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 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
Items dropped
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 echoing 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.
- Competent use of Power Block can shut Willa down. For a high-damage party, disabling Orison would be the best as she would be unable to out-heal your damage with AoF+CoP combo. For a team that relies on many hexes or conditions to cause degeneration, disabling AoF would also disable CoP and she would then be unable to remove any hexes or conditions from herself and your team should be able to cause more degeneration than Orison can heal. Consider using Distracting Shot on Orison.
- 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. Since Orison of Healing and Aura of Faith both have cast times of 1 second, putting dazed on her isn't hard. With eight players hitting her, she will never get a heal off, and dies quickly.
- 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".