Kakul-Saydon Gate 3 Legion Raid Guide

Telegraph

1. Saydon does a little dance ending with him holding up his cane.

Description

1. Two madness balls/towers are summoned. Madness Meter increases when you step on the circle when it turns red.
2. Use these towers wisely as they help you to prep your meter for the Mario Mechanics.
3. The towers have their own meter under them. Kill them before their meter runs out or they explode.
4. You usually want the Ranged DPS kill these.
5. If melee are using them to prep, you can time the kill right as you fill up 50% of your meter.

Rehearsal Mode

1. Be aware that because there are no flame tower spawns in Rehearsal when Mario begins, you must make sure these balls/towers are kept alive as they are your only source of Madness Meter.

Description

1. Sacred Bomb is the preferred item to remove cc on party members. This is especially useful during the Bingo phase and timing the Mario Entry correctly. It can mean the difference between a raid clear and wipe.
2. Alternatively, if you find that you have no use for another utility item, consider using Sacred Charm as well. Also, if you have a burn debuff on you, it may just remove that instead of a stun.
3. Both items do not remove the fear applied from Gaze. Gaze applies a different type of debuff, called Gleaming Fear, which is not considered as regular CC.

Telegraph

1. Occurs shortly after a person enters the portal.

Description

1. This phase occurs after each mario mechanic entry for the 3 members that did not go into the portal.
2. One person is imprisoned in an Iron Maiden.
3. Saydon appears on the opposite side of the map with a Stagger Meter.
4. Hooks and/or saws appear on the map.
5. The 1st Iron Maiden has only saws, 2nd only hooks, and 3rd both saws and hooks.
6. The 4th Iron Maiden has an extra mechanic in the form of two levers, one up top, the other bottom.

What To Do

1. You must run to the other side and deal enough Stagger to break the boss. While running to the other side, you must also dodge the hooks and saws that spawn.
2. The 4th Iron Maiden requires two levers to be pulled. Once you enter the area, you must succeed in a typing test. Afterwards, you should remember to pull the lever. If both levers are not pulled, your Stagger damage will be extremely reduced.
3. If one person is dead during the 4th Iron Maiden, one person can pull both levers and then use Sidereal: Wei.
4. Beware if you have high ping. The hitboxes for the saws might not be as they seem under high ping!

1st Iron Maiden

2nd Iron Maiden

3rd Iron Maiden

4th Iron Maiden

Description

1. The person entering the portal must complete 1 of 4 Mario Stages.
2. The 1st Mario Stage is the easiest, followed by the 2nd.
3. The 3rd Mario Stage involves patience and correct timing, thus in my opinion is the most difficult stage.
4. The 4th Mario Stage requires decent spatial awareness, in my opinion not that much harder than the 2nd.

What To Do

1. One of your three party members will have a color above their heads. They will also have the debuff/curse of the color on their status bars which you can see yourself. You must destroy only 3 balls of the same color in the stage.
2. After destroying the 3 balls, you must reach the exit. Failure to destroy the 3 required balls means the party member with the curse outside gets a massive debuff. Failure to reach the exit in time means you die.

1st Mario Stage

2nd Mario Stage

3rd Mario Stage

4th Mario Stage

Be aware that bullets can appear on different "floors" based on required color to kill. So can their positions, either low or high.

Tips

1. Be patient and anticipate bullets before jumping to the next ledge.
2. Jumping to the next ledge gives you an i-frame.

Be aware that bullets can appear on different "floors" based on required color to kill. So can their positions, either low or high.

Tips

1. Upon jumping onto the 2nd platform after dodging the flame tower, take a couple of seconds to look at the background of the map.
2. Look for the colored balls you must destroy and plot a path in your head to get to them all and to reach the exit efficiently.

