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Damien is one of Black Mage's commanders, and a different boss than others because of his few attacks and constantly teleport making him a lot more invulnerable, he's a lot more powerfull than at the start of his story because he stole the power of the Transcendent of Life Alicia.

To be able to fight him you will need to complete the act 4 of Heroes of Maple, just the act 4, might take 30minutes or even less time.



Damien have two difficulties, one for Normal and other for Hard, but their only difference is their health, both will be able to drop soul shards of his and coins that can be used to get absolab equipments, hard mode can drop the equipment themselves that are obtainable in his shop.

-In order to solo him, you might need around 3m rang clean in normal servers and 5/6m in Reboot to clear Normal mode.
Hard probably 10times more, 30m rang clean and maybe 50m for Reboot, thought that's a bit harder to tell.



His shop require a special coin that can be only craftable with coins from Damien and coins from the Dailies in World Tree(the map/place where Damien is), you can do 3 quests+one that give other 2 drops from completing all 3.


Note: You need 20 coins from dailies and 1 from Damien to craft one shop coin.

The main problem for the players is his teleport, he constantly teleport to do attacks or go after the most agressive player, binds are NECESSARY for this boss since he hardly stays in one place for more than 5seconds(aside from using one or two attacks) and teleporting+attack can take multiple seconds to make him go back in the field.


@@@Damien itself has one main mechanic in the boss that you will have to constantly watch for, the mark inflinged on players.


This mark will be given whenever you take one attack that doesn't hit kill you from Damien or after 30/18seconds have passed in Phase1/Phase 2 for the most agressive player in the map.

You can clear the marks with this Altar that will spawn every 20seconds in a random place of the map.


You can use this altar by HOLDING the NPC CHAT/HARVEST buttom in your keyboard, remember that all you can do is walk a bit off the center and crouch, skills and jump will cancel the cleanse and can potentially waste the chance to use the Altar(since it can disappear).

Note: Attacks from Damien/Swords will also stop you from cleansing yourself.



Note: i sugest only using the altar only if you have 4marks or more so you don't use too much time on it.

If you end up getting 7 marks you die and summon a sword, even if you use a iframe you will still die and summon a sword after the iframe ends.



This sword is the exact same as the one Damien summons in the first phase, but smaller, it will fly around the map and try to hit players on the way, every time it hits someone it takes 15% of their hp.

Note1: The sword knocks you a bit so any class who doesn't have 100% natural stance mihaile link skill is a real helper here.



After some time the sword(s) will try to aim at a player and fix themselves on the ground, trying damage periodically anyone close to it.



If you get hit by the sword when it's attacking it will take 90% of your health, one thing you can have in mind is you can pass throught it if you either go fast enough when it's not attacking or just take the hit and heal right after it.


The swords themselves aren't the big deal, but can be if you die with 7marks or someone/server lags summoning extra swords thinking you are hacking, that will make a hell depending on the situation.



The more swords, the harder it will be to do anything else and it basically snowballs out of control, remember these swords will also try to go in the ground potentially convering the entery map making nearly no safe spot for you stay, with Damien's attack you can die a lot easier.



@@@One other skill that will continue to stay in both phases is the hands, those will appear as balls in the map, after maybe 10seconds they will go straight in the ground trying to bind a player.


You can however, escape from it, but you need to hit a set of random key directions to be free, if you fail you will stay binded for other 10seconds, can be quite problematic.

Note: try not to heavy press your keys if you know you will get binded, so that you don't register a command you didn't want to and fail without a chance.



Now let's go to phase 1 attacks



@@@Remember he will spawn right at the start a big sword that will forever roam and re-spawn in phase 1.


@@@One of two annyoing attacks that he have in Phase 1 is his rush, he will prepare and attack a certain direction moving himself as well(sometimes he can go the oposiste way the boss is lagging).



The real problem is that even after he uses the rush you can still get damage from it and then a mark, so everytime he rushs everyone need to wait 1-2seconds so you can move and get closer to him, else you will get pushed and lose 11% of your health alongside a added mark.



