Guide To The Final Personal Story Mission (Big Spoilers)

Starting off you port into an undead wasteland, just run towards a re-united Destiny’s edge and their fortified camp.  Just run up to them and watch some cut-scenes and then the fun starts. Note the cut scenes seem to trigger randomly and no mobs will spawn until they are done.

Head off to the left where you’ll see a whole load of risen guarding a closed door. What we did here was have three people pull and take down the mobs while two people stood on the pressure plates each side of two orbs. If you step off the plate the door lock slowly engages again meaning you need to pretty much keep people there all the time. We had one team member between the plate standees and the mob killers to act as aggro magnet to pull any stray mobs off of the guys on the plates.

The door will open up and you’ll see a Champion Risen Lich Boss. This has a nasty life steal (green pulses) causing 500-5000 damage. Attacking at ranged is recommended, so you have plenty of time to dodge.

Fast ressing (when safe) and running out of danger to heal will keep you going longer. At about 30% the life steal will stop and will be replaced by straightforward but highly damaging (1-2k) white pulses.

Once you’ve downed the boss and got the loot and power core run right past Destiny’s Edge and to the right you’ll see two Orrian Pillars. Attack one of them at range and kill the Risen Grubs. Then attack the other at range also and the door will open.

Once you’ve ran through the vaults of holiness you’ll look down into an arena shaped area where there is a giant boss.

He will periodically drop mobs that, if you let them get too close will get eaten and restore some of his HP so make sure you have a couple of players kite them away from the boss and kill them as soon as possible. Make sure you are quick on the ball with fast, safe resses and use condition removal whenever you can.

Again, collect the loot and the power core and it’s onto the final core.

As you enter the room you’ll see a narrow corridor full of Orrian Eyes and traps. Don’t be a hero and try and engage them in melee. Kill from range. Although reflection skills such as the Guardian’s wall of reflection can be very effective.

As for the traps you can either work your way around them, or be cheeky and use a Mesmer to create a portal

As you come around the corner you’ll come to a Champion Risen Knight, who will evade any attacks when in the air and can only be damaged when not flying. He too drops adds, which act like ‘creepers’ in that if they get too close they go boom and spread conditions around. Have a player kite them away from the rest and let them exploe safely at a distance.

Run back to Destiny’s Edge after collecting the power core and loot and watch a cut scene.

You’ll end up on the deck of an Air-Battleship and will then need you’ll then face a couple of waves of risen, which will be flung at you from huge giants along the right side of the airship. You can pull them inside the ship to make the fight easier.

You can use the cannons on the side to deflect (skill 2) a lot of the adds but some will get through including veteran hylecks and captains. Have those condition removals handy for the hyleck and fight from the rear of the ship forward rather than let yourself be surrounded and risk falling off the ship as you kite.

You’ll then get intercepted by an un-flyable looking contraption which will tell you they need help breaking through Zhaitan’s lines.

You’ll be airdropped onto a plateau with 3 Orrian Towers, each with mobs protecting them..

The way we did it was first of all take down the Orrian Eyes from range while three people kited , but not killed the gorillas(the adds here seem to re-spawn if you kill them while the  tower is up). We then had one player take out the tower (hiding behind it) while the others kept the mobs busy.

As soon as this tower is down, kill the adds and move onto the next one. It doesn’t matter which but personally we took the Ooze one and then the Juggernaut wizard one. Use the same tactics as above and you’ll see why we took the Juggernaut one next.

As soon as the final tower is down, a huge boss called Mouth Of Zhaitan will spawn. This boss has a huge health pool which makes it pretty much immune to normal attacks. You have a few seconds to finish off the Juggernaut before the boss starts attacking so do that now.

It will also open its mouth and create a vortex, sucking in all nearby players and then winding up to a huge, damaging stomp that will take 30-45% of your HP. It will also breathe out ground targeted fireballs which hit for around 2-4K and crucially it will leave these on the floor.

Whenever the mouth is opening its mouth to summon a vortex, throw the fireball at it.

The mouth will then eat the fireball which will damage and stop the vortex and stomp attacks. So the fight will consist of a caller telling the rest of the team when the mouth is open and the rest of the team lobbing the fireballs at it while avoiding the fire and AoE. The best and safest way I found to do this was to look at the back of the boss for a swirling effect which signifies a mouth being open and then lobbing the fireball at it from the rear. We had a front and rear team, switching when our health got too low.

Eventually the mouth will die and you’ll be whisked away to the Air-Battleship again.

Eventually you’ll drift past only to be assaulted by a Dragon Champion which not only causes KD to the whole Air-Battleship but throws boarding parties of assorted Risen and damaging AoE on deck.

Clear the mobs away from the deck and nominate two gunners(recommend scholar classes) When the dragon starts to come close have two players on two turrets on the right hand side. You won’t be able to tab-target so click on them directly.  Use the shield skill when the champion roars and is about to shoot adds are you, and the 1 skill to damage it.  Eventually after waves of adds, KD’s and counter attacks you’ll take the champion down.

Next you’ll be assaulted by two champions. The first will attack from the right( the second the left) Use the same tactics as before except fight from the rear of the air-battleship forwards.

The dragons won’t actually damage the air-battleship so don’t worry too much about it. Just press the mobs back, man the cannons when the dragons come close and take them down.

You’ve now past the worst of the mission.

However, the assault hasn’t gone all to plan. Your air-battle ship has been pretty beaten up by the assault and is on the brink of crashing. But you are rescued just in time by what can only be described as an Air-Dreadnaught called the Heart Of Tyria.

After a few minutes the Zhaitan himself will show up and there will be a few spectacular cut scenes which are simply jaw dropping. Anyway, you will need to defend Zoja while she prepares the Asura mega laser. There will be about 3 waves of mobs including some Eyes Of Zhaitan but so long as you focus the fight will be pretty easy

After another amazing cut scene more mobs will spawn on the deck so split your time between them and manning the ‘turbo lasers’. Zhaitan will cling, wounded and broken to a tower while you blast him to hell.

All being well there will be some stunning, epic and moving cut scenes and you can pat yourself on the back for completing your personal story