Guild City Raid (Normal)

The Ruins of Guild City Raid is a 5-boss 10-player raid in OrbusVR.

It can be accessed in two different locations, and the difficulty depends on where it is entered:
 * Normal Mode: Flooded Rainforest, inside of Demon's Cave near the Onobi Encampment. Players taking this entrance will arrive at the second graveyard, where the path splits in three. By taking the path down the hill, players can enter the City of Highsteppe.
 * Hard Mode: City of Highsteppe, behind the Salvaging shop. A Corrupted Knight guards the door that leads to the Ruins of Guild City. Players taking this entrance will spawn at the far south entrance of the area. The door leading to the Flooded Rainforest is locked in hard mode.

Layout
The bosses in this raid are all spawned in at the beginning, and can be completed in any order.

At the second graveyard near the exit that leads to the Flooded Rainforest, the path splits in three, with the left path leading to the Clockwork Hunter, and the right path to the Broken Knight. The Pot Tank, the Seamstress and the Valusia Warrior can all be found by taking the middle path.

A gate on the middle path blocks access to the Seamstress and the Valusia Warrior. To open this gate, players have to put the three purple crystals lying around in the area on the pedestals, which will trigger a public event in the boss area of the Pot Tank. The crystals have to be defended from groups of Staf enemies. Once the timer runs out, the gate will open, opening up the path to the last two bosses. A portal opens up at the graveyard, which teleports players behind the now open gate.

Raid Trash
Several types of Corrupted Knights reside here:
 * Melee: Normal melee-type enemy without any special attacks.
 * Brute: Similar to Stafrute or Scav Knights, with a powerful Smash attack and able to heal themselves.
 * Pistoler: Similar to Pistoler Scavs, able to inflict a Poison DoT or Slow effect.
 * Mage: Similar to Marksman Scavs, able to inflict a Shadow Mark DoT.

These enemies shouldn't pose much of a threat, especially with a full party of 10.

Mechanics
The boss gains buffs if the electricity from the blue beam reaches it, which will increase its damage by 20% each, and can stack up to 10 times.
 * One damage-increasing buff is placed on the boss if the beam touches it.
 * The blue glow of the beam does not give the boss stacks - only the lightning does.
 * Even if only a single bolt reaches the boss, it will gain stacks.
 * The boss can only gain one stack every 2 seconds.
 * The lightning can be blocked by players, but they gain anti-heal debuffs and poison stacks every 2 seconds that will deal noticable damage over time.
 * The stacks won't clear until the player steps out of the beam.
 * If multiple people are standing in the beam at once, it will hit the person who logged into the raid first (out of the people standing in the beam).

Attacks

 * Lightning Strike: The boss creates a black shield around itself, blocking any damage. It can be broken by dealing enough damage to it. If the shield doesn't break before the cast bar is filled, the boss deals a large amount of damage to the entire party.
 * Chaos Giant minion: Every time the boss creates a shield, a Chaos Giant minion spawns. This enemy only uses normal melee attacks, and has a pink poison pool below it that deals damage to anyone standing inside of it. The pool grows slowly over time and disappears as soon as the Chaos Giant is killed.

Tips and Strategies

 * Rotate players through the beam often.

Bugs and Technical Notes

 * Occasionally there is a delay in reading a player's position. Sliding a bit in place or teleporting a short distance helps Orbus update your character's position.

Mechanics
Once every 20 seconds, the boss or the adds it spawns start glowing (alternating). If damage is dealt to them while they are glowing, they gain buffs that increases their damage by 20% (stacks up to 10 times).
 * Only the tank can attack the boss without giving him stacks.

Attacks

 * Tankbuster: After every 6 normal hits, the Broken Knight attacks with a large swing of his club hand, dealing a large amount of damage. Shield this.
 * Empower: The boss gains a damage-increasing stack. This ability can be interrupted.
 * Waves: Every 20 seconds, one player will start glowing, dealing damage to them three (?) times, and then creating a shockwave that deals damage to any player it hits. The shockwave can be jumped over.
 * Corrupt Knight minions: 20 seconds after the fight starts and then every 80 seconds, two brute-type Corrupt Knight enemies spawn. These enemies explode on death, dealing damage to the entire party.

