Secrets of the Obscure

Before you start!

How to get into the Convergence

For the Secret of the Obscure convergences, go to the Wizard's Tower. From the waypoint, walk up the stairs and go into the room on the right. The entrance is a portal archway on the west side of the Wizard's Tower(blue swirl on minimap).

SotO public convergences happen every 3 hours. You can check when they are by typing '/wiki et' in game or going to https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers.

Private convergences can be opened whenever you want. To open one, it costs an Unstable Rift Motivation. It's recommended you bring a full 50 man squad with you.

Items you should bring

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  Powerful Potion of Demon Slaying

  (1 hour): 10% Damage vs. Demons, Kryptis, and Titanspawn. -10% Damage from Demons, Kryptis, and Titanspawn.
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  Superior Sigil of Night

  3% Strike Damage, +7% Strike Damage at night. Totals to 10% Strike Damage. SotO Convergences are always at night, so this is always at the full 10%.
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  Superior Sigil of Demon Slaying

  3% Strike Damage, +7% Strike Damage vs. Demons, Kryptis, and Titanspawn. Totals to 10% Strike Damage when satisfied.

Consider taking a stacking sigil. It's easy to fully stack it during the pre and split phases.

First Two Minutes

The first two minutes of every SotO Convergence starts the same. Zojja is in the middle and waves of kryptis try to attack her.

Main Group

Spites will appear at 1, 2 and 3 in order. They walk toward Zojja, exploding when they reach her. These spites can be cc'd to stop their movement for a few seconds to slow their progress while you dps them. Normal kryptis will also spawn around the middle island and attack Zojja.

Treb Group (2 subgroups)

Every 30 seconds, a trebuchet spawns. It's always the same order and starts at 1. After killing a treb, quickly move onto the next one. The last treb, 4, spawns when the timer hits 0. After killing the last treb, head back to mid to help with the champions.

Three Champions

When the timer reaches zero, 3 champions will spawn. One at each spot 1, 2, 3. They will initially be invulnerable until they walk about halfway to Zojja. Try and spread evenly to these champs, not killing them one by one. I recommend sending 3 subs to West, 3 subs to NE, and 2 subs to SE. The 2 subs killing the trebs should return and help with the SE champ.

After all 3 champions are killed, the split phase will begin.

Split Phase

The split phase starts once all three champions in mid have been killed. Each corner (NW NE SW SE), becomes active and spawns 5 lieutenants each. Kill all 5 lieutenants in a corner and that corners general will spawn. Kill the general and the corner will be finished. When all four corners are finished, the split phase ends and the boss phase begins.

Splitting

Each corner should get 2 subgroups each. 2 subgroups should stay mid to defend Zojja from the spites.

Trebs

Ignore all trebs. They die when the general in their corner is killed. They don't deal enough damage to Zojja before all the generals are killed.

North West - The Spire

The north west corner is a complicated corner. Start at 1 in the bottom left. 1 to 2, use your warclaw to bounce over the rocky terrain. 2 to 3, combat mount your skyscale and dash to 3. Alternatively, use the skyscale launcher at L or just scale the rocks up to 3. 3 to 4 can be glided or warclawd over. 4 to 5, use the mushroom at M. If someone has a White Mantle Portal Device, they can portal the group from 4 to 5. If you're the person using the device, make sure to declare to the group that you are doing so to avoid confusion. They have a 30 minute CD and so can only be used once every other run. Setup the portal while the group fights lieutenant 4. After killing the 5th lieutenant, jump off immediately and griffon to the general.

North East - Watcher of the Woods

The north east corner is an easier corner, start at 1 and follow the path! When dropping down from 1, make sure to use a mount or glide. You'll die from fall damage.

South West - Twisted Cathedral

The south west corner is more complicated than the others, having multiple levels and a bit of an unintuitive path. From mid, head to the bottom at lieutenant 1. Warclaw/Raptor to 2. From 2 to 3, you can use your skyscale and either scale up the side of the pillar directly, or use the smaller pillar directly southeast as a step stool. Someone can also bring along a White Mantle Portal Device to portal the group from 2 to 3. If you're the person using the device, make sure to declare to the group that you are doing so to avoid confusion. They have a 30 minute CD and so can only be used once every other run. Setup the portal while the group fights lieutenant 2. The gap from 3 to 4 can be skyscaled, warclawed, or glided over if you have the gliding skill Ride the Ley Line. After getting on the upper level, it's pretty easy from there.

