Overview
Sometimes even the most thrilling tale can benefit from slight embellishment, and the wandering minstrel's reimagining of your foray into Midas─while stretching the bounds of believability─proves to be even more invigorating than your memory of it. A memory you must relive in order to compare...
Strategy Notes
- This raid starts with a mini-boss, first a twin pair of Faust and, afterwards, Hummelfaust. Their attacks and mechanics are simple, but serve as a DPS check.
- Faust will only use Kaltstrahl, which is a frontal cleave tank-buster cast every 10 seconds. The second cast will be done twice in succession, and later casts three times in succession.
- Tanks simply have to face Faust away from the party while the DPS do their job.
- After 50 seconds, or once both Faust have died, Hummelfaust will drop a proximity marker on a random player and land in that spot.
- Hummelfaust will explode any living Faust, dealing party-wide damage based on their remaining health, and gain 1 stack of Damage Up per 1% health remaining on the Faust (rounded up).
- Hummelfaust only has two abilities:
Boss Encounters
Faust and Hummelfaust
- Kaltstrahl: A frontal cleave that gives a stack of Physical Vulnerability Up for 20 seconds. Hits twice initially, then three times, capping at four times in succession.
- Panzerschreck: Party-wide magic damage. The fourth cast is an Enrage that will wipe the party.
Ratfinx Twinkledinks
- Grants a weak heal over time and cures Anti-coagulant.
- Gives the Browbeat ability, which will knockback Smartbombs away from you.
- Can use Apothecary to end the transformation early.
- Players become immune to the damage of Ratfinx's Boost.
- Gives the Wing Cutter ability, dealing 250 damage in a 6y arc.
- Can use Apothecary to end the transformation early.
- Removes the tether from Gobbledygropers.
Phase 1: 100% - 60% or after 3 minutes.
- Smartbombs can only be knocked away once. After one hit, they will be stuck in-place.
- Anti-coagulant instantly kills players at 8 stacks.
- If players take any damage from this attack, they will be afflicted with Enervation for 30 seconds, decreasing damage dealt and increasing damage taken. Shields from a SCH/SGE are necessary.
Phase 2: 60% - 0%
- Blankface Goblixer from the Blue (south) syringe will remove the tether, making this enemy attack its highest enmity target as normal.
- If left alive too long, will cast Bomb Toss at random party members, reducing everyone's max health with stacks of Supperation and likely causing a wipe.
- Will occasionally attack with 10-tonze Slash, a dodgeable frontal cone AoE with no marker.
- Whenever the Minotaur eats, it will cast Disorienting Groan, which deals increased damage based on proximity to the Minotaur.
- If the Minotaur eats a Glassy-Eyed Cobra, it will start accumulating stacks of Anti-coagulant, killing it after a short amount of time.
- Gobbledygawkers x2
- Yorn Pig x6
- Glassy-eyed Minotaur
- Yorn Pig x3
- Glassy-eyed Cobra
Duty Information
- Duty Finder: Savage Raids (Heavensward)
- Time Limit: 90 minutes
- Tomestones: 15 poetics
Music
- Pre-Boss: Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son
- Boss: Locus