Introduction

Atoraxxion: Yolunakea is a co-op dungeon for a party of 5 players, with strategies, puzzles, and a final boss to defeat. The dungeon was created by a Sage in the past as a last effort to train before the Black Spirits arrived in the world. Atoraxxion is divided into 4 different themes: Desert, Ocean, Canyons, and Forest, with each theme having its own unique mechanics.

Currently, only 3 of the 4 planned dungeons are released:

• 1st Dungeon: Vahmalkea
• 2nd Dungeon: Sycrakea
• 3rd Dungeon: Yolunakea

Unlike other grind spots in Black Desert, the dungeon does not drop trash loot and only drops items needed to progress through the dungeon to the final boss. Players then get rewards for defeating the final boss and completing the weekly quests. However, the dungeon is not a “typical” dungeon style either and is not completely instanced until the final boss.

2nd Puzzle – Brewery Pumps

• There are two brewery pumps on either side. Interact with the one on the right and complete the mini-game 5 times.
• Then complete the quest and interact with the one on the left side and complete.
• Each person in the party must complete this puzzle on their own. You must wait to reuse the pump again.

3rd Puzzle – Numbered Cubes

• You cannot interact with this puzzle unless you transform using the scroll from the mini-boss.
• A number will appear when you click “check process”
• For example: in the image below the number is 1 0 4 5
• This means that you need to move the cubes so that there is 1 cube in the 1st tower, 0 cubes in the 2nd tower, 4 cubes in the 3rd tower, and 5 cubes in the 4th tower.
• Click on the stellagia in front of the towers to select which cubes you want to move, then interact with the small tower of cubes to store them in it.
  
• The small tower of cubes will glow green to show how many are stored (check the image below for example)
• You can then interact with the small tower of cubes to move the stored cubes into the big towers.
• When you move the cubes to store them, all the cubes in that tower will move. So if you need 5 cubes in the 4th tower, you can use 3 cubes from the 1st tower and 2 cubes from the 2nd tower.

4th Puzzle – Colored Platforms

• For this puzzle, there are 4 platforms that light up in a certain color: blue, red, yellow, and green. There are also 2 uncolored platforms at the front.
• Above the platforms are colored orbs, which you can move by interacting with the platform underneath them.
• For example: Stand on the 4th platform and move the colored orb to the 6th platform by selecting the chat option. Use the image below to help you see which platform is which.
• Move the colored orbs around to the matching color. The two orbs on the uncolored platforms must slot into the correct order to move them.

Final Boss Mechanics

Phase 1

• The boss will spawn in the middle of the room and have 5 buffs: 4 elemental buffs (grass, water, fire, and lightning) and also 1 tree buff.
  • If you fail the elemental buff mechanics in the first phase, the boss will be buffed with the 4 elements and become harder to kill in the next phase.
  • If you fail the tree buff mechanic and the tree buff reaches level 10, the party will be wiped. The tree buff will always gradually increase no matter what you do, but will only reach level 10 if you don’t execute the mechanics.
• In the first phase, you cannot damage the boss and must follow the mechanics to get to the next phase.

• There will be 4 Vendum “dim tree walkers” that spawn. 2 will spawn in the north (at 11 and 1 o’clock) and 2 will spawn in the south (at 5 and 7 o’clock).
• Split up and kill the 4 Vendums walkers, the dim trees will walk towards the boss and if they reach the boss they will be absorbed and add a tree buff stack to the boss.

• After killing the Vendum walkers, a large tree called “Keluos – Root of Creation” will spawn in the corner and will glow in a certain color.
  • The Keluos Roots in the west (left) will always be yellow or blue.
  • The Keluos Roots in the east (right) will always be red or green.
  • The color is to represent one of each of the elemental buffs (eg, blue – water buff, red – fire buff)
• Colored orbs will move toward the Keluos Root and you must block the color that is the same as the monster’s color. If you do not block the correct color, there will be an AOE attack around the monster that will one-shot anyone that is too close. Whilst blocking the colors, you must also damage the tree monster and kill it. If you don’t manage to damage the tree in time, it will stand up and fully heal, becoming much tankier and annoying to deal with. When a Kelous Root stands up, it adds an elemental buff stack to the boss, making it harder to kill in the next phase.

