Deepstrike Mines Walkthrough (Rift)  

Boss: Overseer Markus

If the group has managed to tame the two tough trash pulls up to this point, this boss should not be much of a challenge. Markus has 25,594 health and some simple add mechanics. Markus uses an attack called Elemental Cleave so the tank should keep him faced away from the group. He will come with four non elite adds called Rotted Dredgers. Simply AoE them down after the pull and then focus on Markus. This will be a tank and spank fight until Markus reaches 50% health. At this time he will split into three Shades of Markus. The tank must be quick at gathering all three up and obtaining aggro. The group leader should mark one of the shades and everyone should focus fire it down. Do this for the second and third shades to summon Markus back. The remainder of this fight is exactly like the first half. Soon enough the group will be dividing up the spoils of Markus and his minions.

Slaying Markus will complete the quest The Foreman's Disgrace.

Boss: Gregori Krezlav

Krezlav can be a difficult encounter if the group is lacking in DPS. He has 22,075 health and more complicated add mechanics than Overseer Markus. He will remain mostly stationary in the center of his platform throughout the fight. Every once in a while he will summon a Baneful Delver that has 4,300 health and will need to be tanked. DPS should switch and focus fire it down. Periodically he will also summon three Risen Channelers that will channel a spell at Krezlav. With this spell active Krezlav becomes invulnerable so the Channelers must be killed quickly. The fight will continue with him summoning his two types of adds and DPS having to switch each time. An alternate strategy to speed up the fight is to ignore the Baleful Delvers and focus all damage on Krezlav and the Risen Channelers. This makes the fight go faster however the incoming damage on the tank will be significantly higher, especially if two of the Delvers are summoned.

Boss: Bonehew the Thunderer

Bonehew has been the cause of many quick and unexpected deaths and should be handled with caution. He has three different attacks he will use throughout the fight. The first is called Earth Shaker and will stun anyone in melee range, preventing them from using spells or abilities. To compensate for this all healers and ranged DPS should insure they are outside of melee range.

He also has a knock back attack that will send a player flying a distance of roughly half the diameter of the platform he is on. Keeping this in mind the tank will need to keep Bonehew on one side of the platform with the tank's back facing the rest of the platform, to avoid being knocked off. Falling from this platform is fatal. Bonehew will perform his knock back attack in two fashions. The first will be randomly to the tank during the fight and the second will be performed after he runs to one side of the platform and faces the middle. Anyone standing in 120 degree cone in front of Bonehew will get knocked back by this attack, so the group needs to position itself carefully. Following this second type of knock back attack Bonehew will begin pounding the ground in front of him doing some heavy AoE damage. Everyone should stay a safe distance from him until he returns to the tank. If the group can mange the knock back mechanic then this fight is straight forward and easy.

Slaying Bonehew will comple the quest Crystal Clear.

Boss: Gatekeeper Kaleida

First of all, congratulations for getting this far. Secondly do not let this boss frustrate the group too much, it is a very difficult encounter, especially for a group that is average level 26-28. When the group approaches the final two Laborers, Kaleida will activate and kill them. The tank should immediately pick up Kaleida and tank near the center of the room with Kaleida's back facing the group. Kaleida has two phases and multiple tricks up his sleeve. Throughout the fight Kaleida will use a frontal AoE cleave on the tank so everyone else in the group needs to make sure they are facing Kaleida's side or back. Kaleida will also use Clobber Rock which will stun the tank for around four seconds and prevent the use of any abilities during this time. This ability makes it very hard for tanks to rely upon their own cool downs to save their lives so the group's healer must be extra careful. Beyond these two static abilities Kaleida will shift between two phases. During one phase he will have the buff "Earth Attuned". During this phase he will do a minor amount of melee ranged AoE damage, which is easily healed through. He will also randomly target a group member and hurl an earth crystal at them. These crystals have ~2000 health and all DPS must switch to killing them immediately. They will heal Kaleida for 1% of his maximum health every two seconds. If they are not handled extremely quickly they will heal him significantly and cause this fight to take a very long time. He will hurl two earth crystals before switching to his fire buff.

During Kaleida's fire phase he will have the buff "Fire Attuned". This is when the group will deal the most damage to him, however it also when Kaleida is dealing the most damage to the group. In this phase Kaleida will cast Fireblast which is a melee range AoE that hits very hard. In order for your melee DPS to live through the entire fight and insure your healer has enough mana to keep the tank alive, melee DPS must run away from Kaleida as soon as they see the cast bar for Fireblast. If they start running as soon as they see the cast they will not suffer any damage and it will make this fight much easier. During this phase he will also be hurling fire crystals at random party members. The crystals will cause AoE damage to whomever they hit and as well as continuing to deal AoE damage once they spawn. After a short time the fire crystals will explode dealing a large amount of AoE damage. Everyone should avoid these crystals at all costs and if one spawns near the boss, melee DPS should move away and the tank and healer should prepare for a large influx of damage. Avoid moving Kaleida as his cleave and Fireblast abilities can cause huge damage to unwary group members. After Kaleida hurls the second fire crystal he will cast one more Fireblast before shifting over to the earth phase again.

This fight can break many unorganized or lower level groups so be prepared and focus on mastering the mechanics.