Scarlet Monastery

Scarlet Monastery Route & Boss Strategy

Scarlet Monastery is four short dungeons behind one front hall: Graveyard, Library, Armory and Cathedral, each harder than the last. Groups run them one at a time as they level through the thirties, and the Library comes before the last two for a reason, because its final boss guards the key to both. One rule holds in every wing: Scarlet soldiers run for help at low health, so slow them, stun them, and never let one leave.

The Graveyard is the shortest wing of the monastery and the first one groups run, at levels 30 to 38. One corridor, one torture chamber, an open graveyard and a crypt: two bosses and about twenty minutes. Scarlet soldiers run for help at low health, so slow them, stun them, and never let one leave.

The Library is the caster wing, for levels 33 to 41: cloisters and galleries that end in the Athenaeum. Its last boss guards The Scarlet Key, which opens the Armory and the Cathedral, so every group comes through here first. Scarlet soldiers run for help at low health; never let one leave.

The Armory is one long loop of training grounds for levels 36 to 44, with a single boss at the end of it. The packs are bigger than in the Library and several patrols walk the halls, so the pulls decide the run more than Herod does. Bring The Scarlet Key, and never let a fleeing soldier leave.

The Cathedral is the last wing, for levels 38 to 46: a garden of tight packs, then the chapel where Mograine and Whitemane fight as one encounter. Clear everything before the altar, because the whole building answers when he is pulled. Bring The Scarlet Key.

1. Graveyard

   • The left-most door, for levels 30 to 38 and the shortest wing of the four. Stairs off the first corridor lead down to the torture chamber; the corridor itself runs on into the open graveyard and the crypt at its far end.
   • Three rare spawns haunt the graveyard: Azshir the Sleepless, the Fallen Champion and Ironspine. On most runs none of them is there.

2. Interrogator Vishas

   Boss

   Shadow Word: Pain

   Shadow damage over time on one player. Dispel it.

   • He stands among the racks in the torture chamber. Clear the torturers around him first, then tank him where he stands.

3. Bloodmage Thalnos

   Boss

   Flame Shock

   Fire damage up front, then more over time.

   Shadow Bolt

   His main nuke. Interrupt it when you can.

   • Cross the graveyard along one wall, pulling the ghosts and skeletons a few at a time, and go down into the crypt.
   • He is a caster with little health. Interrupt, heal through the Flame Shocks, and burn him.

4. Library

   • The right-most door, for levels 33 to 41. Cloisters and galleries full of casters lead to the Athenaeum. Pull the casters around corners so they come to you.
   • The books for Mythology of the Titans, Compendium of the Fallen, Test of Lore and Rituals of Power all lie in these halls, so check the shelves and tables as you clear.

5. Houndmaster Loksey

   Boss

   Bloodlust

   Raises his attack speed. Purge or dispel it if you can.

   • He waits in the first cloister with three hounds. Control or kill the hounds first, then Loksey.
   • He is one of the four kills for In the Name of the Light and Into the Scarlet Monastery.

6. Arcanist Doan

   Boss

   Arcane Explosion

   Damage to everyone near him.

   Silence

   Silences everyone near him.

   Detonation

   At half health he wraps himself in an Arcane Bubble and casts a huge blast around himself.

   • Tank him in the middle of the Athenaeum with ranged players at the walls.
   • When the bubble goes up, everyone runs: out to the far edges, or out of the room and behind the door frame. Come back when the blast has gone off.
   • Open Doan's Strongbox behind him for The Scarlet Key. It opens the Armory and the Cathedral.

7. Armory

   • The second door from the right, for levels 36 to 44, and it needs The Scarlet Key. One long loop of training grounds and halls, with packs of two and three and several patrols. Wait for the patrols and pull back.

8. Herod

   Boss

   Whirlwind

   He spins in place and shreds everyone near him.

   Cleave

   Hits everyone in front of him.

   Enrage

   He hits harder at low health.

   • Tank him in the middle of his hall, facing away from the party, with ranged players up on the stairs.
   • When he starts to spin, everyone leaves, the tank included. Nobody tanks a Whirlwind.
   • When he dies, stand together at the top of the stairs: a crowd of Scarlet Trainees storms the hall. They are weak, and area damage clears them.

9. Cathedral

   • The second door from the left, beside the Graveyard, for levels 38 to 46, also behind The Scarlet Key. The packs in the Chapel Gardens stand close together; pull each one back to the entry corridor.
   • Inside the cathedral, clear every pack before you touch Mograine, the side rooms included. Everything left alive in the building joins his fight.

10. Scarlet Commander Mograine

    Boss

    Hammer of Justice

    Stuns the tank.

    Retribution Aura

    Damages everyone who hits him in melee.

    Divine Shield

    Makes him immune for a few seconds.

    • He stands at the altar. Pull him down the aisle and fight him near the cathedral doors, far from the altar.
    • When he falls, the doors behind the altar open and Whitemane comes out.

11. High Inquisitor Whitemane

    Boss

    Heal

    A large heal. Interrupt every cast.

    Deep Sleep

    At half health she puts the whole party to sleep.

    Scarlet Resurrection

    She walks to Mograine's body and raises him at full health.

    • The farther she has to walk to his body, the more of the sleep is over when he stands up. That is why you fight him by the doors.
    • After the resurrection, kill Whitemane first and keep interrupting her heals, then kill Mograine a second time.
    • Both count for In the Name of the Light and Into the Scarlet Monastery, together with Herod and Loksey.

12. High Inquisitor Fairbanks

    Optional

    Curse of Blood

    Raises the Physical damage its target takes.

    Sleep

    Puts one player to sleep.

    • A hidden boss. In the side room to the left of the altar, a torch on the wall opens a secret door, and he waits behind it.
    • A weak fight for this wing. Remove the curse from the tank.