Ultimate Vykas Gate 3 Guide | Lost Ark

hi guys this is nasim here and welcome to legion guides where i go over all the major mechanics and break down the normal patterns [Music] veikus gate 3 is where we first experience the gauge mechanic and controlling this gauge is the key to clearing this gate the recommended battle items are hp potions whirlwind grenades sleep bombs and time slot potions i will go over the uses of these items throughout this video the very first thing i want to go over is the gauge mechanic there are four different states you can be in 1 to 69 70 to 99 and 100 at zero percent you'll be doing 90 less damage so you don't want to be in this state at 1 to 69 you'll be doing normal damage if you are trying out vagus i recommend trying to be in this state for most of the raid at over 70 which is indicated with this white mark you'll be able to see different gimmicks and you'll also be able to do more damage but you will be receiving more damage as well so this is the ideal state you want to be in if you know all the patterns finally at 100 you'll lose control of your character and start attacking your raid members if someone is at 100 you need to throw a sleep bomb at them to bring them back don't forget to auto attack after the sleep to wake them up right away since you can be attacking your raid members everyone should take their bleed runes out this gauge will increase if you get hit by some of vicus's patterns and can be reduced with these cleanse orbs located at 12 3 6 and 9 o'clock in hard mode there will be no cleanse warp at six o'clock with this in mind let's get into the major mechanics first but the normal patterns increase your charm gauge so i recommend learning normal patterns as well the swamp the first mechanic will start at around 170 bars ficus will teleport to the middle and start the swamp mechanic the desire of swiftness debuff will be applied to 5 players in normal mode and to 6 players in hard mode the remaining players will get the swamp of the sparrow debuff the players with the swamp of despairs need to create a bridge with the swamps and this is mostly done at the 9 o'clock position everyone else with the desired swiftness need to wait until their circles lock in place then jump to the outside part of the bridge after a few seconds everyone will be pulled towards her and at the end of the mechanic reaching the center will kill you so the goal here is to slow your movement speed through the swamp bridge to avoid moving to the middle let's look at an actual raid example for a better understanding [Music] statues and swords at around 151 bars ficus will teleport to the middle and summon few statues around her however if your gauge is over 70 you will see swords instead the main goal here is to find the location where both the statue and the sword overlap that will be the safe zone normally the players that can see the swords will ping the sword's location and the players that see the statue will run towards the ping if there is a statue at that ping if you see statues wait patiently because your ping will make things confusing if no one can see swords because everyone's gauge is less than 70 these locations are actually fixed so you can memorize all the different variants which you can search online now around 135 bars ficus will teleport to the middle and drop these red rain getting hit by these will increase your gauge a lot so you need to dodge these and get to 12 o'clock as fast as you can the reason why you need to get to 12 o'clock is because you need to cleanse and get your gauge to zero before the keyboard test begins if you don't get the gauge down to zero your keyboard test will basically be impossible so make sure you cleanse your gauge a small tip here is to use your space upwards after you peel the cleanse warp rain will still be falling and if you are not cleansing at the very edge you might get hit by the rain and your gauge might go back up right before the keyboard test starts now after the keyboard test there can be three different scenarios no one failed the test one to three players to fail the test and four or more players fail the test if no one failed the test the rey leader can use the neva towards the center right away and everyone else can start attacking her after veigas gets up she will use the airstrike pattern which i'll talk about soon after the airstrike she will drop on the aggro after the drop everyone needs to jump into the circle and this will conclude this mechanic if one to three players fail the test there will be an explosion which can be mitigated with a supports alt shield so once you see the message saying one two three players failed make sure supports are using their shields after the explosion ficus will use her airstrike pattern after the airstrike she will drop on the aggro just like before right when you see where vicus is dropping you can shoot nineveh at the center of the circle the reason why i like using the neva here is because she will have a shield when she drops if someone failed the keyboard test and the neva will peel the shield off right away finally if four or more players fail the test it's an automatic wipe so you need to start over now let's look at the airstrike pattern before we move on to the next mechanic when an airstrike pattern is coming everyone needs to group up because vicus will be flying over the aggro but we won't know who the aggro is until she is flying over us she will fly over the players twice once with the middle being safe and once with the middle being dangerous but we won't know which order when she flies through and there is no light under you stay still for the next strike the next strike will then have a line under you so you make sure you dodge out in a perpendicular direction now