Fire Temple Instance 30+

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There is a pathway right down the middle of these spirits, but be careful not to aggro any (right or left side...walk trouh midle and be aware of "walking mob")!

The only thing excessively difficult about the fire spirits in this room is how many there are. With precision running, a group can navigate directly through the middle of the room without having to kill more than one or two of the spirits, but if you're looking to go the safer route, you can hug and follow the right wall all the way around the room. You will have a couple 3 pull mobs throughout the instance, but for the most part if you pay attention to your patrols, you can get away with 2. With a little bit of CC, you shouldn't have much of an issue.



Once you've passed the fire spirit room, you will come to a steep hill. Be aware that this is the closest area that Silver Blade Rotan will spawn and patrol, so keep that in mind while pulling mobs to fight.
Once at the base of the hill, you find yourself facing your first fork in the road. If you wish to check for Blue Crystal Molgat and Lava Gatneri, continue forward and check the two rooms before you. Lava Gatneri has a chance to drop gold rarity,(unconfirmed by anyone) so this boss is a must if you're looking for gear on these runs. To get to Kromede the Corrupt / Vile Judge Kromede, (second form of Kromede has a high drop rate, drop % for The corrupt is 1%and drop % for vile judge is 6%, means just a 5% more. Is really annoying to kill her becouse she will cast her first AOE every 30-35 until she hits 50%hp will cast it every 23-27 seconds, after she drops to 25%hp she will cast "last struggle" aoe!
), take the left path past the lava pit. Take care not to fall INTO the lava pit as there is no way out- you will have to use return and run back while your party waits.



Once around the lava pit, you will come to a hill that goes upwards. This is where you really have to begin to take caution with your pulls. At the top of the hill, you begin to have groups of two gargoyles sitting along the walls and patrolling. They are also quite fast as they are flying mobs, so if you and your group need to flee, I suggest using the hill you just came up to glide down and gain some distance from them.




From here, you can fight your way up the hill to the left to have a shot at finding Flame Branch Flavi and Black Smoke Asparn. They're a little bit out of the way, but give you more chances for armor drops and Flavi can drop a rarity.

Once back in the central room where Rotan and Sipus have the chance of being, you can continue to finish up the instance. From here, going straight will take you to Denlavis who is a chain quest NPC who has reward Hannet's Weapons
Quest 1 Hannet's Lost Love
Quest 2 [Spy/Group] Finding Denlavis (this is just a trick,is not a spy quest...just need find Denlavis and talk to him)
Quest 3 [Spy/Group] Hannet's Vengeance

Your best bet to avoid unmanageable fights is to choose the left or right pathways instead of fighting straight down the middle of her room. You are able to easily pull Kromede off to the side without the risk of aggroing anything else in the room, so use that space to your advantage.
She is scary fast and uses a bow as her main weapon. Running from her will do nothing for you. Still, you want your ranged and healers to stay back as far as they can. Kromede does powerful AoE attacks that can take down your squishier players very quickly. Have your tank stay on Kromede at all times pulling as much hate as possible. Assassins and Gladiators should run away from her when she begins to charge up these AoEs. In addition to her melee AoE attacks, she also drops a set of 3 traps that explode causing AoE damage. Have your gladiator keep an eye out for these and do an AoE of their own to take them out before they can explode. There is only one point of the fight I'd consider very dangerous and that is when Kromede reaches roughly 1/4 health. She will use her normal AoE and shortly after use a very powerful AoE called Miserable Struggle to follow up. This AoE has one-shotted people in my groups many times, so be aware of these abilities and run from them if you are not tanking. If you are the group's Templar, make sure you use your Aion Armory Spell and Aion Armory Spell about this point in the fight to ensure that you survive the hit.