Anabaseios: The Tenth Circle (Savage)

One pillar will always tether itself to a random tank or healer, while the other will always tether to a random DPS player. After some time, each wing shoots a wide conal AoE toward their tethered player, inflicting Bleeding and Magic Vulnerability Up.

Dividing Wings will always resolve at the same time as Steel Web. As Steel Web also applies Magic Vulnerability Up, any player hit by both will die.

After a short time, Pandæmonium will step on the west tower, then the east tower, dealing heavy damage, inflicting Stab Wound, and knocking everyone within the tower up and away.

Unlike normal mode, the towers spawn in the same positions every time: 3 towers in the front and middle, and 2 towers on the sides in the rear. After they resolve (Bury), each tower is followed by another mechanic:

Three towers (at most 2 in the same row) emit Cannonspawn (dynamo).

Three towers (at most 2 in the same row) emit Imprisonment (chariot).

Both of the rear towers emit Peal of Damnation.

Pandæmonium will cast either Pandæmon's Holy or Circles of Pandæmonium at the same time as these post-tower mechanics resolve, limiting the party to either the first or second row (the third row will always be unsafe).

Failing to soak a tower causes an Unmitigated Explosion.

After receiving the status effects, it is necessary to not only check which ones you received ( Tetradæmoniac Bonds or Duodæmoniac Bonds) but also the durations. While the statuses will always resolve at the same time each pull, the order changes, so you must ascertain whether Dæmoniac Bonds resolves first or Duodæmoniac Bonds/ Tetradæmoniac Bonds.

Anyone on the central platform when Pandæmonium stomps on it will be knocked into the abyss and killed instantly.

Players should evade to the side platforms.

Each tower will have a turret dropped on top of it. They receive limit cut markers, indicating the order that they'll shoot in: 1-4 (2 turrets always shoot at the same time).

All turrets always face the closest player to them until just before it is their turn to shoot, at which point the turret will "lock in" to the closest player to it. After that, the target can't be changed anymore, even if that player moves to the other end of the arena.

Each shot is actually a stack line that deals lethal damage when taken alone but survivable damage when taken with another player. The damage only divides by two; adding additional players does not further reduce the damage taken. Additionally, each shot inflicts Dark Resistance Down II on the first person hit and knocks everyone in the line back a significant distance.

To wit: there are eight shots in total. Each shot requires at least 2 people to soak it. Anyone who is first-in-line for a shot cannot take another shot for the duration of the mechanic. By the time the last two shots happen, this therefore leaves only two people remaining without Dark Resistance Down II. No one else is available to stack with them. To resolve the mechanic in spite of this, the last two players must be tanks. Using defensive mitigation, they can each survive a shot alone.

Note that it is essential the tanks take their solo turret last, not first. If they take it first, they will not be able to join any of the other line stacks anymore, which then consigns one pair of baiters to death.

Be aware that Dæmoniac Bonds resolves immediately after the last two turrets fire.

After a short time, Pandæmonium will step on the west tower, then the east tower, dealing heavy damage, inflicting Stab Wound, and knocking everyone within the tower up and away.

Similar to Entangling Web, but Silkspit never "locks in" its position and is therefore unavoidable. Players need to spread from each other to avoid creating a web between themselves, especially the second and third time it happens, as it will be directly followed by Pandæmoniac Pillars, meaning there is not enough time to break anyone out of a web if they get tethered.

As the circles are quite big, properly spreading requires the use of the side platforms, so bridges should have been established during the previous Entangling Web.

After receiving the status effects, it is necessary to not only check which ones you received ( Tetradæmoniac Bonds or Duodæmoniac Bonds) but also the durations. While the statuses will always resolve at the same time each pull, the order changes, so you must ascertain whether Dæmoniac Bonds resolves first or Duodæmoniac Bonds/ Tetradæmoniac Bonds.