Telegraph

1. Occurs at x90 HP.

Description

1. Two players will have targets above their head. They are targets of 2 puddles which apply a slow debuff. These players should run alongside the outer edge of the circle.
2. Shortly into the mechanic, Saydon will target a player with a cone. In the video, you can see that the berserker gets targeted.
3. After the cone, Saydon will do donut attacks on the outer arena. He will then put his arms on both sides and start firing bullets. These bullets increase Madness Meter and deal damage to you.
4. He has a set rotation for firing the bullets so you can memorize the pattern and where to move. He will go clockwise or counterclockwise close to 360 degrees and complete a full circle or more. Afterwards, he will rotate around 180 degrees in the opposite direction to complete almost half a circle. You will have to react to whether he moves clockwise or counterclockwise initially.
5. After the bullet rotation, he will spawn two bombs. Saydon will target the same player he initially targeted for the first cone, with another cone. Aim this cone in the direction of the bomb to destroy the bomb.
6. The 2nd bomb will be on the opposite side of the first bomb. The same player gets targeted with a third cone.

What To Do

1. Gather at the 6 o'clock position. Wait a while until Saydon starts turning to avoid initial bullet damage. Then split as you dodge the rest of the incoming patterns.
2. Players with the target above their head should run alongside the outer edge after dodging the initial donut.
3. After a player gets targeted with a cone, move towards the front of the boss. It's easier to tell who gets the targetted cone if you all split.
4. Prepare to move in a certain direction to dodge the bullet rotation. Refer to the set rotation pattern above in description #4. Use Innana if you don't want to bother with the rotation to ignore bullet damage.
5. Whoever the boss targeted with the 1st cone, that player must move in front of the bomb that will spawn shortly after the bullet rotation. This player must also then move to the opposite side in a timely manner for the 2nd bomb. If you are unsure about who got the initial cone, it is best to play safe and have whoever is unsure stand in front of the bombs. Take care to also dodge the donut patterns that occur during this.
6. After the bomb portion of the mechanic is resolved, you have two choices. Either group together if you all have similar movement speed or everyone goes into their own corner of the map. You must then run around clockwise or counterclockwise to dodge the random patterns on the ground. If you all decide to stick together, consider using Marching Flag to speed your entire team. Consider Swiftness Robe if you run by yourself.

Use the Bingo-Tool to assist you during this Phase if you so desire!

Description

1. DPS is usually not an issue during Bingo Phase. If your team is on point with DPS and not overleveling the content, you usually clear with 4 Bingos. In other words, 12 bomb rounds.
2. Planning ahead is crucial. Whoever is making the decision about where bombs go, should take some time to look at their board layout. They can take a small break from DPSing the boss.
3. Always plan ahead at least 2-3 placements. Make sure you know in advance which row will be your Bingo row and communicate it to your team. Give your team multiple places to put their bomb. Be aware that hammer patterns may affect your plans so it's wise to be able to improvise on the spot or have other options.
4. Depending on how you plan, your bomb placements can be done in any order with only every 3rd bomb having to result in a Bingo.
5. Because bombs flip the board in a "+" pattern, you can prevent two flips by placing bombs at the corners, effectively saving you space on the entire board. This holds true when placing them in corners next to red Bingo rows.
6. Once you get past 6 bomb turns, planning becomes much much easier. I would personally advise that your team emphasize flipping skulls rather than planning for Bingo past 6 bombs. With experience, noticing Bingo comes easily past 6 bombs, but creating space and room for the rest of the fight is more important.

Note: I recommend that if you are struggling with creating space, that you use Innana to prevent damage for the 3rd Bingo (9th Bomb Round). Use the 7th, 8th, and 9th bomb rounds for flipping skulls and creating more space for your team. If your team is on point on DPS, you will finish by the 4th Bingo (12th bomb).

4x Bingo Example

5x Bingo Example

Use the Bingo-Tool to assist you during this Phase if you so desire!

Description

1. If your team is consistently struggling with creating space, there is an easy bomb placement rotation to do as featured below. It consists of 6 bomb placements. This effectively results in a net total of 0 skulls created.
2. Each bomb placement does not need to be placed in order. You can start this rotation in any corner. The 1st and 2nd bomb placement can be interchangeable and order does not matter. Same with the 4th and 5th. The 3rd and 6th bomb placement are set in stone though.