• After any 2 Keluos Roots are killed, the remaining 2 roots will always stand up and add an elemental buff stack. The strategy is to go in 2 groups, killing the Roots on the left side first.
• When the Keluos Roots stand up, the Vendum walkers will spawn again in the north and south, so move to the middle and focus these again alongside the standing Keluos Roots.
• The next time the Keluos Roots spawn, focus on the opposite side (right side) first to balance the elemental buff stacks. Keep an eye on the stacks at all times and try to ensure that none of the elemental stacks reach level 3.
• You will need to repeat until the mini-boss spawns, the spawn pattern is:
  • Vendums, Keluos Roots, Vendums, Vendums & Keluos Roots a few seconds after, Vendums, Vendums, Vrekahim (mini-boss)

Mini-boss (Vrekahim) Mechanic:

• The mini-boss will spawn in the north and all 5 players need to help to kill him. Ignore the rest of the mechanics now, and focus completely on the boss.
• When the boss dies a dark green orb/shield will surround him.
• You must walk into the shield to obtain the buff, then look at the 2 towers in the north.
• The 2 towers will have less than 5 dark green orbs on top of it, each player needs to walk over to the tower with the orb buff and stand on top of it to increase the orbs to 5.
  • For example: If the left tower has 3 orbs, 2 players need to take the buff over to it. If the right tower has 2 orbs, 3 players need to take the buff over to it.

• When the correct amount of orbs are in the tower, the cutscene for the next phase will start.

Image reference for phase 1:

Phase 2

• At the start of phase 2, there will be 2 bosses. One boss on the left side, and one boss on the right side.
• Whenever the boss on the left has a blue shield, the Tuntaros on the right will stop moving and start charging up a massive lightning attack.

Lightning and Shield Mechanic:

• When the right-side boss releases the lightning attack, it stuns in a large area, then heavily damages anyone inside that area. The damage of this attack is split between all players who are hit and can one-shot if you are alone.
  • For example: if 2 players are hit, it will deal approximately 50% HP to each, and if 3 players are hit, it will deal approximately 30% HP to each.
• If no one is hit by the attack, the right boss will get a damage buff that lasts until the next time it does the lightning attack.
• It is actually very important that you tank the stun and lightning attack each time.
• The mechanic for the blue shield is just a DPS race. The boss will not attack or move while it is in the shield and you can hit freely. However, if you don’t destroy the shield in time, the boss will heal.

Debuff Mechanic:

• Both bosses also inflict a permanent DoT debuff on anyone in range, this debuff stacks over time and becomes stronger. The debuff does not show on your buff bar, but you will see an effect around your character. The boss on the right will give you a red debuff, and the boss on the left will give you a green debuff.
• Being hit by the right boss’ lightning AoE will remove the green debuff, and helping to destroy the left boss’ blue shield will remove the red debuff.

Attack Patterns:

• For the boss on the left side, you can dodge the attack by going to the empty space between the 2 green attack circles (located behind the boss).
  • Be careful with this attack because it is delayed and will do 2 waves of damage, so don’t move straight after the circles disappear.
  • The boss disappears occasionally and will then pop back up with a blue circle around it. The blue circle doesn’t do too much damage but will CC you.
  • This boss will have the grass (green) and water (blue) buffs from the first phase.
• For the boss on the right side, you can dodge the large AOE attack by going to the empty circle located in front of the boss.
  • The boss will do 2 attacks in an X shape, one after the other.
  • This boss will have the fire (red) and lightning (yellow) buffs from the first phase.

