Willa the Unpleasant

Willa the Unpleasant
Classification
Species: Mursaat Profession: Monk Level(s): 28
Map(s)
Abaddon's Mouth

Description

Willa the Unpleasant is one of the most aptly named bosses in the game. As an effective monk boss, who is always paired with a boss of another profession, Willa can be a handful to take out.

Location

• Ring of Fire Islands
  • Abaddon's Mouth (Mission)

Skills used

• Aura of Faith (elite)
• Contemplation of Purity
• Draw Conditions
• Orison of Healing
• Spectral Agony

Items dropped

• Mursaat Garments
• Mursaat Token

Notes

• Defeating Willa can be extremely difficult if players are not prepared. She is an extremely powerful healing monk and can take several minutes of pure hitting and spell-casting just to take down. She will be paired with another boss, and depending on where she spawns in the mission, she may also be defended by non-boss enemies.
• It is important to be prepared for Willa, for she may spawn in a location where you may not be able to just run past her. Here are some tips:
  • Divert Willa's healing spells, or use Backfire to inflict massive amounts of damage once Willa starts spamming spells such as Orison of Healing. Keep in mind that hexes last for only half as long on bosses: this can make timing Diversion tricky. Consider using Mantra of Recovery or Arcane Echo with it.
  • For those who own Factions, combining Arcane Thievery and Arcane Larceny is likely (though not guaranteed) to strip Willa of at least one important spell. Otherwise, Arcane Thievery alone might deny her of Orison of Healing or Aura of Faith.
  • For a team that relies on many hexes or conditions to cause damage/degeneration, using Power Block on Aura of Faith would disable Contemplation of Purity as well, and she would then be unable to remove any hexes or conditions from herself. She still have Orison of Healing to heal herself though, and hexes/conditions have halved duration on bosses.
  • Using Distracting Shot on Orison of Healing will greatly reduce Willa's survival capabilities. Consider positioning yourself as close as possible for minimum arrow flight-time, or using Read the Wind to shorten it. Try waiting for Willa to start spamming Orison on herself before you use it. It is easy to time it, but beware that if she gets hexed or conditioned she will most likely stop spamming Orison to use Contemplation of Purity instead.
  • Defile Flesh or Lingering Curse can reduce the effectiveness of Willa's healing spells to the point where she can barely heal any of your inflicted damage.
  • Instead of removing Willa's Aura of Faith with an expensive enchantment stripping skill, simply inflict a condition such as poison or a cheap hex (such as Parasitic Bond), and Willa will remove it herself with Contemplation of Purity.
  • Clear the area of all other enemies before tackling the bosses. Use the environment to your advantage: lure one of the bosses away and use body blocking to prevent their return.
  • If Willa has another boss with her, consider taking out the other boss first. Willa is not strong enough to take out your monks, but the other boss might be.
  • Willa is very easy to kill if you daze her. Orison of Healing and Aura of Faith both have cast times of 1 second; Dazed extends that to 2 seconds, so with eight players hitting her, she will likely never get a heal off.
• She shares her spawning point in Abaddon's Mouth mission with Cairn the Destroyer, Cairn the Relentless, Sarlic the Judge, Mercia the Smug, and Optimus Caliph.

Trivia

• Willa is the Old German form of the name William, or Wilhelm, and means "Fierce protector".