| abstract | - Talk to Jiaju Tai in Lion's Arch to travel to D'Alessio Seaboard, where Hakewood is located. Travel north off of the beach and follow the path straight to Dinas, who will open the nearby gate and update your quest. Progress through the swamp. Several groups of White Mantle line the path to the temple, but none are larger than 4 mobs, and most are only 2. They should provide minimal challenge, just focus on killing healers and foes with resurrection skills first. Several groups can be easily bypassed. Careful positioning discipline is needed at the temple, where awaits a much larger group of White Mantle and the Jade boss Cairn the Grave. Be very careful in your pulls here, as the several groups in the vacinity of the temple patrol through the temple. Posting the party below the approach stair case is reasonable. You should clear out the patrols in the area before pulling the boss group, or else you run the risk of becoming swamped by enemies while fighting the boss. In fact, many groups (many) come in after you get rid of the first groups from either side. Just because the area is clear a while, WAIT as more groups will appear! Clear them all first. These include Jade Armors, Bows and Cloaks, so Pain Inverter is very useful. At the center of the temple is a final group of Mantle, along with a Mantle Dervish boss Justiciar Kasandra and the Mursaat Necromancer Koril the Malignant. The group itself should be pulled away from Koril. Koril the Malignant is fairly straightforward; except that a group of Mantle spawn in the temple and attack when you engage him, and another will spawn when he gets low on health. Squishies should get behind the boss to avoid getting targeted by the additional mobs. He uses Sacrifice Pawn which siphons all of an ally's health. Since the allies take more damage you should dispose of them first then focus on the boss; unless you are confident in your spike damage. It is possible to avoid agroing the patrols by positioning your entire party behind the boss on the raised platform. Doing so will allow you to engage the boss group without being attacked by the surrounding enemies. You may want to consider bringing additional hex removal skills; and do not rely on degen as the additional health regeneration he gains from Life Transfer and Life Siphon, on top of Blood Renewal causes him to simply ignore most degeneration. Despite all of this, with enough damage he will fall and the quest will be complete. The party resurrects way back at the start when it wipes. When Koril the Malignant dies you have 15 seconds to pick up drops before being sped back to Lion's Arch.
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