@@@His other attack is the hit kill one(only one that hit kill in phase 1), he will charge for 3 seconds and the attack will hit the ground, kill all in the area, this attack can cover a large portion of the map at times having just corners or some space in the middle as a safe spot.



After that, he only have 2 other attacks that are easy to avoid:
@@@The balls he will summon from the sky, those do 90% damage if you touch, but it's only one area of the map that they will appear and they won't mark the player if hit.

Note: Thieves can use Dark sight to ignore em, like debris in Lotus or Magnus's balls.



@@@And his dive attack that will usually aim close to where he was in the sky(sometimes he can go the oposite direction in case he's lagging...), this attack takes 8% of your hp and can mark if you end up getting hit.



Now let's go to Phase 2 attacks



Phase 2 is much more deadly and hard to hit, he will constantly teleport randomly in the map, sometimes he will stay out of the map for some seconds before going back to just teleport again for one attack or go other part of the map, bind is even MORE important.

Note: There's also how he will mark a player every 18seconds instead of 30 in the first phase.



In phase 2 there's also another thing to lower player's damage, and it is blue balls that will be summoned as soon the fight start, these balls will make you do just 10% of your normal damage if you stay inside it's radius(similar to Magnus blue area, but the oposite), it will start with one and it will grow the more health you take from Damien, once he's close to dying he will summon more of the same size giving a big area where you can get nerfed; they also reduce your healing of potions by 90%, so try to stay away from them when you heal.



@@@The worst attack you have to constantly deal with is his normal rush, he will keep using it and travel large distances on the map aside that he can hit players(takes 9%hp) to knock em and mark em at the same time, making easier to get a mark than any other attack.



You can however dodge it by crouching, you can see the image bellow i was crouching and doged his rush and managed to not get a 7th mark and die.



@@@In this phase he will also use another rush, more similar to the first phase, but this one will hit kill if you take a hit, in this case he will rush and make 3 slashes into space, after 2 seconds they will cut anything and hit koing any player in the area of impact, luckly it's easy to dodge by staying in between.

Note: Try not to go into the slashes right after they cut/happen since they might still hit and kill you



@@@Other attack that you should have attention is his fire spin, where he throw balls in both directions of the map trying to hit the player.



If you get hit by one of em you lose 60% hp and get a mark, so you will need to quick recover HP if you get hit by it.



But, you can stay safe if you are right in the middle of it, that way you dodge the balls in both sides and can still attack Damien



@@@ There's one skill that he will only use after some time have passed in Phase 2, he will trap everyone in the map and also push everyone away from where he is, you can see in the imaage bellow that i got pushed away and went right into a yellow ball from his spin and died, so it's a bit of luck that you won't get pushed right into danger.



When he traps you, you have to fight to free yoursef and DAMAGE HIM, so that he won't hit kill everyone who was trapped, damaging him will make him tired and basically give a ''free'' bind to attack him.

Note: To free yourself faster you can press both right and left keys at the same time so it goes faster and make it easier to damage him.



Damien have 2 attacks that are really similar to the ones in Phase:
@@@ His Dive attack, now it can hit kill players, but it goes much further compared to phase 1, sometimes you might die by it if you didn't see him preparing to use this attack.



@@@ And the balls that are really similar, they just change shape and quantity, but their small size makes easier to dodge too.




One thing you can do overall is attack him in the air whenever he's doing something or using a skill:



Familiars and transparecy aren't really required, but you can use em.





If you wanna check the guide of the other boss who you can get Absolab equips, Lotus:
http://forums.maplestory.nexon.net/discussion/23493/lotus-guide?new=1

@@@His test/segment is just like Phase 1, survive or the test will fail, the test can easily throw off a run before you even reach phase 3, so it's more important to train for this specific part of the Phase and even boss enterily, it's one of the reasons this boss is more complicated and difficult than Lucid(it also limit the number of playes that can clear it) mostly because people die out of lives in this phase.

