Learn the mechanic before changing the build.

Boss abilities and dungeon mechanisms form the public guide. Rishi's ratings, test priorities and build responses are marked separately as personal progression.

7boss dossiers

5tested by Rishi

2awaiting his run

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Rishi's next testThrone of ThunderDifficulty 6 · personal rating pending

Public boss guide

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Start with the boss abilities and dungeon mechanisms; use the build response as a gamer tip, not a guaranteed answer.

Game guide

Throne of Thunder · Difficulty 6Rishi has not tested thisPersonal baseline pending

Boss dossier

Cult Aberrant

Game rule

A malformed child of thunder created by a cult using a god-making storm artifact.

Boss abilities

Dungeon mechanisms

Gamer tip · test it against your own buildThis is the highest recorded difficulty and has no rating yet. Use the current proven boss build for the first run before tuning around assumptions.

First priority: record one complete baseline run.
Start with Vengeance, Frostspread, Snowstorm and Dualcast unchanged.
Only adapt after the result shows whether damage, survival or control is limiting the clear.

Personal progression and recommendations are labelled separately from boss mechanics.

Rishi's Abyss progression

Next three matched tests

These are personal testing priorities for the current Mage—not universal instructions for every class or account.

First benchmark

Throne of Thunder

Run the current proven boss setup unchanged. The result will show whether Difficulty 6 is damage-, control- or survival-limited.

AoE benchmark

Dark Forest

Use Snowstorm first against the recorded spider-summon package, then move into Frostspread on the boss pair.

Upgrade proof

Dark Mine replay

Rock Giant is the strongest visible penetration check. Re-test it after Long Journey Lv6 or another penetration upgrade.