Gw2 | Cosmic Observatory CM | Precision Anxiety / Mind Flayer title | Heal Alacrity Druid | SAK Duty

The fight starts with a breakbar and 10 stacks of Dagda's Demonic Aura buff which decreases the damage she takes by 10% per stack. Walking through one of the white circles grants a player a special action key (SAK) that lasts roughly 10 seconds and can be used to remove 5 stacks. Once all stacks are removed, Dagda will gain them again after 20 seconds. She will also gain stacks when players stand in her Soul Feasts. A DPS player and I are assigned to taking care of this mechanic (see examples at 1:16, 2:10, 3:10, 4:10).
As long as enough players are alive, I can safely ignore the green arrow mechanic if I'm not the target. The target has to move behind the stack and a minimum of 5 players (or player pets) are needed in between the player and Dagda, else the target dies. If we're only 6 players left, I have to prioritize walking onto the green arrow over collecting another SAK as otherwise the target will die; before that, we have enough players for me to prioritize getting an SAK.
There are 2 ways to handle the numbers mechanic. The proper way is to split up around Dagda so that every number only gets hit once. However, you can also just stand inside of Dagda's hitbox and ignore the numbers that way (see 2:04, 2:54, 5:04, 7:10). Don't forget to move out of Dagda right after if you're not tank though!
While it is not strictly necessary to have a dedicated tank for Dagda, facing her away from the group drastically decreases the damage the group takes. Dagda focuses on the target (player or player pet) closest to her, which means that it is necessary for everyone else to stay at max melee range while the tank stands inside of Dagda's hitbox. Since player pets can also be focused, Rangers shouldn't bring the Rock Gazelle pet as due to its passive skill it will end up in the middle of Dagda's hitbox.
Starting at the 2nd phase, Dagda will begin to spawn green circles. They can and should be stacked (see 2:31, 4:16, 6:22).
Every 25% phase, an add phase starts. I dodge the pizza while being pushed away and then make sure my pet doesn't distract the adds and therefore doesn't keep them in the center AoE.
When a player collects too many Residual Anxiety stacks (mainly gained from standing in Soul Feasts) and turns hostile, they can either be killed and revived (see 5:27) or simply hard cc'd (see 6:45). In order to get the Precision Anxiety achievement for the Mind Flayer title, everyone in the squad has to turn hostile at least once. Our strategy was to have subgroup 2 turn hostile during the 50% adds (see 3:30) and subgroup 3 turn hostile during the 25% adds (see 5:20), though not all players of a subgroup at the same time. Everyone who missed those phases then still had a chance to turn hostile during the final Soul Feasts past 25%.
Starting at the 3rd phase, Dagda needs to be cc'd again shortly after she covers half of the arena in an AoE (see 4:42, 6:48). Make sure not to stand in this AoE as it hits pretty hard.
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Disclaimer: Both Monk (Core) or Karakosa (SotO) relic are fine; keep in mind that you need to successfully combo your blast finishers for Karakosa though which requires a squad composition with lots of combo fields or adjustments in your gameplay, making Monk the all-rounder pick. If you don't own SotO for Mace, take an Axe instead - you trade some protection, regeneration, and vigor sources, cc, and healing for potentially unique conditions, range, and faster CA generation. The infusion isn't strictly needed; without it you lose 5 concentration = 0.33% boon duration.
0:00 100-75%
1:31 Adds#1
2:02 75-50%
3:26 Adds#2
4:02 50-25%
5:18 Adds#3
6:08 25-0%
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Description updated: 2024-03-12