Getting Through It: Vale Guardian

Author: Bozofriendly

Ten players, built around stacking Necromancers for easy boons, huge crowd control, and barrier that makes mechanics trivial.

Healers —2x Heal Quickness Troubadour:

Alacrity — 2x Celestial Alacrity Scourge:

DPS — 2x Condition Scourge + 4x Power Ritualist:

Before Vale Guardian, you clear three Guardians — Red, Blue, and Green. Each guardian teaches a single mechanic that Vale Guardian will later use throughout the fight.Treat the pre-event as your free practice room.  

Red has very high toughness, so it can only be damaged by conditions which is why your condition Scourges matter.
It summons two large red orbs called Seekers that drain anyone standing in their radius.

How to handle it: A Troubadour runs Focus as their offhand.
Use Temporal Curtain's flip skill, Into the Void, to pull the Seekers away from the group.  

Blue carries a buff called Blue Pylon Power.
While it's active: The boss can't be damaged and one of your Necromancers strips it with Spear skill 5, Extirpate, opening Blue up to damage.  

Blue also spawns Distributed Magic "Greens": A large green AoE that typically needs 4 players standing in it before it resolves.
The strategy we are going to use is to ignore greens.  

When a green is about to pop (around 3 seconds out), your supports prep their burst:

1. Troubadours (Healers): Pre-place your Rifle 3 on the stack.As the green detonates: Hit the Rifle 3 flip, your heal skill, and your F3 -> F4.  

2. Scourges (Alacrity & DPS): Hit Shroud F3 to drop barrier on the whole group.
Barrier isn't counted toward the percentage damage, so the green eats the barrier first and leaves everyone's real health bar mostly intact.  

Green spawns Unstable Magic Spike "Blues": markers that appear under players every 10 seconds, detonate after 3, deal damage, and teleport you across the arena.

How to handle it:
Either dodge out of your Blue (making sure you don't dodge into someone else's), or just side-step to avoid the teleport.  

The fight takes place on a circular platform with 3 zones with a pylon at each zone Red, Blue, and Green. The edge between the Red and Blue pylons is your main stacking edge.

Vale Guardian fights in three phases, with a split phase between each. During the splits, the three pre-event Guardians reappear and the squad divides up to kill them. Assign these in advance:

• Red: The 2 condition Scourges
• Green: 1 healer, attack the Green Guardian and pull it to the rest of the group at Blue
• Blue: Everyone else

Stack on the far east edge, between the Red and Blue pylons.
One player starts the fight by hitting Vale Guardian, who then walks to the tank (highest toughness).

The first mechanic up is Blues, so dodge, side-step, or block.
Especially the tank, since you don't want Vale Guardian wandering across the map.

Seekers and a Green follow, so your Troubadour uses the Focus pull to drag the Seekers away.

Keep damaging until 66%, then move to your assigned pylons

Each player gets an attunement matching the pylon color they're sent to.
The red AoE around each Guardian pulses damage to anyone whose attunement doesn't match it.  

Once all three Guardians each 1%, CC their break bar "healers use their CC, everyone will try to save their Flesh Golems. - So use Greatsword 5 on Ritualist, you want the group to save their big CC for the next phase.

Return to the same east-edge spot.
Everything from Phase 1 repeats, plus two new mechanics:

Breakbar (CC): Shortly after Vale Guardian becomes vulnerable, it spawns a breakbar and starts a massive AoE attack.
CC it down as fast as possible.  

Unstable Pylon: One pylon's sector of the arena starts pulsing damage.
Stand on the line between the Blue and Red pylons; when either sector lights up, step to the opposite side to stay safe.  

Keep damaging until 33%.

Same as before, as the last split phase.
Kill the three Guardians with the same assignments.  

The tank positions Vale Guardian between the Red and Green pylons.
All the Phase 2 mechanics return, with one escalation: two pylon sectors light up at once, so the single-line strat no longer works. - And you will have to move around the arena.  

Position Vale Guardian between Red and Green.
Another breakbar and green will appear like in phase 2, once broken move Vale Guardian in a clockwise rotation around the arena, always staying in the one sector that isn't lit.  

Greens detonating and people go down?

• Scourges are not applying barrier at the right time "too early or too late".
• Healers are not timing their healing properly.
• Stand in green when it’s easy to do so. 

Boss wandering off?

• The tank is eating Blues/Seekers and being teleported.
• Tank stays put and side-steps, blocks, dodge left or right, or distort.

Dying to the breakbar AoE?

• You're not breaking it fast enough.
• Your team is not coordinating your CC and no one has their big skills off cooldown.

Random downs in the pulses?

• Someone's standing in a lit pylon sector.