Death's Abyss Dungeon: How to Beat Karnix

Death's Abyss is a 1-Star Dimensional Circle dungeon where you must fight Karnix in Throne and Liberty (TL). Read on to see an overview of Death's Abyss, a complete walkthrough of Death's Abyss, how to beat Karnix, as well as the possible rewards and drops upon completion!

How to Beat Karnix

Karnix Boss Showcase

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Karnix Overview

Karnix
Type	Undead
Passive	Freedom Stance: Bind Resistance ▲

Karnix Mechanics

Karnix Mechanics
Use Defensive Skills for Fury Attacks Run Around During the Spinning Scythes Attack Gather Inside the Black Circle

Use Defensive Skills for Fury Attacks

Defeating Karnix is a straighforward task since the fight doesn't have any notable special mechanics. Dealing damage, dodging attacks, and using Defensive Skill against its fury attacks are practically the only things needed to defeat it.

However, there are a few small details to note to avoid getting killed.

Run Around During the Spinning Scythes Attack

One of Karnix's attacks has the boss mark three targets, then summon three large spinning scythes that each chase after the marked targets.

During this attack, the best strategy is to have the three marked targets run around the arena while staying away from the rest of the party until the scythes disappear to prevent them from taking unecessary damage.

Gather Inside the Black Circle

Karnix's most powerful attack is to mark a target with a black circle below it, then teleport near the target and attack. After that, it will follow up with a fury attack.

It is imperative that everyone in the party go to the marked target. This will spread the damage to everyone in the circle. Anyone who isn't in the circle will be hit by a fear state as soon as Karnix executes his attack, so they will not be able to block the fury attack that Karnix executes afterwards.

To make things easier, just have all the party members, including the marked target, huddle somewhere in the middle of the arena once a target is marked. This does require the entire party to stop attacking since they have to rush towards the marked target.

The Staff's Salvation Chain can be used on party members who are further away from the black circle to help them reach it in time.

Karnix Attack Patterns

Teleport Attack

Karnix teleports around the arena, then unleashes a wave attack. It performs this attack about three (3) consecutive times.

Slam Attack

Karnix levitates in the air and charges up an attack, then slams the ground with its scythe, creating a wide shockwave. This is a blockable attack.

Spinning Scythes

Karnix marks the three (3) closest targets, then summons a large spinning scythe for each target that chases them around. This attack is unblockable.

Death Cleave

Karnix marks a target with a black circle, then teleports to the target and performs a slashing attack with his scythe. Damage is distributed to party members within the black circle. This attack is immediately followed by a fury attack that must be blocked.

Death's Abyss Best Team and Roles

Role	Explanation
Greatsword / Sword and Shield Tank	Weapon Combination: The best tank class available, adept at mitigating damage and generating aggro. Dungeon Role: Confront enemies head-on, landing stuns on demand and for crowd control. Karnix Role: Tank most of Karnix's damage while making sure it faces away from the party to protect them from AoE attacks.
Longbow / Crossbow DPS	Weapon Combination: Ranged DPS who can constantly reapply Deadly Marker to specific targets. Dungeon Role: Can spec AoE for faster mob clearing. Karnix Role: Can provide continuous DPS even if Karnix teleports to other players, provided the party remains in close formation.
Crossbow / Dagger DPS	Weapon Combination: A short-range DPS that has arguably the highest single-target damage output of any of the playable classes. Dungeon Role: Able to take out specific key targets thanks to Mortal Mark and Weak Point Shot. Karnix Role: Focuses solely on DPS, but can easily deal with any mechanic thanks to it's high mobility.
Staff / Longbow DPS	Weapon Combination: Self-sustaining ranged DPS with plenty of versatility. Dungon Role: Can deal DPS from a safe distance thanks to its ranged skills. Can specialize in single-target damage or AoE. Karnix Role: Boost the DPS of everyone in the party with Deadly Marker while dealing damage. Able to pull allies caught out of position with Salvation Chain.
Wand / Longbow Healer	Weapon Combination: The best weapon combo for healing and increasing survivability by mitigating damage. Dungeon Role: Focuses on healing, and application of deadly Marker. Can take more damage skills if the party doesn't take too much damage. Karnix Role: Acts as the party's primary healer and secondary DPS. Can be replaced with a Wand / Staff class if Salvation Chain is needed.

