The Weeping City of Mhach

Level: 60 (Sync: 60)
Item Level: 205
Difficulty: Normal

Party size: Alliance
24 man • 3 6 15
Unsyncing: Allowed
Time limit: 120 minutes
Roulette: Alliance Raids
Tomestones: 100
Req. quest: The Weeping City
Patch: 3.3

“

Deep in the Yafaem Saltmoor lie the ruins of the fabled city of Mhach─a civilization of the Fifth Astral Era whose prosperity was built upon unparalleled magicks of destruction. It is to this ancient edifice, and its vaults of occult secrets, that you and the Redbills plan your next foray.
You expect to encounter voidsent─the same terrible beings that grounded Radlia and her crew─but on your path to retrieve a relic of incalculable power, can you prevail over the unfettered miseries of the Weeping City itself?

— In-game description

The Weeping City of Mhach is a level 60 raid introduced in patch 3.3 with Heavensward.

General Information

The Weeping City of Mhach is the second 24-player raid of Heavensward expansion. The Weeping City of Mhach requires the players to have item levels of 205 or higher. The raid composition is 3 tanks, 6 healers and 15 DPS (1:2:5 ratio).

Unlock

Quest: The Weeping City
Quest-giver Location: Stacia - The Sea of Clouds (x6.2,y5.8)
Prerequisite Quest: To Rule the Skies

Objectives

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Bosses

Arachne Eve

The Weeping City of Mhach Guide Part One

The Weeping City of Mhach Guide Part Two

Phase 1

The boss casts Dark Spike, a tankbuster, and Silken Spray, a tail swipe, throughout this phase. Later, it will randomly select three players with orange target markers that places webs at their location.

The boss burrows to the ground and a series of ring AoEs appear starting from the center. Right after the last ring AoE, a proximity marker appears, which is where the boss will pop up. Right after, random players are targeted with green spread markers. Anyone caught in the ring will get tethered and other players have to walk into the tether to break you free.

Phase 2: Web

In this phase, the boss pulls everyone up to her web.

One group must find and kill a small spider, Spitting Spider, to make a hole in the web and drop down to the ground below. Then destroy the pillars called Keyknot, that surround the arena and kill any adds. NOTE: A random player on the ground level may get targeted and tethered to a web that brings them back up to the upper web level.

Meanwhile, the others on the web must absorb the blue orbs and destroy the purple orbs, Deep Earth Aether, to avoid buffing the boss. Make sure to avoid the yellow webs on the ground. They give you the Digestive Fluid debuff that slows you down and small damage over time. During this phase, the boss continuously casts Implosion, which is an unavoidable room-wide damage. After all the pillars are destroyed, the boss and everyone on the web will fall to ground level.

Phase 3

This phase is similar to the first phase, but more mechanics are introduced. Stack when the boss casts Shadow Burst. If you are marked, stand within melee distance so people can stack with you. Later, it will cast Fond Affeared, which is a Gaze mechanic. Look away or you will get Hysteria.

This time, if you are targeted with the orange marker, you must go to the outer arena to place the webs away from the center. The boss burrows in the ground and casts a room-wide, tornado-like AoE called Widow’s Kiss. The AoE sucks everyone to the center and will kill anyone at the center or close to the center where the boss comes back up. Get on a sticky web to avoid getting sucked in but anyone standing on a web close to the center can also receive high damage or die.

After this, the boss repeats each phase until it’s killed.

Overview of Skills
Skill/Action	Description	Amt of Damage	AOE?
Dark Spike	Tankbuster	Med-High
Silken Spray	Tailswipe		X
orange target marker	Go to outer arena to place sticky web	Small
burrows & comes up	Avoid ring AoEs, then proximity marker	Small-High	X
green/yellow target marker	- Avoid standing in the circle - If anyone is tethered, run through the tether to free them	Small	X
Implosion	Unavoidable room-wide damage	Medium
orange "hourglass" marker	Tethered to bring you back up to web level
Fond Affeared	Gaze - look away	Medium
Shadow Burst	Stack	Medium-Death
Widow's Kiss, Pitfall	Get on web to avoid getting sucked to center	High-Death

Forgall

Overview of Skills
Skill/Action	Description	Amt of Damage	AOE?
green puddles	Avoid standing in them. Unless boss is casting Mega Death
Void Call	Summons three adds; Kill succubus first
Brand of the Fallen	Marked players group together	Low-High
Hell Wind	Room-wide AOE	Medium-High	X
Punishing Ray	One person stands on each red pillar	Medium-Death
Mega Death	Immediately stand on green puddle to avoid death	Death

Details

Mega Death: When the boss casts Mega Death, immediately stand in the green puddle to gain a stack of Gradual Zombification to avoid death.

NOTE: Don't stand in the green puddle if the boss isn't casting Mega Death because mutiple stacks of Gradual Zombification will turn you into a zombie and make you attack other players.

Void Call: The boss will summon three adds.

Kill the Summoned Succubus first and stun her when she casts Beguiling Mist.
The Summoned Haagenti will cast Mortal Gaze which gives you Doom if you don't look away. Healers can use Esuna to remove Doom.
Right after the adds are kills, the boss will cast a room-wide AOE.

Brand of the Fallen: Random players are marked with red dorito arrows. All marked players must group together to avoid large damage and Toad status.

