Dun Scaith

Dun Scaith

Level

60 (Sync: 60)

Item Level

235

Difficulty

Normal

Party size

Alliance
24 man • 3 6 15

Unsyncing

Allowed

Time limit

120 minutes

Roulette

Alliance Raids

Tomestones

 100 

Req. quest

Where Shadows Reign

Patch

3.5

“

The ancient tome recovered by Captain Radlia of the Talons tells of a floating refuge─an island created by Mhachi sorcerers to provide safe haven from calamitous floodwaters. With the disaster that befell the Void Ark, however, the island's intended residents never arrived. Cait Sith is convinced that Diabolos has instead claimed this refuge as his own, transforming what was to be a bastion of hope into a voidsent nest of shadowy nightmare. And it is into this fiendish lair that you must delve.
The Lady Radlia stands ready to bear you across the skies. Assault the island, reclaim the Nullstone, and cast your demonic foes into oblivion!

— In-game description

Dun Scaith is a level 60 raid introduced in patch 3.5 with Heavensward.

General Information

Dun Scaith is the third and final 24-player raid of the Heavensward expansion. It requires players to have an average item level of 235 or higher. The raid composition is 3 tanks, 6 healers and 15 DPS (1:2:5 ratio).

Unlock

• Quest: Where Shadows Reign
• Quest-giver Location: Stacia - The Sea of Clouds (X:6.2 Y:5.8)
• Prerequisite Quest: Freedom for Our Skies

Bosses

Deathgaze Hollow

• Void Doom: Red/Black AOE in center will pull you in, keep running away from it, as it will try to pull you in again a second time, then explode for massive damage.
• Doom: randomly cast on 2 people, must be cleansed by healers.
• Bolt of Darkness: Perpendicular AoE, deals damage and applies Bleeding to players affected.

• Void Aero II: Random players will be marked with a green icon over head and will drop a tornado after the boss finishes the cast. Drop these away from others and towards edges of ship.
• Void Blizzard II: Big cone AoE with safe cone spots.
• Void Aero III: Green AoE in center will explode and push you away, dealing proximity-based damage. Either stay in the center to avoid the knockback (big damage), or run to the walls that block the boss area. Please note that after a certain point in the battle, the boss will fly to a section of the room and cast Bolt of Darkness.

• Void Blizzard IV: Two AoEs will appear, dealing proximity-based damage and dropping ice crystals in the center of the area. After they fall, the boss will cast Void Aero IV.
• Void Aero IV: Boss will appear in one side of the arena and push players. Line with a crystal dropped from Void Blizzard IV to avoid falling off.
• As the battle progresses, gray squares will appear on the floor. Those will deal damage to anyone standing on them when the boss casts Void Death IV.
  • Void Death IV: Instantly kills any player standing on a gray square.

Ferdiad Hollow

• Throughout the fight, Ferdiad will mark 3 players with red markers and throw Abyssal Scythes on them. The scythes will stay on the ground, dealing damage to anyone close to them.

• Also throughout the fight, Ferdiad will summon Atmos, and tether to one or two of them and cast Wormhole.
• Wormhole: Shoots a ball in a straight line into the tethered Atmos. The tethered ones disappear after the cast, transferring their balls to a same-colored Atmos.
  • Yellow Atmos transfers ball to another yellow Atmos, and blue Atmos transfers ball to another blue Atmos; the ball color will not change.
  • The yellow ball explodes in a room-wide donut-AoE (safe zone near it), and the blue ball explodes in a big AoE (no safe zone).

• Jester's Reap: Big cone AoE in front of the boss.
• Jongleur's X: Tankbuster.
• Blackblot: Marks a target. Others should stack on the targeted player to share damage.
• Blackfire: AoEs will cover the arena. Those become gradually bigger as the cast progresses.

• Debilitator: Reduces all players' weakness to fire or water, and spawns various puddles on the floor. Stepping on a puddle changes its element (blue = water, red = fire). The boss will cast Flameflow after a while.
  • Players should change puddles' element to the one contrary to their weakness - if you have fire weakness, change puddles to blue (water).
• Flameflow: Deals damage to all players. Damage can be reduced by avoiding puddles of the same element of the group weakness.

• At around 60% health, the boss will go to the middle of the room and become untargetable, spawning Atmos around him which mobs will shot from them.
  • Anyone in front of the Atmos will take damage and a stack of vulnerability.
• From time to time, the boss will cover a half of the arena with a long-cast AoE. It will kill any players standing on that side when the cast finishes.
• The adds will either cast:
  • Lucky Pierrot: Atmos will spawn around the edges of the room, and adds will dash to them, dealing damage to anyone on the way. The adds will reappear from the Atmos in the center, dealing damage to players nearby.
  • Icafall: Small AoEs.
• After the adds are killed, the boss will deal damage to all players.

