Convergences

This article is about the Secrets of the Obscure public instance. For the Janthir Wilds instance, see Convergence: Mount Balrior. For similarly named content, see Convergence.

Convergences

Map of Convergences

Levels

80

Type

Instance

Within

The Mists

API

1523, 1527

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Journey into Inner Nayos to confront the Kryptis on their turf and close an unstable rift from the other side.
Difficulty scales based on group size.
Requires completion of the Duress chapter of the Secrets of the Obscure story to enter.[sic]

— In-game description

Convergences is a public instance during night supporting up to 50 players. It requires the expansion Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to enter.

Getting there

• Opened via the Convergences portal at The Wizard's Tower in Rift Hunter Lounge.
  • Private instance can be created with a squad at any time. It requires Unstable Kryptis Motivation to open.
  • Public instance opens every 3 hours at XX:30, starting from 01:30 for 10 minutes until XX:40.

Event schedule

Previous 2 hoursNext 2 hours

00:00 UTC

Start times: 01:30, 04:30, 07:30, 10:30, 13:30, 16:30, 19:30, 22:30

Locations

Area	Area objectives
Incursion Point
The Spire
The Killing Fields
Twisted Cathedral
Valley of the Damned
Watcher of the Woods

Objectives

• Interact with the unstable Kryptis rift to begin.
• Zojja has arrived to help with the unstable Kryptis rift.
  • Kryptis defenders arrive in: x seconds.
• Work with Zojja to close the rifts in the area.
  • Zojja
  • 
  • Essence for Resurrection Spell
  • 
    • Heroes Alive: x (Number of Players Alive)
    • Kryptis siege engines active: x
• Defend Zojja and empower her with essence!
  • Champion Avatar of Gluttony, Rage, Envy or Despair (Champions may be the same for two or three of the events.)
  • 
  • Champion Avatar of Gluttony, Rage, Envy or Despair
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  • Champion Avatar of Gluttony, Rage, Envy or Despair
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  • [Group Event] Defeat lieutenants to draw out and defeat their general.
    • Islands cleared: x/4
      • Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
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      • Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
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      • Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
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      • Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
      • 
      • Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
      • 
      • Lieutenants defeated x/5
      • Champion High Kryptis General
      • 
  • [Group Event] Defeat the legendary creature.
    • Demon Knight, Sorrow, Dreadwing, Hell Sister or Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus
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  • Convergences ends in: 10:00 (Appears 1 hour after the public Convergences portal opens)

Rewards

Success

Event Rewards - once per day

• Convergence: Hero's Choice Chest
• 2 
• 2,000 
• 53,340 
• Spirit Shard
• One of the following:
  • Common:
    • Piece of Unidentified Gear (1-3) or higher rarity
  • Rare:
    • Supreme Rune of Holding (1-5)
    • Amalgamated Gemstone (1)
    • Skyscale Weapon Box (1)

• A random Sinful, Abomination, Skyforged or Skyscale weapon.

• Rabid Skyscale Axe
• Rabid Skyscale Dagger
• Rabid Skyscale Focus
• Rabid Skyscale Greatsword
• Rabid Skyscale Hammer
• Rabid Skyscale Longbow
• Rabid Skyscale Mace
• Rabid Skyscale Pistol
• Rabid Skyscale Rifle
• Rabid Skyscale Scepter
• Rabid Skyscale Shield
• Rabid Skyscale Short Bow
• Rabid Skyscale Staff
• Rabid Skyscale Sword
• Rabid Skyscale Torch
• Rabid Skyscale Warhorn
• Magi's Skyforged Axe
• Magi's Skyforged Longbow
• Magi's Skyforged Short Bow
• Magi's Skyforged Dagger
• Magi's Skyforged Focus
• Magi's Skyforged Greatsword
• Magi's Skyforged Hammer
• Magi's Skyforged Mace
• Magi's Skyforged Pistol
• Magi's Skyforged Rifle
• Magi's Skyforged Scepter
• Magi's Skyforged Shield
• Magi's Skyforged Staff
• Magi's Skyforged Sword
• Magi's Skyforged Torch
• Magi's Skyforged Warhorn
• Viper's Abomination Axe
• Viper's Abomination Longbow
• Viper's Abomination Short Bow
• Viper's Abomination Dagger
• Viper's Abomination Focus
• Viper's Abomination Greatsword
• Viper's Abomination Hammer
• Viper's Abomination Mace
• Viper's Abomination Pistol
• Viper's Abomination Rifle
• Viper's Abomination Scepter
• Viper's Abomination Shield
• Viper's Abomination Staff
• Viper's Abomination Sword
• Viper's Abomination Torch
• Viper's Abomination Warhorn
• Envy's Bite
• Despair's Lament
• Gluttony's Platter
• Avarice's Command
• Rage's Fist
• Malice's Heartstring
• Regret's Memory

