Unwaking Waters (mission)

This is a mission entry. For information on the Luxon Location, see Unwaking Waters (Luxon). For the Kurzick Location, see Unwaking Waters (Kurzick). For information on the explorable area Unwaking Waters, see Unwaking Waters (explorable).

Objectives

Defeat Kuunavang

Weaken Kuunavang to destroy the barrier.
Weaken Kuunavang to destroy the barrier.
Weaken Kuunavang to destroy the last barrier.
Defeat the corrupted dragon Kuunavang.

Rewards

Reward	Mission completion time	XP	Gold	Skill Points	Kurzick/Luxon faction¹ points
Standard	> 20 minutes	1,000	100	1	1,000
Expert's	15-20 minutes	1,500	150	1	1,000
Master's	< 15 minutes	2,000	200	1	1,000
Hard mode
Standard	> 20 minutes	1,000	200	1	1,000
Expert's	15-20 minutes	2,000	300	1	1,000
Master's	< 15 minutes	3,000	500	1	1,000

¹ The type of faction received depends on which outpost you entered the mission from. You can only earn the faction reward the first time you complete the mission at a certain level in either mode and from either outpost, you will not earn faction for completing it at the same level in the other mode or from the other outpost.

Walkthrough

Primary

As with Vizunah Square, this is a two party mission. The way the parties are combined works the same as there, except that one party comes from the Luxon side and one from the Kurzick side. If a human party does not join from the other side, you will be paired with a henchmen party. This can actually be helpful, as it is important for the two parties to stay together, and a henchmen party will do this well.

Bug! Occasionally no party joins from the other side. If this happens, restarting the mission is strongly advised.

The first part of this mission alternates between killing groups of Afflicted and fighting Kuunavang. The groups of afflicted have no more than 8 mobs, which makes them pretty easy to kill with the 16 characters between your two parties.

Kuunavang, on the other hand, has several very powerful skills. Dark Chain Lightning will do very heavy armor-ignoring damage and knockdown much of your party. Note that dark chain lightning is an attack, not a spell, which limits which interrupts will work against it; regardless, interrupting it is unnecessary. Corrupted Dragon Scales and Corrupted Dragon Spores will cause health degeneration to all characters in a large area, with the former far more degeneration than the latter. These last two skills have very long cast times, and it helps greatly to interrupt them. A hero ranger or mesmer with several interrupts can thus be useful. The henchmen Daeman and Erys Vasburg fill this role well, too.

Kuunavang is resistant to interrupts, however, so skills that would normally interrupt her sometimes won't. Hexes and conditions also last only half of the normal duration on her, so while Dazed can be useful to interrupt her, it doesn't last as long as one might expect. Kuunavang also flies around, mostly staying out of melee range, so only ranged interrupts are viable.

In the early portion of the mission, Kuunavang alone isn't really that dangerous. If she does get corrupted dragon scales or spores off, you can easily get out of the way and return to the fight later. Once you do sufficient damage to Kuunavang, she retreats to beyond a gate. Once you do some more damage, she retreats to beyond another gate. This happens with a third gate, as well.

What is dangerous, however, is fighting a group of afflicted while fighting Kuunavang. When a group of afflicted comes, retreat to significantly behind the previous gate. The afflicted will chase you to there, and you don't have to make any special effort to aggro and pull them. Kuunavang will not chase you past the gate, even if you were already in combat with her, and you can destroy the afflicted in peace.

Afflicted groups come at set times, so the number of afflicted groups you have to fight can vary by how quickly you can wear down Kuunavang. The timing of which group of afflicted comes after which gate can likewise vary. Some afflicted groups may contain one or two bosses; such groups will have fewer mobs total to compensate.

When Kuunavang gets low enough on life, a cut scene plays, and the group fights Kuunavang alone, without any afflicted to help her. For this battle, Kuunavang will finally be in range of melee characters. More importantly, the battle takes place in an enclosed area, so you will be unable to run away. It is thus especially vital that you interrupt corrupted dragon scales. If Kuunavang does get a cast of them off, you can kill the scales, but be certain that any interrupters stay with Kuunavang to not let her get additional casts of them off.