South East - The Killing Fields

The south east corner is pretty simple. Start up top with 1, and follow the path :)

Mid with Zojja - Valley of the Damned

Spites are still spawning and walking to Zojja, defend her! Common Kryptis are also still attacking her. Clear them as you go, but the primary focus should be on the spites and keeping Zojja healthy.

My general died, what's next?

Once your corners general dies, head mid to help them defend Zojja. Only help another corner if they are SIGNIFICANTLY behind (on lieutenant 4 or before). Heading to another corner will only scale up their lieutenants and general. When all four generals have been defeated, one of the five final bosses will start.

Goal Time

Getting a good time in a Convergence CM means more rewards! SotO convergences: Gold 20 minutes, Silver 25 minutes, and Bronze 30 minutes. There's a timer labeled "Convergence ends in:" in the top right. Gold correlates to 10 minutes left on the timer. Easier bosses will have more lenient gold times, but the same challenge to get on the leaderboard.

Time left on timer at end of split phase:

• <20 minutes: unlikely to get gold.
• 21 minutes: ok chance at gold.
• 22 minutes: likely gold.
• 23+ minutes: chance at leaderboard spots.

Shared Boss Mechanics

• Zojja

  During the boss phase, Zojja is using her power to make the boss vulnerable. If her health falls to 0, she will pull everyone back to the Wizard's Tower. Feed her the essence dropped by the boss to keep her healthy.

• Essence

  The bosses drop essence every 10% of their health and at the end of each phase. DPS players should hold onto it as long as they can for a significant power boost. Healers and boondps players should be feeding theirs to Zojja to keep her healthy. Don't overfeed her when her HP is full, as the essence just gets wasted.

• Phasing

  Every 25%, the boss will move to a new island. Which island they go to is random, and they won't revisit an island they've already been to. The last phase will always go to the middle island.

Demon Knight

Demon Knight is a tyrannical general in Eparch's army. He has managed to cultivate a Wrathful Aura about him that actively hurts anyone nearby.

Strategy

Demon Knight is pretty simple. If you get Wrath of Firmament on you, take it far away from the group. If you get hit by a Tyrant's Contempt orb and pulled, quickly mount your warclaw to escape being blasted by Callous Retribution. When Demon Knights breakbar is up, break it ASAP. The longer it's up, the more damaging Wrathful Aura becomes. This mostly affects the players that have Wrath of Firmament, as they have to leave the safety of the groups healers.

Demon Knight's Skills

• Wrathful Aura(Passive)

  Demon Knight has an aura that hurts players nearby. When the breakbar is up, this aura hurts significantly more and has greater range. Break the breakbar ASAP whenever it comes up to prevent Wrathful Aura from becoming an issue.

• Wrath of Firmament(Meteors)

  Death Knight fires a beam into the air, summoning meteors that target players. The later in the fight, the more meteors that get summoned.

  

  The targeted players get giant multilayered circular AoEs and orange firey borders indicating that they have the meteor. The targeted players should run far away from the main group, so the Wrath of Firmament meteors doesn't fall on them.

  

• Shards of Wrath(Meteor Secondary)

  Additional meteors follow the initial Wrath of Firmament meteor. They bombard the area around the initial impact in two large rings.

  

• Tyrant's Contempt(Orbs)

  Death Knight fires 6 orbs that create an aoe, then each explode into 6 more orbs. Each of the 6 orbs move outward, and then converge back to where they started. The orbs will pull anyone they touch to where they are converging. Demon Knight then combos CR on the orbs that were able to grab the most players. If you get caught by an orb, quickly warclaw out to avoid getting combod.

  

• Tyrant's Teeth

  Demon Knight shoots out multiple lines across the ground, damaging anyone standing in the way. After a few seconds, they pulse again for more damage. The later in the fight, the more lines Demon Knight shoots out at once.

  

  

• Callous Retribution

  Demon Knight shoots a large red beam, downing anyone caught in it. DK aims for the largest group caught by the Tyrant's Contempt orbs.

  

• Sweeping Judgment

  Still trying to figure this out, it's after TT/CR and before TW.

• Telluric Wrath(Rings)

  Demon Knight creates 3 rings. The middle ring goes off first, then the inner and outer rings go off at the same time.