• In Challenge Mode only, depending on time for completion: (once per day per boss + once per lifetime per boss)
  • Convergence Challenge Mode: Bronze and 32,004 
  • Convergence Challenge Mode: Silver and 48,006 
  • Convergence Challenge Mode: Gold and 64,008 

Repeatable rewards

• Bonus Chest
  • Rift Essence Coffer
  • Piece of Rare Unidentified Gear (2) each with a chance of being replaced with a random Exotic weapon or armor.
  • 50 
  • 500 
  • 13,335 

• Map Meta-Event Rewards:
  • Deluxe Gear Box (15)
  • Fine Rift Essence (12-25) (25-50 with Convergence Mastery) (based on Participation)
  • Masterwork Rift Essence (5-10) (10-20 with Convergence Mastery) (based on Participation)
  • Rare Rift Essence (2-5) (5-10 with Convergence Mastery) (based on Participation)
  • 1,200 
  • 64,008 
  • Chance at Mini Corrupted

•  Rift Essence Extractor buff for 6 hours upon killing the end boss (requires  Convergence Mastery).

Failure

• Map Meta-Event Rewards:
  • Deluxe Gear Box (7)
  • Fine Rift Essence (12-25) (based on Participation)
  • Masterwork Rift Essence (5-10) (based on Participation)
  • Rare Rift Essence (2-5) (based on Participation)
  • 960 
  • 51,207 

Walkthrough

Mechanics

Map of mechanics and spawning locations

• If Zojja dies, the instance will fail and all players will be returned to The Wizard's Tower.
• When Kryptis are defeated, they drop  Kryptis Essence on the ground. This essence then can be collected by running over it. The more essence you pick up, the more damage you do, but the less total health you have. You can carry up to 25 stacks at a time without the Essence Attunement Mastery, or up to 50 stacks with the Mastery. Going into a Downed state will cause you to drop all stacks of essence that can be picked up by others or by yourself, once you're up again.
• Turning in essence to Zojja heals her, and powers her Resurrection Spell, that resurrects your allies who died and were turned into wisps.
• Once the final phase begins and the Legendary Kryptis spawns, Zojja becomes immune to all forms of standard healing, and can be healed with essence.
• Kryptis siege engines will occasionally spawn in the four corners of the map. Destroy these to prevent them damaging Zojja.
• If a player joins a Convergence instance that has already started, they will spawn as a wisp awaiting the completion of the current resurrection spell bar.
• If a player dies, they will enter  Wisp Form with the special skills below. Some abilities are only available with certain masteries unlocked. These players are invulnerable and may heal, buff, or revive downed players. With the Wisp Pockets Mastery, they will be able to collect Kryptis Essence and bring it to Zojja, speeding up their own resurrection. They can hit their jump keybind to move around more easily.

Wisp skills

#	Skill			Description
1	Ethereal Healing		0.75¾	Fire a projectile that heals and applies barrier to allies.
2	Healing Rain		30	Heal, cure conditions, and grant regeneration to allies once every second.
3	Ward against Evil		30	Allies within target area receive stability, protection, and aegis.
4	Watchful Spirit		180	Shadowstep to the target point and revive downed players within the radius.
5	Ride the Ley Line		5	Focus unbound magic to create a ley line and propel yourself forward. Warning: Crossing streams with other ley lines is deadly!

Gliding skills

#	Skill			Description
7	Focused Magic	10.5½		Shoot a beam at your foe. The farther away they are, the less damage you deal.
8	Unstable Magic Volley	1	5	Release a volley of unstable magic on the target area, damaging and knocking down foes, and applying a random condition.
9	Pacified Magical Storm		20	Call down a pacified magical storm on the target area, healing, curing conditions from allies, and granting regeneration to allies once every second.
0	Ride the Ley Line		5	Focus unbound magic to create a ley line and propel yourself forward. Warning: Crossing streams with other ley lines is deadly!

Phase 1: Start

It is recommended to have Superior Sigil of the Night and Superior Sigil of Demon Slaying.

The group initially spawns in a central starting island where Zojja will ask to confirm if they are ready. Once the event starts, small groups of typical Kryptis enemies will spawn. Concurrently, 2-minute timer will begin for Kryptis reinforcements to arrive.

