Easy Strategy for Cavern of Veil Heroic 1-5

After extensive testing across multiple Elite 5 and Heroic difficulty runs, our team has developed a reliable method to conquer the Cavern of Veil in Riders of Icarus. This comprehensive easy strategy guide incorporates advanced tactics that significantly improve success rates for all player skill levels.

Teamspeak, Skype, or Discord voice communication is absolutely essential for coordinating complex mechanics and reacting to unexpected situations in real-time.

The optimal party composition requires exactly four players: a wizard for primary damage, a skilled guardian for tanking, a reliable priest for healing, and either an assassin or second wizard for additional DPS. The pre-boss sections are relatively straightforward – the guardian establishes aggro control, wizards eliminate enemies with area damage, and the priest maintains party health and support buffs.

Boss Engagement: Anklion Stage 1 immediately draws aggro when players approach either ramp. Interestingly, priests consistently attract initial aggro for reasons that remain unclear despite extensive testing. The guardian should quickly establish aggro control and position Anklion toward the rear area, moving either left or right. Critical positioning note: never advance up the ramp or Anklion will reset completely. Once aggro is secured, DPS players can unleash their damage rotations. Always maintain Anklion facing away from priest and wizard positions, as evading his triple projectile attack becomes extremely challenging during casting animations. Guardians must utilize block abilities specifically for sleet barrage attacks! Essential movement technique: guardians should never circle around Anklion but instead strafe laterally left and right to effectively dodge incoming attacks.

Wizard Tactics: Deal substantial damage to Anklion while carefully managing threat levels to avoid pulling aggro through excessive burst damage. Conserve your meteor abilities rather than using both simultaneously, ensuring you maintain powerful area-of-effect capabilities for when Anklion summons additional enemies (adds). While guardians can withstand significant damage with priest support, the spawned adds can quickly overwhelm and eliminate your tank. Eliminate these additional threats immediately. Add elimination should represent your highest priority during this phase. Guardians need to employ area chain attacks on adds to group them effectively into wizard AoE spells. Periodically, Anklion will target wizards specifically – guardians should immediately use chain or area chain abilities to regain aggro control.

Phase 2 Transition: The floating eye entity emerges. Assign an assassin or secondary wizard to maintain aggro on the eye. The mechanics are relatively simple: maintain constant lateral movement left and right. Never stop moving – you’ll quickly identify the attack pattern. Wizards should cast ember or frost bomb followed by barrage sequences immediately after the eye discharges its laser attack, since movement speed reduces significantly during spell channeling; getting hit by the energy beam can be fatal. Following barrages, utilize filler attacks between movements. Avoid casting stationary spells completely. Assassins should primarily use auto-attacks while strafing, learning the pattern through repetition. Retreat beyond range when the eye begins casting menacing area-effect abilities. Crucially, maintain the eye facing direction away from your primary group containing Anklion, guardian, wizard, and priest.

An alternative strategy exists to bypass the second phase complexity. You must first eliminate the NPC character as she will automatically engage and draw aggro otherwise. Assuming successful NPC elimination, ranged classes (priests/wizards) can position at maximum attack range and eliminate the eye without attracting Anklion’s attention. Since the eye drops most valuable loot and dungeon completion credit triggers upon its defeat, you can optionally exit the instance immediately after defeating the eye if desired.

Important Consideration: I strongly advise against eliminating the eye before Anklion, as this triggers a cutscene that may cause Anklion to reset. While this hasn’t occurred in my experience, the potential risk creates significant tension. “Maintain constant communication with your entire team throughout this phase.”

Anklion Phase 2 Mechanics: Similar tactics to phase 1 apply. When he begins casting his ultimate ability, all party members must EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY! After he completes this casting sequence, the guardian re-engages to reestablish aggro control. The encounter becomes significantly easier once all team members master the mechanics and timing.

When positioning Anklion during Phase 2 (while the eye remains active), position him sufficiently distant in one direction so the wizard kiting the eye doesn’t need to concern themselves with Final Destination positioning. Guardians possess the ability to block the Final Destination attack completely. No evacuation necessary when properly blocked.

I regularly complete E5/H2 difficulty solo with my wizard character – the strategy proves quite manageable (potentially even H3 could work) by pulling her toward the central area and circling continuously while kiting additional enemies. Always maintain active mana shield protection, otherwise her sleet barrage ability will instantly eliminate you. When she activates this ability, immediately consume a mana potion and reactivate your shield. Remain vigilant for incoming smaller adds, continuing circular movement patterns around her, utilizing 3 fire shots followed by 7 ice shots repeatedly. The process typically requires several minutes and approximately 15 mana potions until she eventually spawns the eye entity.

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