| «Previous Mission» | «Next Mission» | View on Official Wiki |
Note that this mission is usually not completed as one can gate glitch into Gyala Hatchery after completion of Boreas Seabed to progress the story instead.
Completion of this mission however opens the gates in Sunjiang District (explorable area) and the quest to get from Altrumm Ruins to House Zu Heltzer.
Mission
This mission has 2 phases: a 'Destroy the spirit rifts' phase and a 'Defeat Shiro's Constructs' phase.
Mhenlo and Togo will follow you throughout the mission and need to survive. You can get rid of them at some point with skills like Shadow of Haste, but they are a good help, are quite resistant, and Mhenlo is a good source of healing. Their biggest weakness are daze (from Afflicted rangers or traps), Enraged Smash from Afflicted warriors (when moving), Afflicted mesmers (Kitah's Burden, Stolen Speed, Accumulated Pain), the Necro boss, and AI brainrot if they get stuck when they try to reach you.
Spear of Archemorus and Urn of Saint Viktor are available in this mission. The Urn can be exploited quite well; for example, you can use the last enemy of each group or the Spirits of Portal to increase the level of the Urn (by taking damage and getting healed by Mhenlo), and drop it to have a lot of damage reduced during for your next fight.
Destroy the spirit rifts
You need to destroy the spirit rifts (by killing the Spirits of Portal) to progress to the next phase.
Here are some tips/info:
- To kill afflicted:
- Not all the groups are scary and not all of them have to be killed: if one seems hard, first see if there is a way to avoid it.
- Be cautious of patrols.
- All groups can be killed at leash range and a lot can be glitched, but you will need to 1-master Mhenlo and Togo's behaviour and 2-beware of Kitah's Burden and Enraged Smash.
- LOS blocking is a good way to reduce damage from afflicted.
- To kill Spirits of Portal:
- If you are Rt/X or X/Rt, you can use Gaze of Fury to one shot them.
- Spirits of Portal have no way to heal outside of out of combat health regen: they will die eventually even to minimal damage.
- Spirit of Portal have big armor, are not fleshy, and are immune to hexes.
- Each Spirit Rift summon about 5-7 Shiro'kens (South: Assassins; East: Rangers; North: Necros; West: Warriors). Once dead, these Shiro'kens do not respawn.
- Using a bow (if available, vampiric flatbow) is a good way to kill the Spirit of Portal (in particular the East one) without aggroing some afflicted groups.
- Also:
- As mentioned above, abusing the Urn can help a lot. Don't hesitate to charge it to max level and keep it for the second phase.
- It is recommended to kill the 2 afflicted groups west and east of the southest Spirit Rift so that you don't risk to aggro them during the second phase.
Defeat Shiro's Constructs
In the second phase, you will need to fight 4 bosses:
- Warrior or Assassin, and
- Necro or Ele, and
- Ranger or Mesmer, and
- Rit or Monk
They can all be pulled separately: see the videos to see how to place to avoid pulling 2 bosses together.
As Factions bosses, they deal twice damage and cast twice faster so you might get one shot very easily (especially against Warrior, Assassin and Ele).
Necro boss can be deadly for Mhenlo because of Soul Bind.
Bonus
To get Master's Reward, you'll need to complete the mission in less than 20 minutes in NM and less than 25 minutes in HM.