Overview
Karrix is the final status 4 boss, who guards the entrance to the Ancient Orc Tomb.
Requirements & Location
Step 3
Enter the Tomb
The entrance to AOT is located on a hill in the center of the Jahara Desert. Place the Quest Item: Keystone in the inventory of the center Obelisk, which will then begin to open, spawning a portal at the Obelisks position. Entering will immediately begin the boss encounter.
Phases & Abilities
Outline
The Karrix battle is separated into 2 phases, a DPS Phase and a Burrow Phase, each containing abilities that do fatal damage if a player does not know how to mitigate them.
The following are the significant sections of the boss area:
- Entrance: Heroes can enter and exit through here.
- Inner Layer: This is where most of the fight will take place.
- Outer Layer: Wall of Spikes takes place here during the Burrow Phase.
- 1 of 4 Pillars in the zone that players will need to employ during the Burrow Phases.
- AOT Entrance: When Karrix is defeated, players can exit through here to the Ancient Orc Tomb.
DPS Phase
This is the only phase where the boss can take damage from players and lasts until the boss loses 1/3rd of his total HP. When the boss reaches 66% and 33%, he will burrow and become invulnerable for a Burrow Phase.
Cleave
Karrix has cleave, which causes him to deal damage in a huge area in front of him with his basic attacks.
Tail Lash
Tail Lash
Karrix lashes his tail, spawning a sand void zone by behind him that deals damage per second. Players should avoid positioning behind the boss throughout this phase.
Poison Lob
Poison Lob
Dialog: Suffer, playername
Karrix targets a hero that is 300+ range away from him then tosses a slow moving projectile at the location of the named player, which does instant damage upon landing, and spawns poison void zone with large AOE, that continues to do damage per second for a significant amount of time.
VX Mode Only:
On VX mode, Mini Scorpions will also spawn during this phase (instead of only on Burrow phases) and killing these during this phase will trigger the boss to cast Tail Swipe.
Burrow Phase
Karrix burrows and becomes invulnerable throughout this phase. This phase lasts until after his 4th cast of Spikes of Malice, prompted by the dialog: *krrssshhhh* arg, ENOUGH!
Mini Scorpion Adds
Mini Scorpions will continuously spawn through this phase.
Wall of Spikes
Karrix Spike Wall
A wall of spikes will travel along the Outer Layer (3) of the zone, dealing fatal damage to any heroes in its path. Heroes will need to remain in the Inner Layer (2) to avoid it.
Spikes of Malice
Spikes of Malice
Dialog: *krrssshhhh* I come for you, playername
Spikes will appear from a random side on the outer layer (3) and slowly accelerate to the named player. Spikes of Malice causes instant-death to the named player and fatal damage to any other players it touches. If the named player dies, a new player is named and pursued. This ability continues until the spikes collide into a pillar (4).
Sandfalls
Every time Karrix collides with a pillar during Spiked of Malice, a permanent sandfall zone appears at a random location in the area that deals damage to players that it comes in contact with.
How to Kill Karrix
To defeat Karrix, one must go through 5 phases in total (3 DPS and 2 Burrow phases) and deal with his main abilities during each of the 2 phase types.The fight begins with a DPS Phase and proceeds as follows:
- DPS 100%-66% HP
- Burrow
- DPS 66%-33% HP
- Burrow
- DPS 33%-0% HP
DPS Phase - Dealing with Poison Lob
Healer baiting the Poison Lob.
This is his main ability during phase 1 that the heroes need to be deal with. Simply assign 1 hero to act as a bait, maintaining a large distance from the boss so that the other heroes can safely deal damage to him. If the boss is tanked in the center, the poison baiting hero can wait at any corner in the outer layer (3) until a poison lob is thrown to then move to a safe spot. A boss will continue to cast this ability in regular intervals (approx. every 10s) until he loses 1/3rd of his total HP.
Burrow Phase - Dealing with Spikes of Malice
Karrix collides with pillar.
While all heroes should be in the center during this phase, the one named by this ability needs to quickly position himself by a pillar (4) so that it is between the hero and the boss. When the boss collides with a pillar (4), the hero needs to quickly re-position in the inner layer (2) to avoid the Wall of Spikes ability in the outer layer (3) again.
Transitioning Phases
When transitioning from a DPS to Burrow phase, make sure to position in the middle layer as fast as possible, especially the hero baiting the poison lob who may not see the transition occur.
When returning from a Burrow to DPS phase (indicated by a dialog after his 4th main ability cast), a hero should position at a distance from the boss to bait the poison lobs again.
How to VX Karrix - 'Baby Killer'
Condition: Defeat Karrix after you kill all 5 baby scorpions causing him to enrage.
