Kaiserliches Refugium (Mission)

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Raisu-Palast
Typ	Außenposten
Kampagne	Factions
Region	Stadt Kaineng
Gruppengröße	Unbekannt
Nachbarn
Raisu-Pavillion

Ziel

• Vernichtet Shiro

Anmerkung: Bruder Mhenlo muss nicht überleben, er kann getötet und die Mission trotzdem abgeschlossen werden

Belohnung

Normaler Modus

• Standard = > 5 Minuten
• Experte = < 5 Minuten
• Meister = < 2.5 Minuten

Schwerer Modus

• Standard = > 6 Minuten
• Experte = 3-6 Minuten
• Meister = < 3 Minuten

Walkthrough

Die Missionsziele sind sehr einfach gehalten. Lauft auf die kleine Insel vor Euch und tötet Shiro.

Bevor Ihr anfangt sollten auf jeden Fall alle Gruppenmitglieder mit Kuunavang reden, um von ihr ihre Himmlische Fertigkeit abzuholen. Sobald ein Gruppenmitglied das Ende der Brücke erreicht, löst dies die Filmsequenz aus und versperrt den Weg zurück zu Kuunavang.

Anmerkung: Sollte deine Gruppe Gefolgsleute beinhalten, überspringe nicht die Filmsequenz bis Du siehst, wie sich das Tor hinter der Gruppe schließt, da Gefolgsleute hinter dem Tor gefangen werden könnten, ohne dass sie sich am Kampf beteiligen können.

Shiro benutzt eine Menge starke Fertigkeiten, aber die wichtigsten sind wahrscheinlich Widerhallende Verbannung, Meditation des Schnitters und Unmögliche Aussichten.

• Widerhallende Verbannung: Shiro wird ein Gruppenmitglied in Die Nebel verbannen und ihn/sie durch einen seiner Bindungsgeister ersetzen. Der Geist hat immer die gleiche Klasse wie der/die Verbannte und benutzt ein festes Build. Am Besten zerstört man den Bindungsgeist sobald er auftaucht. Dies wird den verbannten Mitspieler sofort zurückholen und alle Fertigkeiten wieder aufladen. Der Spieler, der verbannt wurde, kommt zurück ins Spiel indem er durch eine dunkle Passage, die mit einem leuchtenden Portal endet, läuft.

• Meditation des Schnitters: Shiro negiert bis zu 500 Schadenspunkte, die ihm zugefügt werden. Nachdem dieser Schaden absorbiert wurde, entzieht er jedem Spieler 20 Lebenspunkte für jede Sekunde, die die Fergigkeit aktiv war. Sollte Meditation des Schnitters über 20 Sekunden aktiv gewesen sein, wird dies wahrscheinlich die ganze Gruppe töten. Es ist umbedingt nötig, diese Fertigkeit schnellstmöglich zu beenden.

• Unmögliche Aussichten: Für 10 Sekunden teilt Shiro, jedes mal wenn er trifft, massiv Schaden an alle Feinde in dem Bereich aus. Denke daran, dass dies genau wie Meditation des Schnitters eine Fertigkeit ist, die nicht entfernt werden kann. Shiro wird diese Fertigkeit benutzen, wenn er nur noch sehr wenig Lebenspunkte hat, um schnell große Schadensmengen zu verteilen und sich dadurch der gegnerischen Gruppe schnellstmöglich zu entledigen.

Es ist selbstverständlich dass jedes Mitglied versuchen sollte, diesem Flächenschaden aus dem Wege zu gehen. Eine gute Möglichkeit diese Fertigkeit zu kontern ist, sie durch z.B. Haltungen zu blocken, z.B. Die Himmlische Fertigkeit für Waldläufer, Himmlische Haltung. Blindheitsverursachende Fertigkeiten funktionieren NICHT, da Unmögliche Aussichten Shiro von allen Zuständen heilt.

Andere Fertigkeiten die Shiro benutzt sind Kriegsnarben und Entgegnende Schatten.

Tips

• Echo chain Celestial Skills. This is especially effective with Celestial Storm.
• Togo's corpse is exploitable, so Animate Flesh Golem will provide extra help. Alternatively, you can toss in a Well of Suffering.
• Anti-Warrior tactics, such as Clumsiness, Faintheartedness, Empathy, Spiteful Spirit, Blinding, Ward Against Melee, Aegis, and Spoil Victor, work very well against Shiro.
• The Elementalist celestial skill Celestial Storm can quickly end the skill Meditation of the Reaper by reaching its damage absorption limit.
• The party should designate a few members to apply constant damage and conditions to Shiro to prevent the fight from dragging on.
• Rangers who rely on pets should replace Charm Animal with the celestial skill. The pet will remain despite having the skill replaced.
• All players can body block Shiro, while Warriors use the skill Storm of Swords. This skill benefits from any creature blocking Shiro, including allied spirits, pets, and minions. This tactic is quite effective for getting the master's reward, as it usually kills Shiro in under 2 minutes. Bringing two Warriors is advisable in case one is banished.
• Skills such as Diversion and Blackout will not disable Shiro's skills, and Shiro cannot be knocked down. Energy and adrenaline denial are also ineffective, as none of Shiro's skills cost adrenaline, and only Riposting Shadows has an energy cost.
• Shiro will often banish players and constructs will appear in their place. Kill the constructs and recharge your skills, by doing this, Shiro can be killed very quickly.
• Using a combination of Star Strike and Storm of Swords can bring Shiro down with ease.
• Grenth's Balance can do an extremely high amount of damage to Shiro, especially at the start of the fight. It can also be used to end Meditation of the Reaper extremely quickly.
• When playing with heroes/henchmen, put down the flag marker, lest they try to follow players banished by Shiro and then stand around uselessly.
• Equipping two of your party with Wailing Weapon and high Channeling will mean one attacker can constantly interrupt Shiro's attacks. This will both make it easy to damage him and mitigate his own carnage.
• A Necromancer with Awaken the Blood and Spoil Victor can completely wreck Shiro when he activates Impossible Odds.
• Whenever you get banished, you can use a Shadow Step skills such as Death's Charge to quickly shadow step to a spirit at the top of the hill. This is extremely useful.