if there was a line under you when she first flew over dodge in a perpendicular direction the second airstrike is usually in a perpendicular direction so if everyone does in a perpendicular direction everyone just needs to stay still for the second airstrike because the middle will be safe charm explosion the reason i'm calling this the charm explosion is because everyone needs to fill their gauge to 100 before the final explosion at around 120 bars four players will be chosen randomly and will get a pink circle under their feet after a few seconds charm puddles will summon under them standing in these puddles will increase your charm gauge so you normally want to put these puddles near the edges of the map but for this mechanic since everyone needs to hit 100 gather up and summon the puddles in a tight area the reason why you want these puddles gathered tight is because after your charm is back to 50 your character might still be standing in the puddles and you might go straight back to 100 since you lose control of your character you want the puddles to be as tight as possible so that there is a less chance of a character standing in one of these at the end if i guess goes into a counter motion during this puddle phase do not counter her because she will sit in a chair too late and the puddles will not disappear in time making it a higher chance of someone betraying again stand in it until your charm gauge is at 100 and watch your characters dance stagger check at around 102 bars there will be a stagger check mechanic ficus will be in the middle but will have an aoe that increases your charm gauge because of this aoe you want to cleanse your gauge using the orb of light at the three o'clock position there will be two monsters at one o'clock and seven o'clock locations as well while you are cleansing wait for the explosion then head towards vicus once you see the stagger bar throw your warming grenades and spam your high stagger skills a few seconds after she is staggered the two monsters will explode which will basically kill you so you will need to use a time slot potion depending on how fast the stagger took count one two then hit the time slot potion the timing will come with practice technically you can kill the monsters if you keep your gauge above 70 percent but i don't want to include the details here because that method is not for pugs second swamp at around 75 bars there will be another swamp mechanic just like before create a bridge with a swamp of despair and leave the desire of swiftness out of this bridge [Music] tentacles at 55 bars ficus will teleport to the middle and spawn tentacles in the bottom half of the map in normal mode there will be six tentacles but in hard mode there will be eight the locations of the tentacles are also shown in the mini-map after submitting the tentacles vicus will shoot charm orbs away from her your goal here is to destroy all these tentacles the catch is that you can only damage them if your charm gage is over 70 which can be done by absorbing these charm warps doesn't sound too bad right how about your gauge will constantly decrease so you need to keep picking up these charm warps between attacks to keep your gauge above seventy percent i recommend saving your alts here to damage multiple tentacles at once four orbs this pattern will only appear in hard mode at around 30 bars vicus will sky fall to the middle damaging the inside then the outside the four orbs will spawn from 1 5 7 and 11 o'clock these orbs will travel towards ficus and four players need to absorb these before they reach vicus if you absorb the spore your charm gage will go up by a lot so it's best to have the players with relatively low gauges to absorb these after you absorb these orbs you'll have a charm puddle around you and you can end this puddle by spamming your space key if the oars reach vicus there will be a large explosion which will increase everyone's gauge by a lot also don't be near vicus until this explosion getting hit by this explosion will also increase your charm gauge by a lot the last ditch stagger when vicus's hp goes under two bars your goal will change from deleting her hp bar to deleting her purple stagger bar when this happens group up in the middle and look at the mini-map to see ficus's location after you see her location get in between her location and the clones location face ficus and wait for the clone to send out these black circles stepping on these circles will lower your gauge and this is very important because your gauge will constantly increase in this last stage these circles will be spawned towards one player and once the direction is locked it'll travel forward only so if one player was not right in between the clone and vicus the circles might travel in a weird direction so make sure you're all stacked up in between the clone and vicus while stepping on these circles run to vicus and get behind her after a few seconds she will be sending these swords in front of her so it's crucial to get behind her once you're behind her you can use your whirlwind grenade and stagger skills to get this staggered bar as low as you can this is also a great time to use wei for help after she runs away stack up again for the airstrike there will be two airstrikes in a row like always then she will drop to the middle and you need to jump in after she drops continue staggering after this and throw your whirlwind grenades if they are back from cd if 7 or 8 players were alive this should be enough to finish the raid [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now let's finally go into the normal patterns like i mentioned before some of ficus's normal patterns will increase your charm gauge so it's very important to learn them so that you can keep your gauge at the