Unlike normal mode, the towers spawn in the same positions every time: 3 towers in the front and middle, and 2 towers on the sides in the rear. After they resolve (Bury), each tower is followed by another mechanic:

Three towers (at most 2 in the same row) emit Cannonspawn (dynamo).

Three towers (at most 2 in the same row) emit Imprisonment (chariot).

Both of the rear towers emit Peal of Damnation.

Pandæmonium will cast either Pandæmon's Holy or Circles of Pandæmonium at the same time as these post-tower mechanics resolve, limiting the party to either the first or second row (the third row will always be unsafe).

Failing to soak a tower causes an Unmitigated Explosion.

One pillar will always tether itself to a random tank or healer, while the other will always tether to a random DPS player. After some time, each wing shoots a wide conal AoE toward their tethered player, inflicting Bleeding and Magic Vulnerability Up.

Dividing Wings will always resolve at the same time as Steel Web. As Steel Web also applies Magic Vulnerability Up, any player hit by both will die.

Anyone on the central platform when Pandæmonium stomps on it will be knocked into the abyss and killed instantly.

Players should evade to the side platforms.

One pillar will always tether itself to a random tank or healer, while the other will always tether to a random DPS player. After some time, each wing shoots a wide conal AoE toward their tethered player, inflicting Bleeding and Magic Vulnerability Up.

Dividing Wings will always resolve at the same time as Steel Web. As Steel Web also applies Magic Vulnerability Up, any player hit by both will die.

After receiving the status effects, it is necessary to not only check which ones you received ( Tetradæmoniac Bonds or Duodæmoniac Bonds) but also the durations. While the statuses will always resolve at the same time each pull, the order changes, so you must ascertain whether Dæmoniac Bonds resolves first or Duodæmoniac Bonds/ Tetradæmoniac Bonds.

This is the tighest heal-check a second turn has ever had. Each hit deals approximately 120,000 damage to the two closest targets to Pandæmonium, and 50,000 damage to everyone else.

The last hit deals about 35% more damage and also knocks the entire party back. The distance of the knockback exceeds the length of the arena, so it is not possible to survive the knockback without establishing a wall in the back during Pandæmoniac Web. If a wall was established, players will be stopped by the wall and are not killed.

The sum total of all hits is around 1,120,000 damage for tanks and 470,000 damage for everyone else. Due to the tremendous amount of damage, it is strongly recommended for tanks to use their invulnerabilities after the first or second hit while standing in front of the party. You may also wish to consider using a Tank Limit Break around the fourth hit, as hits 6, 7, and 8 come out much more quickly than the rest while dealing the same amount of damage. If you don't wish to use Tank Limit Break (or you don't have it available), your group's mitigation needs to be on point, as there is not enough time to heal in-between hits. As the mechanic deals physical damage, double Feint and Reprisal is all but mandatory along with whatever mitigation your healers and tanks can offer.

Like Steel Web, these AoEs form webs when dropped. While webs will attach to players, they will also attach to the small posts around the arena. This can be used to connect two posts, which requires this AoE to be placed in such a way as to encompass a post as well as intersect with another AoE that also encompasses a post.

When a web is formed in this way between the two posts at the edge of each poison segment, it will form a bridge instead of a usual breakable web. Bridges can be used to cross the poison without being afflicted with Concentrated Poison. Every Wicked Step will be followed by an Entangling Web on one healer, one DPS player, and both tanks. As tanks are expected to be on the side platforms at this point, it always allows you to form a bridge to bring both tanks back to the central platform.

Being hit by this cleave applies Damage Down and Hysteria.

The cleave also summons either 7 or 8 orbs (or "bits") on the side that was cleaved. Each of these will fire a beam.

Similar to Entangling Web, but Silkspit never "locks in" its position and is therefore unavoidable. Players need to spread from each other to avoid creating a web between themselves, especially the second and third time it happens, as it will be directly followed by Pandæmoniac Pillars, meaning there is not enough time to break anyone out of a web if they get tethered.

As the circles are quite big, properly spreading requires the use of the side platforms, so bridges should have been established during the previous Entangling Web.