Aion 2 Krao Cave Guide: Berk Boss Mechanics and Loot

Global groups are five players — Korea runs four — so a Korean guide's "tank, healer, two damage" becomes tank, healer and three damage here. Exploration and the Conquest normal mode can be soloed by a well-geared character; the five-player group is about clearing it fast, not about clearing it at all.

The route

Talk to Pazkin at the entrance to open the barrier, then take the two wings in either order: Neglected Gadioton on the left, Enhanced Harcon on the right. Both have to die before the Krao Seal Guardian in the middle can be reached, and the Guardian has to die before the wind path to Berk opens.

Neglected Gadioton

Gadioton throws fireballs that leave burning ground behind. The pools land away from him, so the safe place is close to the boss, not at range.

• Burning ground: step out, keep fighting. It is damage over time, not a one-shot.
• 35% — the pull: he drags everyone to him and follows with a stunning burst around himself. Keep stamina for a dodge once he is under half health so you can roll out of the burst the moment the pull lets go.
• Hard tier: the lava does real damage. Never dodge a line attack into lava, and do not let yourself get pinned against the edge of the room.

Enhanced Harcon

Harcon is Gadioton with a teleport and one new pattern. He reuses the fire puddles and the frontal flame stream, then adds a star of crossing line attacks that comes out fast and covers a lot of floor. The lines are survivable on their own; what kills people is standing where two of them cross. Read the star, find a gap between two arms and stand in it.

Krao Seal Guardian

The Guardian is a gate, not a fight. Focus it down and ignore the adds around it; the seal breaks on its death and opens the path to Berk. The way down has a drop that kills on impact, so glide instead of falling.

Ultimate Berk

Berk hits hard with everything, but only two of his attacks end runs.

Sweep and whirlwind. His sweep covers a very wide cone in front of him; directly behind him is safe. When red dust gathers around his body he is about to spin, and the spin chases one player for several hits. Back off as soon as you see the dust; the chased player keeps moving and the spin, which is slow, never catches up. The two are chained — sweep, then whirlwind straight away — and most deaths in this room are people walking back in after the sweep.

Wave of Fury. His health bar disappears, he leaps, lands and shouts, and four rocks rise at the edges of the room. You have about five seconds to get into the shadow behind a rock. Anyone outside it dies. The safe shadow is small, so commit early rather than hunting for the perfect spot.

The 50% stagger. At half health Berk opens a stagger gauge and starts a wipe channel. The group has to empty the gauge before the channel finishes or everyone dies. Hold your stagger and burst skills from the moment he crosses about 60% so they all land together.

Two changes from the Korean patch history are worth knowing, because older videos predate them: the area behind a rock is now drawn on the floor, and class immunity skills no longer let you ignore the wave. Hide behind the rock even if your class used to skip it.

How long it should take

On the global servers the median Conquest kill, read from a DPS meter's uploads, is about three and a half minutes on Berk and under a minute and a half on each wing boss. If your Berk fight runs much past four minutes you are close enough to the enrage to fail it on a bad stagger.