• First you'll fight Corruption (uses Damnation dive, deals damage in front of them), Corrupted Slime, and Corrupted Flans that cast Banish down a staircase, . Once the path is cleared, you'll enter the Aether Compressor and face off against Corrupted Sprites (casts banish) and Corrupted Wolves (Uses Foul Bite for moderate damage). During this time, corrupted rocks will fall down from the ceiling and attack with Aether Detonation on impact. Once those are dead, drop down (land on the pipes to grab a chest) and enter the Fuel Chamber to battle the Ghrah Luminary.

The Grah Luminary uses the following moves:

Advice and Tips

• The key to this fight is simply to make sure to always drag the tethers to the mobs to avoid creating humanoid corruptions.

Chest

(Blue Mage Spell Acquisition)

• You'll start facing Kobolds and their creations now. Construct 8 is basically a Cyclops monster in new paint, Time Bombs have plenty of HP and simply explode, Coral Dobylns are typical, and 8th Order Roundsman are gladiator mobs. The Simple Bomb Incubators will continuously spawn Time Bombs until defeated, so take those out first. Beyond the first incubator you'll also find 8th Order Pickman, which are just Marauders just before the Second Spire and 8th Order Patriarch Be Gu.

Be Gu uses the following attacks:

Advice and Tips

• This fight is all about dealing with adds. Taking out the gels on top of the fissures is the only complicated part of the fight.

Chest

• Down in the Sapper Tunnels you'll deal with more bomb incubators that now spit out stronger Time Grenades, roundsmens, and pickmen, as well as 8th Order Bedesman, which are conjurers. You'll also encounter Living Rock, a behemoth reskin. In the final room, you'll find some Construct 8s attacking structures called Pharos Wall. If these walls are destroyed, Living Rocks will come out and attack the party.

Progenitrix is a two-phase fight. The first phase has the following mechanics:

Advice and Tips

• After she uses Big Burst, three lava bombs and three grey bombs will spawn, followed by phase 2.

Phase 2 is indicated by her now being blue and having the name Progenitor. She has the following mechanics:

Advice and Tips

• High DPS is a necessity during this fight due to the large number of adds that must be defeated before they explode, as well as someone willing to babysit the remedy bombs. So long as you can swiftly take out the Grey Bombs, keep the Remedy Bombs from reaching them, and finish her off before you get too many stacks, she should pose little trouble.

Chest

(Fixed Rate Drop)