The Talos of Swarms

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

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

General Information

The Swarm 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 Swarm Talos.

The Swarm 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 Swarm 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

Swarm Talos

106286032 HP

Immune to CC

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

Insect Spread

The Crawling Plague that is the Swarm Talos gathers up a sphere of sickness and swipes a projectile Insect Spread generic attack at its target. Insect Spread is a damaging single target Chaos Magic 3-hit MultiHit Burst with a 7 meter range that has a 2.5 second cast time and Instant recast time.

Strangle

The Swarm Talos is comprised of suffocating swarms. In its frenzied rage, it regularly attempts to Strangle a single target within 40 meters of it. The targeted Strangle has an Instant cast time and 8 second recast time. It casts the 5 meter radius 360 degree Melee Frenzy GTAoE PGE Strangle at the target's position.

The Persistent Ground Effect of Strangle lasts 2 seconds. At the end of those 2 seconds, a total maximum of 3 players within the PGE's 5 meter radius will receive a massive amount of physical damage and 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.

Hive Spawner

Every 20 seconds that the Swarm Talos is engaged in combat, it spawns 1 Locust Burrow at Level 50 to one of 18 potential designated points in Vibrant Agartha. A Locust Burrow has 177178 HP and will spawn a Manifested Locust every 1 second. Locust Burrows do not last outside of combat with the Talos of Swarms.

Locust Burrow

177178 HP

Immune to CC

Just like the Swarm Talos that spawned it, the Locust Burrow is permanently immune Stuns, Knock Downs, Obstruction, Roots, and Snares.

Manifest Locusts

Social insects swarm to protect their hives, even those manifested by the Swarm Talos. Every 4 seconds, the Locust Burrow will spawn 1 Manifested Locust at Level 50 to aid the Swarm Talos in combat. A Manifested Locust has 45306 HP and does not do much damage on its own. In an overwhelming swarm a large number of Manifested Locusts can be deadly.

Manifest Locusts on Death

Upon its death, the Locust Burrow spawns 5 Manifested Locusts at Level 50 to attack whoever killed the Locust Burrow.

Manifested Locust

45306 HP

Physical Melee Strike

Each Manifested Locust is capable of delivering a Physical Melee Strike with its claws in a generic attack. The Manifested Locust's Physical Melee Strike is a damaging single-target Melee attack with a 1.75 meter range that deals minor physical damage and has a 2 second cast time and instant recast time.

Digestive Goop

The Manifeted Locusts carry within them the capacity to expel a Digestive Goop onto their prey. The Manifested Locust casts its Digestive Goop on a target within a 7 meter range. It casts the 1 meter radius 360 degree Ranged Frenzy GTAoE PGE Digestive Goop at 2-3 random points in a 5 meter radius around the target's position. Digestive Goop has a 2 second cast time and a variable recast time with a 33% chance of being either a 3 second, 7 second, or 10 second recast time.

The Persistent Ground Effect of Digestive Goop lasts 4 seconds. Every 1 seconds, a total maximum of 5 players within the PGE's 1 meter radius will be dealt a small amount of physical damage.

Regrow

As a creation of a Talos of Gaia, the Manifested Locusts are themselves capable of remarkable regenerative ability and can Regrow. When a Manifested Locust is hit below 50% of its maximum Health, it casts Regrow on itself. Regrow is a single target Heal that has a 3.90 second cast time and an effective 40 second recast time. Regrow cannot be triggered again while that 40 second cooldown is in effect.