SWTOR Flashpoint Cheat Sheet

explosiontime — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:13:44 GMT

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Anything marked with an asterisk is untested, so when it gets you killed I'm sure we'll all laugh and laugh and you totally won't strangle me to death.

Table of Contents

Hammer Station (Level 13-17)
Athiss (Level 19-25)
Mandalorian Raiders (Level 23-29)
Cademimu (Level 27-33)
Republic-exclusive
- Taral V (Level 31-37)
- Maelstrom Prison (Level 35-42)
Empire-exclusive
- Boarding Party (Level 29-33)
- The Foundry (Level 33-37)
Colicoid War Games (Level 37-41)
The Red Reaper (Level 41-45)
Directive 7 (Level 45-49)
The False Emperor (Level 48-50)
The Battle of Ilum (Level 48-50)
Kaon Under Siege (Level 50)
Lost Island (Level 50)

Hammer Station (Level 13-17)

DN-314 Tunneler

Tank & spank except for demolition droid spawn
Skill: Laser Beam (single random target)
- Focuses damage on random player
- Focused player should be healer priority
Skill: Demoliton Droids (add spawn)
- On-screen warning: DN-314 summons Remote Demolition Droids!
- Start glowing and explode, dealing AOE damage
- Too many to bother DPSing them
- Avoid them

Vorgan the Volcano

3 mobs
- Sawbones (healer)
- Torch (flamethrower)
  - CCable
- Vorgan (melee)
Keep a player in Sawbones' melee range to stop him from using grenades
DPS can offtank Sawbones and Torch
Kill order: Sawbones, Torch, Vorgan

Battlelord Kreshan

Get ready to run around a lot
Can kill you with knockback off platform; avoid platform edges
Tank where Kreshan's standing
Fight can reset if knockback throws you out of room
Skill: Frontal Blaster Spray (conal AOE)
- Used after knockback
- Tank points boss away from party
Skill: Bomb (red reticle)
- Red circle appears on ground, then disappears leaving bomb in center
- Bombs will stay indefinitely so avoid
Summons 2 adds:
- Weak, can be tanked by DPS if needed
- DPS/tank should kill them to keep them off healer

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Athiss (Level 19-25)

Professor Ley’arsha

Skill: Affliction Field (blue reticle, big gas cloud)
- Don’t stand in fire
Summons add waves
- Weak; tank not really needed
- Waves of 2 then 4
Conal AOE (bullet spam): group spreads out; tank faces boss away

Beast of Vodal Kressh

Burn down handler adds at start
Every 20 sec: Boss stuns tank for 3 sec then does knockback
- Tank with back to wall
- Knockback is frontal cone AOE; don't stand in front of boss unless tanking
1 min into fight: spawns handler and 4 beasts that go after healer
- Adds waves spawn for first 3 mins
- DPS, tank need to gather and focus down adds to protect healer
- After 3 mins, no more add spawns

Prophet of Vodal

Tank pulls to bottom of stairs; faces boss away from group
Immune to interrupts
Skill: Crushing Affliction (high damage DOT + AOE explosion)
- 1.5 sec cast debuff on random person
- Does high damage (90% health DOT)
- Explodes after last tick; spread out
Skill: Essence Drain
- Channeled cast that stuns tank
- Boss starts casting when health reaches 50%
Flame mechanic: Every 25% health, boss vanishes and spawns 4 fireballs
- All flames target random player
- Kite flames
- Flames disappear ~15secs after boss reappears

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Mandalorian Raiders (Level 23-29)

Braxx the Bloodhound

Has 2 un-CCable bloodhound adds
Bloodhounds randomly aggro drop
Tank adds and boss; focus hounds down
Skill: Cleave (red reticle beneath boss)
- Melee DPS should stay away until Cleave ends
- If Bloodhounds are inside Cleave reticle, their damage/attack speed increase

Imperial Boarding Party

Fairly difficult fight (four mobs, tough on healer)
Can CC
Kill order:
1. Inquisitor (Vincine)
2. Warrior (Rackham)
3. Ranged (Kyrenic, Andan)
Every time you kill one of the mobs, the rest get stronger

Mavrix Varad

AOE rocket launcher (avoid reticle)
Skill: Flame Burst (avoid reticle)
Will jumps to corners of room and spawn turrets
- Focus turrets down then focus on boss
- Attacking boss instead of turrets will cause him to jump to next corner and spawn more turrets
- Turrets are CCable

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Cademimu (Level 27-33)

