Hpal Dungeons Guides

In the first area of Ara-kara you'll find spiders galore (unless you have arachnaphobia mode on like I do... highly highly recommend), many of which can be dangerous if not kicked or stopped properly. Trilling Attendant's Resonant Barrage cast is the most deadly, but they also spam cast Web Bolt which deals heavy single target damage to a random player so I highly suggest sending kicks on Web Bolts and Blinding Light on Resonant Barrage as it is a channeled ability so it won't recast once stopped. Starved Crawler's will Ambush random players so look for a BoP use to help with the damage if someone is getting spam targeted. The only other non-mini boss trash mob to worry about are the Engorged Crawlers who will cast Venomous Spit on random players which you should be dispelling whenever your dispel is off cooldown (always prio the highest stack count for dispel). These are also your best targets to use HoJ on since the cast cannot be kicked.

The first mini boss Ixin doesn't do much other than a frontal and a cast (Horrifying Shrill) which HAS to be kicked or it's almost guarenteed to be a wipe. In the event the cast does go off for any reason, press bubble IMMEDIATELY and Sac the tank as that's the only way your group can survive the 5 second fear + group damage. The second mini boss, Nakt, is the dangerous one for healers, so make sure you have holy power and virtue available going into each Call of the Brood cast (it has a long internal cooldown so you're likely to only get the first one but always be ready for a second in case your group is light on cooldowns or damage). Atik, the third mini boss, is not very deadly but IS extremely annoying for melee since the poison clouds fill up the area very quickly. Focus on dodging and kicking as there shouldn't be much damage of any kind going out unless your friends are all bathing in the poisonous clouds.

WARNING: Bubble is STILL bugged and does not immune you from the white circles of the frontal cast of the mini bosses so if you press Bubble you still need to dodge that mechanic.

The only difference between the trash in the first area and here are the Hulking Bloodguards which do a big AoE damage pulse channel and the Sentry Stagshells who have to be stopped to prevent their 10 second spam cast of Alarm Shrill from getting off. Make sure you have Wings, Divine Toll, or big defensives for each Locust Swarm cast from the Hulking Bloodguard as it is a lot of AoE damage. The big thing to look out for here as a healer are the Bloodworker charges during Locust Swarm. Clothies especially will take very heavy damage from this so BoP can be really clutch to provide dr to Locust Swarm and immunity to the charges.

While the Bloodstained Webmages in this area are similar to the Trilling Attendants in the first area, the big difference is that their big cooldown cast Revolting Volley recasts if AoE stopped so you'll need to make sure someone has a kick ready for it. This entire area is full of mobs that HoJ and Blinding Light are very useful for between the Sentry Stagshells and the Bloodstained Webmages, utilizing these heavily will make more of a difference in your groups survivability than any throughput cooldowns you have.

In this area you have to watch out for the purple pools lying around the room, if anyone steps in them the Black Blood add that spawns has to be CCd immediately so use HoJ or Blinding Light to help with this if you or your friends accidentally walk into one. Freedom can also be used to free your friends as well, but its generally best used on the tank any time swirls spawn as the Reinforced Drones in this area apply a stacking movement slow debuff (Tainted Blood) that makes dodging very difficult for your tank. Look to either Freedom or Dispel your tank every time the overseer casts Erupting Webs

The Overseers here are just a simple kick and dodge mob so set your focus to these guys and make sure they never get Venom Volley off.