Aion 2 Vakron Sky Island Guide: Thamon Boss Mechanics and Loot

Unlike Krao Cave and Draupnir, Vakron cannot be soloed: the client asks for at least two players. The usual group is tank, healer and three damage. Because of Thamon, it is worth having both physical and magic damage in the party, so that someone is always allowed to hit him.

The island-wide debuff

From the moment you land, a gaze debuff builds on every player over time. It does not fall off on its own.

• At three stacks you are snared by thorns and take damage until you die.
• Fog Spiritstones clear it. Walk near one of these mist stones and the stacks reset. Plan the route so you pass them, and do not stand around between pulls.
• A snared player can be freed by teammates attacking the snare. Do it straight away; the damage does not stop.

The route

Tiere and Thamon both have to die before the final area opens. Between them and Vakron is a flight section with four Elemental Altars: collect the four floating elements (fire, water, wind and earth) and offer each one at its matching altar to lift the stone wall. Conquest needs all four before the boss area opens. The elements are in different places every run, so spread out and call them.

Tiere

Tiere is a positioning fight, and her two halves ask for opposite things.

• At the pull: a green poison debuff goes on the party. Players standing on each other hurt each other with it, so spread out.
• The poison garden: after her line about her poison plants she moves to the centre and pulls the party in. Green poison mist fills the arena, and the whole map except a circle around her turns toxic. She then sends purple poison at players four times, and each hit leaves a toxic pool.
• What to do: stay in the circle around her, which is the only safe ground. Stack tight and move in one direction only, so the pools you leave all land behind the group and never in front of it.

Thamon

Thamon has two jobs for you: read his colour and do not get turned to stone.

• Red or purple aura, 8 seconds. With a red aura physical damage heals him; with a purple aura magic damage heals him. If the aura counters your damage type, stop attacking until it fades. As a rule of thumb, red stops Templar, Gladiator, Assassin, Ranger and Chanter; purple stops Cleric, Spiritmaster and Sorcerer.
• Petrifying stones: he summons stones that petrify whoever they hit. A petrified player is guaranteed to be hit by his next arena-wide shockwave.
• The sequence: a large circular slam, then small circles to dodge, then a big shockwave you have to jump.

Vakron

Vakron's kit is mostly dodging. Two patterns end runs: Lodestone Prison and the enrage.

What he throws at you.

• Tracking meteors: he drops a volley on one player four times. Keep moving.
• Line attacks: six lines at once, twice, plus diagonal ground attacks. Stand between the lines.
• Leap slam: he jumps onto a position. Get out of the landing.
• Root: a yellow diamond marker appears on a player and a bind spreads from it. The rest of the group breaks it by hitting it, about ten hits. Free the player fast.

Lodestone Prison. The arena turns red and Vakron sends four shockwaves outward. Jump the first three. The fourth one is invisible, so after the third, jump again a little early or glide over it. Counting out loud in voice is the easiest fix.

Rock prison. He pulls the group in and raises a circular barricade of rock. Break the red rock, about ten hits, to get out.

Enrage. A timer sits under his health bar. When it runs out he pulls the whole party in and kills everyone. No source gives the exact length; watch the timer.

How long it should take

On the global servers the median Conquest kill, from about 49,000 DPS-meter uploads, is 3:25 on Vakron, 1:48 on Tiere and 1:57 on Thamon. All three bosses are level 54.