level you want it to be in charm puddles four random players will get the text luring temptation and get this pink circle under their feet after four seconds you'll drop a puddle under you that will increase charm gauge when you're in it there may be times when a mechanic starts so make sure you're not dropping these puddles near cleansing orbs medusa once you see vicus shoot out these waves look away from her the quickest and most effective way of doing this is to just auto attack away from her if someone looked at her there will be this eye shape that will damage everyone which can kill most classes once you see this red swirl you can use a time slot potion to survive this in hard mode however depending on how many wings ficus has opened some players will need to face her if no wings are open no one should face her if one wing is open only one person should face her and if both wings are open two people need to face her now she does this twice in a row so you need to dedicate two players each for both instances normally party one numbers one and two will take care of the first set and party one numbers three and four will take care of the second set if someone from party one is dead the same number from party two will take over their place let's look at an actual raid for a better understanding [Music] giant tadpoles vicus will summon giant tadpoles after this red circle explodes the tadpoles can almost instantly kill you however the important thing here is that you can only see these tadpoles if your charm gauge is over seventy percent if there is someone that can see it you can use your ping to draw a safe path to get behind the tadpoles like this however if no one's gauge is over 70 gather up in this spot as soon as possible because there is a very low chance of the tadpoles traveling through the spot stay in this spot for a while pray then go back to attacking vicus [Music] charge vicus pulls a right arm back then charges forward this pattern is counterable when she pulls her arm back if no one was able to counter her she will do this again and will be counterable again as well [Music] double spin ficus will spin twice teleport behind the aggro then charge forward then she will shoot these charm orbs in sixth direction if you get hit by this there will be an aoe under you that will increase the charm meter of anyone that walks into it so make sure you're staying away from your raid members after she shoots the charm orbs she will drop on top of the aggro and you'll have to get ready to jump in after she drops after the double spin she will be counterable these two counter patterns will also have encounter internal cooldown which i explained on my g2 guide inside or outside ficus draws this half red half black circle around her after a few seconds inside or outside will explode in order to know where the safe zone is you need to look at where her sword is the first sword is on the red side inside will be safe and if her sword is on the black side outside will be safe getting hit by this will also increase your charm gauge as well rain there will be sets of circles you need to dodge while dodging this ring depending on where the first circle started the circles would become smaller or larger if you get hit by the rain your charm gage will increase a lot chain whip ficus throws a whip in front of her and pulls one player towards her she will levitate and will not be attackable she will damage that person and reduce the charm gauge of that person she will then finish with the cross attack so make sure you wait for the cross attack before attacking her again if you get pulled in make sure you're spamming your potion hotkey thrust this is similar to the chain whip but vikus will show a blue line first she will thrust in that direction and everyone in it will become stunned and will have to spam the space key chain lasers vicus will shoot her chain forward and there will be lasers shooting in both directions getting behind her will give you a nice dps window waffle there will be a waffle shaped aoe like the waffle pattern in gate 2. however two random players will have these beads around them and the players with these should try to run outside of the waffle cutter vicus will spin like a meat cutter after the spin there will be shock waves in parallel directions you need to stay out of the spin then come back in to dodge the shock waves if you see vikis turn 90 degrees all of a sudden don't be at her front back indicators and after she spins jump in to touch the shock waves [Music] sword slash ficus will swipe her sword a few times jump and attack in a 270 cone there are three variants of this attack if vikas slashes twice get behind her to dodge the 270 cone then run back towards the front because she will turn 180 degrees and do another 270 cone if viking slashes four times she can do two things either way get behind her again if there is nothing after the four slashes you can start attacking her from the back if there is a swirl she will attack behind her what i like to do is get far behind her just in case she does the swirl variant and if there is no swirl just jump right back in [Music] in prison chains black portals will start to spawn near vicus after a few seconds chains will shoot out from these portals if you get hit you'll be imprisoned and if you're on top of these puddles your charm gage will increase so make sure you pin your location so that your raid members can set you free [Music] [Music] sometimes promises [Music] passing by [Music] i hope this video helped you master the ficus gate 3 and i hope to see you in my next legion rate guy alright peace faded

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Length: 18min 50sec (1130 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 07 2022