In this test Will and all the maps attacks won't be occurring just like Phase 1, instead the leg attack will do 90% of your HP, so it's dangerous to take hits in this part, and like in the image bellow the players stayed in the corner of the map(left is ideal, right side is more difficult to do the test) since the Leg Attacks don't reach the corners, also IF YOU DIE IN THIS PART THE TEST WILL FAIL.


Now, look at the message the NPC will give you at the center of the screen, when that message appears the test will begin and every player should go to the left corner or pay attention to the Spider Legs and dodge them to not lose 90%hp (2hit ko case).



Every time the start tests there will be a 3 set of leg attacks in the entire map that occur 4 times before the test is over(making over 15seconds of test), sometimes you will have to dodge em (going in the corner or not), but sometimes a crack in the mirror floor of the map will appear, when that happens you will have to do the OPOSITE, you go into the spider leg or else you will take a 90%hp hit, it may sound weird, but that's how it works, the crack is very visible but try to focus when the test start, at times you will immediately have to go into the spider legs right after it starts.



This Gif bellow shows very well, BUT REMEMBER, if you don't go to the spider legs or use a invencibility skill you will lose 90% of your health every time the spider legs attacks, if you aren't close to any spider leg, so YOU MUST FOLLOW THE SPIDER LEG ATTACK.

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Like in the gif above shows, the test have a cicle of 3 spider leg attacks, but you might have to do this again if there's another crack in the floor(or if it didn't disapear), the blocked segment will be on until you either pass the test once, else you will need to wait 2 minutes to try again the test(the time will be same when the NPC message appeared).

Note: Remember the left side makes a lot easier to do the test, because the Leg Attacks generally attack in the same space every time a crack happens(making it easier to memorize where to go).

Other way to visualize it it's to plan where more or less the spider legs will appear, in this image i had an idea where they would appear, after the first one it's easier to plan the second spider leg, walk a x amount and the third a shorther amount of that x.

@@@Sometimes he will cast a spider summon, it walks in the mirror on the ground so you have to jump to dodge it(stay out of contact to the ground/mirror), it will do 20% of your hp if it hits you.


@@@Will can also teleport, but using the mirror to do so, he does 10% of your health if you are in his way, not problematic, he just pushes you a little bit if hit.



Now to phase 3:


This phase might take 10minutes at most, usually it's 4 to 6 minutes.

Phase 3 is diferent from the other 2, Will won't move or teleport, he will just attack alongside the webs that slowlsy cover the entire map.

Reminder that this phase HIGH benefits with any kinda of bind since he will become untargetable once he goes for the bigger attacks.

@@@The biggest treat in this phase is the constant growing webs, dealling 30%hp per second if you stay in contact with them, they will start to grow on the corners of the map and slowly take the entire screen:


They can make your skills be blocked, that in conjuction to everything else he has in this phase makes touching the webs a serious danger


Remember you can use Hero and Erda Nova to clear this status, might be necessary in case Will is going for one of his attacks or so you can use Flash Jump/teleport to get away of a corner.


That way you will need to constantly clear the webs using your Moonlight, see the image bellow, i clear 2 webs at once, remember that everytime you use Moonlight to clear webs you can clear 2 before the effects worns off, so be sure to clear 2(by walking into one) since sometimes it will only clear the one closer to you.


It uses around 30% of your moonlight everytime, so you can kinda spawn it.

If you dodge attacks for more than 1 second you can gather Moonlight for every extra second you aren't getting damage, THIS PHASE IS THE ONE THAT MATTERS MORE GATHERING MOONLIGHT.

Note 1: If you are going Normal Will solo, you can actually keep up with the Webs alone, as long you dodge some attacks and stay in only one side of the map, the image bellow is when i first soloed the boss, i could keep up with the webs because i i didn't need to move much, some classes might not have so easily, but you can definnely keep up for over 5mins or so.
Note 2: If you are soloing you can't just clear webs, remember to always attack him.