Strategies

Henchmen/heroes strategy

You can beat Shiro in under 2 minutes with henchmen, provided you utilize the glitches in this mission. This strategy is also presuming you have access to heroes. First, the 2 quirks in the mission's behaviour you need to know:

1. Heroes do not get banished with Echoing Banishment.
2. Heroes do not get celestial skills while henchmen do.

Naturally, monks will make bosses inherently more powerful, and Shiro seems to prefer banishing monks first. Since Mhenlo is with your group already (he cannot be banished either) you should only need one more NPC monk. You should use either Tahlkora or Dunkoro.

Since the Necromancer's Celestial Skill is less effective than Spiteful Spirit, Spoil Victor, Empathy and Insidious Parasite it would probably be a good idea to go with Master of Whispers and Olias and load them up with these spells (SS on one and SV on the other.)

An ideal henchie selection should be based on 3 things:

1. Are the skills effective against Shiro?
2. Can you ignore the bound spirit that replaces them?
3. Can you finish the battle without them (since henchmen do not come back from Echoing Banishment unless you kill their spirit.)

Keeping that in mind; you might want to try Lukas, Devona, Seaguard Hala and Erys Vasburg. Now the selection might differ a little depending on your profession. The main reasons for choosing these henchmen are:

• Erys carries Empathy while Hala carries Conjure Phantasm. Additionally, their Celestial Skills speed up casting times and recharge, much more useful than the Ranger or Necromancer Celestial Skills (remember, you're going for speed, not endurance). Finally, their bound spirits are pretty harmless (although Diversion is a pain in the neck) since they neither damage you or heal Shiro. As long as you're aware of it, you can wait it out.

• Devona and Lukas both have the awesome Warrior Celestial Skill and the AoE damage goes a long way (they do a fair job of body blocking too). The Warrior bound spirits are pretty harmless as well.

With that setup, all you really need to do is make sure Spoil Victor, Spiteful Spirit, Empathy and Insidious Parasite are always up.

Be sure to keep some spike skills with you (i.e. Blood, Fire, Air) in order to deal with Meditation of the Reaper.

It is next to impossible to beat Shiro when there are Monk spirits around, implying that Monk henchmen are out of the question.

Warrior strategy

If you are a warrior, a simple plan is to try to obtain another warrior player, 2 Warrior henchmen and a few healers. If all goes well you should be able to kill Shiro fairly quickly.

Plan:

• As you enter the fight, Shiro will use Echoing Banishment. If he binds anything other than a warrior, kill the bound spirit to recharge the Celestial Skills.

• Use your Celestial Skills to kill the bound spirit.

• When the spirit is dead, attack Shiro. Warriors should wait until Shiro enters the Meditation of the Reaper to use their Celestial Skills.
• When he does have all warriors use Storm of Swords.
• When you're done Shiro should be almost dead.

Alternate Warrior Strategy

This strategy revolves around having a full team of melee attackers, preferably warriors, and at least 3 of them must have Storm of Swords. They then run in, surround Shiro and body block him from all sides. Then, one uses Storm of Swords, when that has ended, another does, and then the next one. He should die within 60 seconds.

Elementalist/Mesmer strategy

This strategy allows any party with an ele in it to take shiro down quickly for the masters. Simply take Mesmer skills Arcane Echo, Echo and the Celestial Skill - Celestial Storm. Once Shiro has banished one of the players (hopefully not the Ele), cast Arcane Echo, Echo, Celestial Storm, Echo, Celestial Storm, Celestial Storm on shiro. Then kill the shiroken construct and cast the three recharged storms on shiro. Taking Gale to knock him down in the storm is also advisable. (That is a contradiction to the "Tips" part of this site. There you will find: "Shiro cannot be knocked down")

Ranger strategy

Use a modified Bunny Thumper (no knock downs) for a focused DPS capability. Bring Koss with Grenth's Balance, Tahlkora as a Healer/Protector, and Olias as a N/Me with Spoil Victor and Empathy. Select the mesmers, Lukas (Devona's knock downs don't appear to work), and Sheena. Break from attacking Shiro for the first two shiro'ken, making sure to use your celestial skills before they die. After the second one goes down, ignore any more and pour everything you have into Shiro. You'll either die or get masters.

Follow-up

• Upon completion of this mission, players will be taken to the Divine Path area to celebrate their victory as well as get access to special items and crafters. See the area article for details.

Creatures

NPCs

• 10 Oracle of Time
• 30 Kuunavang
• Vorlage:Mo20 Brother Mhenlo

Monsters

• 24 Spirit of The Mists
• 31 Shiro Tagachi
• 20 Bound Warrior
• 20 Bound Ranger
• Vorlage:Mo20 Bound Monk
• 20 Bound Necromancer
• 20 Bound Mesmer
• 20 Bound Elementalist
• 20 Bound Assassin
• 20 Bound Ritualist

Notes

• When Echoing Banishment is used on a Paragon or Dervish, the Player is replaced with a Bound Warrior.

Hard Mode

• Shiro's level has been increased to 33.
• Bound creatures spawned by Shiro's Echoing Banishment are level 26 instead of level 20.
• You do NOT receive another amulet when you finish this mission in hard mode.