Kil’cik the Swarm Lord

Mechanics

For tanking Kil’Cik, you should put your back to a wall to nullify the knockback. Choose a section of wall where you can move along it periodically, as you will need to avoid the boss’ Caustic Sludge (often referred to as spit). You may also periodically be stunned by the boss.

Under no circumstances should you push yourself up the hill to the East of the arena – this typically ends up with groups taking extra damage from Caustic Sludge. Just stay in the open area against the wall.

Have all the DPS and healers gather directly behind the boss so adds group up as a result. Melee player will want to be mindful of standing in Caustic Sludge, or spit. Else, the only thing to be mindful of past that point is to manage add spawns.

Since everyone is stacked up around the boss, simply let them come under the boss, have the tank/off-tank AoE taunt, and AoE the entire group down.

If players stand outside the group they are more likely to be killed when adds gang up on them. Adds include medics, elites, champions and strong mobs.

Abilities

• Medic!: Summons a Geonosian Combat Medic during the cast. Typically 2 are summoned at a time. The cooldown of this skill is 60 seconds.
• Guards!: Summons adds called Guardian of Kil’cik on a 60 second cooldown. Typically two are summoned at a time. The adds deal weapon damage.
• Slaves! Get Them!: Summons adds called Geonosian Slave on a 45 second cooldown. Typically summons 4 adds. Can be interrupted. This add deals weapon damage.
• Vengeance!: Applies a buff to nearly Guardian adds to buff their damage done by 100% and reduce damage taken by 15%. This lasts 38 seconds or until they die. The buff can go out up to every 15 seconds and has as 2 second cast.
• Violent Incentives: Applies a buff to nearly Slave adds increasing their damage by 100%. This occurs about every 15 seconds and the buff lasts 50 seconds or until the add dies.
• Melt Armor: Indicated by a 1 second cast, this drops a puddle of spit on the ground that, if stepped in, applies a stacking debuff called Caustic Sludge that deals progressively more damage. The debuff will fall off if not refreshed within 2 seconds. It deals damage and also reduces defense by 20% per stack, up to 5 stacks total.
• Psionic Flash: This ability stuns the target for 3 seconds and deals 3 ticks of damage. It is preceded by a debuff called Whispers of the Hive that lasts 30 seconds, which causes the next Psionic Flash to stun the affected player.