Ghillieglade is a special solo dungeon for level 65 players.
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It is accessed through the teleport scroll "Velik's Opportunity" that can be bought for VG Credits from Sionne in Highwatch or other Vanguard merchant. Elite / premium account gives free teleport scroll in the perks bar.
main boss Banyakas, Ghilliedhu Patriarch
The teleport scroll will lead you to goddess Velik's sanctuary and to teleporter to the Ghillieglade entrance.
Velik’s Sanctuary where dungeon entrance is located
All Players now start in front of the last boss Banyakas. There you have to destroy the red crystal. Reward chest will spawn after fight is finished. Break it and take loot!
Chest gives some random loot like Goldfinger Tokens (Collect for an Undergarment bag that contains a random innerwear), rubies, emeralds, or rarely even diamonds, random upgrade mats in small quantities (After Gameforge has taken over NA Tera the new drops are Adventure Coins, Elinu's Tears, Elleon's Tokens, Valkyon Coins, Goldfinger Tokens, Banyaka's Rootlocked Treasure.) and some obsolete enchanting items.
In patch v110 loot was buffed and entries limited. It now gives enchanting materials Mahtnan gear (75 non-bankable, non-tradeable Murky Powder, 50 AWAKE Tokens, 20 Mahtnan Ash) in addition of few older rewards.
Hints[]
During boss fight some ghilliedhus mobs spawn. Kill those to get health motes.
On last boss the red crystal has its backside outside, towards player. This means normal back-dps weapon crystals can be used. However, the boss itself has his front towards player, which means he crits much less and normal DPS crystals are useless. Characters with low gear like Guardian or low-end Twistshard can use Wrathful crystal to do more damage to boss from front and Savage to kill crystal faster. Also buffs to give more crit rate like Quickcarve brooch can be used to fight boss.
Some classes get skills to do backcrits even from front with some buff skills (Slayer's Savage Strike, berserker's Unleash, priest's Edict of Judgment, ...). However character who has gear to get Apex skills has no problems killing boss anyway. There is small area where ranged classed like sorcerer and archer can do side crits to boss to benefit from their back+side crit power bonus during boss fight.[1] Tanks can also enrage crystal to do more damage.
Around patch v108 Ghillieglade bosses got huge buffs, and it again takes a minute or so to finish it. Relevant gear (Mahtnan) no longer has crystals, but backcrits are still relevant.
When fight is over it's recommended to exit dungeon with command /reset. That resets dungeon and bosses to allow second run.
Fastest way to do two runs is to use scroll again inside dungeon, which teleports you back to Velik, after that do /reset before entering dungeon again. This avoids loading Velika city models.
You can actually leave your alts in Velik's Sanctuary and use them only for Ghillieglade. (Velik's Sanctuary is odd place, since it's actually located on dungeon server, and you can see players from other servers when you're there. Once in a day violet campfire spawns in Velik's Sanctuary, guess it was meant to give chance to use Charms there. Without firewood available it goes out in 15 min after it spawns.)
History[]
Ghillieglade was added in July 2014 update. Teleportal was originally located in Deva Silva in Oblivion Woods. Dungeon could be entered daily without fee. Achievements related to dungeon could only be completed with this level 60 version. In TERA: Fate of Arun dungeon was changed to its current location.
Ghillieglade originally had three bosses. The First boss mission is to protect guardian from attacking mobs until all crystals where mobs spawn break. Second boss encounter is to defend second guardian while he recovers. You must attack two teraliths to stun them or draw aggro so they won't hit guardian. If player chose to skip the two guardians they get possessed and spawn on sides to do random stun attacks (red rings) during boss fight. Also boss fight gets harder and you have to damage boss himself to bring him down to around 30%.
Player spawn place was changed from it's original location to middle of the dungeon. This makes it faster to reach Banyakas. In late 2020 it seems lower bosses are totally sealed off and you're meant to fight only Banyakas.
In patch v110 End of September 2021 Ghillieglade was limited to one entry per account, following the change from KTERA. (Although it was not limited but 2nd day of patch...)