Officer Xander & EN-4C

Tank & spank
Droid (EN-4C) will randomly target and chase player (Kara Big Bad Wolf haha)
- Just kite him around platform
Xander throws AOE bombs at random players
- Spread out

Captain Grimyk

Flamethrower AOE: face away from group
Summons 4 Ugnaught adds
- Very weak (5k HP)
- Tank should try to gather them
- Grimyk's flamethrower will also hit Ugnaughts (lol)

General Ortol

Room split into 4 sections with rockets in ceiling (look up)
On-screen warning: General Ortol is preparing to test fire a rocket!
- Seriously, look up
- See which rockets are lighting up and run to unlit quadrant
- Over 50% HP: 1 rocket fires
- Under 50% HP: 2 rockets fire
- Under 25% HP: 3 rockets fire
Does knockback, can knockback into rocket fire if you're not careful

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Taral V [Republic] (Level 31-37)

Handler Gattan (Mini-Boss)

Burn Gattan down first (cats have higher mitigation)
Gattan uses AOE grenade on random player (8m radius)
- Group should spread out
2 cat adds
- Melee damage to random party member
- Immune to CC
- Focus fire one at a time when Gattan is down

Captain Shivanek

Summons Ripper beast
Either will enrage if Shivanek or Ripper go under 25%
Tank grabs Ripper and pulls away from group
- Ripper does AOE stun
- Tank and Ripper should stay away from other players
DPS hold Shivanek at platform
- Use all DPS cooldowns

Doctor Zahren (Mini-Bosss)

Summons adds (3 at a time) from specimen chambers
Easy to AOE down
Gives Zahren 25% damage reduction if left alive

PD-44

Skill: Focus Fire (targets tank)
- Interruptible
Skill: Missile Blast (targets non-tanks)
- Does splash damage
- Group should spread out
- Trigger message: Target appears to be non-sentient
Skill: Bombardment (red reticle)
- Starts appearing 75% health
- Can't avoid first hit
Skill: Powerful Blast (cannons glow red)
- Interruptible
- AOE damage
- Trigger message: Secondary weapons charged, deploying

Lord Hasper (Bonus)

Difficult, healing intensive
Only tank/melee should be in room
Ranged DPS and healer stand outside by door
Skill: Force Lightning (channeled single target)
- Aimed at tank
- Easy to interrupt
Skill: Force Storm (high damage AOE DOT)
- Cast after 3 Force Lightnings
- Can be negated by running out of room and behind wall after 2nd Force Lightning (not sure if this still works)
- Force Pulls group to Hasper (if he has LOS)
- Hits everyone with slow debuff
- Does high damage AOE DOT that will probably kill non-tanks quickly
- Tank should blow mitigation cooldowns

General Edikar

Summons 4 droids at 75% and 50%
- Edikar moves to center and stops attacking briefly on add spawn
- 2 droids on each side
- DPS focus fire one side, tank grabs other side
- Stacks debuff on players that increases damage received
- CC-able; CC second wave if needed
Throws DOT grenade at random player
- Cleanse or spam heal
Interrupt:
- Hail of Bolts
- Full Auto

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Maelstrom Prison [Republic] (Level 35-42)

X-37 Oppressor Droid

Somewhat healing intensive; potentially dangerous for melee
Skill: Power Punch (tank knockback)
- Tank should have back to wall
Skill: Punishment (melee range AOE)
- Grabs random player (harpoon line animation)
- 4 sec channeled melee-range AOE
- Melee: Run out when you see someone get grabbed
- Keep player health topped up after Punishment

Colonel Daksh

Tank & spank outside of Laser Eye Charge phase
Skill: Laser Eye Charge
- Will murder you if you're in LOS
- Phase lasts ~30 sec
- Trigger message: Colonel Daksh is Charging his optical implants!
- Run in a circle around boxes in room to break LOS on Daksh
- End phase message: Colonel Daksh's optical implants have run out of power

Lord Kancras (Mini-Boss)

Summons adds periodically
AOE adds down
Keep adds away from healer

Ancient Maelstrom Flayer (Bonus)

Tank & spank
Periodic stomp that throws everyone into the air and reduces health by 50%
Get players to ~100% health before next stomp

Lord Vanithrast

Burn down his pet first
Tank Vanithrast away from party to avoid hitting party with Spinning Strikes
Skill: Spinning Strikes (melee range AOE)
- 360 degree, melee range AOE
Skill: Spike (ambush)
- Vanithrast vanishes immediately after Spinning Strikes
- Stealths and ambushes random player (high damage)

