ARENA FOR BEGINNERS
This brief guide is for written for knights who have never tried Planar Arena and would like to run it for AP/Planar Pendant quest/loot. It's based on my experience running with full legendary, no arcane pet parties at level 41 with adjustments for level 46. I welcome other experienced Arena runners to leave comments with more helpful tips for Arena beginners.
MUST have:
- At least minimum stats, skills and gear for elite:
- Rogue: 3700hp, 625dmg, 1600 armor petless no elixir
- Sorcerer: 3500hp, 700dmg, 1400 armor petless no elixir
- Warrior: 7000hp, 450dmg, 2400 armor petless no elixir
- Ankhs (at least one kit/25 ankhs), a lot of hp and mana pots (never ask for mana heal from mages, never use Combat Medic skill)
BETTER if you also use:
- Damage bonus elixir for faster boss kill
- Damage reduction elixir for better protection (fewer deaths mean fewer ankh used. Damage reduction elixir is cheaper than ankh kit)
SKILLS:
- Rogue: Aimed Shot, Noxious Bolt, Shadow Piercer, and choose between Shadow Veil and Razor Shield for 4th skill
- Sorcerer: Firebolt, Frost Bolt/Timeshift, Lightning, Arcane Shield
- Warrior: Juggernaut, Chest Splitter, Windmill/Axe Throw, Horn of Renew (both Juggernaut and Horn have to be upgraded with taunt)
PETS:
- Must have: Kelvin
- Maridos, Singe, Gyrm, Shadowlurk, Stanlee (for party buff)
- Nekro, Blinky (for better protection through shield and boss dmg and armor debuff, )
- Toor, Stampy, Swift, Yowie, Dovabear, Fantasma (for stats, dmg boosts)
- Slag, Breeze, Slobber (for enemy control)
Note: make sure your Arena pets are capped to max out their passive ability
ARENA BASICS
Bosses: Bloodhammer, Ferrix, Frostr, Glob, Mother, Rutger, Challenger (super rare)
Environment:
- Poison pools (blue circles, drain life)
- Spiders
- Enraging obelisk (pink stone behind boss. If hit by skill/pet will start 60 second countdown to boss enrage)
- Vortex crystal (purple crystal surrounded by red circle, pulls player in
- Mushrooms (mushroom explosion can push you away and deal enough damage to kill)
- Proximity ring (purple and pink ring. If you get it, STAY AWAY from your allies. The ring insta-kills)
- Arena is accessed by talking to Hox (an NPC in Kraag between the Beastmaster and stash wagon)
- Arena is an elite timed zone. Once timer starts noone else can join.
- One arena run consists of killing 4 bosses in a row.
- Reward for completing a run is an Arena Masterchest (not-tradeable). An Arena Masterchest may contain:
- Planar Gladiator legendary helm/armor
- Vial of Undead Ectoplasm (ingredient for crafting Nekro)
- hp/mana pots
- 10 ankh
- super rare Arcane Fossil (ingredient for crafting Nekro)
- epic junks!
FIGHTING IN ARENA
STAND STILL and only move a little to avoid red zone when you meet these environments:
- Spiders. More spiders will drop if you move around. The spiders can be easily killed but with less of them around you can kill boss faster.
- Poison pool. The more you move the more pools spawn. Hug the wall (stay close to the wall), find places where the pools dont overlap and stand there firing skills.
- Mushrooms. Hug the wall, lure boss down and don't approach the Arena stage where the mushrooms spawn.
MOVE MOVE MOVE! when you meet these environments:
- Proximity ring. Move away from your allies when you get the ring so you don't kill them by accident. Move away from your allies who have the ring. Maneuver around the arena so you can still hit boss without killing/getting killed by your allies.
- Vortex crystal. Run in a circle around the Arena while still firing shots (warrior can run with their pet still attacking boss, so not too far out). For rogue: you can stay and keep firing, then use charged Shadow Piercer to get safely to the other side of the arena.
ENRAGING OBELISK.
Safe method:
- Everyone stay close to gate when you see pink stone behind boss
- Everyone use Kelvin
- Rogue use uncharged Aimed Shot to lure boss down (except for Mother, she can pull you up with her web and accidentally trigger enraging stone. Try walking up to her)
- Warrior use Horn to gain aggro once boss is near gate. DPS class starts hitting. Take turn keeping boss stunned using Kelvin.
- Don't run away too far from gate, your skill might hit enraging stone. If you have to run to avoid red zone/poison pool, don't fire skill.
- If enraging stone gets accidentally triggered, DPS class switch fast to crit/dmg pets, warrior stay with Kelvin, hit boss harder till (hopefully) it dies under 60 seconds
YOLO method (this is actually quicker, safer):
- Equip Maridos, Singe, Gyrm, Shadowlurk, Stanlee, Ribbit or any pet that gives you dmg/crit boost, e.g. Toor, Blinky, Nightshade, Nilbog, Slobber, Dovabear, etc (look for dmg % on your pet's happy bonus)
- Attack boss with skills combos
- If boss enrages DPS start kiting boss, warrior stun with Kelvin and drawing aggro with Axe Throw and Horn (don't stay within melee range, boss one hit kills when enraged)
SPECIAL BOSSES/ENVIRONMENT COMBO
- Rutger in Mushrooms. Go to the middle of right wall when you see Rutger. Rogue drop veil and fire uncharged Aimed to lure boss down. Fire off skills and don't move. If no vortex crystal/prox ring/poison pool appears, the environment is mushroom but you don't see it because it only spawns on the left side of the arena. If you don't die in this environment you get Mushroom Madness achievement.
- Stahl in Spiders. DPS class go to middle of arena, don't move, take turns dropping veil, and fire off skills. From the middle of arena, DPS class can hit Stahl wherever he goes without having to move (and make more spider drop).
USING KELVIN
- For safer (if maybe slower run) use Kelvin whenever you see these one-hitting bosses: Bloodhammer, Frostr, Glob
- Either take turns using Kelvin skill (100% stun) or
- Save Kelvin's skill for when you are cornered (boss coming at you, you have nowhere to go because of pools/rings/being slowed down by Frostr's blue pool)
USING BLINKY
Keep Blinky's skill ready for when boss (especially Glob, Frostr) about to do a windup attack (big red zone) or rush attack (long red zone) at you or your party.
MAGE SHIELD
When fighting Rutger keep shield ready for when he does DoT attack (marked with red skull icon).
Also read:
Jirikjurasek's guide to tanking Arena
Haligali's guide to Arena environment identification
I hope these tips help. Good luck with arena runs, knights!
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