BIG NOTE 3: THIS IS ONE OF TWO PARTS THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARD AND NORMAL MODE IS REALLY FELT, you cannot gather as much moonlight in HARD MODE, you literally get half of it every second (%5per second instead of 10%), so you can't keep up with the web's growth rate alone, you need all people in your party to clear webs and dodge attacks, else it might overwhelm even a bit and kill a lot more than if everyone is focused in clearing webs.


@@@After the webs i would say the biggest problem would be his two main attacks:

White eyes/Big attack and Yellow eyes/smaller attack, each have a 15seconds cool down minimum to be used(usually 17), not too hard to use this in order to know WHEN and which attack he's about to use.


The first one(and mostly problematic) is where he will aim at the player (in the x axis, it doesn't matter if you go upwards), else you will lose 90% of your hp(hard mode is hit kill, making it NECESSARY to dodge), any skill can help you dodge, vary with each class.
See the image bellow, the black arrows is Will's aim and i made a circle around me, i move just before he lands his attack, making the attack appear where i was in the past.


You can see that his attack will have white eyes(not always visible thought, so don't always rely on that):


He will attack after he positioned himself, you will notice that he goes almost to the top of the screen as well(compare both attacks's sizes in the image with both attacks), beying the biggest size he can get you can already know it's the AIM attack.

Note: In normal mode he will take 2 seconds to attack you, while in hard mode 1 second, so it will be much faster in hard mode, in normal mode any class with flash jump can dodge as long they use it 1 sec after he started to prepare his attack.

Here's a gif to have a better idea, this is something you will have to get used with time, some people might struggle at the start compared to others.


NOTE:REMEMBER IN HARD MODE HE ATTACK TWICE AS FAST AS IN NORMAL MODE!!

The second one(easier to survive) is when he have yellow eyes, this one he will aim at every position BUT where the player stands, so all you need to do is stand still and not move, else you will also lose 90% of your hp(hard mode is 1hit-ko as well):


In this case pay attention to ALWAYS his yellow eyes, it will always be visible, aside that he have a specific stance while he does this attack(you can see in the first image with the attacks, but since webs can eventually cover the map it might cover a bit of WIll making harder to use his stance as guide.


@@@Once you get his 2 main attacks of the way, there's his push attack that can push people close to Will into the cornes of the map, making you get hit by Webs in the corner(if there's any), potentially killing you from the damage over time of all skills being casted or most important killing you via the Block skill when you touch a Web and need to dodge his aim/white eye attack:

You can see the image above to have a better idea, all these maplers get pushed as he uses the attack, problematic if there are too many webs on the corner/ nobody is clearing em, one way to also avoid going too far off is going to his back when he's going to cast it or stay close to him so you don't go too far, watch out because this attack does have a decent range.

Other thing you can use to dodge is getting behind the ropes of the map, stayin behind you can simply not take hit and pushed into the corner by being too far away of his pushing skill/attack:


Here's one example, i was solo and he would only focus on me, so when he tried to push me i walked just enough to dodge his attack:


If you are soloing the third phase you can bait his push(by going into his range) and dodging it when you see he's going to use it.

Here's a gif to maybe help remember it:


@@@Lastly of what's dangerous is his poison, he will cast in a random member of the party, it doesn't do damage to the poisoned memeber, however it will poison everyone else around him/her with a lot of damage.


It will also double the damage of whoever got poisoned, basically being a double-edged sword, but in solo runs it's really usefull.


It does 40% damage every second on any close party member, so you MUST stay away from any poisoned party members, like i did in this image bellow.


Remember to keep attacking in case you got poisoned, if you don't attack at least once in 10seconds the poison will do a hit kill on you, like in this image bellow i was just dodging Will's attack instead of attacking him and died:


If you die with the poison it will create a poison dome that will do the same damage to anyone in it and the poison will carry over to other random party member alive:

The Black Mage felt rushed, i feel they could have done some events that affected the entire word, maybe even a second Big Bang changing many of the storylines, i feel Darmoor is going too rushed man.