Frozen Vipercap Caverns
By: Shadovv
Race against time to claim the treasure within this cavern before the vicious Vipercaps destroy them all!
Time Attack:
This dungeon has the exact same layout as Avalanche Den. The objective is to rush through the obstacles and kill the boss as fast as possible to claim the best reward. The Dynamic Quest rewards will decrease after three, four, and five minutes; if this happens you can leave the dungeon and try again.
When you enter, there is an instant death fire wall and The Suspicious Jar. Wait until everyone has entered the dungeon and loaded in. Once everyone is ready, break the Jar. Shortly after, the fire wall ahead will be removed, and the time attack will begin.
There are many Wild Golden Deathcaps ahead that use 3 meter unblockable AoE vacuums to impede your progress. Use dashing skills, windwalking, movement speed buffs, etc. to move past them. The Deathcaps are unkillable without utilizing the poison orb dropped by the nearby Ice Cavern Poisoncaps which die in a single hit, but it’s better to just run past the Deathcaps.
Giant Golden Vipercap:
HP: 11,000,000
CC Bars: Immune
This boss uses standard Vipercap attacks that do negligible damage, but will Phantom Grip the tank if they stand out of melee range, so have a Summoner’s Cat or Warlock’s Thrall keep it taunted.
The boss also passively receives 50% less damage from all attacks. If you are not very highly geared, do not DPS the boss.
The boss is surrounded by numerous Ice Cavern Poisoncaps. Killing them will drop a poison orb that can be thrown at the boss, applying a stack of “Mushroom Poison” dealing damage over time for 10 seconds and stacks 99 times. These stacks are the main sources of damage, so continuously throwing poison orbs will gradually whittle the boss’s HP down and eventually kill it.
Periodically a message warns “Giant Golden Monstrosity is spreading golden spores” and the boss will give everyone a 5 second “Golden Spore” debuff that will immobilize you for 5 seconds on expiration. Killing the Poisoncaps will release an AoE that removes this debuff.