• Split your party so that 3 members go to the left to destroy the shield on the boss, and 2 players go to the right to the other boss.
• Each time the bosses do the blue shield/lightning attack, each team needs to swap sides. This is done so that you can clear the debuffs.
• Make sure that the team on the right-side boss always tanks the stun and lightning attack each time. So that they can clear the debuff and prevent the left-side boss from getting a damage buff.
• The team of 2 needs to be very careful that they don’t take too much damage since the lightning attack on the right side will deal approximately 50% damage.
• When one of the bosses reaches under 35% HP the next mechanic will trigger.
  • Stay in the 2 corners for a couple of seconds and let the animation fully end before moving. Sometimes when players move too quickly into the middle of the room, it can cause a wipe.
• 4 small pillars (check the image below for their appearance) will appear on the platforms in the middle of the room.
• Destroy the 4 pillars in the middle to obtain a sight buff (eye symbol on your buff bar).
  

• After the pillars are destroyed, the next part of phase 2 begins.
• Now split your party so that 3 players are in the north, and 2 players are in the south.
• There are 3 towers located in the north, and 3 towers located in the south.
• The towers are hidden at first and this is why you need the sight buff
• Each side has different mechanics to make the towers appear:
  • On the south side, you can walk over the mist/wind effect and a yellow tower will appear. Kill the yellow towers to destroy them.
  • On the north side, the towers are blue instead, do not hit these towers, if they lose 10% HP you will wipe. You have to push the monsters into them to turn the towers green.
• Once all 6 towers are destroyed or turned green, you can damage the 2 bosses again. Separate them to kill them easily.
• You can put your graphic settings on “Optimized” to see the hidden towers easier.

Image reference for Phase 2:

Phase 3

• At the start of the phase, there will be a shield (similar to phase 2) that you have to destroy.
• At approximately 80% HP, 4 cubes will spawn in the air, 3 of the cubes will have a green beam going into the ground, while the 4th cube will not. Stand under the cube that does not have a green beam to avoid the large poison AoE. This mechanic will repeat until you reach approximately 60 – 50% HP.
• When the boss reaches 60 – 50% HP there will be a water attack and another blue shield on the boss for you to destroy.
• A water effect will appear on the floor while the boss is charging the water attack. Stand on the water circle to launch into the air and avoid the water attack.

• When the boss reaches 25% HP, a message appears saying “Hahaha! Let’s see how long you last now! Remove the control device on Amarillos!”.
• The boss gains a defensive buff at this stage, and towers will appear in the north and south of the room. Check the color of the beam coming out of the top of each tower.
• All party members go together and destroy the tower with the red beam first, then the tower with the orange beam. If you don’t destroy both of the towers in time, a large AOE attack will one-shot everyone.
• After both towers are destroyed, the lightning mechanic will start and deal high amounts of damage. There is no way to stop the mechanic, but standing in the center squares section of the boss room will result in you taking significantly less damage. You also want to make sure that you are facing north so you don’t take back attacks from the lightning attacks.
• There are 4 squares in the center, and 2 of them will have electricity generating above them which shoots into the central sphere. If a player steps onto one of the electrified squares, this will interrupt the flow and disable the sphere for a period of time, removing the defense buff on the boss. After a couple of seconds, the sphere will reactivate again, so you need to repeat this mechanic and alternate between the 2 squares.
• 2 Vendum walkers will also spawn at the south side of the room and start walking toward the middle. Kill them before they reach the north side of the room. If they make it all the way, it causes a wipe.

Shoutout to Dentyy, Ainzheart, Nievk, and Stimpee for my first dungeon clear!

Knowledge

There is a total of 140 knowledge entries to collect from the dungeon and two quests you can obtain from the NPC inside Atoraxxion which will give a once-per-family quest to collect 50 knowledge entries and 130 knowledge entries. Both these quests will reward you with the new Vaha’s Dawn earring and an Enchanted Scroll.

To collect all of the knowledge you will need to do multiple runs through the dungeon for monster knowledge. You will also need to complete the main story questline for Atoraxxion and solve all of the puzzles, including the hidden puzzles.

Below is an album of the knowledge you can obtain from interacting with the hidden objects around the dungeon. Equip your Atoraxxion Tome to make sure you obtain all the knowledge.

Each interaction costs 10 or 30 energy, use a tagged character and energy potions to gain all the knowledge.