GW Guide: Guide to Defeating Cyndr the Mountain Heart

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Its not even that hard!

Guide to defeating Cyndr the Mountain Heart (Boss of Heart of the Shiverpeaks quest first time)(Second time Magnus the Ooze spawns)

Firstly Heart of the Shiverpeaks is a three laeyerd dungeon in eye of the north that needs to be compleated to advance the main storyline.

Cyndr is invunrable to almost all types of damage untill you break his thick carapace even to health degen via hexes and conditions (even untyped damage) and also from conditions (although deep wound still reduces his max health by 20%) This can be cracked by droping specil powder kegs from the dwarf that accompanies you (Budger Blackpowder) which decrease it's health by 33%

There are many diffrent ways to defeat Cyndr starting with the bonding monks-

Hero/Henchmen
Recomended Heros
1-2 monks (bonders)* (Skills:OwIU0y3CPLGOMe1Lk6bjpk6A)
Your Choise

Henchmen
2 monks
Your Choice
* It is possable and even easy to do this with only one monk, if you prefure to only use one it is recomended to take another hero with high armour Skills are normal bonding monk + symbolis (To make heros use bonds then disable their use by ctrl+click and trigger manualy)

Your Skills should include running skills that can be maintained at least half the time
As Cynder dosent have blockable skills defencive qualitys don't matter and therefore go for speed/duration

There are undead and burning enimys to consider if you are a monk

The dungon itself is actualy very easy and you should have no problems with that, some points too look out for is near the end then you will see many burning monsters that can cause trouble although they are easy to avoid

Past that then there is a resserection shrine and the Hammer of the great Dwarf
Dont go rushing in! firstly flag your heros in the entrance next to the ress shrine and run to the hammer then run back before Cyndr spawns, Blackpowder will follow you and stay out there but he cant be targeted by Cyndr.

Now the chalange begins...

You should now see a meter with the health of Cyndr's carapace, when this is destroyed you only have a short time untill the carapace regenerates and unlike most dungeon bosses he heals himself so you mustent let up

The first thing you should do is set up the bonding monks, if you only have one then merly do this to a heavely armourd hero and send it out into Cyndr's attack range (which is huge!) after he starts getting hit then flag him to that spot and flagg the monk to where it cant be hit but can heal the bonded and drop symbolis which should boost its health enough that being hit by plyroclastic shot ( discription dmg 80 real dmg 250~ + burning + crippled ) a small annoyance. Make sure to flag the henchmen monks to healing range of the monk so that the feedback damage is also healed.

If you have two monks then just bond them togeather and send them both out mut make sure they cannot BOTH be hit at the same time. Now that Cyndr is distracted then it is easy to run from blackpowder to cynder repetitivly and drop powderkegs on him, This should very rapidly kill him. If you arnt sure about it then becuse hero flags override the gernal flag you can send all unflagged party members to attack him at the same time (although your damage will very likely be less than powderkeging. If he is not killed then simpely send the heros back to the ress shrine when he burrows and move the monk + bondee to start again

Life Stealing method-

This is even easyer, although less fun. Firstly this cannot be done to its best effectivness withought another person and heros as well, as the chars you will use is pure lifestealing, weather through touch rangeres or spells liek shadowstryke as these pass through the carapace and do direct damage. Simpaly run up to him (avoid the lava) and spam life stealing skills with a monk or two for backup healing. This way is realy easy to kill him and is unlikely to fail.

Note: pyroclastic shot causes powderkegs to exsplode, even if next to the maw heart this dose no damage to its carapace.