#new bullet point for chatelaine’s resume: professional kithrawl chew toy

[vespertine-legacy]

Even though my laptop is currently more just a potato with wires poking through it (and prayers more than electricity keeping it running some days), I was able to join a small group to fight the Kithrawl, presumably a world boss on Ruhnuk? It’s a giant Tineback with 30 million health, and when I heard some people saying “you can just solo the world boss with your companion,” I wasn’t really sure if they meant him or the Wraid one that you have to find shit to summon it first.

Anyway, I had previously tried to solo it, and I got him to about 90% health before dying, about half of that completely on my own, because my companion died to Stood In Stupid.

But while I was doing dailies on Chatelaine, someone asked if anyone wanted to group up for it, and we managed to get six people for it. An assassin, a handful of mercs, a sorc, and an operative. We walked into the cave and someone asks “lol do we has heals?” The sorc said they’d swap real quick. The assassin said 3-2-1 go and yeeted themself at the lizard. Because we had no tank, my opener pulled threat, but thankfully the sorc was good to me with the heals.

For any not wanting to walk into this fight blind, here’s some of what I remember (if you haven’t fought the Kithrawl yet and would like to just be surprised by it, just skip past all this).

The first part of the fight is pretty spanky and boring. He does a cast called Eruption, and a bunch of red circles show up on the floor. You have a few seconds to move out of the circles before they erupt into lava and Hurt you. Then he does a cast called Seismic Smash (? Idk if that is actually the name and I’m too lazy to look it up). A big red circle shows up around him, and when a smaller circle in side that one grows to the size of the big circle, he smashes the ground and does a knock back on anyone inside the circle (damn, it feels good to be a gangster an rdps on this fight I’ll bet). He also does a move called Tail Whip (? Again, I’m not 100% on the name, I kept thinking his attacks sounded like Pokémon moves…), which is a conal behind him as the name suggests. His attacks did seem to mostly be reflectable/shieldable.

I don’t remember what percentage of his health it was that things got Spicy™️, but at some point, he does a move called Chomp. Now I imagine that the tank is supposed to take Chomp. Because during Chomp, you get knocked down, stunned, and have a stacking painful debuff applied to you for ten seconds while the Kithrawl gnaws on you. If you are quick enough, you can throw up a reflect/shield right before it happens, but Chatelaine took almost all of the Chomps, and her health was way too low going into one of them, and she biffed it. The sorc was very quick to get me revived though, and the assassin apparently did not like being the Kithrawl’s chew toy while I was dead. But we managed to kill it, and I think folks had fun.