The Dark Inside Quick Trial Tips and Guide

This guide serves as a quick primer for players experiencing the trial for the first time. It is aimed to be digestible quickly and targeted towards a specific role, so you can read it while in queue or loading in! For detailed explanations on boss mechanics, take a look at our main guide for the encounter.

• Kokytos will reduce all party members' HP to 1.
• Esoterikos will have Zodiark tether to one side of the arena. There will be square AoEs or a conal AoE from that side depending on the shape on the sigil. Later in the fight, this will be done thrice in succession.
• Paradeigma summons concepts that do a circle AoE or a line AoE.
• Astral Flow will rotate the arena and AoEs while fettering players in place. Position yourself to dodge the AoEs after the arena rotates.
• Algedon has Zodiark move to a corner of the arena, where he will then do a charge line AoE down the middle. Head to the opposite corner.
• Astral Eclipse is the transition to phase three. The pattern of the stars will indicate where AoEs will appear.

• Ania is a tank buster on the current main tank.
• Help mitigate Styx as it does heavy damage.

• Kokytos is not followed by damage, but players should be healed up to ensure safety.
• Styx is a stack marker that hits multiple times for heavy damage.

• Zodiark does not have a positional ring.
• Apart from the first Astral Flow, players can still cast while the arena is being rotated.
• The boss returns from Astral Eclipse before the stars fall, so players can do damage while dodging those AoEs if they move carefully.