Shiva has 3 distinct phases, during which she uses the following moves and mechanics.
Phase 1
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Description
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Weapon Swap
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Throughout the fight, Shiva will float up a few feet into the air with a little twirl and change the weapons she uses. In hard mode, you'll only need to deal with two of these: Staff and Sword & Shield. She will alternate the two, starting with the Staff.
- Staff: immediately after changing, she will use Hailstorm.
- Sword & Shield: immediately after changing, she will do Icebrand towards the MT. The rest of the group should avoid standing in front of her so they arent hit.
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Hailstorm
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Targets multiple random players with a large white AoE circle. Marked players should avoid stacking together or on other players. Deals moderate damage.
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Ice Brand
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Wide frontal cleave on the MT. Deals moderate damage.
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Icicle Impact
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Will place 5 large overlapping AoEs on the ground, with safe spots along the edges between the AoEs. Deals moderate damage and applies a Vulnerability stack.
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Heavenly Strike
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Knocks you back a short distance and deals very light damage. Unimportant.
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Advice and Tips
- Avoid standing in front so you aren't hit by Ice Brand when she's using Sword & Shield.
Phase 2
Shiva will move to the center of the room and summon 4 Ice Soldier adds. The phase ends when the adds are dead or enough time has elapsed.
Attack Name |
Description
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Ice Soldier
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Can and should be tanked so they aren't hitting the DPS.
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Queen of Ice
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Shiva casts this at the beginning of the phase after summoning the Ice Soldiers. Gives her a Damage Up buff.
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Deep Freeze
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Used to signal the end of the phase. Freezes all players in ice for 20 seconds. Immediately followed by Diamond Dust.
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Diamond Dust
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Used immediately after Deep Freeze. Shiva will teleport to a random player before striking her heel down on their head, dealing moderate raid-wide damage and shattering the ice from Deep Freeze. Signals the start of Phase 3.
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Advice and Tips
- Shiva will change to Sword & Shield in the beginning of this phase, so the MT should keep her faced away from the group for Ice Brand and players should avoid standing in front of her.
- The OT should pick up the Ice Soldiers so the MT can focus on keeping Shiva facing away from the group.
- If the adds aren't killed in time, the group will wipe when she casts Diamond Dust.
Phase 3
Uses all moves and mechanics from Phase 1 in addition to the ones below.
Attack Name |
Description
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Dreams of Ice
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Shiva casts this at the beginning of the phase and additional times throughout the fight. Gives her a stacking Damage Up buff. Acts as a soft enrage.
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Permafrost
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Shiva will turn the floor to ice and apply a Thin Ice debuff and a 50-second Permafrost DoT to all players. Movement in any direction will cause players to instead slide a great distance, possibly even into the Ice Wall.
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Ice Wall
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Touching the edge of the arena, marked by a lighter blue ring, will trap players in an Ice Boulder for 20 seconds.
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Ice Boulder
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Traps players inside a block of ice that deals damage to those trapped inside. Other players can attack the boulder to free the trapped players sooner than the 20-second timer until it thaws.
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Icicle Impact V2.0
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A variation of Icicle Impact. A ring of white AoEs will appear consecutively before one appears in the center, completely covering the arena. Being hit by one deals moderate damage and gives the player a Vulnerability stack. Players should move to the center and move to where the first one fell after it goes off to avoid being hit by any of the AoEs.
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Advice and Tips
- Try to avoid moving during Permafrost as you're likely to hit the Ice Wall and, even if you avoid it, it's difficult to get back in position.
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