Sealed Shrine – 2nd Attempt

Overview:
Our guild has once again gained interest in exploring another Instance Dungeon called the Sealed Shrine. The sealed shrine houses the sealed Great Baphomet that entails a great thread to the whole of midgard. The monks of St. Capitolina Abbey now seek help from great adventurers to once again re-seal the great demon. The dungeon has a 12hr cool down unlike the Endless Tower with 1 week cool down so adventurers could regularly challenge the Great Baphomet. For the complete quest guide please visit the iRO wiki site.

Previous Attempt:
Our guild recently explored the dungeon and tried our chances to re-seal the Great Baphomet for the first time. Due to the learning time needed, we failed to defeat the Great Baphomet. For the complete story of our first attempt please visit the link below.

• Sealed Shrine – 1st Attempt

The Cast:
We gathered a small group for this run just like our previous attempt. The members we gathered were those who are interested to explore the sealed shrine dungeon after failing to make the climb at Endless Tower. The strategy that we have in mind is suited using a small party.

• Pak a Priest – main support
• Angel-Linker a Soul Linker – Eske support
• Chico Ishigawa a Wizard – mob control and Ice Wall Support
• Malagantus a Paladin – main killer for the MVP
• Grim a Bard – Bragi’s Poem support
• Master Legender a Biochemist – mob control and Slim Pitch Support

The Adventure:
Our second attempt for the sealed shrine is another instantaneous adventure for our guild. By the time we failed to make a climb for the Endless Tower due to incomplete members, we decided to organize a party willing to face the Great Baphomet. We changed gears for a while then we went straight to St. Capitolina Abbey.

The Catacomb:
Since this is our second time in the dungeon, we are no longer confused with the things to perform on the dungeon. We immediately approach the Falling Grave. The Falling Grave once again relays to us the story of the Great Baphomet and asks us to find the Pendant of Spirit.

We again went through all other Falling Graves on the map to look for the pendant. After a few minutes, I found the pendant and immediately return to the Falling Grave.

The Soul of the Ancient Hero has then materialized at the center of the map. We are very careful in doing the next part because the timer will now be triggered. Buy the time that I have agreed with the instructions of the Ancient Hero the 1hour timer will start.

When everybody are ready for the next step, I talked to the Soul of the Ancient Hero and accepted the task. Our team explored the dungeon again to gather 10 pcs Essense of Fire and 1pc Token of Apostle for each member.

The gathering of items is quick because we already know where to get them. Before we proceed to the portal going to the second floor of the Catacomb we counter check if each member has the Token of Apostle. When everybody is ready we immediately made our way to the second floor.

The Battle:
Everybody is excited in summoning the Great Baphomet so we hurriedly and carefully walk towards the center of the second floor. Along the way we triggered the mob of the Apostles of Baphomet but we wipe them out with ease.  I immediately trigger the main alter and run towards the spot area. We quickly made our set up and wait for our paladin to lure the Great Baphomet.

As we lured the Great Baphomet on our set up, we tried to sustain our planned formation. For some minutes we were able to do the magic strategy but by the time he cast a long casting skill everything went wrong. The long casting indicates that Great Baphomet is trying to cast full heal on himself. Everyone got panic and the team went down one by one.

We tried to regroup in order to regain the formation that we had earlier. We failed to do so because instead of getting a successful formation we triggered the spawn of Apostles of Baphomet. We attempt to regroup again but the mobs made it hard for the team to regroup.


Analysis:
The run went through smoothly during the first part but we didn’t sustain the magic strategy. We managed to recover the original formation but the spawn of Apostle of Baphomet made our situation even worse. We tried to kill all the spawn mobs but the party had spread out and wasn’t able to regroup. For the next run we might try doing the magic away from the spawn points to avoid unnecessary mobs.


Credits:
I would like to thank my guildmates in Bozanstvena Staratelje who agreed on doing another round of Sealed Shrine even if we have failed in this attempt.