Death's Abyss Walkthrough

	Death's Abyss Sequences
1	First Room In the first room, just take the leftmost path and defeat the enemies in the path since none of the enemies in that room need to be defeated to progress the dungeon. Try to avoid the Enchanted Arkeum Arbiter that's patroling in the middle.
2	First Secton of the Hallway Exiting the first room leads to a hallway where an Archer and a Healer stands guard on top of the stairs there that leads to the second section of the hall way and an Arbiter is patrolling back and forth. Wait until the Arbiter is far away from the two guards before taking its attention and defeating it. Afterwards, defeat the two guards before proceeding further.
3	Second Section of the Hallway Two Arbiters, one Wizard, and one Healer fill the second section of the hallway. Focus on the Healer first to prevent any damage dealt by the party to be undone. All enemies in the room need to be defeated to proceed further. After defeating all enemies, the gates leading to the second room will open.
4	Second Room The second room is similar to the first one. Just stay at the leftmost portion of the room to proceed and avoid fighting.
5	Third Room The third room is where the dungeon's first mini boss is located. Just head straight for the mini boss but be sure to proceed exactly in the middle of the room to avoid fighting the other enemies. ┗ How to defeat Elite Arkeum Shadowmancer
6	Activating the Levers After defeating the mini boss, go back to hallway to activate the two (2) levers. If the party has a Dagger user, that member can use Camouflage Cloak to sneak past enemies and head straight for the lever to activate it while the rest of the party goes for the other lever. Otherwise, the party can either split into two (2) groups to activate each lever or remain together to activate them one by one.
7	Fourth Room After activating the levers, the gate leading to the fourth room opens where an Elite Arkeum Riot Squad Captain is located, which is the second mini boss of the dungeon. Defeating the mini boss opens the gate leading to the final boss of the dungeon, Karnix. ┗ How to defeat Elite Arkeum Riot Squad Captain

How to Defeat Elite Arkeum Shadowmancer

The Elite Arkeum Shadowmancer doesn't have any special mechanics to defeat it but does have an attack that is a guaranteed kill if it completes the attack, making it hard to proceed.

This attack has the mini boss trap and lift up three targets. The only way to counter the attack is by inflicting the mini boss with a hard crowd control like a stun during this attack to prevent the targets' death.

How to Defeat Elite Arkeum Riot Squad Captain

The Elite Arkeum Riot Squad Captain has the same attacks as Enchanted Arkeum Arbiters with just an additional special move. This special move has the mini boss say, Impossible!, then create a damage-mitigating shield on itself. After a few moments, the mini boss will yell, Die!, and its shield turns red, then performs a devastating AOE attack.

When the shield turns red, stop dealing damage to it immediately. As soon as it screams Die!, immediately use Fury attacks to break through its shield, and use a hard CC once the shield is down to stop its cast.

Death's Abyss Overview

Required Level	Lv. 50
Type	1-Star Dimensional Circle
Contract Token	300
Min. Combat Power	1600
Description
The Arkeum Legion sent one expedition after another into Syleus's Abyss, desperate to harness the dark power residing within. None were prepared to face the countless monsters roaming the passageways, nor navigate the labyrinth, Every expedition failed. Upon discovering Heliber, the Legion seized on the idea of using him to gain control over the Abyss. They eventually managed to capture him, imprisoning him in a stone casket. Yet even stone could not hold Heliber forever, and when he broke free of his prison, he was even stronger than before. The sole Arkeum Shadowmancer to survive the encounter called upon the specter Karnix for help.

Death's Abyss Best Rewards and All Drops

Best Weapon

Weapon	Stats
Karnix's Netherblade	Type: Sword Damage: 46~85 Atk Spd: 0.522s Range: 2.5m Shield Block Chance: 10% Modifiers: ・Strength 6 ・Humanoid Bonus Damage 8 ・Max Health 1,005

Arguably the best weapon for sword and shield users due to the huge amount of Health it provides, as well as some extra Strength.
Sword and Shield Builds

All Drops

Weapons

All Weapon Drops
Karnix's Netherblade	Karnix's Netherbow	Sword of Striking

Armor

All Armor Drops
Grip of the Executioner	Plate of the Field General	Visor of the Infernal Herald	Decorated Champion Armor
Gloom Guard Gauntlets	Gloom Guard Greaves	Gloom Guard Plate Armor	Gloom Guard Sabatons
Gloom Guard Winged Helmet

Accessories

All Accessory Drops
Abyssal Grace Band	Kunzite Bangle	Platinum Skull Band

Items

All Item Drops
Precious Polished Crystal	Precious Stalon Ore	Precious Emeret Ore	Precious Rubrix Ore
Precious Marind Ore	Precious Parchment	Precious Omnipotence Parchment	Dimension Soul Shard: Karnix
Rare Polished Crystal	Reaper's Soul	Mana Blood

Other

All Death's Abyss Other Rewards
Tormented Writer Glynt	Abyssal Contract Token Points (x500)	Training Dew: 10,000 Points

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