Cancel Rotation

Rotation in an Actual Bingo

Description

1. Two hammers appear with red indicators on which row/column they will hit.
2. They one shot. Make sure to use Sacred Charm if someone is cced in their path.

Telegraph

1. Teleports to another position.

What To Do

1. After a short duration, he gazes at someone. Make sure to look away or you will get feared.

Telegraph

1. Ball appears and Saydon jumps on it in slow motion.

Description

1. Failure to counter means Saydon follows a targetted player for a short duration before jumping off of it.

Telegraph

1. Giant low quality JPEG on the floor of the map.

Description

1. Turning into a puppet during non mechanic times, gives Saydon a buff.
2. During Curse, Saydon damages everyone for each stack on himself.

Telegraph

1. Eats a ball (red or yellow) and then moves backward.

Description

1. After Saydon moves backward, he will create a damage area in the form of a X/cross pattern.
2. He then jumps into the air and lands at another location.
3. At this new location, a donut/ring damaging pattern extends outward from in front of Saydon.
4. Red Ball = X cross | Yellow Ball = + Cross

Telegraph

1. If Saydon leans with eyes above his right knee, the laser will go clockwise.
2. If Saydon leans with eyes above his left knee, the laser will go counterclockwise.
3. Alternatively, if he starts leaning in one direction, he laser will turn towards the opposite direction. This alternate telegraph is helpful when his back is facing towards your PoV.

Telegraph

1. Spins and teleports to the middle.

Description

1. Horizontal and vertical lines. Safe spot is usually at the ordinal direction (corners) for the first 3 lines.
2. Good chance to Nineveh.

Description

1. Vomit increases Madness Meter.
2. I wanted to name this the Free pattern because of how free the DPS is here.
3. If it's the clone version, only one will take damage. Find the real one for the Free DPS.
4. Clones will have 0 HP. Real one has a HP bar.

Vomit Single

Vomit Clones

Telegraph

1. Teleports away like he does during showtime.
2. Starts clapping like he does in Simon Says.

Description

1. This would be the freest DPS window if he didn't also spawn random hooks or saws during this pattern.
2. If Saydon teleports near the outer arena, it's very dangerous to DPS here as a melee on high ping. It's your choice to risk it.
3. Saydon's clapping because he's baiting you to clap his ass with free DPS so that you can die to hooks and saws.

What To Do

1. You need to get to the other side of the arena and stagger Kakul-Saydon.
   • Dodge the saws moving from vertically as they do high amounts of damage.

What To Do

1. Dodge the yellow telegraphs, bombs and Kakul-Saydon's bullet spray.
2. Aim the yellow cones correctly at the two big bombs that spawn around the boss, to destroy them.
3. Dodge the crosshair following you until it disappears.

What To Do

1. You need to get to the other side of the arena and stagger Kakul-Saydon.
   • Dodge the hooks as they can grab and drag you around for a long time.

What To Do

1. Use the circus balls or the fire turrets to gain Madness meter until it's almost full.
2. When the portal opens in the middle of the arena, fill your Madness meter fully to get transformed and go into the portal.
3. A clown symbol will appear over your head, indicating you which color you're assigned. Knowing this color, smash the 3 matching balls inside the minigame and then go out the portal at the very end.

What To Do

1. Periodically a bomb symbol will appear over your head and, after the timer runs out, you will drop a bomb in your current position.
   • Bombs will "flip" the tiles where they land in a "+" shape. If the tile is a skull tile, it will be flipped back to normal and the other way around.
2. After the third bomb you drop, Kakul-Saydon will teleport to the top of the arena and start casting a wipe attack with a big stagger bar. This stagger is practically impossible to complete.
3. You need to create "bingo" lines (an entire line of skull tiles) on your 3rd bomb. This will prevent the wipe and damage Kakul-Saydon.