  

Dreadwing

Dreadwing is a fire breathing wyvern based kryptis.

Strategy

Dreadwing has several fire based attacks and physical attacks with their body. You can avoid most of their attacks by just sticking behind and to the left of them. When DW starts flapping their wings, CC quickly to break the breakbar and get some exposed DPS time.

Dreadwing's Skills

• Phase 1

  • Branded Rain of Fire

    Dreadwing flys up in the air and fires 5 fireballs in an arc. After finishing the fireball arc, Dreadwing slams down, dealing massive damage to anyone underneath. There are 2 versions, near arc and far arc.

    

  • Cracks in Reality

    Dreadwing rips a crack in reality. These have multiple patterns. I've seen hexagonal and diamond type patterns.

  • Tail Swipe

    Dreadwing swipes their tail in an arc. Players hit are knocked back.

    

  • Charge

    Dreadwing charges in a random direction, knocking away anyone in their way.

  • Breathe Fire

    Dreadwing breathes a cone of flames in front of him.

    

    

  • Shearing Winds

    Dreadwing flaps their wings, creating high winds that push players back. Dreadwings breakbar becomes available while using this, break it to stop it. See: Sorrow's Shearing Winds.

• Phase 4

  • Fireball

    Dreadwing shoots out a large fireball that bounces across the ground. It leaves behind a trail of fire.

    

Hell Sister

General of Eparch's Army

Hell Sister is a powerful humanoid Kryptis.

Strategy

Hell Sister has several hard hitting skills. She starts pushing people away in the third phase(50%->25%). She pushes and pulls people in the fourth phase(25%->0%). Bring a lot of blocks or shields to prevent getting one shot and stability so the Abyss Rifts don't push you 10 miles away.

Hell Sister's Skills

Hell Sister uses all of her skills from phase 1.

• Kryptis Blast

  Hell Sister fires a cone attack inbetween every other skill. This skill alone has the potential to down several people at once.

• Abyss Rift

  Hell Sister tears open 2 Abyss Rifts in the ground, going in opposite directions. After going a fixed distance, they split into 2 more rifts, 60 degrees to the left and right. They do this 4 times, creating a hexagonal pattern. These rifts hurt a lot and will push you even while youre down. You can dodge or use stability to get through the rifts.

  

• Deadly Attraction

  Hell Sister glares at anyone looking her direction. If you're caught, she hits hard, puts 5 stacks of confusion and taunts you. This can be negated by blocks. Shields and cleanses can also be used to counter this.

  

• Ball of Torment

  Hell Sister shoots out several balls targeted at players. Once the balls land, they bounce in a random direction? Need more on this, theyre very hard to see.

• Riftwalk

  Does 0 damage. Hell Sister teleports to a new location.

  

Sorrow

Controls Gravity | Summons Singularities

Sorrow is a wyvern based kryptis that has strong enough astral powers to control gravity. Stability and blocks help significantly in this fight.

Strategy

Sorrow's Passives

• Cosmic Energy

  A debuff applied by some of Sorrows skills. Low Gravity and Increased move speed. Does NOT negate fall damage.

• Stormfall (lightning)

  A bonus to Sorrows other skills, Stormfall activates on every skill used. Fissures of astral force that last for a few seconds. These do significant damage and should be avoided.

  

• Sorrow's Brood

  Each Gravity Bomb from Sorrow Barrage also summons a Sorrow's Brood. SB are based off Minor Electric Wyverns.

  SB Skills:

  • Electric Breath

    SB shoots out lightning breath and sweeps in an arc.

  • Dash

    SB dashes in the direction of its targeted player.

  • Tail Swipe

    self descriptive.

  • Wicked Bite

    self descriptive.

Sorrow's Skills

• Phase 1 (100% -> 75%)

  • Gravity Bomb

    Gravity bomb creates a field of burning and will inflict Cosmic Energy. When used in Sorrow Barrage, spawns a Sorrow's Brood inside the GB.

    

  • Sorrow Barrage

    Sorrow flys up in the air and fires 5 gravity bombs in an arc. After finishing the Gravity Bomb arc Sorrow slams down, dealing massive damage to anyone underneath. There are 2 versions, near arc and far arc.

