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Fraenir of Jormag Strike Mission Guide

GW2. A guide to the Fraenir of Jormag Strike Mission from The Icebrood Saga.


The Fraenir of Jormag is a strike mission which is a 10 player boss encounter from the Whisper in the Dark episode. This Strike Mission is one of the easiest and works well as a starting point for players who want to get into instanced content.


Getting There and LFG


Access the Fraenir of Jormag Strike Mission from the Eye of the North portal or the Raven Sanctum in Bjora Marches.


If you don’t have a static group to run this, you might want to find a group using the LFG tool. Usually, you can find groups advertising in LFG with the name “IBS EZ3” which will also include the Shiverpeak Pass, and Voice of the Fallen and Claw of the Fallen strike missions.

The most common squad composition will ask for 2-3 healers, quickness and alacrity and the rest DPS. Check the builds here: Strike Mission Builds.


Boss Mechanics


There are two phases to this boss. There are minimal mechanics to each. While in the Fraenir phase there are two main mechanics:

An arrow will indicate a blast that the boss will shoot towards a specific player. If the player notices they have the arrow following them, they can face it away from their squad.

Icicles – will spawn around the room and if a player gets hit they become an ice block and must continuously press their 1 skill to get out.



The Construct phase will transform the boss into a large icy golem. During this form, the boss does new attacks:

Shockwaves – The construct will pound the ground and send out a shockwave that you can dodge or jump over.

Sweep – The construct will hit half of the room with an icy attack, simply move to the other half.



Bound Elementals – will spawn and hatch into icebrood elementals if not destroyed quickly. If all of these hatch they can do a coordinated attack which can down your team. Spread out to kill the elementals or to avoid the coordinated ground AoE that can multiply the more stacked your squad is.



Strategy


Just stack in the center of the room. If the boss leaves, do not follow it because it will return shortly. Position around the mechanics and focus on killing the boss. The only thing that can potentially wipe your group is when the ice elementals spawn and do their coordinated attack. Be aware when this occurs, as it will happen shortly after they spawn.


Achievements


Elemental Elegy – 5AP

To earn this achievement, during the fight with Fraenir, some elementals will spawn around, inside ice, you need to destroy their ice and kill them before they are free, a total of 10 elementals.



Fraenir Frolic – 5AP

To complete this achievement, you need to defeat Fraenir without being hit by any shock wave, you can jump over them or dodge.


High Shaman, High Stakes – 5AP

To complete this achievement you need to defeat Fraenir without being downed or defeated, so simply you need to play safe.


Gameplay




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