Astranyx, the Dark Fae Guide

Astranyx, the Dark Fae appears only in Rotation 3 in the Doom Tower. She is the final boss of this rotation, and you will encounter her on levels 40, 80, and 120 on both Hard and Normal.

Let’s break it down!

A1 Darklight Beams
Attacks all enemies. Has a 100% chance of placing a [Leech] debuff on each enemy for 2 turns.

A2 Dark Tendrils (Cooldown: 3 turns)
Attacks all enemies. Steals 1 random buff from each enemy according to the number of Magic Champions on the enemy team (1 buff for each Magic Champion). Steals Turn Meter from each enemy according to the number of Force Champions on the enemy team (10% Turn Meter for each Force Champion). Has a 25% chance of placing a [True Fear] debuff on each enemy for 1 turn. The chance increases by 25% for each Void Champion on the enemy team. Heals Astranyx by 10% of her MAX HP for each Spirit Champion on the enemy team.

A3 Faerie Storm (Cooldown: 3)
Attacks all enemies. All living allies will team up and join this attack. Damage increases by 25% for each living ally.

A4 Dark Abduction (Cooldown: 4)
Banishes 1 enemy Champion and spawns a Mirror Copy of them onto Astranyx’s team. Places a [Fear] debuff on all enemies for 1 turn. Increases Astranyx’s [Dark Energy] counter by 1.

Fae Mirror [Passive]
Places a [Perfect Veil] buff on Astranyx for 3 turns and spawns Mirror Copies of all enemies onto Astranyx’s team at the start of the battle. Summons Mirror Copies of all enemies onto Astranyx’s team every time her [Dark Energy] counter reaches 5. Also, places [Perfect Veil] buff on Astranyx for 3 turns every time her [Dark Energy] counter reaches 5. Astranyx’s [Dark Energy] counter resets after it reaches 5.

Almighty Immunity [Passive]
Immune to [Stun], [Freeze], [Sleep], [Provoke], [Block Active Skills], [Block Passive Skills], [Fear] and [True Fear] debuffs. Also imune to HP exchange effects, HP balancing effects, and cooldown increasing effects.

Almighty Strength [Passive]
Damage from skills that scale based on enemy MAX HP cannot exceed 10% of the Boss’s MAX HP when attacking the Boss.

Almighty Persistence [Passive]
All Turn Meter reduction effects are decreased by 50% when used against the Boss.

One of the biggest things that you have to handle during the Astranyx encounter, is yourself – the copies that she spawns at the start of the fight, and periodically will be the biggest challenge for you to overcome, and there are a few ways of handling this.

• AOE turn meter control, with a strong AOE Nuker to take them out instantly
• AOE turn meter control, with an extra turn A1 Nuker (Like Septimus)
• A Freeze Champion as fastest so that your mirrored copy will freeze your team, while utilizing Dark Elhain to trigger her passive and nuke the enemies.

Aside from handling these mirror copies, the best way to defeat Astranyx is to prevent her from taking a turn afterward, to do this you will want to run multiple Turn Meter controllers and utilize Decrease Speed to slow her down.

One of the key things to this fight is ensuring that you reach the boss with all of your Cooldowns available, so this may require you to manually play this encounter or to ensure that your team is tuned to have abilities ready at the start of the boss encounter, for example, Lyssandra’s A3 to instantly drop turn meter on all mirror copies.

Main things to Avoid:

1. Incredibly tanky members of your team, as they will be hard to eliminate mirror copies of.
2. Untuned Team, if your fastest Champion is not speed tuned to the rest of your team, the enemy mirrors will be able to cut in front of you, risking your entire run.

Beating Astranyx, the Dark Fae can be done in a few ways and we have some examples of team compositions below! First, let’s cover the minimum stats you should aim to hit.

For a full stat breakdown, use our handy Raid Stages Tool which displays enemy stats for every encounter in the game. If you are not already a member of the HellHades community, you can sign up for a Free Account to gain access to this tool. Below we will outline the minimum stats you should aim for:

The key stats you should consider are Accuracy and Speed on your team alongside good HP/Def to survive the damage. You can choose to add resistance to reduce the impact of some of Astranyx’s abilities, but it is not mandatory.

Rotation 3 – Normal

You will face Astranyx on Floor 40, 80 and 120 Normal and is Void Affinity. To be successful, aim for:

• Speed: 190+
• Accuracy: 125+
• Resistance: 225+

Depending on which strategy you choose, you should ensure you have enough HP and Defence to survive this encounter. Generally we advise at least 30k HP and 2800 Defence for Normal.

Rotation 3 – Hard

You will face Astranyx on Floor 40, 80 and 120 Hard and is Void Affinity. To be successful, aim for:

• Speed: 250+
• Accuracy: 355+
• Resistance: 375+

Depending on which strategy you choose, you should ensure you have enough HP and Defence to survive this encounter. Generally we advise at least 50k HP and 3500 Defence for Hard.