Gilded Rage Event FAQ - Guardians positions, tactics

[Chrisax]

Gilded Rage Event FAQ
Thanks to Einkil68

It's basically a Guardian of Gaia event, except that this time there is only one Guardian, he is golden, and there is no cooldown on the mission.

Guardian positions (some of these are taken from #GildedEvent):
- Kingsmouth: on the beach at 390, 190, or near the junkyard at 630, 690.
- Savage Coast: on the Academy football field at 290, 200, or on the Amusement Park parking at 540, 620, or on the beach around 20, 540.
- Blue Mountain: In the area north of the Orochi base around 720, 930, or in the water at Azeban Span around 140, 280, or by the abandoned factory around 630, 300.
- Scorched Desert, behind Hotel Wahid, or in the Flats around 620, 620, or near the Marya encampment entrance around 805, 315 .
- City of the Sun God: West of the Black Pyramid, or in the bone field around 400, 815, or in the meteorite field around 770, 860.
- Besieged Farmlands: in the Scarecrow field at 750, 1000, or around the Olaru farm.
- Shadowy Forest: around 550, 560, or anywhere on the road from the cemetery to the west of Romani Camp (and maybe even further north).
- Carpathian Fangs: just outside the Pricolesti anima well barn at 485, 855, or in the ghosts village around 700, 750.

Guardian mechanics: (Just like the Fusang Guardian, but with a reduced leech effect)
- He casts Upheaval, 15 meter range AoE centered on him that cannot be interrupted. Attempting to Provoke/Confuse it will make the white lines disappear, but it will still hit people (really annoying). Hits for less than 2k hp.
- After Upheaval, he casts a Anima Leech, which is shaped like a doughnut (5m range safe zone near him, 25m range), and make him leech off anybody in the AoE. Can (and should) be interrupted with an aggro swap by another tank.
- His abilities seem to have a 25 sec cooldown.
- You just need to hit him a couple of times, or heal someone that's hitting him, to get credit. When he dies, you should get a mission that will complete after a couple of seconds. There is no cooldown on that mission. Note that if you die, you'll get the mission upon resurrection.

Reducing the lag:
- Glaucon made a fix to the lag induced by the cheer amount of debuffs on the boss. Rather than wait the next game update to spread it, he offered us a way to install it right now: http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=73702. Please remember this hasn't been completely tested, so don't hesitate to report any problem you find in that same thread. Reactions so far indicate that it's working great (people going from 1-2 FPS to a playable 15 FPS).
- You can gain substantial FPS by going in the Combat Log tab of your chat, and unsubscribe from all the info about what happens in your vicinity (yep, the game is really logging the actions of 200 people if you let it checked). To unsubscribe, click the little cogwheel in the upper left corner of the chat window, then Subscribe to channel > Combat messages, and uncheck everything you don't want to see any more.
- If it still lags too much for you, you can put every option down to 0 in Options>Video>Advanced. Note that the default Low settings put things at 1, so going in Advanced and manually putting 0 is required to have the lowest graphics possible. Yes, they are truly ugly, but it'll make your FPS go up by a substantial amount.
- If you're desperate, you can gain a couple of FPS by using the command /setoption SpellEffectDisplayLevel 4 (use the Tab key to autocomplete). Don't forget to type /setoption SpellEffectDisplayLevel 0 to get the default option back when you do dungeons, as putting 4 will hide the yellow circle of MT (for example). (French players should use /régleroption Spell[yadda yadda], German players no idea).
- Apparently, deleting the Combat log chat tab completely will slightly improve the performances for some people (a couple of FPS again). You can easily restore it afterwards by clicking the little "+" sign in the top-right corner of the chat window and selecting "Combat Log".
- Refreshing the UI before a new fight helps getting a couple FPS as well, probably because it cleanse chat history, including Combat Log (see second advice above). Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F1.
- Last solution to reduce lag: hide your UI with the Alt+Z key combo. This seems to prevent the lag due to the debuffs changing all the time on the Guardian. Note however that it will also hide your ability bar and the boss' castbar, so you need to know what you're doing in order to be able to use it.

General tactics:
- If you want to be lazy, equip 3k hp, go in melee range of him (under his feet). You'll eat every Upheaval, but you'll at least be out of the Leeching doughnut effect. Leechers cast Anima Vessel on him so you'll heal yourself by hitting him. Try to bring a self-heal in case.
- Contortionist, Sleight of Hand, Plethron Epipens (sold by Apothecaries), Unstoppable Force and Silver Streak can be used to negate the 10s stun of Upheaval (you still take the damage though). Unstoppable Force and Silver Streak must be used before the stun (during the cast), while Sleight of Hand and epipens can break the stun (though epipens have a long cooldown), and Contortionist is automatic. Very useful if you're using the lazy tactic.
- Assault Rifle has a long enough range to be out of Upheaval and the Anima Leech AoE. Elem and blood have the same range IIRC. So using Rifle from max range is a valid lazy tactic as well.
- To interrupt the Anima Leech cast, provoke/confuse, mass provoke, Art of War and Raging Volcano all work. Due to the 25 seconds cooldown, I had good results with p/c and AoW (always one or the other off cooldown). Mass Provoke cd is a tad too long.

General advices:
- Try to avoid using persistent effects (Crimson Theater, Manifestations, etc), they make everybody lag more (including you). Use single target builders and consumers, it'll be fine (remember that 200 other people are doing the same ).
- Don't take your pets out.
- Join the GildedEvent channel with the command /chat join GildedEvent (or /discussion rejoindre GildedEvent, or /chat beitreten GildedEvent). When someone says that he saw the GK or the Guardian, befriend him and ask a meet-up from the friend list (if you're afraid of cluttering your friend list, Valyrie's Friend Enhanced has an auto-remove feature for these events). Dimensions fill very fast, you can use Shift+F9 to check which dimension and server you are on, and compare to the ones announced to make sure you're in the right one. If not, the dimension of the caller was full, don't hesitate to warn him of this fact.
- If you take aggro unintentionally, don't run away, but stay there and take the beating. When he moves people can't predict his AoEs position any more and die. It's better if only you die than if 50 people are caught by the leeching effect and heal him up to full, isn't it? So stay still and pray Also, slotting Confuse to shake off aggro is a good idea.
- The event is newbie-friendly, as you just need to hit him (or heal someone hitting him) to get credit. If you haven't unlocked the different areas yet, you can either only participate in the areas you've unlocked, or you can unlock at least one well in each area to be able to meet-up on people being there. How to reach each area:



Rewards:
- Mission reward bag can drop: Golden Flare guns (but they're prettier than the previous guns ), Golden Glowing Eyes, Golden headphones, Golden bowtie, Shem parts (6 different parts, you need to assemble them to build the Solar metal Shem pet), Fusang guardian pet (Lunar Metal Shem), Blue and green signet bags, 1 or 2 black bullions, very rarely 4 bullions.
- Rewards are independent of the zone in which you kill the Guardian.
- Assembling the Golden Shem also rewards the Gilded Rage achievement and the Golden top hat.

Special outfit:
- You can buy the Style and Gilt outfit in the shop, it goes well with the golden top hat and the golden bow tie.
- The outfit is however very expensive: 12,000 Funcom points, which is 100€/100$. It was on sale for the duration of the Golden week-end at 1200 Funcom points (10€/10$). Funcom has issued no statement about possible future sales.