Defeat the Ley-Line Anomaly to disperse its destructive energy before it overloads

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Defeat the Ley-Line Anomaly to disperse its destructive energy before it overloads

Event maps
Anomaly Iron Marshes Path.jpg
Path in Iron Marches.
Anomaly Timberline Falls path.jpg
Path in Timberline Falls.
Anomaly Gendarran Fields path.jpg

Path in Gendarran Fields.

Defeat the Ley-Line Anomaly to disperse its destructive energy before it overloads is a level 26, 54, or 56 map-wide event that occurs respectively in Gendarran Fields, Iron Marches, or Timberline Falls. These are areas with overflowing ley line energy, whereas other zones have smaller leaks.

This event spawns 20 minutes after even-numbered hours in server time (UTC) on a fixed cycle through the three zones. Using a Ley-Infused Lodestone will indicate which zone is currently active or will have an event soon.

Objectives[edit]

  • Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly
  • Event bar.jpg Event boss (tango icon).png
  • Break the anomaly's defiance to stop it.
  • Defeat anomaly fragments to prevent the anomaly from gaining power in x/0:59
  • The anomaly is vulnerable!
  • Magic Energy Absorbed
  • Event bar empty2.jpg

Rewards[edit]

Reward tier Experience Karma Coin
Gold 1,096 Experience.png 135 Karma 31 Copper coin
Silver 931 Experience.png 115 Karma 27 Copper coin
Bronze 822 Experience.png 102 Karma 24 Copper coin
These are the expected rewards for a level 26 player. Higher level players receive dynamically adjusted rewards.
Reward tier Experience Karma Coin
Gold 4,756 Experience.png 261 Karma 61 Copper coin
Silver 4,043 Experience.png 222 Karma 52 Copper coin
Bronze 3,567 Experience.png 196 Karma 46 Copper coin
These are the expected rewards for a level 54 player. Higher level players receive dynamically adjusted rewards.
Reward tier Experience Karma Coin
Gold 5,285 Experience.png 270 Karma 63 Copper coin
Silver 4,492 Experience.png 230 Karma 53 Copper coin
Bronze 3,964 Experience.png 203 Karma 47 Copper coin
These are the expected rewards for a level 56 player. Higher level players receive dynamically adjusted rewards.

Walkthrough[edit]

The anomaly will alternate between chase, defend, and attack phases. During a chase players follow the anomaly and use crowd control to break its defiance bar to stop it from running toward new coalescences that spawn in a side event. The coalescences will eventually be absorbed by the anomaly unless players defeat them, causing a magical explosion that will down nearby players. If too many coalescences are absorbed, the anomaly will gain an uncontrollable amount of magic causing a massive magical explosion and the event will fail. Breaking its defiance forces the anomaly to crouch defensively and eject part of its energy as Anomaly Fragments for one minute. Unless players defeat fragments, they will approach the anomaly and give it a stack of Ley-line Accumulation by fusing back with it. At the end of a defense phase, the anomaly will stop creating fragments to attack, becoming vulnerable for 45 seconds (as long as the Enraged effect is active). When that time is up, it resumes fleeing, repeating the chase phase.

While the anomaly is completely immune to power damage when not attacking back, it still takes a very small amount of condition damage inflicted. This can be used to finish it off if it flees when only a few percentage points (usually about 1-4%) of health is left, though this may require others to abstain from using Crowd control effects, as it becomes untargetable after being stopped.

NPCs[edit]

Foes[edit]

Event Timer[edit]

Previous 2 hoursNext 2 hours
00:00 UTC

Related achievements[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • It is possible to avoid the damage from the overloaded anomaly's explosions by blocking or using invulnerability.
  • A failed event will leave a stream of ley energy behind that causes Ley-Energy Sickness to nearby players.
  • With the July 26, 2016 patch, upon defeating the orbs that the anomaly splits into have turned blue and grant 1 Unbound Magic.png Unbound Magic upon being touched.
  • It spawns in one of the locations above every 2 hours and spawns in the same map every 6 hours. A Ley-Infused Lodestone will indicate which map it is in or just spawned in.
  • Note that the spawn times written here correspond to your local time zone, not server time, which is UTC+0.
  • While the location of where the anomaly will spawn is a randomly chosen location out of eight per zone they appear in, the following waypoints are closer to the more popular spawn points:
    • Gendarran Fields (Provern Shore) Waypoint (map icon).png Provern Shore Waypoint
    • Iron Marches (Monger's Sink) Waypoint (map icon).png Village of Scalecatch Waypoint
    • Timberline Falls (Fisher's Eye Bridges) Waypoint (map icon).png Valance Tutory Waypoint

See also[edit]