The Oculus: The Sanctum of Resurrection

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The Oculus: The Sanctum of Resurrection
Location	Abysmal Sky Tower
Min. Level	100
Level	100
Monster Level	135
End Boss	Prophet Ezra

Description

The Oculus, meaning the eye that reflects the world, is a place featured in a legend of the dark elves that tells of a being who was higher than the sky and its clone who was confined in this place. The Grim Seekers have occupied and declared The Oculus their sanctum, calling it the place of resurrection of a great being, and are now performing a secret ritual in there.

Entrance Requirements & Rules

• Reach Level 100.
• Accept and clear the Another Sign Scenario Quest from Oberith first.
• No materials required.
• 30 Fatigue Points.
• Party of 4. (Normal/Abyssal)
• 5,750 Exorcism or higher required.
• Opened on all days and can enter once a day up to three times. (Daily Entry count resets 9:00 UTC)
  • The third entry can be seen as a backup, but cannot offer rewards if the dungeon was ran twice.
• Weekly rewards can only be received twice. (Weekly Reward count resets on Tuesdays)
• Speak with Knight Robato to create a party inside the Oculus channel, once everything is fully prepared, talk to Highmore on the right side to start initiating the mission.
• Although the  Life Token limit is 2, this can be increased.
• There is no penalty for retreating the dungeon. When resuming through Highmore, you'll restart at the beginning point of your last floor, and normal monsters respawn.

Time Limit

• You have 20 Minutes in the form of a Ritual Completion gauge that is located beneath the Mini-map status board. The gauge itself will increase slowly by 1% and if it reaches 100%, the mission fails and your entry count is replenished. However, the percentage can be lowered by defeating specific bosses or accessing Nayu's shop if she's freed from defeating Tria Cerebrum.

Unique Effects

• Weaken Barrier: Defeating either Roseberry or Louise results in by not only interrupting the Grim Seekers' Ritual that lowers the gauge by 20%, but adds a Damage Intensification effect to the party.

• Chaotic Effect: On either Shelter floor, the party's vision is blocked by a "Imposters' Fog", meaning that it prevents them from seeing the entire map layout including bosses that are located and the normal monsters that are on that current floor will be strengthened with increased stats. Defeating either or both Blood Ria & Nerolotte will weaken the effect that's able to stack twice and restores vision to make the map traversing easier alongside removing the buff on that specific floor.

• Killing Volcano Spider -  Life Token count will be increased by 4.
• Killing Tria Cerebrum - NPC Merchant Trainee Nayu is rescued and her shop is accessed on all floors.

Normal Mode (Group)

Released in May 2020, The Oculus: The Sanctum of Resurrection is a special dungeon located in the Abysmal Sky Tower that has now been occupied by the Grim Seekers to carry out their ritual on resurrecting Apostle Sirocco. Inside of the Oculus, consists of 4 Basement Floors in total known as "Pilgrim Shelters" with B4 being the "Altar of Truth" where Prophet Ezra dwells. Your main goal is to traverse through this huge dungeon, defeat Ezra and interrupt the ritual.

The Mini-Map Interface displayed in The Oculus on Guide Mode.

B1-B3 (Pilgrim Shelters)

• The party will always start off on the upper right corner of each shelter that act as floors consisting of 15 rooms that are filled with normal monsters that changes in appearance when descending. Floor bosses such as Roseberry or Louise spawn at B1-B2 and Mini-Bosses like Blood Ria, Nerolotte, etc can randomly spawn on either floor in different positions with Soryun herself is always located within B3 that's mandatory to defeat in order to access B4: Altar of Truth.

• Each one of these bosses are completely optional to defeat or skip entirely, although the latter decision to skip either Grim Seeker boss can heavily affect the outcome regarding Soryun's fight when encountering her in Shelter B3.

• Cooldowns on party members' skills will be reset upon descending into another Shelter floor.

B4 (Altar of Truth)

• This is where Prophet Ezra's located, defeat Soryun in Pilgrim Shelter B3 first to access the stairs.
• Defeating Ezra will clear The Oculus.

Monsters

Grim Seekers

•  Prophet Ezra (B4)
•  Lone Roseberry (B1 - B2)
•  Hellcat Louise (B1 - B2)
•  Red Ghost Soryun, Apostle-obsessed Soryun (B3)
  • (Apostle-Obsessed form only activates when skipping Roseberry/Louise)

Imposters

•  Blood Ria
•  Nerolotte

Pandemonium

•  Volcano Spider
•  Tria Cerberum

Rewards

• Upon defeating Ezra, he'll have a chance to drop:
  • 23 - 28  Time's Guide Stones
  • Level 100 Epic or Mythic Equipment

• Card Flip rewards will yield:
  • 46  Black Crystals
  • 90 - 110  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls

• Gold Flips will yield:
  • 1 Oculus Unique or Legendary Monster Card
  • 100 additional  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls
  • 1 Product of Wisdom Recipe

Dark Soul Converter (Ditto Epic)

• By gathering enough  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls, Robato rewards players with a  Purged Soul Box that allows them to generate or convert a Level 100 Epic Armor/Accessory/Special Equipment of their choosing, otherwise known as a "Ditto Epic".

Requirements & Restrictions

• Accept and complete [Sanctum of Resurrection] Put Them to Rest.
• Accumulate 1260  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls.
• Epic Equipment outside of  Purged Soul Box cannot be used.
• 1  Epic Soul & 70  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls are needed to exchange the Ditto Epic into a different item at any time.
• Once you've exchanged, the previous equipment's Reinforced/Amplified/Enchanted effects will disappear and it's quality grade is randomly chosen.

Abyssal Sanctum (Hard Mode)

(Under Construction)

Guide Mode (Solo)

A month later in June 2020, The Oculus would receive another update that includes Guide Mode alongside the Abyssal Sanctum. Oculus Guide Mode is essentially an easier version of the dungeon that's preferred for Solo-only players.

The Oculus Guide Requirements & Adjustments

• Reach Level 100.
• Accept and clear the Another Sign Scenario Quest from Oberith first.
• 30 Fatigue Points.
• Solo only.
• 5,540 Exorcism or higher required.
• Shares the same Daily/Weekly Entry count as Oculus Normal.
• Rewards are reduced.
• Time Limit remains the same.
•  Life Token limit is raised to 6.
• Encountering specific Bosses opens up a guide-exclusive UI for 10 seconds. Limited to the first encounter only and this can be disabled on the Mini-Map.
• Trainee Nayu's potions that purchased in her shop in Guide Mode can only be used in that difficulty and are restricted from usage in both Oculus Normal & Abyssal.

Monster Adjustments

• All monsters (Normal/Bosses) will have their stats and difficulty lowered.
• Prophet Ezra's Final Ritual pattern adjusted to have two clones.

Rewards (Guide Mode)

• Upon defeating Ezra, he'll have a chance to drop:
  • 13 - 18  Time's Guide Stones
  • Level 100 Epic or Mythic Equipment

• Card Flip rewards will yield:
  • 28  Black Crystals
  • 54 - 66  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls

• Gold Flip rewards can yield:
  • 1 Oculus Unique or Legendary Monster Card
  • 60 additional  Grim Seeker's Dark Souls
  • 1 Product of Wisdom Recipe