Master's reward

The fifteen minute time limit for master's reward is quite generous, and allows for quite a bit of backing off to wait for afflicted or running away from corrupted dragon scales. The mission can be sped up by heavy armor-ignoring damage (since Kuunavang has very high armor), but this is unnecessary. Taking excessive melee can make it take much longer to wear Kuunavang down before the cut scene, so it helps to avoid melee henchmen and heroes.

To complete the first part of this mission in plenty of time to get Master's, bring along alot of ranged damage and DO NOT EVER go through the second gate. After the first few groups of afflicted are killed stand by the first gate and send a person through to trigger the next groups of afflicted. This is the area where Kuunavang starts to give players trouble. Retreat to the area just outside of the first gate that you went through where your party should be waiting. Take out the afflicted mobs when they come to you. Do not go into the second area. After that, Kuunavang will still be flying around the temple. Group everyone in a semi-formed line at the edge of the cliff just outside of the first gate and target Kuunavang when she gets close. As she comes around start shooting and casting. She will then leave for a moment and then come back. Your target may disappear but it will come back when Kuunavang gets close again. Patience is a virtue. Just wait until Kuunavang comes back and hit her again. Keep doing this and the cutscene will eventually follow. It is better to flag your heros and henchies in proper formation so it keeps the majority of people out of the second area.

Hard mode

If you get a henchmen party from the other side, they are much stronger than normal, as NPC allies in hard mode generally are. As such, it can help to let them take the brunt of the damage when fighting groups of afflicted. The henchmen party will try to stand behind yours a bit, but is slower to follow than your own party if you run away. You can take advantage of this by running away slightly as an afflicted group gets near, so that they'll see and attack the henchmen party before your own.

As above, the keys are lots of interrupts for Kuunavang and not fighting Kuunavang and afflicted at the same time. The 15 minute limit for master's reward is unchanged, but still allows plenty of time even if you run away every time as soon as afflicted appear in the distance on radar.

Kuunavang is now capable of killing some party members in two hits if you have no defensive measures against it, which may be faster than healers can react. It helps to keep Kuunavang permanently weakened or blinded while fighting her. The easiest way to do this is with Enfeeble. Some other skills work, too, but recall that conditions only last half of the normal duration on Kuunavang, which limits your options.

Creatures

Monsters

Afflicted

Dragons

30 (32) Enraged Kuunavang
30 (32) Kuunavang

Bosses - elite skill capture

28 (30) The Afflicted Maaka - Enraged Smash
28 (30) The Afflicted Pana - Broad Head Arrow
28 (30) The Afflicted Jingme - Ray of Judgment
28 (30) The Afflicted Lau - Order of Apostasy
28 (30) The Afflicted Hsin Jun - Stolen Speed
28 (30) The Afflicted Shen - Mind Burn
28 (30) The Afflicted Senku - Shadow Form
28 (30) The Afflicted Xenxo Weapon of Quickening

Dialogues

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Follow-up

Players will be in the Harvest Temple after the completion of this mission.
To continue the storyline, talk to Kuunavang to get the Primary Quest, Taking Back the Palace

Notes

This is a two-party mission, with one party coming from Luxon side and the other from Kurzick. If no party joined from the other side at mission start, an all-henchmen team will be used instead.

Bug! If a human player in an all hero and henchmen team leaves at any time during the mission, the leftover heroes and henchmen will automatically die, causing the remaining team to either go on alone, or restart.

Often criticized as a design flaw, members of one team cannot see the other team's health bar or see their called target, making coordination difficult at best. This extends to being unable to revive fallen members of the other party except with the Resurrection Orbs. To further complicate matters, if parties recruited henchmen, the henchmen will follow whichever player is moving, regardless of the party they belong to. Thus one party can draw away the other party's henchmen, causing some incovenient situations.
Like the Vizunah Square mission, if you have already completed one side of the mission, upon visiting the other, you will already have the same award as the side you first completed.
Blackout is of no use against Kuunavang.

Factions Campaign Missions
Minister Cho's Estate → Zen Daijun → Vizunah Square → Nahpui Quarter → Tahnnakai Temple → Arborstone → Boreas Seabed → Sunjiang District → The Eternal Grove, Gyala Hatchery → Unwaking Waters → Raisu Palace → Imperial Sanctum

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