Tips and Mechanics
Weak Point - Face
You can use the Teleport to reposition Abyss Mages to your advantage at the start of some abyss chambers.
Once you drop the shield, make sure to focus the Abyss Mage so that they stay staggered. The Dance attacks deal a lot of damage, and it can be hard to get close to them while they are active.
The Lightning Ring attack does a significant amount of damage if you stay in the AoE, making these particularly annoying at melee. Use ranged attacks if possible, or break their shield quickly to prevent them from using this attack.
Prefer
attacks to break through the shield.
attacks will also work, but are slightly less effective as.
will also damage the shield, but are 1/2 as effective as.
After the shield is broken, the Abyss Mage will be briefly stunned.
See Shields for more information.
Fires a projectile at the playerCreates an area that continually deals Electro damageThe AoE is fixed at a position and will not move with the Abyss Mage.
The ring lasts about 4 seconds before disappearing.
Teleports close to the player, dealing Electro damageMoving a distance away from the Abyss Mage will trigger this ability.
The Abyss Mage will appear where the player is facing. You can use this to reposition them to your advantage.
Spawns waves of Electro orbs radiating out from the Abyss MageThe Abyss Mage will start this attack after some time being stunned.
You can interrupt this attack by stunning/staggering the Abyss Mage with certain attacks.
After about 8 seconds of the Dance attack, the Abyss Mage will reshield.
Make sure to stagger the Abyss Mage in some way if you see it using Dance to prevent this from happening.
