Shadow Realm of Phantom
Upgrade your Shadow Equipment!
Overview
Shadow Secret Realm is a weekly instance that rewards you with Shadow Magic Ore, used to upgrade Shadow Equipment. You may only run this instance five (5) times per week regardless of which difficulty you choose.
Your first weekly clear does not consume combat time! However, additional clears will consume 60 minutes of combat time. Each week after your first clear you can use the "Raid" button to instantly complete this instance up to four more times. You still have to clear this once per week to use this feature.
How to Access
To unlock this instance you must be base level 120 to start the Alberta main questline. Work your way through this questline to unlock this instance.
How does this instance work?
Three stages of difficulty are offered, with higher difficulties rewarding the best ores needed to fully upgrade your shadow equipment. Completing higher difficulties also rewards you with the ores you would have received from previous difficulties like Oracle Dungeon. Always try to queue up for the highest difficulty on Elite if you meet the level requirements.
Once you enter you'll work your way from room to room towards the boss. After clearing a room you'll choose between two elements. This choice determines the element of the monsters in the next room. Once four rooms are clear you then choose the element for the final boss.
Each time you enter a room and are given elemental choices, both choices are removed from the final boss so you will always have three (3) elements left to choose from for the final boss.
Each difficulty has a set pattern so you can plan your runs in advance. I've provided an example of paths through Difficulty I. Remember, Difficulties II and III will have different layouts so plan accordingly.
For example #1, say you chose to go right (Poison), right (Ghost), and right (Earth). You were given the option to choose from Shadow, Holy, and Water along this path. This means the only elements left to choose from here would be Neutral, Fire, and Wind.
For example #2, say you chose to go right (Poison), left (Holy), left (Fire). You were given the option to choose from Shadow, Ghost, Water. This means the only elements left to choose from are Neutral, Wind, and Earth.
Paths through Difficulty I
Example Path #1
Example Path #2
Once you arrive at the boss it will deploy a shield (yellow bar) that cannot be damaged until various Elemental Orbs are defeated. These orbs spawn around the boss so quickly defeat them in order to continue damaging the boss. Each boss has slight variations in their attack patterns and skills depending on the path you took but none of them seem to be particularly hard. It's pretty easy to find a group that can steamroll this content so find yourself a group and go for it!