The Mothercrystal 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.

• Dawn Mantle will change Hydaelyn's weapon and do a mechanic.
  • A green staff will do a point-blank AoE around her.
  • A red chakram will do a donut AoE.
  • A white sword will do a cross-shaped AoE.
• Kill the crystals during the adds phase while doing mechanics.
• Hydaelyn's Ray is a proximity AoE down the center. Dodge this by moving to the sides.
• Crystallize adds a mechanic that happens immediately after Dawn Mantle.
  • Ice crystals will place an AoE over all players.
  • Earth crystals will place a stack marker on a random player
• Dodge Parhelion and watch for the line AoEs that return.
• Parhelic Circle creates circles at the end of the lines, so move to an area where the lines do not go appear.
• Stack up for Echoes, then move into a safe spot for the Lightwaves, which slowly move across the arena.

• Position the boss in the middle to give ample room for mechanics.
• Mousa's Scorn is a tank buster that needs to be shared with both tanks.
• Heros's Sundering is a conal AoE tank buster.

• Heros's Radiance and Magos's Radiance both deal raidwide damage.
• Dawn's Mantle does not do any damage if avoided, but Crystallize does. If players fail the former, they will likely die to the latter unless you save an instant heal.
• Echoes deals a large amount of damage. Use big healing cooldowns here.

• Ranged should go out and melee stay close for spread mechanics to ensure there is ample space.
• Make sure you survive for the crystal phase, as it has a real DPS check. Use LB on the crystals if necessary.