After a brief introduction on  Kryptis Essence, groups of Avatar of Spite will begin to spawn on the central island in an anti-clockwise direction from northwest, southeast and northeast of the central island. These Avatar of Spite chase Zojja to apply their explosion mechanic (they turn invulnerable as they begin exploding). Breaking their defiance bar will stop them in their tracks temporarily for you to burst them down. In addition, siege engines will also spawn in a clockwise direction on the other 4 corner islands of the map starting from the southwest island and should be destroyed to protect Zojja. Their seige attacks can be seen as darker orange circles within Zojja's hitbox. The Kryptis enemies that spawn around the seige engines despawn together with them being taken down. Both anti-clockwise and clockwise spawns continue throughout phase 1 and 2.

Once the 2-minute timer ends, the reinforcements are 3 Kryptis Champion Avatars to be slain in order to progress to phase 2.

Zojja is also able to be healed by most spells and abilities affecting friendly targets. In addition to the healing she receives from turning-in essences, it is good to have dedicated healers remain nearby Zojja to keep her alive during phases 1 and 2.

Phase 2: Clear Islands

The objectives to defend Zojja from Avatars of Spite and siege engines from phase 1 continues. The Avatars of Spite on the central island will now begin spawning in an anti-clockwise direction while Seige Engines continue their occasional clockwise spawns. Like in the previous phase, Zojja can still be healed normally during this phase, so having healers prioritize her defense remains important.

All four corner islands of the map will now need to be cleared. 5 Champion Kryptis Lieutenants will spawn on each of the islands followed by a Champion Kryptis General. Defeating each Champion Kryptis General will clear each island individually. Both lieutenants and generals have random Unstable Magic Abilities abilities. When a specific island is cleared of its Champion Kryptis General, the seige engine on that island will also stop its spawn. After all four islands are cleared, phases 1 and 2 are fully completed.

Phase 3 then begins with a legendary creature spawning on one of the 4 corner islands. The party/players who were responsible for the central island defense/healing of Zojja should also remember to completely destroy the last batch of Avatars of Spite or they will continue chasing to where Zojja teleported (Legendary Creature spawn) to and explode on her.

Phase 3: Legendary Creature

A Legendary creature (Demon Knight, Sorrow, Dreadwing, Hell Sister, or Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus) will now spawn. The creature chosen is random per instance, though the available options alternate each week at Tuesday 00:00^{[verification requested]}; only Sorrow and Demon Knight are available one week, and only Dreadwing and Hell Sister are available the following week. However, Umbriel remains a constant, non-rotating third possible boss each week^{[verification requested]}.

Shared Mechanics

The Legendary creature scatters  Kryptis Essence around itself every time it loses 10% health and just before it teleports to the next random island at every 25% health interval. In addition, Zojja now becomes immune to all forms of healing except turned-in  Kryptis Essence so it is especially important to continue doing so in order to heal her and charge up her resurrection spell. She also begins taking more damage.

At its final 25% health, the Legendary Creature always teleports to the central island (starting area).

Demon Knight

Demon Knight.

Demon Knight is the easier legendary to deal with. Its most dangerous attack has a charge up animation; at this point it needs to be stunned to stop this attack. While it charges the attack, it also deals a massive amount of damage to the surrounding area. His second dangerous attack is a meteor shower. Players will be marked with numerical icons and have a yellowish aura around their computer screens. These players should move away from the group. After a short period, a cluster of meteors will crash down on the area in numerical order, with another cluster shortly after. It is preferable to NOT move towards Zojja when marked.

Bug:

One of the attacks that pulls the player away can also pull the player inside a stone or behind a texture making them stuck for the rest of the fight. Teleports do not work and you cannot /gg either.

Sorrow

Sorrow is the harder enemy as it moves around more often. Break its defiance bar to stop it from flying around and to deal increased damage. It will fly up to summon its Sorrow's Brood. The smaller summoned wyverns often focus Zojja. When it lands, it deals a large amount of damage to those standing below. Barrier can mitigate this, but players with lower health should avoid this attack. When Sorrow is grounded, it's generally safe to stand just at the back of Sorrow, but still on top. If you are knocked into the sky, you can glide to avoid fall damage or access glide-only skills.

Hell Sister

Hell Sister.

Hell Sister is of medium difficulty. Her defiance bar does not unlock at any point in the encounter. Watch for a large eye above her and look away until it resolves and disappears. She will summon large aoe lines of pulsing rocks that push you back and deal damage. If you need to cross those areas, dodge or use stability. Every time the Hell Sister screams, she is casting an ability, so paying attention to your audio can be helpful. She often selects a random player to teleport to, unleashing a cone attack towards the group. Because of her area attacks and frequent movement, Zojja may take more damage against this boss than in other encounters. While it isn't incredibly dangerous for her to stand on Zojja, groups should endeavor to have the boss between themselves and Zojja so she is less likely to use her cone attacks on Zojja.

Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus

Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus is one of the harder bosses. His fight shares multiple mechanics with Kanaxai in the Fractals of the Mists. This fight is considered to be very condition heavy, and all of his attacks apply conditions. Autoattacks apply multiple stacks of bleeding, and during the fight Umbriel will regularly throw out axes that leave damaging area of effect fields immobilizing players as well as applying Exposed for 10 seconds. At 75%, 50%, 25% and 1% health, Umbriel will become invulnerable and spawns multiple aspects. These aspects all need to be defeated to make Umbriel's defiance bar open up, which needs to be broken in order to strip his invulnerability and continue the encounter. After the 75% Aspect split Umbriel will start using Frightening Speed roughly every 45 seconds. Five numbered AOE circles will be placed on players' locations, indicating the order in which Umbriel will attack. Shortly after these markers appear, Umbriel will jump from location to location, downing any players caught within the AOE. After the 50% Aspect split Umbriel will also periodically start casting Dreadful Gaze, dealing damage and applying Fear and 25 stacks of Vulnerability to all players who are looking at him. This mechanic is marked by a large eye appearing above him and the edge of the screen turning yellow, requiring players to turn around and look away from Umbriel until the attack resolves. Finally, Umbriel will start combining Frightening Speed and Dreadful Gaze together after 25%.

Challenge Mode

Mechanics

A summary of mechanics may also be found in-game by speaking with the Convergences Portal

• Enemies are stronger
• Zojja requires more essence to revive allies ^{[verification requested]}
• Players gain the  Unstable Attunement effect when they start a convergence with challenge mode activated.
  • When a player is revived from a wisp, they lose Unstable Attunement and can no longer be revived from wisp form.
  • Once the legendary Kryptis has been drawn out, all wisps will be revived regardless of their Unstable Attunement status ^{[verification requested]} and everyone will be granted the effect once more.
• The Noblesse Oblige mastery is disabled. (Noblesse Oblige removes downed penalties to revive targets and increases resurrection speed towards lower level targets.)
• The Convergence must be completed within the time limit (30:00:00) to log the time and obtain bonus rewards.

Achievements

Avatar of Spite Annihilator	Convergences: Outer Nayos	5
Defeat 100 Avatars of Spite.Spit in spite's eye. Reward: Nugget of Rift Essence	Defeated 100 Avatars of Spite	5

• While defending Zojja during phase one, waves of Avatar of Spites will spawn. These enemies will then charge to Zojja and explode on impact. There are three spawning locations for these enemies. Starting from west side, followed from south-east and lastly from north-east. These enemies are marked by icons.

Convergence Creature Crusher	Convergences: Outer Nayos	5
Defeat 500 enemies in Convergences. Siege engines, veterans, elites, champions, and legendaries give more progress. (At 200%, player participation kills grant a fixed amount.)Bash the demon! Smash the demon! Drive it right back into its den! Bash the demon! Smash the demon! May it never rise up again! Reward: Nugget of Rift Essence	Defeated 500 Enemies in Convergences	5

• Killing and destroying Kryptis will grant points towards this achievement. Normal enemies give 2 points, Avatars of Spite give 5 points, elite enemies and siege engines give 25 points, champion enemies give 50 points, and legendary enemies give 100 points.

Emotional Baggage	Convergences: Outer Nayos	5
Collect 500 Kryptis essences in Convergences. (Gain less progress when collecting essence as a wisp with the Wisp Pockets Mastery.)I'm completely fine, honestly! Reward: Nugget of Rift Essence	Collected 500 Kryptis Essence	5

• Every Kryptis that is killed should drop a red orb on the ground. These are essences that can be collected giving  Kryptis Essence effect.

Kryptis Turret Killer	Convergences: Outer Nayos	5
Destroy 25 Kryptis turrets.Those skyscale adventures have trained you for this. It's true!	Defeated 25 Kryptis Turrets	5

• Destroy 25 Kryptis turrets that can be found in the air all over the area. Can be destroyed by using fireball of your skyscale. These turrets can have  Demonic Seal effect making them invulnerable until dashing through it on a skyscale. They do respawn after a while.

Siege Engine Stomper	Convergences: Outer Nayos	5
Destroy 20 siege engines.Smash or be smashed. Reward: Nugget of Rift Essence	Destroyed 20 Siege Engines	5

• There are total of four siege engines. They spawn clockwise starting with south-west corner and are marked by icon. Each siege engine destroyed grants 5 points of progress.

