Minstrel's Ballad: Hades's Elegy trial guide

Trial (Extreme) quick facts

Hearken unto a requiem for a hero fallen. A man who lived a thousand thousand of our lives clinging desperately to faint hope, never shirking his sworn duty to his long-lost brethren. A man who stood proud and did avow his true name on the threshold of the battle that would see him fall to his rival-the light to quench his shadow. Borrowing liberally from the funereal rites of the Night's Blessed, the minstreling wanderer weaves an elegy in that hero's honor-the tragic-yet-triumphant tale of a man and a battle that ne'er shall be forgotten.

• Category: Trial
• Difficulty: extreme
• First Appearance: Patch 5.1, *Shadowbringers*
• Level: 80
• Item Level Requirement: 450
• Party Size: Full Party (8 players)
• Required Quest: Minstrel from Another Mother
• Location: The Dying Gasp
• Region: Norvrandt

Before queueing

Use the quick facts to check level, item level, party size, required quest, entrance, roulette, and time limit before queueing for Minstrel's Ballad: Hades's Elegy.

• Repair gear and meet the listed level/item-level requirements.
• Tell the party if it is your first clear.
• Use the local wiki link for exact duty facts and related articles.

Boss and mechanic notes

Minstrel's Ballad: Hades's Elegy has local boss notes for: Hades, First Phase, Shade of Nabriales, Shades of Igeyorhm & Lahabrea, Ascian Prime, Final Phase. These notes are pulled from the local wiki and should be treated as source-backed prep unless separately marked as human-reviewed strategy.

• Detailed mechanics not available from the source page.
• Ancient Double - Hades provides himself with a buff at the beginning of the engagement, causing all of his future abilities to be cast in doubles for the rest of the encounter.
• Shadowspread - causes all participants to become the target of two consecutive cone-shaped AoE's one after the other due to Ancient Double. As a result, all players should be assigned cardinal or inter-cardinal positions around the boss (like a clock) so that the cone attacks do not overlap each other. Once the first cone has been fired, all players can then side-step to avoid the follow-up attack.
• Bad Faith - creates a large purple wall through the centre of the arena, with each half of the wall having spikes (arrows) protruding out in different directions. After a brief delay, the spikes will shoot across the platform in the direction they are pointing - one half firing north while the other fires south. To avoid being blasted, players should position themselves behind a side of the wall that does not have spikes pointing in their direction. After the wall has fired, Ancient Double will cause the attack to happen again - inverted with no telegraph. As a result, the previously safe areas will then be blasted whilst the previously unsafe areas become safe-spots.
• Ravenous Assault - Hades cleaves his primary target with a vicious AoE tank-buster. Unlike normal mode, Ravenous Assault will be also doubled and comes with a debuff. As a result, tanks will need to decide between having one tank take both hits using an invulnerability cooldown, or organizing a tank-swap between the two hits.
• Arcane Utterance - causes the arena to fill up with either Red Orbs or Blue Mirrors. In both cases, there will always be a missing orb or mirror, which can be used to determine where a future safe spot will be present.
• Broken Faith - causes a random pattern of aetheric (glowing blue) circles to slowly transcend from the sky into the arena. Once a circle touches the ground, it will detonate, searing anyone caught in their wake for moderate damage and also apply a stackable debuff. Keep in mind that the explosions are wider than the circles themselves. For reference, players can check the circular patterns on the arena floor to see how big the detonation will be. To avoid, simply avoid the first few circles until they detonate, then move into a previously detonated area away from other upcoming circle explosions, repeating the process as many times as necessary until the mechanic resolves. Bear in mind that Broken Faith will drop far more circles over time compared to the version witnessed in normal mode.
• Detailed mechanics not available from the source page.
• Detailed mechanics not available from the source page.
• Doom - a ticking debuff that will outright slay the victim if they are not healed to full health before the debuff expires.
• Ancient Circle - causes affected players to emit a large donut AoE from their present location after a delay.
• Cursed Shriek - causes players to eventually emit a gaze attack, petrifying any player looking directly at them when the debuff expires.
• Beyond Death - a debuff that can only be removed by taking fatal damage.
• Off-Balance - causes affected players to be knocked backwards a set distance once they take damage.

Duty finder and rewards context

Use this section to decide whether the duty belongs in roulettes, high-end queues, mentor roulette, or repeat farming.

• Duty Finder: High-end Trials (Shadowbringers)
• Roulette: Mentor
• Time Limit: 60 minutes
• Tomestones: 20 poetics

Completion notes

After your first clear, check whether the duty has mapping, clear, Blue Mage, loot, music, or collection reasons to return.

• Achievement: Don't Look Back
• Achievement: Mightier than the Underworld
• Music: Phase 1 and Adds: Shadowbringers
• Music: Phases 2-3: Invincible

Verification boundary

This page is generated from local TJPedia wiki data. It does not invent missing mechanics, NPC coordinates, loot tables, or current-party-finder strategies. High-end positioning and current-prog tactics still need human review before being labeled as a full strategy guide.

• Source-backed: duty facts, local boss notes, achievements, and music.
• Needs human review: exact high-end progression strategy.
• Use official patch notes for changed requirements or rewards.

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