Aion 2 Ludra Raid Guide (Abyssal Forge): Bosses and Weapons

There is one mode, and on the global client the force is ten players: two parties of five.

Composition. Each party needs its own front line and its own healer, and the force needs one caller. A Cleric with resurrection is wanted for Rahu and close to mandatory for Ketu; a Chanter can stand in with shields and Recoup. A Ranger is valuable on Ketu's side for the spirit and outer add phases. Korean groups put melee in the Rahu party and ranged in the Ketu party. Never hand a positional mechanic to a healer.

The route

The run opens on the Central Abyss Fusion Reactor with everyone together. Then the force splits: one party takes Isolation Specialist Rahu, the other Abyssal Wings Ketu, and the idle party supports through the platform crystals and adds. Everyone regroups for Eternal Ludra. Put a party Kisk down before the final boss; the revive point is not optional.

Central Abyss Fusion Reactor

The reactor is a gate. Attack the central core; every so often it summons an auxiliary reactor — left, then right, then centre — that shields it and lets it regenerate.

• Assign one or two players (Korean guides use two or three) to ride the wind path up and break each auxiliary reactor as it appears.
• Everyone else stays on the core, dodges its area attacks — including an X across the whole arena — and clears the adds.
• Breaking the core opens the portal to the split.

Isolation Specialist Rahu

Rahu is a fight of passing and positioning. Mark the tank or the Cleric as the anchor, and get melee to him first: if they reach him first, he does not open with the ranged blade swing.

• The pink circle (the "clock" or "towel"). One player gets a growing pink circle that ticks damage. When it completes, it must pass to someone standing inside it. The holder stays still; the next player steps in before it runs out. If nobody is inside, a violet pool spawns and keeps growing. Three violet pools and Rahu enrages and wipes the party. In Korea players passed it melee to melee and ranged to ranged.
• The safe cone. An attack you cannot block or dodge covers the whole arena except a narrow slice behind him. Get into it. One player also gets a line attack: aim it away from the slice, wait beside it, and dash in when the floor gauge is nearly full and locks.
• Shared red circle: everyone stacks on the marked player.
• Personal donuts: they explode into rings across the arena. Jump them, or stack so they overlap.
• Poison puddles under each player before 50%: drop them at the edge of the room.
• The wheel (about 75% or two thirds): everyone is teleported to the edge. A cone sweeps clockwise while rings expand from the centre. Step once counter-clockwise into the slice that just exploded and you are safe for two rotations; go outward ahead of the rings and come back in when the inner one pops. Regroup — players left alone take very heavy damage.
• 50% — the cross: a violet cross divides the room into four. Group in Rahu's quarter (Korean guides say whichever quarter has no puddles); lasers sweep from his back and he slams hard in front, so stay behind him and jump the lasers.
• 25–30% — the adds: he moves to the centre and summons Abyssal Predators. The line-attack target aims through them. Every add left alive becomes a violet pool and feeds the enrage, so it is better to take a hit from the floor than to miss the adds. Korean players dash towards Rahu to evade at the last moment.

Abyssal Wings Ketu

Ketu is the healer's fight. NCSOFT's own Korean summary does not even name him — Korean players just call him "the second boss". Set a mark and split ranged and melee into clockwise and counter-clockwise routes.

• Vertical lasers sweep constantly. Stand in the gaps.
• Rush and slam: he charges one player and slams his sword into the floor; pulling it out releases a ring you jump. An eye marker over another player's head means a leap is coming — jump to dodge it. The struck floor detonates once about two seconds later.
• Hide and seek (about 75%). Ketu goes untargetable in the middle over a violet pool. Spread out and kill every spirit before the white triangles or walls sweep through it; a spirit that explodes fears nearby players, who can run straight out of the arena. In Korea this phase starts at the red lamp at six o'clock and the party works up to twelve o'clock. The spirits die to a number of hits, not damage: two for a Destruction Wraith, eight for a Terror Wraith.
• Right after: everyone runs to the marked healing circle in the middle and survives a big damage-over-time there. A healer is mandatory.
• Gaze orbs: face a red eye, turn your back on a blue one. The common sequence is red, turn, blue, red.
• Falling orbs: assigned players stand under them and jump to catch them before they land; a missed orb hits the whole party.
• Chasing blades follow players. Everyone else breaks them.
• Soul Stones (below about 40%). He aims a cone at every player. Breaking a green Mortal Soul Stone gives a few seconds of invulnerability — two to five depending on the source, and one guide says you must break two in a row. Stack on one side, one crystal per player, then move to the next spot together. Do not take the healer's stones.

Eternal Ludra

Ludra is a huge dragon, level 75, and the whole force fights him. Damage dealers stand on his flanks — never at the head, never at the tail.

Phase one.

• Claw slams and stomps leave purple rings: jump them. In Korea, a right-foot stomp took one jump and the left-foot side needed two.
• Tail swipe applies a bleed: stun-break and drink a cure potion.
• Orbs: blue orbs can be absorbed by anyone; the red orb needs a player with a block or invulnerability skill. Assign a red-orb player and a backup. Korean block skills that work: Gladiator's focused block, Chanter's focused defence, Assassin's evasion stance and Templar's protective shield, and a successful block also grants a damage bonus.
• Chasing puddles: kite them without overlapping anyone else's, and dash at the end.
• Breath goes at the player he targets. That player points it away from the raid.
• Slam and puddle on everyone: block where you stand rather than dodging into someone else.
• The big donut: he flies and draws a donut; stay inside, close to him. Jump to absorb blue orbs, but let the tornado pass first or you get snared. Lightning lands on each player, so spread. It ends with a huge blast in the centre: run outside the original circle.

50% and 25% — Bingo (Ludra's Ordeal). A grid of 36 squares appears. One square is safe. Each player's lightning or puddle reveals a square; drop yours where nobody has looked and find the safe one before the cast ends, or the force wipes. Give every player a zone: melee search from the centre, ranged from the edge. Korean groups filled the outer four tiles of their zone first, then the inner one; another guide suggests pairs working from the corners in a fixed order. With about ten seconds left Ludra breathes diagonally across the board — leaving the board then is fine — and once the giant orb has landed you may go. He is then staggered for about ten seconds: that is your burst window.

After the ordeal. He flies, shrinks the arena and settles at the edge, with claw slams and cone wing attacks; standing outside the arena ticks damage. Then come two-part lightning lines: first stay off the lines, then stand on them, because the rest of the arena is hit. This happens twice.

30% — red and blue. Every player is given a colour. Opposite colours standing near each other tether and damage each other, so the raid splits by colour on opposite sides.

10% — the platforms. Red and blue platforms appear and the lightning breath comes. Stand on your colour to be invulnerable, one player per circle, and step in with about a second left on the gauge so the invulnerability lasts through the whole breath. Do not take the Cleric's circle.

Common wipes

• Three violet pools on Rahu: the pink circle was not passed, or adds were left alive.
• A failed Bingo.
• The healer dying on Ketu or in the Ludra colour phases.
• Someone grabbing the wrong colour, or two opposite colours drifting together at 30%.