Maya's Lair

Maya's Den

How to Enter

• 🔸 Talk to Crusader Ron on the second floor of Ant Hell, at (169, 175).
• 🔸 The party needs 2 to 3 adventurers. You cannot enter alone.
• 🔸 The party leader is the one who opens the instance. The rest join by talking to Ron afterward.
• 🔸 Each character can challenge the den once every 20 hours. The countdown only starts after Maya falls: a failed attempt doesn't use up your turn.

The Waves

There are 5 waves, each bigger than the last. The ants don't all show up at once: they trickle in gradually, from several different points in the arena, and the swarm comes mixed together.

• 🔸 Andre, Piere, Deniro, and Vitata show up, mixed into the same wave.
• 🔸 About 1 in every 3 ants spawns with a different elemental property than usual. A single weapon won't always handle the whole wave.
• 🔸 Vitatas heal their wounded allies. It's worth taking them down first when the swarm is holding up too well.
• 🔸 Deniros use Charge Attack and jump over the front line, targeting whoever is casting or supporting. The backline isn't safe just for standing behind.
• 🔸 After each wave is cleared, the den gives you a breather before the next one starts.

Crusader Ron

Ron isn't just a doorway NPC: he fights alongside you, from start to finish.

During the Waves

• 🔸 He uses Grand Cross when the swarm bunches up near him, and Holy Cross on a single target.
• 🔸 He Provokes the ants to pull their attention onto himself.
• 🔸 He Heals whoever in the party is most hurt, on his own, without needing to be asked.
• 🔸 At the start of each wave he casts Guard on the whole party.
• 🔸 During the waves he cannot fall. You can count on him to hold the front line.

Against Maya

• 🔸 When the queen wakes up, Ron casts Redemption and starts taking on your behalf the damage that should hit the party.
• 🔸 From that point on he stops being immortal. Redemption has a price, and the price is his own life.
• 🔸 He calls out loud when his HP is at half and when it's almost gone.
• 🔸 If Ron falls, Redemption and Guard fall with him and the party starts taking hits directly. You can win without him, but it gets a lot harder.

Maya

• 🔸 Maya keeps summoning ants throughout the fight. You can't clear the arena and fight in peace.
• 🔸 She can cast Coma, dropping an adventurer to 1 HP. The cast shows up before the hit lands, so you can react.
• 🔸 Coma has a cooldown: she can't chain two in a row.
• 🔸 She also silences in an area, breaks armor, and heals herself when hurt.

Rewards

The rest of the treasure drops on the den floor for the party to split. Each row is rolled once for the whole party, not per person:

• 🔸 The ants drop Crystallized Abyssalite during the waves, with a 3.9% chance per ant killed.
• 🔸 The den gives no experience and the ants don't drop cards or common items. All the gain comes from the treasure above.

Den Rules

• 🔸 No teleport, Return, or wings work inside the den. The only way out is through the portal.
• 🔸 If the whole party falls, the den expels the defeated and the attempt ends. Since Maya didn't fall, the cooldown isn't spent.
• 🔸 The Den Portal ends the instance for the whole party, so it asks for double confirmation. Anyone still inside leaves along with it, and wave progress is lost.
• 🔸 Any treasure left on the floor disappears along with the instance. Collect everything before you leave.