The Stone Vigil (Hard)

This article is about the optional level 50 dungeon. For the Main Scenario dungeon, see The Stone Vigil.

Level: 50 (Sync: 50)
Item Level: 70 (Sync: 110)
Difficulty: Hard

Party size: Light Party
4 man • 1 1 2
Unsyncing: Allowed
Time limit: 90 minutes
Duty Finder: Dungeons (A Realm Reborn)
Roulette: High-level Dungeons
Tomestones: 70
Req. quest: Blood for Stone
Entrance: Coerthas Central Highlands (X:7, Y:11)
Modes: Explorer
Patch: 2.3

“

Ishgard's war against the Dravanian Horde rages on, and Lord Drillemont of House Durendaire means to reclaim a stronghold vital to the protection of Ishgard─the Stone Vigil. Though his forces stand with banners raised and blades at the ready, the watchtower now teems with heretics who would gladly embrace death if only to see knights of Ishgard suffer. It was an adventurer who slipped silently into those frosted halls in the dead of night to cull their ranks, and so it shall be once more.

— In-game description

The Stone Vigil (Hard) is a level 50 dungeon introduced in patch 2.3.

Objectives

Slay Gorynich: 0/1
Slay Cuca Fera: 0/1
Obtain the main storage vault key: 0/1
Slay Giruveganaus: 0/1

Enemies

Bosses

The Stone Vigil (Hard) Guide

Gorynich

The Gorynich fight is similar to the first boss fight in the normal Stone Vigil.

Swinge - A large frontal cone AoE. Use Sprint to stay behind him to not get hit.
Rake - Cleaving tankbuster. This hits hard, so use damage mitigation on it.
Lion's Breath - Frontal cone AoE.

When he spawns adds, the adds will automatically attack the healer. DPS should kill the adds ASAP, but the tank should NOT aggro them - these adds will perform an AoE on death (one is a large frontal cone, and the other is a large circle around them). If the boss is in range of these AoE's, it will gain Haste and Damage Up.

Try to tank the boss in a corner and place your healer away from him.

Cuca Fera

For Cuca Fera, the players will operate 4 cannons in the 4 corners to the room to attack the boss. These cannons have two abilities:

Iron Kiss - deals some damage in a targeted circle area.
Spindly Finger - Stuns enemies in a targeted circle area. Has a 30 second cooldown.

Use Iron Kiss to damage the boss, but do NOT fire at it when it uses Diamondback. While Diamondback is active, the boss will glow red, and your shots will be reflected back at you.

Designate two people to be "stunners". The Boss has a room-wide AoE called Hard Stomp - use Spindly Finger to interrupt its casting. Two people rotating the stuns should be enough to let CD's recharge.

The boss has also an attack where it sets itself on fire and spins toward a cannon. This can be avoided easily by disengaging from the cannon and walking away.

When adds spawn, players should kill them with their cannons. Note that a cannon cannot hit targets too close to itself, so players should fire towards teammates to help clean up the mobs.

Do not allow the NPCs to die. If all of them die, the boss will do an unstunnable Hard Stomp that instantly wipes the party.

A Note regarding Unsynced

When running the dungeon with Unrestricted Party enabled, Cuca Fera's damage reduction will make it extremely tedious for players to defeat the boss solo, even at significantly higher levels. However, certain effects can bypass the damage reduction, allowing players to quickly dispatch the boss:

Machinist's Wildfire (accurate as of Patch 6.4)
Blue Mage's Missile or Level 5 Death

Giruveganaus

Giruveganaus is a fairly straightforward, if annoying, fight. The boss follows a random attack pattern, ignoring all enmity generation. All players must keep an eye out for one of Giruvenganaus' many tells in order to anticipate and dodge attacks. All of the boss's attacks not only hit for moderate-to-high damage, but also apply the debuff Infirmity, which reduces healing from magical sources.

Phase 1 consists of 3 attacks:

Burning shoulder tackle - Telegraphed by the boss lowering his shoulder. After about a second, he will charge forward, damaging all in his path.
Tail swipe - Rear cone attack, telegraphed by the boss pausing and raising his tail.
Claw swipe - Frontal cleaving attack, telegraphed the boss rearing up on his hind legs and raising one arm.

It is highly recommended to stay to the flank of the boss, as this puts you in a "safe zone" between the range of his frontal cleave and tail swipe. At approx 60% health, phase 2 will begin.

At the start of phase 2, Giruvenganaus will summon a clone of himself, with all the same attacks and stats as the original, and at full health. He will also gain 2 new attacks, which are shared with his clone:

Fireball - the boss will turn to face a random player and launch a fireball, hitting in a circular AoE where the target was standing. This is telegraphed by the boss raising his hands to his mouth, as well as a small flame appearing in his mouth as he turns toward his target.
Fire breath - the boss will breathe fire in a small frontal cone. There is no telegraph for this one, just try to avoid being in front of the boss.

In this phase, it is best to ignore the clone in favor of bursting down the original boss, dodging attacks when necessary. Once the original is dead, focus on attacking the clone, who should follow soon afterward.