Grand Moff Kilran (Dude Who Was All in Your Face On the Esseles)

Phase 1
- Focus fire his two adds first
- After enough damage is dealt to Kilran, phase 2 starts
Phase 2
- Kilran jumps to the back of the hallway and summon adds
- Locks onto random player and uses Snipe (high damage)
- Avoid Snipe by running to one side and break LOS with boxes and pillars
- Kill adds along the way
- Reach Kilran and DPS to phase 3
Phase 3
- Starts when Kilran hits 50%
- Same idea as phase 2

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Boarding Party [Empire] (Level 29-33)

HXI-54 Juggernaut

Drops electric circles on ground; don't stand in them
Skill: Energy Discharge
- Onscreen warning: HXI-54 Juggernaut begins to absorb energy from the generators!
  - 15 seconds until attack
- 2nd onscreen warninig: HXI-54 Juggernaunt prepares to discharge a torrent of energy!
- Channels lightning in four directions (+ shape)
Skill: Rope Fling (tosses random player across room)

Major Alvena (Mini-Boss)

2 battledroid adds (CCable)
CC droids; burn down boss

Sokan Do'Nair (Mini-Boss)

2 Jedi Healer adds (CC-able)
- Uses an annoying knockback attack
- Low HP: 5k
If possible, CC adds and burn down boss.
If no CC, focus adds first

Lieutenant Menerus (Mini-Boss)

Don't stand in fire (circles)

Chief Engineer Kels

2 adds: Modified Assault Unit
- Tank away from boss
- Periodically boss casts damage reflect shield on himself and 1 add
Reactor Cores
- 4 cores in room
- Onscreen warning: The [direction] reactor core is about to emit a deadly pulse of radiation!
  - Move away from the quadrant of the room

Commander Jorland

Adds: Medical Officer Alon (ranged) & Security Chief Massey (melee)
- Immune to CC
- Interrupt Medical Officer's heals and burn him down first
- Burn down Security Chief second
  - Periodically casts damage reflect shield on Jorland
Skill: Explosive Round
- Targets random party member
- 5m AOE splash damage
- Spread out to minimize damage to group

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The Foundry [Empire] (Level 33-37)

The Foundry Guardian

Tank & spank
Skill: Molten Burst
- Players need to avoid, but attack is possibly bugged and does nothing

HK-47

Skill: Flamethrower
- Tank should face HK-47 away from group
Skill: Snipe
- Hits random player, ~3k damage
- Try to keep players above 50% health
Skill: Grenade
- Hits random player for ~1k damage
- Players should spread out
Phase 1
- Summons 2 waves of adds
- Each wave has 2 droids; 2 melee then 2 ranged
- Onscreen warning: Extermination units, converge!
- HK-47 will knockback and teleport
- Tank and burn adds down
Phase 2
- Once phase 2 adds are dead, HK-47 teleports to middle of room and encases himself in powercore
- Powercore has 4 pillars
- Activate each pillar to unlock HK-47
Repeats phase 1 > phase 2 until death

Burrower Matriarch (Optional)

Bonus objective boss
Tank & spank
Avoid acid spit on ground (~2k per tick)
Uses frontal knockback

N4-10 Exterminator (Mini-Boss)

Tank should face boss away from group
Avoid blue circles on ground

Revan

Skill: Force Choke
- If tank gets CC'd, Revan will attack DPS/healer
Knockback
- Melee-ish range knockback that will throw players across room
- Try to stay in middle of room, or away from edges
- Possible aggro reset after knockback
Skill: Force Push
- Throws random player across room
Skill: Force Storm
- Revan starts casting at 50%
- Pulls all players to Revan and slows them
- Starts channeling AOE Force Storm (ticks for 200)
- Run out of AOE
- Healers can cleanse slow debuff
Falling rocks
- Revan starts casting at 20%
- Avoid purple circles on ground

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Colicoid War Games (Level 37-41)

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The Red Reaper (Level 41-45)

Lord Kherus

Drops aggro and jumps at random players
Save taunt for aggro drop
Skill: Soul Siphon
- Force Chokes a hostage
- Need to interrupt
After interrupt
- Kherus jumps to one side of room and chucks crates at closest player
- Don't get ahead of tank
- Can LOS crates
- Will stop chucking crates if someone reaches melee range
- Kherus is immune to gap closers (like Force Leap)

