That is the second encounter for the Arcadion raid collection. The boss for this encounter is Honey B. Pretty. She is fought in a round enviornment. The surface of the sector inflicts a lightning damage-over-time debuff if gamers are knocked or step into it however won’t kill them immediately like different enviornment edges.
Throughout sure phases of the struggle, gamers will obtain a coronary heart gauge on high of their character with three empty hearts. Getting hit by sure mechanics will fill these hearts up, and if all three hearts are stuffed, the participant can be enthralled by Honey B. Pretty, receiving the Deadly Attraction debuff for 4 seconds and turning into unable to carry out any actions.
Section 1
Section 1 has you do battle with Honey B. Pretty. This section will introduce gamers to the mechanics within the struggle.
Honey B. will first begin with Name Me Honey, a typical raid large that offers magical harm. She is going to comply with up with Honeyed Breeze, which is a conal tank buster on each tanks. Each tanks should keep aside and pop cooldowns as essential.
Subsequent, she’s going to execute both Tempting Twist or Honey Beeline, which is a typical donut AoE and a horizontal line AoE that hits her back and front. Dodge these appropriately.
The true boss mechanics begins when she casts Honey B. Stay, which is one other raid large that introduces the center gauge mechanic talked about earlier.
Honey B. will then forged Love Me Tender, which marks all gamers with an AoE that may give all gamers one coronary heart stack. Nonetheless, that is adopted up by Fracture, which causes 3 coronary heart towers to linger on the sector. A participant should stand on the tower and soak the harm, in any other case , your complete staff takes harm and positive factors one other coronary heart stack for every unsoaked tower. Ideally, the tanks and a DPS ought to soak these.
After Love Me Tender and Fracture, Honey B. casts Loveseeker, beginning off as a point-blank AoE that creates hearts projectiles that wander across the enviornment. That is adopted up by a variation of Love Me Tender, which marks random places with coronary heart AoEs. Taking harm from any of those additionally provides gamers hit a coronary heart stack. Prioritize and concentrate on dodging these first as this mechanic offers you no room to DPS.
Simply earlier than Loveseeker ends, she’s going to do Blow Kiss, the place she targets a random participant and does a conal AoE on their place.
Honey B. Pretty will finish this section with Honey B. Stay, which is one other raid large assault.
Section 2
The next mechanics are launched in Section 2.
- Splash of Venom: Honey B. Pretty coats her weapon with poison. This creates blobs on the bottom that explode in massive AoEs, and all gamers are marked with an AoE that inflicts poison resistance down.
- Drop of Venom: Honey B. Pretty coats her weapon with poison. This creates blobs on the bottom that explode in massive AoEs, and a random participant is marked with a stack marker that inflicts poison resistance down.
Each time she does Tempting Twist and Honeyed Beeline, both Splash or Drop of Venom will instantly comply with up, so simply react accordingly. As soon as the Venom mechanic is completed, a number of poison drops will scatter across the enviornment, exploding in an AoE after a brief delay.
Subsequent, she’s going to summon enemies referred to as Groupbees on the fringe of the sector utilizing the ability Alarm Pheromones. These Groupbees could have a inexperienced tether that signifies a line AoE in that path. Begin by the facet of the primary group, then rotate across the fringe of the sector to keep away from the following consecutive AoEs. One other set of Groupbees will spawn after the rotating AoEs, however they may as an alternative shoot all on the identical time. The protected spot can be beside the group. Honey B. will forged a Honey Beeline on the protected zone, so go away instantly when the Groupbees are gone.
That’s when the second Honey B. Stay mechanic will go off, however there may be way more variance in mechanics than the earlier Honey B. Stay ones. First, two stack markers will seem on two teammates. There should be at the least three folks within the stack marker, because the AoE will inflict 3 stack marks on the marked participant, which might be divided by stacking. Then, 4 coronary heart towers will seem, so soak these accordingly.
Lastly, Section 2’s Alarm Pheromones will go off, however capabilities in another way. Groupbees will spawn separately and can hearth their line AoEs on the identical time. This mechanic might be troublesome as a result of randomness of the place they hearth. Once more, attempt to concentrate on dodging this mechanic first as a single hit will knock you again outdoors the sector.
She is going to finish Alarm Pheromones with one other Venom assault. After this, she’s going to repeat the identical Section 2 mechanics from the beginning till she hits enrage otherwise you clear the encounter.
