Caliligos Introduction
Caliligos is the third Raid Level 6 Guardian. You need to be at least Item Level 1490 to enter this Guardian Raid. This Guardian drops Tier 3 Relic Accessories, Ability Stones, Bracelets and Upgrade Materials as well as rare drops including Engraving Books, Galewind and Caliligos. The recommended Combat Items are: HP Potion, Pheromone Bomb, Destruction Bomb, Whirlwind Grenade and Flare.
This Guardian Raid has 3 phases. Battle items are required to phase the boss. Each phase will give Caliligos new empowered attacks and unique phases. To transition to the next phase, players will need to perform a series of actions when he reaches certain HP thresholds.
This is an altered version of previously encountered fights like Calventus. This time he's charged and ready to fight. Just like Calventus, He's extremely mobile and annoying. Be careful of it's AoE attacks, it can be shocking when it hits!
This Guardian guide assumes you know the basics of a Guardian Raid. Check out the General Raid Guide to learn more.
Special Interactions & Patterns
Counterable: Frontal Charge
Counter attack is possible during the charge attack pattern. At the start of this attack animation, the Guardian glows blue. The player has a short window to cast a skill with a Counter Attack affix while standing in front of the Guardian. If you manage to pull this off fast enough, the Guardian's attack will be interrupted and staggered for a few seconds. This gives you and your team a short window to use buffs and deal additional damage.
Caliligos will shake his body side to side turning towards a player a becomes blue. Failure to Counter will result in a dash forward. In Phase 2 he will also spawn thunderbolts around him.
Counterable: Body Raise
Caliligos raises his body and flaps wings before firing an explosion. You can counter to cancel it.
Retaliation
This will only occur in Phase 2 and 3. Caliligos will summon a barrier around him. Stand inside and don't attack.
Phase Transition
After enough damage, you will need to perform a series of patterns to phase the boss.
Stagger > Counter > Destruction > Orbs
After the Counter, destroy his horns with Part Destruction skills or Destruction Bomb.
Lightning Phases
During this phase, the boss will apply lightning stacks, upon reaching 5x the player will be stunned for a few seconds. Around the boss, there will be blue orbs, destroy them to cleanse the stacks and grant immunity to shock for a brief period. (Try to do it at 4x stacks).
In the final phase of the boss ~20% HP, a player will be marked with a curse, taking bleed damage. The only way to lift the curse is to destroy the designated orb on the mini-map (similar to Levano's mini tree).
General Patterns
Double Pound
Caliligos moves forward and hits the ground twice.
Tail Whip
Swipes his tail from left to right.
Air Slam
Targets a player with aggro and does a paw slash slam. In later phases, players that are "Thunder shocked" will be targeted.
Additional hits when attacked. Will receive "Thunder shocked" debuff. In Phase 3 additional lightning and balls will spawn around him.
Delayed Jump Slam
Caliligos flies towards a player and lands on them.
Blink Slam
Caliligos flaps his wings and flies into the air. He will target a player and try to land on them after a small indicator. In Phase 2-3 there will be lightning around the Slam.
Lightning Blink Slam
Only occurs after Phase 3. Spawns lightning while in the air then lands. If the horn is destroyed, he will not do this pattern.
Backstep
Boss will fly back. In Phase 2, the Backstep will include lightning in front of him.
Sonic Charge
Phase 3 will shake its body and charge toward a targeted player. Try to move away from your team.
Gameplay Video
Credits
Written by Starlast
Reviewed by Perciculum
Changelog
- 12 December 2022
Article Published.