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

Duty Finder

Alliance Raids (Heavensward)

Roulette

Alliance Raids

Tomestones

 100 

Req. quest

Where Shadows Reign

Entrance

The Parrock (X:7.0, Y:7.1)

Location

Dun Scaith

Region

Abalathia's Spine

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. It is the third part of Shadow of Mhach.

Objectives

1. Defeat Deathgaze Hollow: 0/1
2. Arrive at the Rostrum: 0/1
3. Defeat Ferdiad Hollow: 0/1
4. Arrive in the Queen's Graces: 0/1
5. Defeat Scathach: 0/1
6. Defeat Diabolos: 0/1
7. Defeat Diabolos Hollow: 0/1

Bosses

Deathgaze Hollow

There are no walls on the left and right side of the ship so be careful not to fall off. Throughout the fight, the boss moves between these sides to attack you and make you fly off to your death.

First Half

The boss opens up with Void Death. This is a large red-black, circle area of effect (AoE) at the center that pulls you in a couple times. You must keep running away from it or anyone caught in it dies.

Next, it casts Void Aero II and marks three players with green spread markers. Go to a place away from everyone to place the tornado. Anyone walking into the tornado will get hurt by Biting Wind, which gives you small damage and the Windburn debuff. Windburn can be removed with   Esuna.

When the boss casts Void Blizzard II, avoid the fan AoE by going to either side or on the safe spots in between. If you don’t, you receive a large amount of damage from Void Blizzard III and get the Frostbite debuff. Frostbite can be removed with   Esuna

Throughout the fight, the boss casts Doomsay which randomly gives Doom to one to two players. Healers must use   Esuna to remove them or they will die when the countdown ends.

Aero III wind direction

If the boss casts Void Aero III, immediately get close to either purple walls on the top and bottom of the ship. A green circular wind will appear in the center that causes proximity-based damage and knockback, so make sure you aren’t too close to it or you may die from damage. If you aren’t against a wall, you may fly off to your death.
NOTE: The wind makes you fly in a straight line from the center, so you must be perpendicular to the purple wall to fly into it. See the image on the left to see the direction of where the wind blows.

Where to stand for Blizzard IV

When Void Blizzard IV is cast, stand directly opposite of either proximity markers and take the damage. Ice blocks are dropped where the marker is located, and the boss immediately casts Void Aero IV. If you try to stand where you take the least amount of damage from the proximity marker, you might not have enough time to get to the ice block. If you stand where the opposite side of the ice block was located, you will fly to the block when Void Aero IV is cast, blocking you from falling off. Anyone who didn’t fly into the block will fall to their deaths.
NOTE: You can also use   Surecast or   Arm's Length to stop you from flying off, but make sure to time it right because you only have a five or six-second duration.

Second Half

In the latter half, everything repeats with some differences.

The boss casts Doomsay more often, and only one proximity marker is placed on the floor when the boss casts Void Blizzard IV.

After Void Aero III is cast, the boss immediately flies right beside a purple wall and casts Bolt of Darkness. The boss shoots out a large, column AoE across the ship while the green wind on the center from Void Aero III blows people away. Bolt of Darkness gives you Bleed, which can be removed with   Esuna. If you can, go to the purple wall where the boss isn’t next to, to avoid Bolt of Darkness.

Make sure to kill the two Void Sprites that spawn randomly. Avoid their cone AoE when they cast Dark II.

Since the beginning of the fight, the boss places random gray squares on the ship’s floor. In this half, the boss finally uses Void Death IV, which makes the squares pulse. Anyone standing on them when the cast is done, dies.

Overview of Skills and Abilities

Skill/Action*	Details	Amt of Damage	AoE?	Esuna?
Void Death	Keep running away from the center even after it pulls you in.	High-Death	X
Doomsay	Remove Doom from targeted party members.	Death		X
Void Aero II	- Green spread marker - Place at away from everyone	Medium
Void Blizzard II	Big fan AoE with safe spots split between.	Large	X
Void Aero III	Get to purple wall on either side to avoid knockback and damage.	Low-Death
Bolt of Darkness	Large column AoE that the boss shoots across the ship.	Medium	X	X
Void Blizzard IV	- Proximity markers - Stand directly opposite of the proximity marker and take the damage.	Small-High
Void Aero IV	Blows you across the ship. If you can't get to ice block in time, use   Surecast or   Arm's Length.	Small-Death	X
Void Death IV	Don’t stand on gray squares.	Death	X

*Italicized words are names of casts that are shown in the cast bar.

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

• Thirty thorns: Untelegraphed three part tank buster, followed by an aoe.
• Shadespin: Wings get big and do an hourglass aoe in the direction they are facing, get between the wings, right behind or in front her to avoid damage. Boss direction doesn't matter.
• When she jumps or dashes she will do an aoe that is larger than her hitbox shortly after, get away from her.
• When message: "Shadows gather on the floor" appears and the room turns dark stop all movement, otherwise shadows grab you slowing your movement and inflicting a bleed.
• Shadethrust: Occasionally she will turn toward party and do line aoe, sidestep it.
• Connla add: needs to be grabbed by an offtank and killed away from Scathach, if it gets close they tether and buff her. If left alive it wipes the raid.
• Nox orbs: Circular red and black marker will be put on some players. Affected players should bait the orbs away from group by constantly moving away from other players.
• Shadow Limbs (giant hands): link to a player and follows them, if it reaches the players it kills them. The tethered player can face the Shadow Limb to stop their movement. The Limbs must be killed, they 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 can be interrupted.
• These adds must be killed, or she will wipe upon emerging from the cocoon.

Diabolos

Phase 1: Diabolos

• In this phase Diabolos can be stunned. Melees and tanks can stun most casted abilities.
• 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 is for tanks only.
  • 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
• 1   Mhachi Matter

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

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Void Matter	Material	N/A	ABasic	1
Wind-up Scathach	Minion	N/A	ABasic	1
Diabolos Hollow Card	Triple Triad Card	N/A		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.

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
What's Dun Is Done	10	Complete Dun Scaith.	-	3.5
Mapping the Realm: Dun Scaith	10	Discover every location within Dun Scaith.	-	3.5

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