Tips and Strategies

 * Use a second tank or a Musketeer to keep the Corrupt Knight minions busy.
 * Stand on the edge of the area and call out your name and position when you sparkle to warn your teammates.
 * With a skilled tank and enough damage output, it is possible to ignore the boss gaining stacks and burn him before he can kill the tank. Start after one or two sparkle phases if your party's DPS isn't high enough for a full burn.

Mechanics
During the whole fight, small kettles spawn at the edge of the boss area and walk towards the boss. If they reach the Pot Tank, they give him a 5% buff to damage reduction (stacks up to 10 times for a total of 50% damage reduction).

After every 30 seconds, the boss retreats into his pot for another 30 seconds, reducing all damage to 1, and stops attacking. During this phase, a lot of attacks and mechanics have to be dealt with.

Attacks

 * Normal attacks inflict anti-heal debuffs which decrease incoming healing by 10% each (stacks up to 10 times).
 * Line Attack: While the boss is in his pot, lines of purple orbs sweep over the area, which will inflict a bleed status on every player they hit.
 * Blue Orbs: In addition to the line attacks, blue orbs appear in the sky during down phase, which need to be shot down, or they explode, dealing damage to the entire party.
 * Enrage: After 6 minutes, the Pot Tank will enrage, greatly increasing his damage and movement speed.

Tips and Strategies

 * The kettles don't disappear after the Pot Tank dies - letting a player get hit by the kettle gives them the damage reduction stacks. Try to give these to your tank.

Bugs and Technical Notes

 * Jump over the line attacks very early - due to latency, the game can register players as getting hit by the orbs even if they jumped in time.

Mechanics
The Seamstress periodically spawns two adds, one blue and one yellow, that attack the group. While the adds are spawned, the Seamstress won't attack, and takes reduced damage.
 * The adds need to be killed within a short period of time, or they will resurrect with half health, creating a shockwave.
 * One add needs to be kept near the boss, while the other one has to be away from it, or both of them gain damage-increasing stacks.

Attacks

 * Fusion: The Seamstress will fuse with any minion that's left, gaining back a large chunk of health and creating shockwaves where the minions stood (first at the position of the yellow add, then the blue one). The shockwaves can be jumped over. This ability can be interrupted with two interrupts.
 * Mirror: When the boss dances, the positions of the minions need to be switched, or they will gain damage-increasing stacks.

Tips and Strategies

 * With decent DPS you can just ignore the minions and the Fusion mechanic (don't interrupt) and burn the Seamstress for more damage than she can heal. The tank can pull the Seamstress in one corner near the blue wall, while the DPS stands near the fountain on the other side, which will make the minions reset and go back to the boss. The tank can back off during this phase, making it easier to dodge the shockwaves.

Mechanics
Every 20 seconds, two green circles spawn that deal damage over time to players standing inside of it (damage is shared between all players standing inside of the circles). After 10 seconds, they explode, dealing a large amount of damage to the entire party unless players stand in them to soak damage.

Attacks

 * Normal attacks inflict anti-heal debuffs which decrease incoming healing by 10% each (stacks up to 10 times).
 * Tankbuster: After every five normal hits, the boss attacks with a large swing of his axe, dealing a large amount of damage. Shield this.
 * Lightning Strike: The Valusia Warrior surrounds himself with a red shield and powers up this attack. While the shield is up, the boss takes no damage, and once the attack goes off, every player in the raid takes a large amount of damage, killing most players. Only the player with top aggro (the tank, hopefully) can stop the attack by shooting the boss with the ballista.
 * Minion: When the green circles appear, one of the eggs will break to spawn a small lizard minion that walks up to a random player (except the tank?) and explodes. This attack deals enough damage to immediately kill a player.

Tips and Strategies

 * Wait until the anti-heal stacks wear off before shooting the ballista.
 * One Musketeer and three DPS in each green circle is ideal, but the circles can be dealt with by groups much smaller than that.

Bugs and Technical Notes

 * The ballista darts can sometimes pass through the boss. There is nothing you can do about this.

Loot

 * Special Level 30+2 equipment, unique to each class
 * Clockwork Hunter: Gloves
 * Broken Knight: Helmet
 * Pot Tank: Chestpiece
 * Seamstress: Shoulders
 * Valusia Warrior: Weapon
 * Tangerine Major Dye
 * Royal Purple Accent Dye
 * Raid Pet (the Valusia Warrior minion) from Seamstress