This will NOT bring you close enough to him, however I could use vengeful retreat while in netherwalk to reach him. Then as you do everything to get there asap as soon as you used double fel rush use netherwalk. When he's transitioning, which can be seen from the frost bolt cast: pop Blur for the 30% movement speed buff. However, what works for me is the following: As soon as you see it: Double jump + glide half a second + fel rush (x2 or double jump again + fel rush): this should already bring you on top of Xylem.Īrcane to frost: Hard, the problem here is that you can not reposition him. Now if your camera is set up correctly you should already see the shimmer of where he's about to go as the visual is easily spottable. The last time he transitions you FIRST see that he's casting ARCANE blast which indicates he's switching phases.
The first 4/5 times he will incase you in the ice, you can read above how to deal with that. Then when he's stationary, walk around him so you can see the other side of the room. I have found a way without killing any of the images that spawn:įrost to Arcane phase: Easy, drag boss to the very middle of the room by interrupting his frostbolt. Main thing that kept pooing me up in Xylem's phase was the transition phases. Ok so just finished it on a 900 ilvl DH after about a 30 tries. Another video without defensive legendary items can be found here. Remember, that the black aoe under him will kill you in the matter of seconds.
If he channels for the second time use your judgement whether to stay or to run. Burn them down quickly, Grip the boss to you, and keep whacking on him. Once the three ads spawn use everything you have. Once the new boss starts his channeling cast run about 40yd away from it (the range of SF). Use Remorseless Winter right at the start, but do not recast once it's over. Once combat starts immediately DG him to the edge and start walking backwards slowly. Run to the edge of the platform behind the void mob and pre-pot. This is when you put on your usual(max dps) gear on and eat up. Survive using all you got, you won't have to worry about hp past Xylem.Īt 10% the fight will stop and you'll be dropped out of combat. Make sure that at this point your Pillar and BoS are not more than 1 minute away. DO NOT USE SF, we'll need it soon enough. He'll be spamming Frostbolt and locking you into Razor Ice again. You'll have to deal with a mix of abilities here. Using AMS here is a good idea generally, since you'll be back frost phase now.Ģnd Frost Phase - this is it, the last push basically. This is where health potions comes in, as well as IBF+DS.Ģnd Arcane Phase - same as 1st, but try to get to the boss with at least 90% hp. After that blink you'll need to interrupt Draw Power at least once more, so you'll have to eat those Arcane Barrages. He'll blink away, which is why it's important to spam Death Strike all the time to keep yourself as close to 100% as possible. Once he starts Draw Power interrupt it immediately. After that point you NEED to have an interrupt available. Once you're there you can interrupt his first cast, Death Grip out of the second, then dodge the shadow balls. If you move one by one you have about 25 seconds till the boss instakills you with his cast.
Once you're full you have 2 options - either Ghost Walk+AMS straight to boss (remember to stay away from clones or you'll get knocked around and die) or move one by one to boss. Remember to interrupt his cast so he doesn't push you back. You have about 5 seconds to kill the first mage. Remember to use Death Strike every opportunity.ġst Arcane phase - DO NOT RUSH YOUR ACTIONS. Second can be broken by SF to get out quickly, for the third one I used KJBW. First Razor Ice will be broken by your BoS. There seems to be no internal cd and I had several back-to-back stuns on Xylem, basically shutting off his casts entirely.ġst Frost phase - use your usual burst, just don't use Sindragosa's Fury. Also consider taking Abomination's Might (credit to Ashaeron). Ancient Healing Potion for very bad situations that can be salvaged. Prolonged power as prepot, but not using during combat. Food - I used my usual raiding, since I ran out of Bear Tartare. It just seemed easier to let it protect me passively, rather than using Drapes at the right time. Since you need at least one survivability Leg for this to work, I went for Prydaz over Drapes.