The Lich: All Abilities and Attacks Guide | Dark and Darker

This guide video showcases and explains all of the Lich's abilities and attacks that you will see in the boss fight. Attacks that may be dodged will also feature an isolated render to give you a better visual of the pre-attack queue.
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Full normal/HR fight with class strategies coming soon.

[ryandaysaweek]

UPDATES:

Wipe 3: Cleric's cleanse no longer works to remove the Lich's curse circles (both purple and blue)

Wipe 4 (Hotfix 58): The slow orb (Strong Ranged Attack) now passes through walls. To break the orb, you will need to lead it into one of the Lich's summoned skeletons.

[Zyntecs]

If it's blue, split the crew. If it's purple, get in the circle

[VeggieTwelve]

Great, simple, and clear breakdown of the Lich! The standalone animations and clips of all of the attacks and curses in action were done perfectly! Your execution helps a lot to visualize everything without a ton of clutter. Excellent video as always!!

[clowdk]

Fun fact: Because the curses are considered debuffs, they will last less/more time based on your Debuff Duration stat. This can be troublesome for Clerics running Protection from Evil, as the curses are extremely short and tough to cleanse in time.

[aovnick]

Fantastic guide. Something worth mentioning is that when the curses pop, you get a heal over time that ticks on you!

[uNoCardiologist]

100% facts right here! I know the tactics, but it's imperative for people to see these guides before challenging any of the bosses, especially the new one.

[ryandaysaweek]

Cleric's cleanse no longer will remove the Lich's curses (purple/blue circles). This update happened in Wipe 3 - all other info in this video is still accurate.

[BandoraGamingTV]

Probably best explanation of how to fight a boss I've ever seen! Thank you

[lindstrom]

Good video
I just wanted to add an extra tip, that the normal ranged and heavy ranged attack also does splash damage so stay away from walls and skeletons if you think his attacks might hit one of them close to you.

[TheyCallMeCelery]

Awesome video. Hope you got some in the works for the other bosses!

[FortuneDev]

incredibly well made video, great work dude

[ltbonobo]

Looking forward to ghost king / new boss guides sure to come!

[bubblehaxftw]

Man....your guides make it so easy to smash that sub button bro. Huge thx!

[Iamwyind]

really good guide, thank you for making this!

[i__cat]

Doing gods work here my dude! great video!

[Mekose]

A couple things to note here.

- Debuff duration stat reduces the time of the gather/spread curses, the curse goes off when the debuff expires (unless cleansed) not on a set timer. A cleric with protection from evil perk would proc the damage of the curse twice as fast.

- After a curse resolves, it gives the player a small healing over time effect if you completed the mechanic successfully. If you take the blue (spread) curse solo, it'll take you down to 50% HP but then heal you back up to around 70-80% HP. Same with purple (gather) curse if all 3 players are in the circle

- At 50% HP the boss gets a blue shield, not sure what this does but I'll assume it works like soul steal and gives the boss a 250HP shield; this will tell you when the boss is at 50% HP

- Armor Crush works exceptionally well on all PVE; including bosses. Bard armor crush takes the boss armor rating down to -40 which is -102% physical DR (basically doubles all physical damage). Weak Point and Reckless should work similarly. (Side note: I'd love some testing on how weakpoint effects PVE, does it cut phys DR % in half or does it reduce it by 50? What happens to a target's AR if they have 0?)

- DPS is very important to this fight, the curse mechanics come out at set percentages of HP. This means if you DPS the boss too quickly the Lich will chain cast curses and could lead to a party wipe if you get both a blue AND a purple curse at the same time (or aren't given enough time to heal up between curses).

[JustMNY]

One side note for Clerics: The passive Talent which reduces the debuffs/harmfull spells on you by 50 % also reduce the purple/blue Ring time by 50 %. Nobody is using this Talent, but just in Case.

[NotShoddy]

Ghost king next please! Insane video quality bro, really impressive.

[justdoogstv]

watched this then immediately clutched the boss first try

[alexl]

the quality is immaculate O: we have to talk about this more fr