Waxwork Abolishion - 130 - SOR - Mission
The Waxwork Abolishion mission in Candlemaker's Workshop, a level 130 Shattering of Ro group mission: the split-and-reform blob fight, why killing the adds too fast makes it take longer, and how the achievement actually works.
Waxwork is one of the easier Shattering of Ro missions and it has one mechanic worth understanding. The boss splits into small blobs, and they only stay dead if they die together. The trap is not that the fight is hard, it is that too much damage makes it worse: kill one early and the boss reforms and you do the phase again.
Getting In
Short version.
- The mission starts in Candlemaker's Workshop, outside the instance.
- Say accept to the quest mob, then ready, and you are in.
- Everything inside gives full experience, the same as it would outside, so clearing on the way costs you nothing.
The Split
The only real mechanic.
- At 90% he despawns and five or six small blobs take his place.
- Kill them all together and they stay dead. Roughly thirty seconds is the window.
- Kill one early and he reforms, and you get to do the phase again from the top.
- You can finish it in one phase if your damage is even enough to bring them down together.
Too Much Damage Is the Problem
Which is a strange thing to write in a guide.
- My group melts one of them before the others are close, so the boss keeps reforming and the fight runs long.
- The fix is target switching, not burning. I use no burns at all on the adds and just spread damage across them.
- Watch the percentages and hold off. If one is at 17% and another at 72%, stop hitting the low one and let the damage shield finish it while you bring the rest down.
- Area taunt to gather them so they are all on you and in reach while you switch.
- Once they go down together he reforms for the last time and you simply kill him. No more adds after that.
- The rest of his mechanics do not matter. Nothing he does at this level is worth reacting to.
About seven million damage a second here, and that is without my Berserker in the group, which is the whole reason the adds die unevenly.
YouTube Generated Transcript
Hello and welcome to uh Hamrock Live. [laughter] This we’re going to be doing a uh mission today. I’ve gotten a lot of requests for doing all the missions in Shattering Row and showing how I do it. So, I thought why not? Let’s do it. So, today we’re going to be doing wax work. So, this mission is in the candle uh candles candlemaker workshop, right? And uh the quest mob is in just in this area right here. So, if you’re inside of uh not the instance, it’s right here, the defense unit CDL. You say accept to him and then say ready, and you’re ready to go. Uh we’re going to go ahead and uh jump to uh getting into this. So, we’re going to do it live. I don’t I don’t pre-record. I just do it. Uh so, let’s go ahead and show PC names. I want to make sure I can see them. Make sure they’re all in viz. And then, uh we’re going to go off to where we need to go here. Come on. One more and done. All right. Reinvvis. [music] Now, this mission is uh pretty easy in all honesty. I’ve been doing it since uh I think the first day of the expansion that I got into this zone. Uh as soon as I got here, I didn’t like skip ahead, but uh as soon as I could get into this zone, I was uh good to go. Is he Does he not have speed? Doesn’t have speed. All right, let me fix them real quick. And uh it’s a very uh very simple mission. I’ll explain all the mechanics as we go through it. Uh but uh these these mobs here, all the mobs in the instance give full experience like they’re outside of the instance. Uh so if you want to kill them, uh you’re not going to really lose much there. But uh there’s the boss, right? So he is a giant blob. Now, I don’t have my berserker with me, so it’s a little it’s gonna be a little different than my uh my other uh videos, but I picked up my my healing merc just so I could uh do these videos a little bit uh ser. All right, so we’re just positioning everybody uh because I need them in a specific spots for the start of this. All right, now here’s the boss, right? He is a big blob. Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to attack him. He’s going to get to 90%. He’s going to despawn six or five or six uh little blobs spawn and you need to kill those. Now, if you kill them all, if you kill one of them, uh he’s going to respawn back as the boss. If you kill uh them all at the same time or within, you know, 30 seconds, I think, of them, they will uh not respawn. So, that is kind of your goal. Now, I have a problem where I do too much DPS and one of them just dies. Um that is that is one of the issues I have. But uh we’ll see how it goes this time and we’ll try to do that to get all the achievements uh today. All right, we’re going to tell him destroy. I’m going to turn on attack. I’m just going to start spamming the attack. Right, he’s already uh he’s already going to despawn here in just a second. And let’s get my bard going. There we go. I guess I hit the call a hero button. All right, five. Let’s go here. Let’s get everybody fighting. And he’s shifted into the next phase, which we can kind of just ignore him at this point. No one’s taking any damage. [laughter] Uh my shaman just cannibalizes. All right, here’s all the mobs. Now, we’re going to stand right here and uh kind of do this, right? So, let’s get four going. I want these to attack me as soon as possible. Rampage. Warlord’s fury. Rampage. There we go. Final stand. And then we’re going to get slow on these things. [laughter] If I can, I got to switch targets. I see how I killed that one so fast, right? That’s the [laughter] problem I have. We’re just going to keep switching targets. That one’s going to die uh really quick. So, we might as well just kill one. It doesn’t really matter. This takes a little bit more effort on my part to do it. But as you can see, I, you know, we killed two of them, maybe three of them before. Can ignore pretty much all the rest of the mechanics. That doesn’t really do enough damage to even think about. Now we’re back to the boss. Right. So, let’s get him. All right, we got him going. And then we’re just going to move the monk slightly closer and we’re good. There we go. He’s going to separate again. And I’m not sure how many we we killed. There we go. We have uh three, right? So that’s not bad. So let’s go like this. I have area taunt up. So I’m going to area taunt them once I can activate. There we go. Area taunt. And good. Now we’re just going to make sure everybody’s in the right facing the right direction. We’re going to switch. I’m going to try to kill the rest of these. Uh, not at the same time, but [laughter] uh, the best we can, right? He’s at 26%. We’re going to switch to this one. [laughter] Now, should work out, right? He’s at 72. As long as we don’t do any more damage to this 8 17%. He’s going to take massive damage from our damage shield and all that. But, uh, if one of them dies, we’ll just kill the other one real quick. I don’t do any burns or anything on these. I just let it go. There we go. All right. Kill this one. Kill this one. [laughter] Perfect. Now we got it. Now he’s going to reform back into the boss and we can just kill him. We don’t have to kill any more of the little lads. You can do it in one phase if you you’re not like me and you’re not doing too much damage, right? You’re going to have uh a little bit better uh opportunity there. Now we just turn this. I’m going to go ahead and do heal of Zagali just to speed this up a little bit. But you can see here, he just he just melts, right? Like I’m doing 7 million DPS right now um with my group. And that’s without my berserker. There we go. And that’s that. That’s the mission. If we go over here, where is it at? Right here. This the chest slash open. And we successfully got wax removal, wax denial, and final flicker. Completing all the achievements for the mission. So, uh, it’s not too hard. It’s a very easy mission. It’s, uh, you know, definitely, uh, it takes a chance, you know, you know, a little effort on your part to do some of this stuff, but, uh, it is definitely, uh, not it’s it’s easy mission compared to a lot of the other ones. Ah, we lost the we lost the body. [music] All right, so that’s that. That is, uh, how you do wax work. Uh, it’s wax work abolishing. I already finished uh wax work abolition. So definitely check that one out if you haven’t done it for your group yet. But uh if you need help with it on Janelle, send me a message and I will uh run you through it and help you out if you need help. But uh if you’re if you’re boxing three, you should be able to do it. Uh I know somebody boxed one and was able to do it. So uh definitely uh not too bad. But thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.
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