Ozma

Sphere form: Ozma begins in sphere form, which is the "safe" form. During this form he will cast delayed Meteor spells that display their AoE in a purple circle, marking players - players should try to spread out the damage from these as much as possible to avoid party members being hit by multiple meteors. Multiple meteors overlapping their blast radius will deal immense damage. Usually these are placed to the back of the rectangular platform, and to the round part on your left.
Pyramid form: In pyramid form Ozma will cast a single high-damage AoE on the long rectangular platforms when he finishes transforming, so players should move to the circular sections. During this phase Acceleration Bomb can be applied to players, and deals heavy AoE damage to players that move or act when it expires. Additionally, members are randomly hit by a weak AoE that places a powerful stacking DoT on all members hit. Healers should cleanse these.
Cube form: At the beginning of cube form, Ozma will cast a large donut shaped AoE, causing moderate damage to anyone not standing close to him on the rectangular platform and apply Vulnerability stacks. Damaging orbs will orbit the platform, and cleaving laser blasts will target the tanks. When he casts the tornado, make sure the alliance is standing on one corner to Ozma and the tank on the other one. DPS and healers should stand on the rectangular platforms out of the path of the orbs, while tanks move to the circular sections to soak lasers and orbs. During this phase, he will also cast Holy, which deals a moderate amount of damage and knocks players a small distance away from Ozma. It is best to stand on the edge of the platform close to him to dodge the spheres and not fall off. Acceleration Bomb can also be applied during this phase.
After taking some damage, Ozma will cast Black Hole and suck the party into him. There are two phases to this part of the fight. First, the parties will be separated into three platforms with Atomos enemies on them, which should be focused down immediately. Each party will have to stand in a circle that makes another party's Atomos vulnerable to damage (the same as the Atomos fight in Labyrinth of the Ancients). After the Atomos enemies are defeated, finish off the last of the adds and jump down to fight Ozma's shadow. During this phase, face away from the boss when he casts Assimilation, and if you are marked with a meteor run to a corner to avoid unnecessary raid damage. It's worth noting that this entire phase is a moderate DPS check - if players are inside Ozma for too long, Doomsday will finish casting, wiping the raid.
After defeating the shadow, a portal will open that returns you to the main platform. The meteor effect from sphere form will return, but with more AoEs; one possible strategy is to have two people from each alliance stand in the back corners of the rectangular platforms, with the remaining players placing their AoE's anywhere that doesn't threaten other alliances.

Rinse and repeat.

General Notes:

You can fall off so be careful
Meteors (Black AOEs) - move these away from the group and don't stack them
- Place one Meteor in the back of your platform, the other on the ring to your left
- Singularity Fragment adds spawn where they land
Acceleration Bomb - As the debuff runs out, a die will appear above your head and count down. If you are in the middle of any actions (including walking) when the debuff wears off, the bomb explodes for high damage and a short stun as you're launched into the air.

Ozma's Forms:

Sphere - safest form - he casts Meteor in this form
Pyramid - he opens with a high damage attack on the long platform, move to the ring when he transforms to avoid this
- He'll apply Bleed to people, spread out to keep it from spreading
Cube - stick close to him to avoid knockback, tanks and healers soak orbs

Black Hole:

When you're sucked in, stand on the platform and burn Atmos
- Adds cast Paralyze III - stun this
Face away from the Ozma's Shade when he casts Assimilation
If you take too long you'll wipe to Doomsday

Overview of Skills
Skill/Form	Description	Amt of Damage	AOE?
Singularity Fragment	- Proximity marker - An add spawns at the location	Small-High
Pyramid Form	Move to the ring	High	X
Acceleration Bomb	Don't move and use any skills until debuff goes away	High-Death
Random Hits in Pyramid Form	Cause bleed and splash to nearby players	Esuna
Cube Form	- Stand right next to the boss - Tank and party separate to avoid cleave	Medium	X
Orbs	Tanks should soak them	High
Holy	Small damage and knockback	Tiny
Meteor	Stack but party can't survive more than 1	High

Calofisteri

Haircut is always where her hair's blade is visually represented on her model (bleed can be cleansed. Strong bleed). The boss' main attacks cause a cleave on the side of her blade. Move far away from extension telegraphs as they pull you in even when you're not standing on them. If the adds spawning from extension are not killed in time, the person trapped inside will die, and it will suck another person in and repeat. Focus these ASAP.

There will be a phase where she summons multiple Bijous and Small Bijous. Focus the Small Bijous down first as they finish their Energize cast sooner, and then burn the Bijous. Every Energize cast powers up her next raidwide AoE and will wipe if she has too much damage.

When the axe and bulb flowers spawn, look for the axe flower and stay near them to avoid their donut AoE. The bulbs will cause for a damage and knockup under and around them. Depth Charge will make the boss charge towards the wall, usually follows with Haircut. Make sure to watch where her blade is and dodge Depth charge on her safe side. Reposition the boss afterwards.

Penetration will pull you towards the center if you're looking at the boss, and will push you away if you're not. Bulb flowers will spawn and you will be pushed into them if you don't stand on an open spot. Try to position yourself to be pushed towards the empty spots of the arena to avoid these. When 2 blade flowers spawn just move away from the center. Red markers on players is just like the Cloud of Darkness marker, periodically raining damaging blasts down upon the player's location, so just run away from everybody and keep running to dodge these.

Try to keep the boss around the middle of the arena, as it will often pick a side and do a huge AOE (the whole half of the area she is facing) that usually kill anyone caught in it. Don't tank her on the edge, as you might have just a tiny safe spot and will most likely result in a wipe.

When she stops and looks toward a direction get away from her front side and move to the middle, as after dealing damage straight ahead of her she'll do one of her deadly AOE.