  • Tail Swipe

    Sorrow swipes with their tail in an arc, knocking back anyone hit

  • Tail Slash

    Follows Tail Swipe, but only sometimes. Sorrow jumps into the air and slashes down with their tail. Same affects as Tail Swipe.

    

  • Charge

    Sorrow charges in a random direction, knocking away anyone in their way.

  • Shearing Winds (wing flapping)

    Sorrow flaps their wings, creating high winds that knock back. Sorrow has a breakbar during this skill, break it!

    

  • 71654 (nameless in the logs)

    Sorrow slams their right hand on the ground in front of them, creating a shockwave. Sorrow rarely uses this, typically only once or twice in the whole fight. Same effect as Gravity Well.

  • Gravity Well

    Sorrow slams their left hand, then their right hand on the ground in front of them, knocking down anyone hit. Danger - This deals HIGH damage, don't stand directly infront of the boss. This creates a shockwave that knocks back. Leads into Gravity Field.

    

  • Gravity Field (toilet)

    Spins everyone counterclockwise around the center, pulling inward. Inflicts slow, confusion, and torment. Follows Gravity Well.

    

Sorrow has no additional skills past the first phase.

Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus

Frightful Gaze | Conjures Aspects

Umbriel is currently the toughest fight in convergences. He wields 2 double sided axes, using his skills to entangle players and land massive blows with large stacks of bleeding.

Strategy

Umbriel uses his Rending Storm axes to snare and weaken his foes with conditions to setup for big damage attacks. To combat this, bring plenty of condi cleanse and blocks to prevent being bogged down by conditions. When Umbriel uses Frightening Speed, get out of the numbered orange circles immediately. Remembering where the RS axes are will help to avoid them while running out of FS. If you have a Warclaw, it can be mounted and escape the oranges very quickly, even if you're snared.

Phasing

At the end of each phase Umbriel summons aspects. Each aspect applies a different condition.

Death

Poison

Exposure

Vulnerability

Fear

Weakness

Lethargy

Slow

Torment

Torment

Each phase Umbriel summons 2 of each aspect listed below.

• Phase 1(75%): Death & Exposure
• Phase 2(50%): Fear & Lethargy & Torment
• Phase 3(25%): Death & Exposure & Lethargy & Torment
• Phase 4(0%): Death & Exposure & Fear & Lethargy & Torment

After defeating all of the aspects, Umbriel's breakbar will open. CC him and the phase will end.

Umbriel's Skills

• Umbriel's Autoattacks

  Umbriel alternates between these two skills while his specials are on cooldown.

  • Bleeding Edge

    Umbriel slashes in a cone, hitting anyone in front of him. Inflicts Bleeding.

  • Scouring Blade

    Umbriel jumps towards his target and attacks in a cone with his axes.

• Umbriel's Specials

  Umbriel uses his special skills when they come off cooldown.

  • Phase 1 (100% -> 75%)

    • Rending Storm (Axes) CD: 20 seconds

      Umbriel spawns several axes that move around. The axes will pull inwards, immobilize, cripple, bleed, and expose you.

      

    • Dissecting Dance(aoe on umbriel) CD: >10 seconds

      Umbriel spins around, swinging his axes wildly. Inflicts Bleeding. The timing of Dissecting Dance is very inconsistent, sometimes being over 40 seconds between each use. I believe it's a filler skill for when the other special skills are all on CD.

      

  • Phase 2 (75% -> 50%)

    • Frightening Speed (Numbered Oranges) CD: 40 seconds

      Umbriel charges for a few seconds, then dashes from orange to orange in order. FS is unblockable and deals significant damage, you WILL go down if you stay inside. Get out of them or die. If you're snared by a RS axe, cleanse if you can or get on your warclaw and jump away.

      

  • Phase 3 (50% -> 25%)

    • Dread Visage (Large Eye) CD: 50 seconds

      Umbriel charges a large eye over himself. When charging, you'll get a yellow border on all sides of your screen. After a few seconds it triggers, inflicting Vulnerability and several seconds of Fear to anyone looking in his general direction. Simply turn your character around and wait for it to go off.

      

  • Phase 4 (25% -> 0%)

    Umbriel has no additional skills in the 4th phase.

    Dread Visage is combined with Frightening Speed. While DV has it's normal 50 second timing, it now also happens when FS does.

    The simplest method is to just run away and look away from all of the FS circles until DV goes off. DV usually goes off around the 3rd or 4th FS numbered orange.