Apex of Sacrifice Dissection

Let me start by saying that I have not myself been in the Apex of Sacrifice yet. That said:

How to get into the Apex:

Collect and put them into the map device.

Stages of the Apex:

The Apex is split up into 6 different areas.

Normal Area leading to first boss room

First boss room

Normal Area leading to second boss room

Second boss room

Normal Area leading to Atziri's room

Atziri's room

The Bosses:

Vessel of the Vaal

The first boss is a fight against 2 Vessels of the Vaal.
This fight is just another Vaal on steroids with a shot of Vaal juice

3 arms:
Summoning arm - Summons snakes and thunder skeleton mages
Ball arm - Vaal Smash and the Ice storm from Rima
Lightning rod arm - normal lazers(slightly faster) and a spray of Ball Lightnings

Q'ura, Y'ara'az & A'alai

These bosses resemble physically and with their abilities the bosses from the Arcane Chambers, the Restricted Gallery and the Sealed Corridors.

On top of apparently having all of the same abilities, this trio has some mechancis specific to this fight:
When a boss dies it leaves behind a growing cloud of black smoke. From the center of the cloud different miscreations will spawn until the fight is over. The black smoke grows outwards but appears to have a limited full size. Standing in the black cloud will damage you(unknown damage type - likely chaos degen).
The leftover bosses appear to grow in size when one is killed, probably meaning increased damage on it as well.

Atziri

The Atziri Fight consists of 3 different phases happening in the same order every 25% health marker you hit.

Shield Phase

Atziri Teleports to the middle of the room and become invulnerable to all damage. Minions stream in from the piles of corpses in the corners of the room. If a minion gets to Atziri it dies and gives life to Atziri.

This phase is pretty simple

Main Phase

Atziri appears to have 6 different abilities she uses in this phase:

Orange Storm Call

Red Storm Call

Single spear throw Puncture

Spear spray

Double Flameblast

Single Flameblast

Based on the blue lightning skin around the arm she holds up when she's casting storm call I propose that both forms are lightning damage based.

Both Spear attacks are likely to be Physical based

And both Flameblasts are clearly Fire Based

Mirror Phase

After hitting 75%,50%,25% Atziri will split into 4 aspects each taking one of her abilities from the "Main Phase". One for the single Flame Blast, one for the Orange Storm Call, one for the Pucture, and as far as i can tell from videos a 4th one holding a mirror that does not cast anything(Holds mirror up entire time, maybe mirror hand ability is supposed to be this phase).

During this phase it appears you need to kill any one of the Aspects to end the phase.

Order of Phases

The fight starts with Atziri entering "Shield Phase" after a short amount of time. Once you kill all the spawned minions you go into the "Main Phase" until you hit 75% and she finishes her current cast, entering the "Mirror Phase". The "Mirror Phase" goes on until you kill one of the Aspects returning to the "Main Phase" but entering the "Shield Phase" shortly after. You then go through this cycle until she is dead.

Shield>Main to 75%>Mirror>Shield>Main to 50%>Mirror>Shield>Main to 25%>Mirror>Shield>Main to Dead.

Total of 4 Shield phases, 4 Main Phases and 3 Mirror Phases

I like this but it is incomplete. I know that in the second boss fight, there is something that adds corrupted blood charges, max 20, to you. Whether this is one of the bosses attacks or the damage taken from staying in the cloud, I do not know. But there is a video clearly showing this effect. It is also worthy to mention that during the 'mirror' phase of the atziri boss fight, she reflects curses on to you.

The corrupting blood stacks are from the boss from the arcane chambers. His reave adds 2-6 stacks of corrupting blood.

I though during the mirror phase you had to choose right one or you die to reflect DMG?

GGGs trying to hard to make a game like d2 in the way it was played for 10+ years

they are looking for long content that takes forever to be finshed so they dont have to make more

sence beta they added dom and this....

they just being cheap

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bdy wrote:

I though during the mirror phase you had to choose right one or you die to reflect DMG?

probably depends on your dmg

I could be wrong but it seems that during the mirror phase the not-right atziris have a ridiculous amount of reflect.

One vid I saw a dude completely oneshot himself just from a single tick of a spectral throws damage.

So I'd venture to say its got something crazy like 20000% reflect or some shit.

Very inspiring thread, Syclic, thanks a lot.

You can see some references about what you wrote here
Spanish voice recorded, but well, you won't miss anything you don't know :)

Regards.