Vykas

The commander of the Covetous Legion. She manipulates others' desires with sweet words. She has the power to bring out the worst of Human Nature. Those who surrender to her lose their reason to the point that they stage a rebellion against their own people.

Appearance: A demon lord of desire with the alluring outfit with barely any cloth on that are tempting to join her as her slave instead of fighting.

A boss fight against 8 people with the lust meter mechanic. MECHANICS WALKTHROUGH UNIQUE MECHANIC: CHARM You will notice that above your HP there will be a bar with a notch in at about ⅔ of the way through. This is the Desire Bar, and it represents the amount of lust your character has for Vykas. It will slowly fill up as you take damage from Vykas’s attacks or get exposed to specific mechanics. If you take enough to pass the 70% notch, the bar will turn red and you will experience specific mechanics differently in the fight. However, if the bar completely fills up, you will be charmed and can kill or be killed by your team. Use Sleep Bombs to and stuns to uncharm people! Lust Gauge

0% (Lethargy)

The rose icon will lose its light.

Deal significantly less damage.

1% - 69% (Normal)

The rose icon will light up.

Nothing else happens.

70% - 99% (Lust)

The rose icon will turn red.

Deal and receive additional damage.

Allows you to see through certain special mechanics.

100% (Mind-Control)

You'll lose control and your character will attack your teammates.

Your teammates have to CC (stun, sleep, etc) you otherwise your character will die after the duration.

There are multiple ways to lower your Lust Gauge:

1. If you get hit by the Vykas's grab pattern, your lust gauge will also drop a bit.

2. Being c-seed after mind control will drop your lust gauge back to the normal amount.

3. Inanna will drop your Lust gauge about 40% and decrease difficulty of the typing test.

Notes:

To gain Lust - > Just get hit.

To drop Lust - > Need to use group resource. UNIQUE MECHANIC: GOLDEN ORBS The raid gets access to Golden Orbs which help you reset your Desire Bar to 0 when needed. This will help you manage your meter depending on the mechanic. X170 SWAMP BRIDGE What Happens: Vykas teleports to the center and 6 seconds later, all of the party will be charmed and pulled towards her. Any player near Vykas will be killed.Two players will have a slow debuff indicated above their mana bar and the rest will have a speed buff above their HP bar. X135 TYPING TEST What Happens: Vykas teleports to the center and flies away. She then rains blood everywhere, dealing damage and increasing Charm. What to Do: The whole team should go to one Golden Orb, activate it and cleans to 0%. Then everyone will get stunned and Vykas will start the typing test.You will need to press the keys that appear on your screen within the time limit, TWICE. Failure Conditions Each failure grants Vykas a shield and empowers her attack. 4 failures will cause a wipe. Shields and Time Stop do not help. X55 TENTACLES What Happens: Vykas teleports to the center and blood orbs that increase charm will start shooting out from her. Tentacles will appear on the edges of the area. 20 seconds later, everyone will be pulled into Vykas’s big blood orb, and Vykas will eat this orb and kill everyone. What to Do: You will need to kill all 8 tentacles, but you need charm greater than 70% to damage. Having high charm going into this is ideal. If all tentacles are dead, Vykas will do the eating orb animation and nobody will die. X40: SPACEBAR ORBS What Happens: Vykas teleport to the center casting an outer circle explosion. Then 4 blood orbs will spawn. Those orbs will move towards Vykas and if they reach her, you will wipe. What to Do: One player should be assigned to each orb. These players will need to press space bar quickly to free themselves and pass the mechanic. X0 FINAL STAGGER What Happens: When Vykas reaches 0 HP, she will scream and start her last wipe mechanic, another clone attack. What to Do: You need to deplete her stagger bar to kill her. During this mechanic, everyone’s Charm bar will increase slowly over time. Vykas will go invisible and summon her clone in the center of the area, and she will teleport to one of the 4 edges .Just look at the mini map to see where she is. The clone in the center will perform the Medusa mechanic, so everyone needs to look away and move towards the real Vykas. While this is happening, the central clone will send out black circles towards the real Vykas. They reduce the Desire Bar for anyone who steps in them.Make your way towards the real Vykas while casting your stagger spells. Everyone should move to the back of Vykas to avoid the laser beams that insta-kill players caught between the clone and the real Vykas. MEDUSA What Happens: Vykas sits on her sword and summons a big red eye on top of her. Shadow lines spread out from her and during this animation, if anyone looks at her, she will trigger a wipe mechanic. What to Do: Pay attention to the number of wings Vykas raises. It determines the number of players that need to look at her. 0 Wings = Nobody 1 Wing = 1 Player 2 Wings = 2 Players She will repeat this immediately after the first position check, so be prepared with a different set of players than the first time. If at any point during this process, you fail an arena wide damage pulse will wipe the raid. Wipe Mechanic: Statue Sword Statues and swords at 152 bars, Vykas will first go to the center and disappear with dialogue, then she'll spawn a series of clones of herself as statues and swords, if you have 0 to 69 purple lust gauge, you'll see the statues around the map, if you have 70-99 pink lust gauge, you'll see swords around the map out of the 8 different directions there are positions where there will be both swords and statues existing together, you may only see one section of the puzzle by seeing only statues or seeing only swords, if this is the case, there are two additional methods to figure out this mechanic:

1. The combination is not completely random, you can identify safe spots by looking at only swords or statues during this mechanic

2. You can actually tell where the safe spot is through sounds vykas consistently laughs during this mechanic, and the closer you are to the safe spot, the louder the sound is.

