Aion 2 Draupnir Guide: Bakarma and Lakshmi Bosses, Armor Drops

The client allows one to five players and there is a "Draupnir Conquest Solo Clear" achievement, so a strong character can do it alone. One client-data page says five players, and one guide treats two as the practical minimum, because the route rewards splitting up. A normal group is tank, healer and three damage. A boost-seller guide suggests a Templar tank, a Gladiator for the trash packs and an Assassin for the bosses; that is a reasonable shape, not a requirement.

The route

The quest tracker walks you through the Abyss Control Sector, the Abyss Entrance Control Device, a windstream and its Windstream Activation Device, the Meditation Room, the Bakarma Brigade and Bakarma's Subspace, then Transcendent Bakarma himself.

• The control device: whoever activates it is the target. Keep the trash off them until it finishes.
• The hole: the route drops through a gap you have to glide across. Double-tap jump to open your wings and stay airborne; landing on the ground below costs you the route.
• The mid-bosses sit below the main path. You can fly or glide down to them.
• Split the work: the efficient Conquest run sends one player ahead to activate the kibelisks and the windstream device while the others kill the two mid-bosses. There is a respawn point beside the updraft before the second boss; bind there.
• Meditation Room: the client lists a named mob called Afflicted Bakarma here, probably the "Defeat the Bakarma Brigade" step. It is not the final boss.

Predator Saraswati and Phantasmal Lakshmi are required in Exploration and can be skipped entirely in Conquest. Skipping them is faster, but every mid-boss you kill adds its loot to the cube at the end, so most groups take them.

Predator Saraswati

Saraswati is a damage-over-time fight. Nothing here wipes a group; it just bleeds you.

• Blue paint puddles: she throws them across the arena and sometimes drops them around herself. The tank drags her out of her own puddles so the melee are not standing in them.
• Small puddles bind. If you get rooted in one, the healer has to cover you until it wears off.
• Polymorph: she turns a player into a larva. It cannot be cleansed; you wait it out. It costs damage and control, not lives.

Phantasmal Lakshmi

Lakshmi has one rule that matters, and she tells you when it starts.

• Reflect: when she shouts "Agony always comes back around!" she reflects all damage she takes for 8 seconds. Stop attacking. She still takes the damage, so a group with a healer who can keep up can push through, but the safe play is to hold for eight seconds.
• Her healer: she summons a minion, a handmaiden that heals her. Kill it first, or the fight drags on until your own healer runs dry.
• Personal puddles land under your feet. Step out.
• Burst window: she stands still while casting. That is when the damage goes in.

Transcendent Bakarma

Bakarma has a five-minute enrage and two stagger checks. Everything else he does is survivable on its own.

His normal kit. He hits the player holding aggro three times in a row, then follows with area attacks. He vanishes and reappears far away to fire an air cannon, vanishes again and drops individual circles on each player, and comes back with a large attack that covers the whole group. The tank keeps him turned away; everyone else keeps defensives ready, because some of his hits come with little or no warning.

The stagger phases (75% and again around 25–33%). Everyone is thrown to the far edges of the arena and waves start rolling toward you, one after another. Jump each wave and keep moving toward him; sprint while you jump. When you reach him, fill the stagger gauge with stagger skills and Stigmas. Normal damage does nothing to the gauge.

• Jump a fraction of a second before the wave reaches you, not when it touches you. Zooming the camera out makes the rhythm far easier to read.
• A missed wave puts a heavy slow on you, and slowed players usually miss the next one too.
• If the gauge is not emptied, a wave likely kills the party and he goes back to full health. That is the whole run.
• Right after the first stagger he sends a single diving wave. Jump that one as well.
• The second check adds black tornadoes that stun on touch. Go around the ring of tornadoes; do not cut through the middle.

If he survives the window. When he is not killed after a stagger, he summons water tornadoes and runs the sequence again, harder each time. Near death he combines tornadoes and area attacks.

Hard tier. On the higher tier the waves are faster and their animation lags behind where they really are, so jump earlier than looks right. Extra orbs are added to the arena. A boost-seller guide also describes water spouts, purple mist and blue pools on the floor; that is unconfirmed.

Common wipes

1. Someone used their stagger skills in the normal rotation and has nothing left at 75%.
2. Jumping on the last frame with high ping. Jump early.
3. Ignoring Lakshmi's handmaiden earlier and arriving at Bakarma with a drained healer.

How long it should take

On the global servers the median Conquest kill, from DPS-meter uploads, is about 2:50 on Bakarma, 1:20 on Saraswati and 1:24 on Lakshmi, at roughly 62,000 combat power. A Bakarma fight that runs past four minutes is flirting with the enrage.