Stone Garden

Heavy Attack

Tank: Block his heavy attack. This should only ever land on the tank.

Swipe

Tank: Block his multi-hit Swipe combo.

Dps: Dodge roll Swipe if it somehow lands on you instead of the tank.

Blood Rage (interrupt)

Dps: Interrupt Blood Rage the instant it starts. The window is very short, so a fast ranged interrupt such as Crushing Shock or Venom Arrow is best. Failing to interrupt drains and reduces the whole group's resources.

Blood Rage (knockback)

All: Block Blood Rage's knockback burst when you see it coming (usually after his second Swipe). Blocking negates a stacking resistance and resource debuff (Fracture) that gets worse every time anyone fails it, especially on Hard Mode.

Stomp and Charge

All: Get out of Stomp quickly, then get back close to the boss immediately once it is done. Standing too far away afterward triggers Charge, which knocks you down. Reposition especially fast on Hard Mode.

Quake Attacks

All: Avoid the ground Quake attacks after Stomp. Each hit stacks a resistance debuff that compounds for the rest of the fight, especially on Hard Mode. Healing can offset a couple of hits, but do not rely on it.

Heavy Attack

Tank: Block his heavy attack.

Dps: Dodge roll it if it is on you instead of the tank.

Lightning (ground punch)

All: Spread out. When he puts his hand to the ground, a lightning effect appears under each player, and overlapping stacks the damage. Block the instant you see him do it.

Fire (fireballs)

All: Avoid the fireballs he throws around the room. A hit leaves a long fire damage-over-time effect you need to heal through or cleanse.

Fire Eruption

All: Find a gap and get out quickly when the room-filling fire effect peaks. An unblocked, undodged hit is almost always fatal.

Ice Effects

All: Walk a small circle instead of standing still while the four ice effects place under you. This spreads them out instead of stacking them. They snare and apply a damage-over-time effect (cleansable).

Ice Eruption (stun)

All: Break Free from the room-wide stun after the ice eruption. It is more painful if you are already carrying an ice damage-over-time stack.

Adds and Beams

Healer: Kite the beam attached to an add away from the group without running it through anyone or into the ice effects. It drains resources quickly on contact.

Dps: Kill the beam adds one at a time (up to three spawn as his health drops), then return to the boss. Repeat as more spawn, and save ultimates for when they appear.

Shocking Stuns

All: Once the third add is in play (low boss health), block the instant you see a small circle appear under your feet. It stuns after 2 seconds otherwise.

Frontal Fire Dash and Heavy Attack

Tank: Block or dodge both his frontal fire dash-and-stab and his separate long-windup heavy attack. Either is highly damaging if you are not at full health.

Fire Pops (Phase 1, 100 to 60%)

All: Fire pops land in sets of three, about 1 second apart, every 10 seconds or so. Step out as each of the three pops, then hold position once the third has gone off. Getting caught applies a fire damage-over-time effect that makes all further damage hurt more.

Add Phase (every 10%)

Dps: Always focus adds over the boss. There is no DPS check on Arkasis himself, only on the adds. Left alive too long, they cast a heavy magma-shell hit on the tank.

Werewolf Transform and Husk Assignment

All: When the boss vanishes and four synergies appear, each grab one to transform into a Werewolf Behemoth, then take your own Stone Husk to a separate corner of the arena. Do not bunch Husks together; they enrage each other when close, especially on Hard Mode.

Husk Channel (interrupt)

All: Interrupt your Husk's channeled spit attack immediately using the Bonecrusher werewolf skill. Left uninterrupted, it kills the entire group quickly.

Husk Large Effect

All: If your Husk channels its huge room-wide effect (over half your health), use your werewolf Ultimate to stop it, or gap-close away and come back once it is over.

Lightning Mines

All: When the room flashes blue, destroy the lightning mines from range with the Thunderous Stomp werewolf skill (usually two spawn). An undestroyed mine bursts for heavy damage.

Poison Bottles (Phase 2, 60 to 20%)

All: Block the two spinning poison effects as they come toward you. Simpler than Phase 1's fire, but being hit unblocked stuns you on top of heavy poison damage. A purge such as Efficient Purge is close to mandatory for this fight.

Husk Swap (Werewolf Phase 2, about 20%)

All: If your Husk's head rises and the screen goes grey, swap immediately. Gap-close to a teammate's Husk and taunt it instead of your own. Failing to swap is almost always fatal.

Lightning Kite (Phase 3, two players)

All: If followed by a large lightning effect, run (together, not solo) until it disappears; touching it is fatal. Only two players get this on Normal and Veteran.

Lightning Kite (Hard Mode: all players)

All: On Hard Mode, every player gets a following lightning effect at once instead of just two. Stay bunched together (paced, not stacked) as far from the lightning as possible while it runs its course.

Pin Rescue

All: Every 3 to 5 seconds during Phase 3, someone gets pinned to the ground. Press the synergy button often so you rescue them the instant it happens rather than reacting late. This happens three times before the lightning phase ends.

Frontal Lightning and Charge

Tank: Interrupt his frontal lightning cone when possible, and do not over-rotate the boss. The rest of the group should already be standing behind him.

Dps: Dodge or block his random Charge at a player, or be stunned.

Bloodknight Fight

All: No named mechanics. Treat it as a standard enemy encounter.

Bloodknight Fight

All: No named mechanics. Treat it as a standard enemy encounter.

Bloodknight Fight

All: No named mechanics. Treat it as a standard enemy encounter.