Shadow Realm of Phantom

Upgrade your Shadow Equipment!

What is Shadow Realm of Phantom?

Shadow Realm of Phantom is a weekly 6-man instance that rewards you with materials to upgrade Phantom Equipment. You may only run this instance five (5) times per week regardless of which difficulty you choose. You still have to clear this once per week to use the Raid feature.

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.

How to Unlock

Once you reach base level 120 this will unlock in the Instance menu.

Location of Secret Realm of Phantom in the Instance menu

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. This means running the hardest difficulty rewards you with all three ores. 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!

Rewards

Phantom equipment is not a new set of equipment, but an enhancement to existing equipment that allows them to be equipped into your phantom slots. To enhance your equipment to do this you must use ores rewarded from this instance to add this capability to your gear.

Initially your phantom equipment only provides 10% of its original stats but further ore investment into a piece of gear increases this up to a maximum of 50%, while providing a unique bonus at max level.

There are two categories of equipment: Normal and Ancient. Your phantom equipment slot can only equip the opposite type of gear that's equipped into your regular gear slot. For example, if you're wearing a regular offhand like a Rosa Bracelet then your phantom equipped offhand can only be a piece of ancient equipment. This means you need to plan out what pieces to enhance for this feature.