The Talos of Sand

The Talos of Sand is a 40-player Open Raid encounter available during the Anniversary Event in Agartha.

Tier 1

Task Description

Gaia forms elemental constructs to test and reward her champions, but something went wrong... and the hulking automaton turned deadly. Fortunately, you helped bring this corrupted Talos down before it could cause undue harm. Now claim your reward.

Objective: Collect your reward

Upon defeating the Sand Talos, the raid mission The Talos of Sand will be applied to all participants in the instance. Within seconds of receiving the mission, it automatically completes.

Defeating the Sand Talos gives the buff Anima Surge, which allows a player to open a [Buzzing Hive] during its 10 minute duration. Only one [Buzzing Hive] can be opened per Anima Surge effect.

Agartha will expel players from the raid instance shortly after defeating the Sand Talos within. Removal from the instance is staggered to reduce server lag, so some players will be teleported out first and others may have to wait a few seconds to leave the instance.

The Talos of Sand gives a [Genizah of Sand] upon turn-in. In addition, it rewards 1 [Animated Particulate] for First-Time Completion. This mission has a 30-minute cooldown.

General Information

The Sand Talos

The Immaculate Machine has initiated the education protocols, desiring to teach Her bees how to best protect Her. Unfortunately for the bees, something has corrupted all of the Talos of Gaia that have been created for teaching purposes, including the Sand Talos.

The Sand Talos is one of the 40-player Open Raid encounters accessible in Agartha through the Vibrant Agartha instance, which will always contain 1 Talos of Gaia raid boss out of a total of 11 different Talos of Gaia raid bosses found within Vibrant Agartha. Every hour at 00:02 minutes past the hour, the portal to Vibrant Agartha becomes active for 10 minutes. While bosses inside may last after that period of time, no more may enter to face a Talos once those 10 minutes have passed. An instance of Vibrant Agartha will close 30 minutes after the first player has entered that instance regardless of whether or not the Talos of Gaia is engaged in combat.

The Talos of Gaia present within Vibrant Agartha rotates every hour.

There are no level requirements necessary to enter and face the Sand Talos. A player only needs to have met Jack Boone in Kingsmouth Town in order to participate in the raid.

Vibrant Agartha

The portal to Vibrant Agartha can be found between the Agartha Pad to the Training Grounds and the Transylvania region just outside of the Hollowed Halls (550,250). It is festively decorated with balloons, piñatas, and streamers.

Equal Footing

Players within Vibrant Agartha are buffed with Equal Footing so that their stats are scaled evenly regardless of their level or item power.

Abilities and Mechanics

106286032 HP

Immune to CC

The Sand Talos is permanently immune to Stuns, Knock Downs, Obstruction, Roots, and Snares.

Attack

The Sand Talos uses its fists to Attack in its generic attack. This Attack is a single target Melee Strike with a 2 meter range that deals physical damage and has a 1.5 second cast time and Instant recast time.

Quake

As the Unforgiving Sand, the Talos of Sand is ceaseless in its rage. The Talos of Sand will very frequently and very rapidly spin and cause the platform beneath it in Vibrant Agartha to Quake. The Sand Talos' Quake is cast in a 360 degree Hostile PBAoE annular ring that has a 25 meter outer radius and an 8 meter inner radius and has a 3.5 second cast time and 10 second recast time. Quake is initially cast 8 seconds after engaging the Sand Talos in combat, with subsequent casts adhering to the 10 second recast time.

Anyone within the ring of Quake at the end of its cast will be hit by Dunequake. Dunequake deals massive physical damage and causes anyone hit by it to be Rooted and unable to move for 6 seconds as they become Hindered. The Hinder Rooted is subject to Diminishing Returns and will be weaker on subsequent afflictions of Rooted within a short 14 second timeframe.

Dust Devil

106286032 HP

With its whirlwind motion, the Talos of Sand conjures up a Dust Devil around it as soon as the Talos is engaged in combat. The Dust Devil spins around the Sand Talos in a 6 meter radius for the entirety of the encounter. As an elemental whirlwind of sand, the Dust Devil cannot be targeted, damaged, or killed in any way.

The Dust Devil will persist for as long as the Sand Talos is in combat.

Dust Devil

The Sand Talos' Dust Devil is no idle threat. It paths around the Sand Talos in a 6 meter radius circle for the entire duration of combat. Every 1 second, the Dust Devil pulses with a 360 degree PBAoE in a 2 meter radius around the Dust Devil itself.

Anyone caught within the Dust Devil receives physical damage and is quickly is thrown 10 meters away from the Dust Devil in a powerful Knock Away.

The Knock Away of the Dust Devil places the Talos' foes directly in the middle of Quake.

Beware the Dust Devil.