NPCs

Allies

• Zojja
• Zojja's Astral Projection

Foes

• Avatar of Spite
• Demon Knight / Sorrow / Dreadwing / Hell Sister / Umbriel, Halberd of House Aurkus (boss)
• Incarnation of Cruelty
• Incarnation of Judgement
• Incarnation of Terror
• Elite Avatar of Despair
• Elite Avatar of Envy
• Elite Avatar of Gluttony
• Elite Avatar of Malice
• Elite Avatar of Rage
• Elite Avatar of Regret
• Champion Avatar of Envy
• Champion Avatar of Gluttony
• Champion Avatar of Malice
• Champion Avatar of Rage
• Champion High Kryptis General
• Champion High Kryptis Lieutenant
• Kryptis Blaster
• Kryptis Drainer
• Kryptis Sentinel
• Sorrow's Brood / Dreadling
• Terrorling
• The Corrupted
• The Craven
• The Cursed
• The Tormented

Objects

• Bouncing Mushroom
• Skyscale Launcher
• Unstable Kryptis Rift
• Kryptis Sentinel
• Kryptis Drainer
• Southwest Siege Engine
• Northwest Siege Engine
• Southeast Siege Engine
• Northeast Siege Engine

Dialogue

Pre-Event start

Zojja: Portaled in as soon as we lost track of your astral fluctuation. I'll need to focus on maintaining our tether to Tyria.

Zojja: The nearest waypoint is a little out of range, so reviving will be a challenge... Luckily, Mabon taught me a few tricks.

Zojja: Resurrection spells take a lot of magic. The best source of that here is going to be the essence that Eparch's grunts drop.

Zojja: Bring that essence to me, and I'll do the rest.

Zojja: If it looks like I'm about to go down, I'll try to pull us back to Tyria. Hopefully we'll make it back in time for tea...

Upon catapults spawning

Zojja: Little hard to concentrate with catapults lobbing stones at my face! Deal with them!

Zojja: Argh! I keep losing my concentration! Break those catapults to pieces!

When enough essence has been collected to revive allies

Zojja: Let me raise you up! Feel the healing energies flow through your veins–rise!

Zojja: Reviving our fallen!

High Kyptis event

Zojja: I can feel the demonic essence in those High Kyptis. Take them down, and I can throw that power back in their face.

Zojja: Collect enough, and I might even be able to cast some additional protections...

Zojja: Be careful though. Demonic essence will drain your life force. Plus, there is the whole "possession" thing to worry about...

Event to slay Generals

Zojja: Even more of Eparch's personal cortege. Take them out. Let's see if we can entice their leader to make an entrance.

Zojja: More High Kryptis! Damn it, Eparch. Spread out to defeat them! Maybe we can lure out whoever's pulling their strings.

Upon Zojja reaching 50% health ^{[verification requested]}

Zojja: More...essence! Bring it...to me!

Upon Zojja reaching 25% health ^{[verification requested]}

Zojja: If I...get too weak...we're getting yanked straight back to Tyria... More...essence...

Event to slay final boss

Zojja: One of Eparch's generals, I... Focus. We need to focus. I'll keep it vulnerable. You take it down.

Zojja: The raw power...emanating from that Kryptis... It's going to take all my focus to keep it vulnerable to your attacks.

Upon boss losing 25% health

Zojja: We've wounded it! Keep up with it, and I'll use that essence to give us a little extra juice.

Upon boss losing 50% health

Zojja: Move! Move! MOVE!

Zojja: Follow it! If we let it escape, we're going to be yanked straight back to Tyria!

Zojja: Keep it up, keep it up! I know you're tired, but we can't let it escape!

Upon boss losing 75% health

Zojja: It's making its way to the center island. We can end this here and now!

Upon successful completion of the Convergence

Zojja: Finally... Whew. Nayos is not my scene. Let's head back; breathe in some fresh air?

Zojja: My toes might be tingling, but at least that's a few less of Eparch's grunts clawing at our feet... Let's head back home.

The Convergence has been calmed, and Zojja will teleport the group back to the Wizard's Tower soon.

Upon failing to complete the Convergence

Zojja: I... can't hold on. No choice—I'm pulling us back to Tyria!

Related achievements

 Convergences: Outer Nayos — Participating in Convergences. (60 1 )

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Public instances

Dragon Bash	Dragon Arena
Living World Season 1	The Twisted Marionette The Tower of Nightmares The Battle For Lion's Arch
The Icebrood Saga	Dragonstorm
Secrets of the Obscure	Convergences
Janthir Wilds	Convergence: Mount Balrior

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