Handkite Soulbeast

May 2023

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

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 Protection and Regeneration on yourself. Both boons will help you with damage reduction and sustain. To achieve this use Moa Stance and Call of the Wild off cooldown.

You have a lot of passive sustain through Regeneration, Rugged Growth, and Signet of Renewal. For immediate healing use "We Heal As One!".

Counterattack is your main way to handle Deimos’ Hands – you can block every other set of Hands with it. If Counterattack 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:

• Dolyak Stance
• Defy Pain
• "We Heal As One!"

Your main method for handling Mind Crush is Unflinching Fortitude. 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 Unflinching Fortitude is on cooldown you can also use Counterattack, Defy Pain, 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. Dolyak Stance can help to mitigate it. Mind Crush and Unflinching Fortitude 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.
• 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 Entangle and Winter's Bite to slow down Prides.
• Leader of the Pack lets you share the benefits of Moa Stance and Dolyak Stance with your squad. This is especially useful in the last 10% of the fight since the Stability can prevent knockbacks off the arena and mitigate some damage with the -33% incoming damage buff.

Alternatives

Pets

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

Skills

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