bar: In this picture the secondary bar is red so kill the red dude. Killing the wrong one gives kelsaik a 50% damage increase for a minute.
2. The add will drop an azart elixer allowing you to use to the jump pad in the room.
3. You have 2 minutes from the time the add dies to kill a mini kelsaik on a side platform only accessed by the person with the azart elixer. The secondary bar is the mini kelsaik hp.

Killing the mini kelsaik is exactly the same as normal mode but with double the hp and less time:

• Normal mode: 400m with 2 minute timer
• Hard mode: 800m with 90 second timer

Killing the red mini kelsaik will drop another azart elixer that allows you to jump back but also gives you a 50% skill damage increase for a minute.
This also makes you immune to fire/ice for the duration so you arent affected by kelsaiks resistance buffs OR THE IN/OUT MECHANIC.
This also removes one of kelsaiks resistance buffs, in this case red because it was a mini fire kelsaik.

60% intermission - Same as earlier, 2 adds will spawn and you need to kill the one matching the bottom bars graphic.

• Killing the second add will remove his other resistance, allowing full damage from players with both types of debuffs finally.

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Weakened State

If you can manage to push kelsaik down to 19.9%, he will enter a weakened state, ceasing a majority of mechanics:

1. Parasites
2. IN/OUTS
3. Empowered aoes
4. Empowered basic attacks on tank

All of these mechanics will stop entirely, you only need to manage the temperature bar and push him to 15%.
This gives you a breather to rez people and recast buffs/food in prep for the final phase.

Unstable Breakdown - When kelsaik reaches 15%, he will stagger and move to the center of the room.

• He will reduce damage taken by 95% and begin breaking down, filling the arena with shit you need to dodge and losing .1% hp per second.

The goal is here is to survive for 2 minutes 30 seconds until he kills himself. Players will get a 50% healing reduction and 25% increased cdr.
There are several mechanics to dodge here for the finish.

1. Expanding and collapsing waves of fire and ice. Jumping makes you entirely immune to these, even jumping while riding the wave. Deals rapid but light ticking damage. Iframeable if need be for some reason.

2. Ice and fire meteors. Ice meteors will spawn ice puddles of different sizes Fire meteors will stun you on impact, letting waves finish you off. Iframe these or move out quickly.

3. Yellow tornaodes of moth poop. These will move around the room knocking anyone hit up into the air. Not alot of damage on their own.

This entire phase is a test of how you did earlier in the fight.
At 70% and every 6 minutes after, the arena will shrink, giving you less and less room to work with. Combined with the Ice meteors, space is everything here.

The easiest way to do this phase is to spend all your time jumping in motion.
Jumping makes you immune to the waves for a very long time, even a full second after you land and move. If you jump in place, you risk a meteor spawning on you as you start your jump and arent able to iframe in time when you hit the floor.

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Basic attacks

Double Claw - Kelsaik will quickly stand up and slam both front claws, giving either fire or ice debuff depending on which side you are on within a very small range.

• This is your primary way of changing debuffs and youll be doing it very often. This happens randomly but also after certain abilities.

Tail Swipe - There are 2 variations of this tail swipe, one being enraged and the other not.

• The enraged version, while faster, will only kd you.
• The unenraged version will send you flying. Only Arise can save you.
  • Iframeable and kaiable to avoid kd/punt.

Big Jump + Double Claw - Kelsaik will crouch down and charge up for a few seconds and jump high into the air, landing 1 full second later.

• This will knock you high up into the air unable to do anything.
• He will ALWAYS do a double claw after this.

Slow Double Claw -> Tank Stun - Unless you are directly in front of him, this is functionally a very slow double claw. Tanks must iframe/back up to avoid getting stunned. Getting stunned by this will trigger a boss backstep and knockback, dont ever get this.

AoE Fire/AoE Ice - Kelsaik will crouch down before roaring and doing an Aoe based on the color he glows, either fire or ice.

• If youve done kelsaik before these are nothing new…for now.

Fire: Hits in a pattern on and around the boss in a static way. The most important hit is the first which is directly on top of kelsaik himself.

• Kds and applies fire debuff if hit.

Iframing the very first hit or outranging then moving back into melee range is best.
Blockable also.

Ice: Opposite of fire is ice which is a ticking aoe around kelsaik which is easily outranged or blocked.

• Doesnt deal much damage but gives you ice debuff.

Full powered Fire And Ice - At 50% kelsaik will power up one final time, empowering his fire and ice abilities.

• Empowered Ice and Empowered Fire aoes function exactly as they do on normal mode but more deadly and of consequence because of the bar being faster.
  • Dodging empowered fire aoe will make or break this fight.

Right after an in/out mechanic, kelsaik will place a fire puddle on the tank forcing him to move.

Special attacks

Getting Hotter/Colder - Anytime the bar gets to about 30-35 or 70-75, Kelsaik will give everyone in the room that color in attempt to push the bar further to wipe.

• He will ALWAYS double claw after this, giving you a chance to fix it.

Getting Colder

Getting Hotter

Knockback - If the tank ever gets stunned or other random times, kelsaik will do a slow spin that sends you flying backwards, it is blockable and iframeable.

Fire on edges - At 70% fire will spawn on the edges of the room ala Bahaar. Every 6 minutes after 70%, the room will shrink in size. For normal we will only see it shrink once.

Range Check - If someone goes too far or gets pushed by tail, kelsaik will target them.

• He will jump at them and then either drop an ice line or fire puddle on them. You can control entirely where he aims them.