PoE Nightmare of Lycia — Sanctuary Map

Nightmare of Lycia is an uber version of Lycia, Herald of the Scourge, encountered in the Sanctuary Map in Path of Exile. This boss fight presents an advanced and challenging encounter, with Lycia summoning the miniboss Beidat, Archangel of Death, to assist her during the battle.

PoE Nightmare of Lycia

Boss Mechanics and Arena

Nightmare of Lycia is a formidable adversary with a range of deadly abilities designed to push players to their limits. The fight is divided into two main phases, with Lycia becoming invulnerable at 50% life and summoning Nightmare of Beidat, whom players must defeat to progress.

Key Abilities:

  • Returning Fireballs: Lycia fires three fireballs that return to her after a short distance, requiring careful movement to avoid being hit twice.
  • Spinning Staves: Lycia summons four copies of The Winds of Fate approximately every 20 seconds. These staves act as arena hazards, applying Heretic’s Ire within their area of effect, dealing chaos damage over time.
  • Call Weapon — “Swift death!”: Lycia commands all spinning staves to move to the player’s location, dealing physical damage partially converted to chaos damage on hit. The staves then move to random locations, dealing another hit as they reposition.
  • Melee Slam — “Begone!”: Lycia leaps into the air and slams down, dealing physical damage partially converted to chaos damage.
  • Delayed Blast — “Inevitable!”: Lycia targets an area, dealing heavy physical damage after a delay. Four smaller blasts follow around the original target area.
  • Tornado Beam — “You…will…know…pain!”: Lycia fires a continuous beam of physical damage partially converted to chaos damage in front of her. The beam tracks the player and widens at the end of the channel.

At 50% life, Nightmare of Lycia enters an invulnerable phase, moving to the center of the arena and initiating a series of powerful attacks:

  • Lightning Maze — “I will bathe this world in blood!”: Lycia unleashes random patterns of lightning bolts that expand outward in a maze pattern from the center of the arena, dealing heavy lightning damage. This phase continues until Nightmare of Beidat is defeated.
  • Summon Nightmare of Beidat: Lycia summons a miniboss version of Beidat, who must be defeated to transition out of the Lightning Maze phase.

Nightmare of Beidat’s Abilities:

  • Leap Slam: Deals physical damage converted to 25% lightning.
  • Stab: Deals physical damage converted to 50% lightning.
  • Ground Slam: Deals physical damage.
  • Snipe Lightning Arrow: Deals physical damage converted to 75% lightning.
  • Scythe Cleave: Applies Eternal Scourge for 8 seconds, reducing life and energy shield recovery rate by 33% and mana recovery rate by 50%.

Items Dropped by Nightmare of Lycia

Defeating Nightmare of Lycia can yield valuable items and fragments, including:

  • The Dark Seer
  • Devouring Fragment
  • Awakening Fragment
  • Decaying Fragment
  • Cosmic Fragment
  • Reality Fragment
  • Blazing Fragment
  • Synthesising Fragment

The Sanctuary Map has a bias towards dropping Awakening Fragment, Blazing Fragment, and Devouring Fragment.

Sanctuary Map Overview

The Sanctuary Map is a Tier 17 map in the current Settlers map series for the Atlas of Worlds. The map is characterized by its eerie and ominous atmosphere, challenging players as they navigate its corridors and prepare for the intense boss fight.

  • Map Level: 84
  • Map Tier: 17
  • Modification Options: The map can be modified using Chaos Orbs, Vaal Orbs, Delirium Orbs, and Chisels.
  • Description: “Voices. Visions. Violence. They will haunt these grounds for all of eternity.”

Players can access the Sanctuary Map by using it in a personal Map Device. The map can only be used once, so thorough preparation is essential before entering.

Conclusion

The Nightmare of Lycia encounter in the Sanctuary Map offers a challenging and rewarding experience for Path of Exile players. With her advanced mechanics, invulnerability phases, and the addition of Nightmare of Beidat, Lycia presents a tough but rewarding fight. The rare and valuable loot dropped by Lycia makes this encounter a high-stakes, high-reward challenge for experienced players.

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