Handkite Soulbeast

October 2024

Introduction

Handkite Soulbeast build was created specifically for the Wing 4 Deimos encounter and it has no use outside of it.

Deimos

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The last and hardest boss in Wing 4, Deimos requires a toughness tank and one special role, the Handkite.

Build Fundamentals

This build has 1200 toughness. Communicate this with your tank as you can't tank Deimos and handkite at the same time. If your tank can't go higher than 1200 toughness check the Alternatives section.

Every few seconds, the furthest player from Deimos will have five stacks of hands spawn under them at 1-second intervals. Controlling these hands is your responsibility. This means you must position yourself to be the furthest player from Deimos, and must be able to self sustain through damage from Hands, Tears, and Deimos' Mind Crush mechanic.

Self Sustain And Dealing With Hands

You want to permanently upkeep and on yourself. Both boons will help you with damage reduction and sustain, to achieve this use off cooldown and use . While merged, the boons copied to your pet will extend yours instead, and they are further extended by .

You have a lot of passive sustain through , , and . For immediate healing use .

is your main way to handle Deimos' Hands - you can block every other set of Hands with it. If is on cooldown count the stacks of Hands as they spawn and dodge as the fifth Hand spawns. Be careful and don't dodge off the platform. If you struggle to stack hands that way you can either not stack all 5 hands or use one of your defensive skills:

Your main method for handling Mind Crush is . This skill makes you take zero damage from all incoming strike damage for four seconds - use it as Deimos swings his hammers to mitigate his otherwise lethal attack. If things have gone wrong and is on cooldown you can also use , , or go into the bubble to avoid Mind Crush. Weak Minded is applied to you after mitigating Mind Crush which will deal an additional 70% of your total hp over 10 seconds. can help to mitigate it. Mind Crush and share the same cooldown which ensures that it is up for every time Deimos uses it.

Tips

• Try to stay in Saul's Banner to get extra healing. The banner is only active during the Normal Mode version of the encounter.
• All Hands will travel to Deimos every the group comes back after a green. Be careful when that happens and don't be in their path.
• Oils spawn under the closest non-tank player to Deimos. When the group is handling Sauls this can often be you.
• You can use to slow down Prides.
• If equipped, lets you share the benefits of and with your squad. This is especially useful in the last 10% of the fight since the can prevent knockbacks off the arena and mitigate some damage with the -33% incoming damage buff.

Alternatives

Pets

• can be swapped to . The build will drop from 1200 toughness down to 1000 allowing your tank to run a more aggressive setup. You will lose access to which means you will have to mitigate Mind Crush with either or .

Skills

• You can replace with for clutch squad revives or extra passive healing if prides are being handled by your group.

Traits

• Change to to share your Stances to allies if you don't need extra healing on your Pet Merged skills.