Blade & Soul NA Den of the Ancients Mao Guide

A guide on Mao, the final boss in Den of the Ancients! A lot of RNG in this boss...
RNG Attack Pattern:
- Half circle (blockable).
- Hula hoop air toss, attempts knock down (block/parry).
- Sits in hula hoop = dash forward and dash back (unblockable) knocks down.
- Long linear attack (unblockable). Claw attack happens AFTER. It stuns. Block/parry it.
- Aoe spin (blockable), knocks back. Counter happens AFTER. DPS from behind.
- Star aoe (unblockable) fully iframe this.
- Crecent slash (blockable), knocks down. Backflip happens AFTER. CC to stop her follow up aerial attempt.
Mechanics: 80%/60%/40%/20%
80%/40% Moon Wax Phase
1. First bomb counter (7s or 4s).
2. Pulls and fires linear attack. F roll or Tab.
3. Stay close to her and move in a circle.
4. Cone attack (unblockable).
5. Second bomb counter (the latter the timer).
6. Regular attack rotation.
60%/20% RNG order of Moonlight/Moonshadow
Moonlight:
1. Linear attack (unblockable)
2. First meteor.
3. Cone attack (unblockable).
4. Second meteor. After second meteor an aoe appears and explodes into a shock wave. JUMP over it.
5. Linear attack.
6. Third meteor.
7. Cone attack.
8. Fourth meteor. After fourth meteor an aoe appears and explodes into a shock wave. JUMP over it.
9. Goes into Moonshadow mechanics.
Moonshadow:
1. Entire room becomes red. White aura surrounds your character and drops a white aoe. STAY within the white aoe.
2. Launches 5-hit attack from ALL directions. Blockable.
3. Attempts instant kill cast animation.
4. Shield will be BLUE or GREEN. Stun for blue. Knock down for green. CC'ing correctly breaks the shield and follow up CC required.
5. Pulls you in.
6. RNG if the aoe is inner then outer, or outer then inner.
20% RNG order of Moonlight/Moonshadow
- Same as 60% mechanics.
- Extra time bomb mechanic during Moonlight.
Tips:
- Her red attacks cause DoT stacks, even if you iframe!
- Blue shield = stun. Green shield = knock down.
- 80% and 40% is always Moon Wax phase.
- 60% and 20% is RNG order of Moonlight & Moonshadow.
- Stay close or she will range check you.
- Her attack pattern is RNG, but certain attacks follow after.
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[@VioletMiracle]

BNS: Mao

[@brianbach5096]

I have been waiting for this for a couple days. Great video, very helpful xD

[@Straxedix]

Awesome video, thanks for all the effort you put in the videos!

[@LisaFoxy]

Your video was very helpful to me as a shadow Warlock, and I was struggling about her rotation a bit, and not knowing how to avoid her instant death, but thanks to you I manage to pass her, and got my title. Thank you! <3

[@katyprarie]

Hula Hoop 😂 it's a Chakram i think. Great guide as usual, concise, clean and calm.

[@boudu2583]

Thank you very much, you saved my keyboard and spared my life. Awesome guide 11/10.

[@alchemyyetti]

Excellent guide my man!

[@windowpane]

Thanks for this good guide.

[@roguekgamer]

Well as he said, "as long as you are hitting her from behind, it's gonna be fine"..

[@durdened]

Nice video as always! As a WL i wasn't able to beat her cuz i kept hitting into that counter atk and had no way to dodge it since iframing doesn't help zzz. Now i know not to hit into it cuz everything else i can dodge with np using the circle atking :)

[@pikamao9854]

This boss is a complete nightmare for classes without spammable block. Every single attack CC's, and half of them are not circle strafe-able, what in the world are we supposed to do? Especially frustrating during phase when you have to bombs/meteors AND avoid boss attacks. Getting hit by even one attack usually means you're dead since she follows up with a million other attacks (which all CC) and applies countless stacks of bleed.

[@shinjid3705]

ppl say mao is easier than hong. I call that bs. She is so random it just annoys the crap out of me. Not even worth the stress to get the neck

[@koreanboy1996]

for simple mode, do you hold down rmb or do you repeatedly click?

[@Alexavian]

All these cc requirements, the warlock does not have that many 😥

[@gabrielamaya9086]

what hm points do you use for this fight personally? I noticed you had over 200k so was wondering?I'm a kfm and I believe it works if you have a skill that saids "pierce defense and parry skill"- the stun/kd mechanic is invalid and will always go through- I would not stun early- I always use 3/z and always works incase your pierce doesn't work. Remind people if they have a skill that "pierces defense and parry"/"ignore defense/parry" in the cc skill- it should work.

[@rodgersullivan3274]

good job thanks for the help

[@DaKineGuy]

I did it!!!! Thank you!!!

[@raianraian8631]

nice one good job :)

[@mariosison7989]

Can u make a gunner guide in all boss of den of ancient please

[@Kirnale]

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