Upon entering the boss area, ignore Karrix and proceed to kill the 5 baby scorpions that roam the Outer Layer (3), typically on the north half. The boss can be auto-attacked (e.g. so that tank can get aggro), but dealing too much damage to him will cause the baby scorpions to burrow, not triggering VX.
Karrix VX - Eliminating the 5 baby-scorpions.
VX Abilities
The following changes apply during VX mode:
- Karrix gains an Enraged buff, giving him a permanent attack damage increase, immediately when the baby scorpions die.
- Mini-Scorpion Adds now spawn during the DPS phase as well.
- When a Mini-Scorpion is killed during a DPS phase, Karrix will cast his Tail Lash ability.
Condition
Kill 5 minis, then allow Karrix to create 5 sand zones to spawn in the 1st, 3rd, and final phase. Don't overlap the sand zones summoned by Karrix using his tail during poison phases. Sand zones must have at least a 500 range distance between each one to trigger UVX (this also must be done in the 1st, 3rd, and final phases). When UVX is activated you will see a text message You can't do thisss! You're not ssstrong enough!. The same text have to appear in 3rd phase as well.
Things You Should Know Before Starting
1) Everyone should have a "Sober Guard" for the final phase its essential. The only possible exceptions are players who are going to enter to burst the boss down.
2) Enter the arena and leave back to debug the spike. Because when first entering arena spike will not spawn.
3) Kiter/Runner: Player must kite spike & place poison at the same time. Spike follows the first person who enters the arena and switches target only when Karrix burrows and comes back each time. Spike does 600 dmg on collision. If spikes touch any pillar – it's team wipe. Each time Karrix burrows everyone should leave the arena (except tank) to make spikes follow on him, and each time before karrix comes (except tank & runner) leave the arena again to switch spikes. If spikes target someone else simply leave the arena to switch on other player.
4) The boss throws 5 (instead of 1) poisons with a small delay between each of them, each poison cast that time falls where the player was standing at that moment (yes, they don't fall at the same spot at all when cast).
5) During the 3rd and final phase Karrix gains damage buff (+3k damage on final phase) so be very careful to not get cleaved as he can one-shot you. It's suggested that at most 2-3 players should stay with the tank to prevent getting cleaved & receiving tail damage. If you have more players on the team, they can stay outside of the arena for a while and enter later to do burst damage.
6) Each mini scorpion now creates a sand zone upon death. These minions can spawn at some critical time while kiting Karrix and body blocking the tank or the Karrix itself. That could lead to the boss taking another route and/or creating a sand zone at the unwanted spot (in the worst-case scenario, the tank can get targeted by the poison). Avoid killing mini scorpions while moving together with a tank because the sand zone might become very annoying until you move to the next kiting spot; sometimes you can intentionally let them live until you start moving.
- DPS 100%-66% HP
- Burrow
- DPS 100%-33% HP
- Burrow
- DPS 100%-0% HP
Phase 1/3/Final (5): Poison & The Spikes of Malice begin to follow "player name"
The runner rushes towards the top to safely kite spike (spike does 600 damage). Afterwards, they run to the bottom right area to place the first poison. You are supposed to place poison on all 4 locations. Tank instantly taunts and takes position at the first spot. Always keep the boss position diagonally so your teammates don't get cleaved. Rotate to the next spot after each poison case. The healer's role is to simply keep the tank and damage dealers alive. Damage dealers should kill mini scorpions; they also can DPS the boss beforehand to make smooth phase changes (after 5th sand zone created) if DPS lower than you expected.
During Phase 3/Final Phase "Wall of Spikes" will be spawn at outer side of arena and begins to move slowly around it, when you get hit by it does 130 damage each spike will hurt you multiple times. (Survivable for a tank) also damage depends on magic resistance.
Starting with Phase 4 from spikes I come for you "player name" +10 mini scorpions will spawn and many more will be keep spawning until you get rid of spikes.
When Karrix dies
Upon Karrix's death, the room will become sealed and start to collapse. Two pressure plates will be spawn at both top corners 2 player have to stand on them to remove barrier blocks the stairs, stay at stairs until you see text message "ıts over" later you can step inside of arena again. Only way to return back to arena is using Town Portal Scrolls, once you enter Ancient Orc Tomb you cannot enter back.
Karrix Loot Drops
Normal Loot
- Defender's Girdle
- Gloves of Wrath
- Consecrated Breastplate
- Spaulders of Nature's Wrath
- Brightened Leggings
- Peaceful Pelisse
- Belt of the Spellflinger
VX Item Drops
- Quiver of Plentiful Arrows
- Gut Spiller
- Sacred Texts
- Cranium Splitter
- Towering Escutcheon
- Luminescent Orb
- Pendant of the Elephant
- Wooden Statuette
UVX Mode Items
- Devil's Lament
- Quadforce
- Night's Edge
- Corselet of Mars
- Gloves of Peace
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