Wildstar’s new raid: “Core Y-83” explained
NCSOFT and Carbine Studios have released info on the Initialization Core Y-83, WildStar’s new 20-player raid arriving with the upcoming release of the INVASION: Nexus update.
The Prologue
Unlike their previous raids, Initialization Core Y-83 will not require the completion of an attunement process. However, they still wanted to give the raid a little bit of an introduction so they have what they refer to as the prologue to the raid. The prologue is an optional quest in the Defile that teakes players through the story leading up to the dilemma that occurs inside the raid. This quest line can be completed solo and is in no way required to participate in the raid. Completing the quest line will give you a handy reward.
Rockin’ the “Bos-In-A-Box”
For those unfamiliar with the term “Box-In-A-Box”, it means an instance with a single boss encounter. So why a “Boss-in-a-Box”? Well, the previous raids (Genetic Archives and Datascape) are massive in scale and required multiple hours to complete. For Initialization Core Y-83 they wanted a bite-sized raid experience that could potentially be completed in less than 30 minutes.
Choose Your Difficulty
The developers wanted to make sure that late-game raiders got some fresh and challenging content, but didn’t want to leave others feeling neglected. In the end, the decision was unanimous: why not offer both?
The boss encounter in Initialization Core Y-83 therefore offers two levels of difficulty, both of which are available in the same instance. The base level is about as tough as the Dreadphage Ohmna encounter at end of the Genetic Archives raid. For those who crave an even greater challenge, a higher level of difficulty is available to put your skills to the test. This will crank up the challenge level to roughly match the Elemental pairs near the end of Datascape.
Whether to start the encounter on the higher difficulty is completely the players choice! If you want to take on the base level, simply charge the boss. But if you think you’re up for the challenge, you can begin the boss encounter by triggering an object called the Organic Incinerator. Doing so adds an additional mechanic to the encounter while increasing the damage, healing, and tanking requirements to survive the fight. This option presents itself every time the encounter resets.
Mad Lootz
When completing the encounter on the base difficulty you can expect to see some new décor items, gear and rune sets. Like the difficulty, the new gear is meant to help close the gap between Genetic Archives and Datascape. (The rune sets are a bit special compared to our existing ones, so we will leave exactly what they do as a surprise.) Completing the optional higher difficulty grants players everything from the base difficulty version as well as even more décor items (only available at the optional difficulty), better versions of runes, and the best part – which you’ll have to discover for yourself.
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