Wipe Mechanic: Typing Test

Typing tests at 135 bars, spikes will fly upwards and disappear also notification pops out that a very strong attack is coming, she'll also drop a lot of projectiles around the map and proceed to do a cutscene for each player in this cutscene, you'll do a quick time event where you need to type a series of letters on time even if you have at least one percent of the lust gauge filled up, the quick time event will be much harder and faster.

Wipe Mechanic: Stagger & Frogs

Stagger & Frogs at 105 bars, vykas will teleport to the middle and proceed to create a large red magic circle, the circle will explode after a few moments, and deal damage to players who are on top of it along with less gauge filling up, afterward vykas will spawn a giant frog, that's slowly growing size in the 1 and 7 o'clock positions, then she will proceed to do a stagger check, until the stagger check is completely done, staying inside the magic circle zone will consistently increase your lust gauge, you will need to successfully stagger her to prevent the wipe, the frogs at one and seven o'clock positions can only be damaged if your lust gauge is over 70 percent, if the frogs aren't destroyed, they will explode afterward, dealing a huge amount of damage and filling up your lust gauge to full, you can use Esther neem or way to destroy this exploding frogs.

Wipe Mechanic: Tentacles

Mechanic tentacles at 55 bars, Vykas will teleport to the middle and start spawning red orbs, so tentacles are on the map, if you get hit by these red orbs, you'll get slightly damaged with building up your lust gauge, sometimes the orbs are stacked up, so you must be careful or you'll be mind-controlled immediately, your goal is to remove all the tentacles that have spawned around the map, the problem is the tentacles only take damage if you're more than 70 lust gauge which is the pink state, you can see how many tentacles are left by consistently looking at the mini-map or under the boss's hp UI. Since it plays a major role in the special mechanics, let’s have a look at the charm bar first. During Phase 3, taking damage from Vykas will increase the pink bar above your head. If it goes over 70% (the white stripe), you will deal more damage, but you’ll also take increased damage. If it’s full, you will be charmed, attack your own teammates, and die. The charm bar can be decreased by activating one of the light orbs on the battlefield (there are three or four, depending on difficulty). Besides that, try using sleep bombs on charmed teammates to counter the effects.

After reaching HP bar 175, two or three party members (depending on difficulty) are slowed. The slowed players (indicated with a brown circle) should drop their debuffs in a line towards Vykas at 9 o’clock. The sped-up players (blue circle) should drop their buffs elsewhere and then go to 9 o’clock to be slowed before Vykas’ taunt wipe attack comes in.

At HP 155, Vykas disappears and leaves a bunch of shadow clones behind. However, players with a charm bar of 70% or higher will see swords instead. If a sword and shadow clone are in the same spot, it’s a safe zone for the incoming attack.

Around 135 HP, Vykas will initiate the typing challenge. You simply need to type the letters that appear on the screen. The typing challenge is a lot easier if everyone’s charm bar is at 0%, so communicate with the team to reserve a light orb for this occasion. The more players fail the typing test, the more powerful Vykas’ next area-of-effect attack will be (shields up!). If everyone succeeds, Vykas is briefly stunned. At 120 HP, the whole team needs to be 100% charmed to survive. As Vykas gives random players a charm-increasing debuff, make sure everyone gathers around those players.

Once the HP bar drops to 105, use a second light orb to drop everyone’s charm bar, then stagger Vykas as quickly as possible (she’ll be surrounded by a charm-increasing aura). Use a time-stop item to avoid a wipe from the exploding frog minions.

At HP bar 55, Vykas summons an army of tentacles. You simply need to destroy all of them, but note that they can only be damaged by players with a charm bar of 70% or higher. Look at the minimap to see the tentacle spawn locations.

The HP bar X40 effect is for hard mode players only. Four red orbs spawn at positions 1, 5, 7, and 11 o’clock. Each orb needs to be consumed by a low-charm player (as your charm will increase). Keep pressing the space bar immediately after.

Be ready for another stagger check when Vykas is at low health, and make sure you don’t look at the purple clone in the middle. Vykas will spawn clones, but you can tell which one’s real by looking for the boss icon on the mini map. Watch out for an airstrike attack similar to the one at HP bar X135.