Lord Rhyolith Guide

Fight Mechanics

Lord Rhyolith starts with 80 stacks of Obsidian Armor

This reduces his damage taken with 80% (1% for each stack).

Everytime Rhyolith steps on an active volcano , his stacks will decrease

Your goal is to move Rhyolith in all active volcanoes and DPS him down

You can move Rhyolith by either DPS’ing his right leg or left leg

Rhyolith will wipe the raid when you accidently move him in the lava

The assignments are the following:

Tanks

Rhyolith cannot be tanked, he runs automatically.

The tanks be ready to pick up all the adds that spawn continuously

One tank with the raid, one tank outside the raid

Tank the small adds in the middle

Tank the big AOE’ing Spark away from the raid

Melee and Ranged DPS

All melee DPS will DPS the legs of Rhyolith (coordinate on vent)

All Ranged DPS stack in the middle and DPS all the adds first

Healers

Raid damage is high within this fight, Tank damage is low

Damage is critically high when adds spawn, so prepare

Healers stick together in the middle

Raid composition

In 10-man normal difficulty: 1/2 tanks, 3/4 healers and 5 DPS;

In 25-man normal difficulty: 1/2 tanks, 6/7 healers, 17 DPS

Pull Rhyolith and start DPS on his left leg

Make sure he does not reach the outer circle, else he will wipe the raid

Never let him run in a straight line, unless you’ll have to

Keep him circling around the middle as much as possible

Volcano Mechanics

Volcanos will spawn that are inactive

Some of these volcanos become active, move Rhyolith through them

Use the meter to coordinate his movement

Rhyolith steps into a crater , this will reduce his armor

Continue same routine

Rhyolith uses the following abilities

Volcanoes

Rhyolith will spawn volcanos

The volcanos will erupt, dodge this damage

Some volcanos will become craters which erupt, dodge this damage

Damage from volcanos is manageable (not high!)

Best advice: stick together as much as possible for healing

Concussive Stomp

Rhyolith will cast stomp (see warning)

At 0.0 seconds everybody jumps up to dodge all damage

Stomp damage is manageable and dodgeable

Molten Armor

Rhyolith gets a buff called Molten Armor whenever he walks on an active volcano

The buff is removed everytime he casts another ability

Rhyolith releases jets of cinders that inflict 15k (low dmg)

This is called Thermal Ignition and spawns adds (see below)

Small Adds

Rhyolith will cast Thermal Ignition which spawns 5 small adds

One tanks tanks these adds in the middle with the rest of the raid

DPS these adds down within 30 seconds (else they explode and kill people)

These adds get and deal more damage the longer they are alive

The small adds are high kill priority (higher than the spark)

Some melee needs to help to kill these adds when they spawn (call on vent)

Spark of Rhyolith

Rhyolith sometimes summons a big add called Spark of Rhyolith

This add is very dangerous and does very high AOE dmg

The AOE damage will often cause lots of deaths/wipes. To deal with this:

Immediately misdirect the big add to a tank standing away from the raid

Everyone move away from this add immediately

Ranged DPS quickly DPS this big add down

Rhyolith will move to phase 2 at 30%

Stop DPS at 32% and wait until his stacks of Molten Armor
run off

Stack up in the middle and DPS him to 30%

Liquid Phase

Rhyolith will turn into a fire golem

He does huge amounts of AOE damage

Blow cooldown and AOE Heal everyone up

Rhyolith needs to be tanked during this phase

Bloodlust and DPS him down

People get hit by volcanoes and die
This is mostly caused because people do not stick together in the middle and move out or ranged of healers. People should not run around the platform. They should only move when they will have to dodge some kind of damage (for example: when they need to dodge a volcano).

Adds kill people
This happens when people get hit by the AOE of the Spark while being low on health (because they got hit by another ability). To counter this people need to get out of the path of the Spark of Rhyolith fast. Make sure you’ll have a tank that picks up the add immidiately.

Rhyolith moves to the edge and kills everyone
This happens frequently. It is hard to control Rhyolith: his legs do not respond very fast. Make sure that someone on ventrillo coordinate his movements. Make sure that DPS sticks to one leg as much as possible (for example left leg) and only move to the right leg when they’ll have to. Make sure that Rholith never runs in a straightline for no reason: you may not have enough time to turn him.

Rhyolith kills everyone in Liquid Phase (below 30%)
The damage of Rhyolith in phase 2 with stacks of Molten armor is huge. Never let Rhyolith move to phase 2 with stacks of Molten Armor, else you will wipe. Wait for his stacks to run off and then move him to phase 2 (Liquid Phase). Always be stacked up before phase 2 starts.