Scathach

• When wings(?) get really big be in front or behind THEM, boss direction doesn't matter
• When she ports she will do large aoe a few seconds later
• When message about shadows on the ground pops up, stop all movement, otherwise little arms grab you and do a good amount of damage
• Occasionally she will turn toward party and do line aoe, sidestep it
• Move adds away and kill, if they get too close they tether and buff her
• Shadow Limb (giant hands) link to a player when spawned and will be pulled toward that player, killing the player if they reach the player. The tethered player can face the Shadow Limb to make it stand still. The Limbs must be DPSed, and can switch tethers to a different player.
• At 50%, Scathach will enter a cocoon and spawn adds, including a Chimera with the typical Chimera moveset.
• These adds must be killed, or she will wipe upon emerging from the cocoon.

Diabolos

Phase 1: Diabolos

• Nightmare - Look away from Diabolos, inflicts sleep
• Ultimate Terror - Donut AoE - Stand close or very far away
• Ruinous Omen - Raidwide AoE
• Night Terror - Stack marker on random player, stack to share damage

Kill Deathgates when they spawn to avoid adds

Phase 2: Intermission / Lifegate

Kill Lifegate 4 times. Kill Deathgates when they spawn to avoid adds

Phase 3: Diabolos Hollow

Diabolos starts with 100% crit and a large shield. Watch main tank's hp until shield breaks. Hollow Camisado will one-shot low geared tanks without cooldowns. Kill Deathgates and assign people to do Diabolic Gate (Usually Alliance A for Adds).

• Diabolos Casts
  • Hollow Camisado - Heavy Tankbuster, does around 25k damage
  • Shadethrust - Line AoE in front of Diabolos, dodge to the sides or back
  • Hollow Nightmare - Upgraded version of Nightmare. Look away from Diabolos, inflicts doom
  • Hollow Terror - Upgraded version of Night Terror. Stand at melee range or far away
  • Hollow Omen - Raidwide AoE
  • Blindside - Stack marker on tank
  • Earthshaker - Marks 3 players for line AoE damage, stand away from each other. Does around 14k damage.

• Other Mechanics
  • Nox - Chases 2 players with big AoEs. Run away from the party
  • Hollow Night - Stack marker & Gaze, look away from the player
  • Particle Beam - Stand in the towers to soak damage. Middle tower requires more players to soak.
  • Diabolic Gate - Go in and kill the add. Wipes the party if you fail.
  • Critical Gravity - Soak red orbs at the edges to avoid splashing the party, does 8000 damage.

Loot

Deathgaze Hollow

• 10
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Diabolic Boots of Aiming	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Boots of Casting	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Boots of Healing	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Circlet of Maiming	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Aiming	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Casting	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Healing	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Helm of Fending	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Sabatons of Fending	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Sabatons of Maiming	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Thighboots of Scouting	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Thighboots of Striking	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Turban of Scouting	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Turban of Striking	Head	260	CBlue	1

Ferdiad Hollow

• 20
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Diabolic Bottoms of Aiming	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Casting	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Fending	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Maiming	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Scouting	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Striking	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dress Gloves of Healing	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gauntlets of Fending	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gauntlets of Maiming	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gloves of Scouting	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gloves of Striking	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Halfgloves of Aiming	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Halfgloves of Casting	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Trousers of Healing	Legs	260	CBlue	1

Scathach

• 30
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Diabolic Boots of Aiming	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Boots of Casting	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Boots of Healing	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Aiming	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Casting	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Healing	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dolman of Scouting	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dolman of Striking	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Mail of Fending	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Mail of Maiming	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Sabatons of Fending	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Sabatons of Maiming	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Thighboots of Scouting	Feet	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Thighboots of Striking	Feet	260	CBlue	1

Diabolos

• 40
  
  Allagan Tomestone of Poetics
•   Mhachi Matter
• Diabolos Hollow Card (Drops at a fixed rate)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Void Matter	Material	N/A	ABasic	1
Wind-up Scathach	Minion	N/A	ABasic	1

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Diabolic Bottoms of Aiming	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Casting	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Fending	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Maiming	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Scouting	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Bottoms of Striking	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Circlet of Maiming	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Aiming	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Casting	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Coat of Healing	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dolman of Scouting	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dolman of Striking	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Dress Gloves of Healing	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gauntlets of Fending	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gauntlets of Maiming	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gloves of Scouting	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Gloves of Striking	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Halfgloves of Aiming	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Halfgloves of Casting	Hands	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Aiming	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Casting	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Hat of Healing	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Helm of Fending	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Mail of Fending	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Mail of Maiming	Body	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Trousers of Healing	Legs	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Turban of Scouting	Head	260	CBlue	1
Diabolic Turban of Striking	Head	260	CBlue	1

Rewards

When originally released, players could receive only one reward item per week for completing duties in Dun Scaith. Weekly limits were lifted in patch 3.57.

Each party in the alliance will receive its own treasure chest, the contents of which will be identical regardless of the route taken.

• Players cannot open a treasure chest belonging to another party.

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Lore

The ancient tome recovered by Captain Radlia of the Talons tells of a floating refuge─an island created by Mhachi sorcerers to provide safe haven from calamitous floodwaters. With the disaster that befell the Void Ark, however, the island's intended residents never arrived. Cait Sith is convinced that Diabolos has instead claimed this refuge as his own, transforming what was to be a bastion of hope into a voidsent nest of shadowy nightmare.

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