The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

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Disambig icon.png This article is about the level 50 challenge-mode trial. For the story-mode Main Scenario trial, see The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard).
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The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)

Akh afah ampitheatre extreme banner1.png
Level
50 (Sync: 50)
Item Level
95
Difficulty
Extreme
Party size
Full Party
8 man 2 Tank role.png 2 Healer role.png 4 DPS role.png
Unsyncing
Allowed
Time limit
60 minutes
Duty Finder
High-end Trials (A Realm Reborn)
Roulette
Mentor
Tomestones
Allagan Tomestone of Poetics 22 
Req. quest
Feature quest Drop Dead Shiva
Entrance
Coerthas Central Highlands (X:3.1, Y:21.2)
Location
The Akh Afah Amphitheatre
Region
Coerthas
Patch
2.4
The echo icon1.png The Echo
On wipe: +5% (max +25%)

House Durendaire's efforts to establish an outpost in Snowcloak have met with disaster, owing to a surprise attack by Iceheart's followers. Now in possession of their former fortress, as well as a vast supply of crystals, the heretics are certain to summon Saint Shiva once more. If past experience is any indication, this new incarnation will be stronger than the last. Regardless, it changes nothing─ Iceheart's crusade cannot continue, and only you have the power to stop her.

— In-game description

The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme) is a level 50 trial introduced in patch 2.4.

Strategy

Shiva EX Guide

Aggressive difficulty r6.png Lady of Frost: Shiva

Abilities

Unarmed Form

After using a weapon, Shiva will perform 2 unarmed attacks before using another weapon.

Dreams of Ice: Shiva gains a permanent, stackable Damage up icon1.png Damage Up buff. This serves as an enrage timer.

Icicle Impact: Circles appear on the ground in various patterns, and after a moment, the circles disappear and icicles drop down, dealing heavy damage to all players hit.

Sword Form

Shiva's auto attacks inflict stacks of Blunt Resistance Down on the main tank. The tank will take more damage from her auto attacks when she switches back to Staff Form.

  • Tanks: When Shiva equips her sword, she will immediately use Icebrand. Face this attack towards the rest of the party to share/split the damage.

Icebrand: Conal attack that deals a total of 18k damage shared across the players that are hit.

Glacier Bash: Conal attack that deals heavy damage and stuns anyone caught in it. The tank can avoid it by running through Shiva after she starts casting it.

Heavenly Strike: Knockback from Shiva.

Whiteout: Untelegraphed donut AoE.

Rotation: Ice Brand → Glacier Bash → Whiteout (Heavenly Strikes are used randomly throughout)

Staff Form

Shiva's auto attacks inflict stacks of Slashing Resistance Down on the main tank. The tank will take more damage from her auto attacks when she switches back to Sword Form.

  • When Shiva equips her staff, she will immediately cast Hail Storm. DO NOT wait to run out to the edges - it should be your INITIAL reaction.

Hail Storm: Ice AoEs will spawn on players' heads. Spread out to avoid hitting each other.

Absolute Zero: Raid-wide.

Bow Form

Only in Phase 3.

Shiva's auto attacks are unaffected by Slashing/Blunt Resistance Down while in this form but deal increased damage.

Glass Dance.png  Glass Dance: Used at the start of Bow Form. Fires icicles in a 270 degree cone around her, dealing 10k damage to all players hit. Your entire party needs to stand directly behind her to avoid the damage.

Avalanche: Places a mark above a random player. After a moment Shiva will fire a line AoE at the target, knocking back the marked player and anyone nearby. The knockback can be cancelled with Arm's Length.png  Arm's Length or Surecast.png  Surecast. It is used about 20 seconds after start of Bow Form.

  • Move her close to the north edge of the arena. Have the marked player stand behind Shiva while the rest of the party stands in front of her. This will cause the player to be knocked back harmlessly towards the south of the room but not far enough to hit the wall and become frozen.

Phase 1: 100% - 80%

In phase 1 Shiva will use Sword Form, Staff Form and Unarmed Form.

Tank Shiva in the center of the room, facing her away from the party. Shiva has 3 different weapons that she can switch between. Each weapon has a different attack and she uses them in a random order.

Players need to assign a tank that tanks her in Sword Form and another tank that tanks her in her Staff Form.