SV-3 Eradicator

Clear trash behind boss first (will aggro after boss dies)
Shoots red and blue beams powered by pillars
Glow on guns indicates which beam is being used
6 pillars in room:
- Stand next to a pillar if possible (healer, ranged DPS)
- Click base of pillar to flip colour
- Do not let all 6 be the same colour (boss will one-shot you)
- Ideally 3 red, 3 blue
- Periodically boss will flip all 6 pillars to one colour
Skill: Concussion Charge
- Knockback & snare
- Can be cleansed

Darth Ikoral

Phase 1
- Pull Ikoral across bridge so he doesn't throw you off the edge
- Tank & spank until adds
- Skill: Crushing Darkness
  - DOT on random player
  - Heal through or cleanse
Phase 2
- On-screen warning: Ikoral has awoken his chosen Sith!
- Ikoral spams lightning
- Don't bother DPSing Ikoral or adds
- 2 adds spawn on sides:
  - Stack behind adds so add is between you and Kherus
  - Interrupt add's shield spellcast (Ancient Terror)
  - When adds' shield drops, Ikoral's lightning will kill them
Phase 3
- On-screen warning: Ikoral is channeling the ancient power he has gathered!
- Ikoral gets a 100% damage boost
- Stand in fire:
  - Fire on the ground gives 50% damage reduction buff; stacks up to 4 times
  - Anyone getting damaged should grab one
  - Grab fire ASAP or Ikoral will grab them
After going through phase 1 > 2 > 3, phase order becomes:
- Phase 1 > Phase 2 > Phase 1 > Phase 3

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Directive 7 (Level 45-49)

Detector (Mini-Boss)

Focus town turrets first
Tank & spank
Interrupt Reconstruct (heal)

Mentor Assassin Droids

Be ready to switch DPS to the droid without a damage shield up
Beta (center droid), Theta & Zeta (bodyguards)
Skill: Hail of Bolts
- Used by Beta
- Face Beta away from group
Skill: Reflection Shield
- Orange shield that can appear on bodyguards
- Reflects all damage back to player
- Avoid long duration DOTs
Skill: Absorption Shield
- Blue shield that appears on Beta and one bodyguard
- All damage abosrbed

Interrogator (Mini-Boss)

Every 35ish seconds, a random player is cloned and an add spawns
Focus adds down ASAP

Bulwark

Healer/ranged should stand under the console that spawns Bulwark to avoid Bulwark Burst
Skill: Bulwark Burst
- Uninterruptable, massive AOE
- Run under console to avoid
Skill: Bulwark Smash
- Stuns and deals damage to the tank
Skill: Cleave
- Tank should have back against wall
- DPS need to stay away from Bulwark's front
Skill: Defensive Protocols
- Audio warning: "Defensive Protocols have engaged"
- Bulwark stops taking damage (green aura)
- Click the 2 consoles to right and left of Bulwark to resume fight
- 2 adds spawn to repair consoles
  - CC-able
  - Burn them down

Assembler (Mini-Boss)

2 turrets
DPS focus turrets down first
Skill: Repair Mode (heal)
- Onscreen warning: Assembler is configuring repair mode
- Interrupt immediately

Replicator (Bonus Boss)

Splits into 3 elite clones at 75%
Clones split into 4 normals at 25%
DPS Replicator to 75%, then focus clones one at a time

Mentor

Claw on celing will follow random player
Avoid red reticle
Claws are tauntable
Stage 1: Turrets
- Choose either right or left corner of room to LOS second turret
- Focus turrets down one at a time
Stage 2: Processor Core + Guardian
- Onscreen warning: Danger: Processor Core [X] has overheated
- Run to core [X] and right-click it
  - Core 1: SW corner
  - Core 2: NW corner
  - Core 3: NE corner
  - Core 4: SE corner
- Kill 2 turret adds
- Green reticles will appear on ground until core is destroyed
- Mentor Core Guardian add spawns; tank engages immediately
Stage 3: Processor Core + Turrets
- Immediately after Mentor Core Guardian dies, another processor core overheats
- The 2 turrets from Stage 1 respawn
- Destroy processor core first, then destroy turrets (like in Stage 1)
Stage 4: Processor Core + Guardian
- Immediately after the 2 turrets are destroyed, another processor core overheats
- Mentor Core Guardian spawns
- Destroy processor core, then Guardian
Stage 5: Final Processor Core + Mentor
- Immediately after Guardian dies, final processor core overheats
- Destroy processor core to engage Mentor
- Mentor channels beam on random player
- Avoid green reticles
- DPS race to finish

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