Sword Tank should allow Shiva to hit the party with Icebrand but avoid Glacier Bash.

Phase 2

At the start, Shiva spawns 4 Ice Soldiers and go into Sword Form. The staff tank should gather all the adds in the center of the room so they can be AoE'd down.

After 60 seconds, Shiva will go untargetable, freeze the party, then reappear with Diamond Dust, dealing 2-4k damage to all players. If any adds are still alive before Shiva disappears, the party will be wiped instead.

Phase 3: 70% - 0%

From here on, touching the edge of the arena will freeze the player into a boulder. Frozen player can be freed after party members kill the boulder.

Shiva gains Bow Form in addition to Sword Form, Staff Form and Unarmed Form.

She also gains an ability named Permafrost. It coats the ground in ice and places a DoT on everyone for a short time. It also applies the Thin Ice debuff to all players. If a player attempts to move while she has the debuff on, they will slide uncontrollably in that direction.

  • Stand still for a few seconds after every ending move, i.e. Icicle Impact, Avalanche, etc. - til Thin Ice wears off or you will slide into walls and get frozen.

Shiva gains 2 new Icicle Impact patterns.

Rotation: Icicle (Staff) → Staff Form → Icicle (Bow) → Bow Form → Icicle (Sword/Staff) → Icicle (Bow) → (Repeat from Sword/Staff)

At 11 Damage up icon1.png Damage Up stacks, Shiva will go untargetable, freeze the party, and cast Diamond Dust, wiping the party.

Loot

See also: Ice Weapons

Gold Coffer (small).png Treasure Coffer

Name Type Item Level Rarity Quantity
Paladins ice arms (il 110) icon1.png  Paladin's Ice Arms (IL 110) Other N/A CBlue 1
True ice axe icon1.png  True Ice Axe Marauder's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice breaker icon1.png  True Ice Breaker Dark Knight's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice spear icon1.png  True Ice Spear Lancer's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice claws icon1.png  True Ice Claws Pugilist's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice katana icon1.png  True Ice Katana Samurai's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice daggers icon1.png  True Ice Daggers Rogue's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice bow icon1.png  True Ice Bow Archer's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice musketoon icon1.png  True Ice Musketoon Machinist's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice rod icon1.png  True Ice Rod Two-handed Thaumaturge's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True grimoire of ice icon1.png  True Grimoire of Ice Arcanist's Grimoire 110 CBlue 1
True ice degen icon1.png  True Ice Degen Red Mage's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice cane icon1.png  True Ice Cane Two-handed Conjurer's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True codex of ice icon1.png  True Codex of Ice Scholar's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice astrometer icon1.png  True Ice Astrometer Astrologian's Arm 110 CBlue 1
True ice bracelet of fending icon1.png  True Ice Bracelet of Fending Bracelets 120 CBlue 1
True ice bracelet of slaying icon1.png  True Ice Bracelet of Slaying Bracelets 120 CBlue 1
True ice bracelet of aiming icon1.png  True Ice Bracelet of Aiming Bracelets 120 CBlue 1
True ice bracelet of casting icon1.png  True Ice Bracelet of Casting Bracelets 120 CBlue 1
True ice bracelet of healing icon1.png  True Ice Bracelet of Healing Bracelets 120 CBlue 1
Ice tear icon1.png  Ice Tear Material N/A ABasic 1
Diamond tear icon1.png  Diamond Tear Material N/A ABasic 1
Ice weapon coffer (il 110) icon1.png  Ice Weapon Coffer (IL 110) Other N/A ABasic 1
Boreas whistle icon1.png  Boreas Whistle Other N/A ABasic 1
Faded copy of footsteps in the snow icon1.png  Faded Copy of Footsteps in the Snow Orchestrion Roll N/A ABasic 1
Faded copy of oblivion icon1.png  Faded Copy of Oblivion Orchestrion Roll N/A ABasic 1

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name Points Task Reward Patch
Let it go icon1.png  Let It Go 10 Defeat Shiva in the Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme). - 2.4
Mightier than the frost icon1.png  Mightier than the Frost 5 Complete the Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme) with a party of only blue mages, Silence Echo turned on, and Unrestricted Party turned off. - 5.15

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