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Ferocious Horn Den is a Mau den deep in the Abyss, and an Expedition with a high Item Level gate at the level cap. Both versions open with the same gate; Conquest adds a much longer cube counter and the final boss's enrage timer. Its bosses lean on coordination more than on dodging: orbs to burst, souls to collect, a prey to protect and hits to share. The panels above answer whether you can enter and what you get. Below: the way through the den, each boss with the casts that matter, and what to do with the cubes they leave. For how this dungeon fits among the others, see the dungeon overview, the endgame PvE ladder and what to do at the level cap.
Route
- Watchdog KwapoMini-Boss Rewards 1
- Necromancer DuankaMini-Boss Rewards 2
- Ferocious Horn NuakumFinal Boss Rewards · Odyle Energy Cube
- Fera Surveillance SiteKibelisk
- Twinkling AbyssKibelisk
- Mau's Resting PlaceKibelisk
- Abyssal SurfaceKibelisk
- Howling ThroneKibelisk
Binding a Kibelisk takes 5 s.
What Phazkhi tells you on the way
- “Avoiding the Mau is another strategy, kru.”
- “Bind with the Kibelisk before going farther, kru.”
- “The Wooden Barricade needs to be destroyed. Try using the bomb, kru!”
- “It's Kwapo, Watchdog of the Ferocious Horn Village. Defeat it, kru!”
- “Well done. Now go farther inside.”
- “Break down this stone wall and a path will appear.”
- “Time to jump into the abyss! Glide and land safely on the ground, kru!”
- “Bind with the Kibelisk and then go inside, kru.”
- “You'll find the Ferocious Horn's Den at the end of this path.”
- “Totem Shamans will be waiting ahead. Go carefully.”
- “Totem Shamans and Duduka, kru! Eliminate them quickly using the bombs!”
- “Destroy the Sealed Mau Totem, kru!”
- “It's a memorial to the Mau who perished in the Abyss.”
- “We will soon run into Duanka, a necromancer who guides the souls of the Mau, kru.”
- “That's Duanka, kru!”
- “Well done, kru! Ride the Updraft and escape to the surface!”
- “There are steep drops in some places. Move carefully not to fall.”
- “Good job, kru! Before we go to Nuakum, bind with the Kibelisk!”
- “This is an Odyle Energy Cube!”
- “Now's the time! Glide, kru!”
- “Strike at Nuakum's doppelganger, not his prey! Watch under the prey's feet, and gather or scatter accordingly!”
The game's own captions, in the order of the client's records: close to the path, not a verified route.
- Phazkhi says that avoiding the Mau is a valid way through: skip the packs you can, and keep your time for the bosses.
- Use the Bomb Chest on the way. A bomb opens the Wooden Barricade, and the guide asks you to clear the Totem Shamans and Duduka quickly with bombs too.
- Bind every Kibelisk the guide points out (each bind takes 5 s), above all the last bind point before the final boss: a wipe there then costs you a short walk.
- After the second mini-boss you ride an Updraft back to the surface. The guide warns of steep drops on the way: move carefully, a fall wastes the run's time.
Watchdog Kwapo
Names in other regions: Korean
KR번견 쿠하푸
Also in the fight: Kapu, Mau Sentry's Soul.
- At most every 78 s Kwapo makes a summoning cast, and the guide's line on it is the whole fight: before Kwapo starts howling, burst as many lightning orbs as you can. Thunder Cry makes unseen objects appear; what they do is not in the client data. Split the job before the pull: ranged players burst the orbs, the tank keeps Kwapo turned away. What the howl does if orbs remain, and how many orbs appear, is not in the client data.
- Its charge runs down a lane 20 m long and 5 m wide, marked for only 1 s: never stand in a line between Kwapo and its target.
- A circle of 6 m knocks down for 2 s, and the frontal swipes leave Bleed for 20 s: everyone but the tank stays behind.
- The soul-summon row marked Conquest is an attack of
Necromancer Duanka, the next boss: Kwapo does not cast it.
Named mechanics
- Thunder Cry#1606910
- Cast
- 1.5 s
9 more attacks
- Cast
- 0.8 s
- Cast range
- 6 m
- Min. cooldown
- 9 s
- Cast
- instant
- Cast range
- 13 m
- Min. cooldown
- 1 s
Bleed20 s
- Cast
- 0.6 s
- Ground marker
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 20 m
- Min. cooldown
- 25 s
Teleports- Cast
- 0.6 s
- Min. cooldown
- 14 s
- Cast
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 30 m
- Min. cooldown
- 78 s
Summons Watchdog Kwapo, KapuWatchdog Kwapo“Krau T'shz!”
- Cast
- 0.57 s
- Ground marker
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 20 m
- Min. cooldown
- 21 s
Aimed at a targetKnockdown2 s
- Cast
- 1.3 s
- Ground marker
- 2 s
- Cast range
- 30 m
- Min. cooldown
- 42 s
Aimed at a target- Cast
- 1.47 s
- Min. cooldown
- 55 s
Summons Mau Sentry's Soul, Mau Sentry's SoulWatchdog Kwapo“Krau T'shz!”
- Cast
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 30 m
- Min. cooldown
- 78 s
Summons Watchdog KwapoPhazkhi“Before Kwapo starts howling, burst as many lightning orbs as possible, kru!”
Necromancer Duanka
Names in other regions: Korean
KR강령술사 두안카
Also in the fight: Mau Sentry's Soul, Detoxifying Rafflesia.
- Soul Caller is the raid-wide cast: an alert banner 8 s ahead, then a circle and rings around the boss that strike out to 24 m, with extra damage scaled on max HP (inside 12 m a hit can kill you outright) and a stun of 3 s. Phazkhi says it plainly: get away.
- At most every 55 s the boss calls the souls of the Mau and absorbs them. The guide's counter: collect the soul orbs on the altar and defeat the Mau souls before the boss absorbs them. Give the altar to players who are free when the cast starts, usually ranged damage dealers and a healer, while the rest kill the souls; where the altar stands is not in the client data.
- Its cone reaches 12 m over 120°, marked for 1.2 s: keep the party behind the boss.
- The poison-flower summon row marked Conquest is a boss attack from another dungeon: Duanka does not cast it, so ignore it.
Watch for: the raid-wide casts
- Cast
- 1 s
- Alert banner
- 8 s
- Ground marker
- 1 s
- Min. cooldown
- 55 s
- Area: circle, radius 12 m
- Area: ring from 12 m to 18 m
- Area: ring from 18 m to 24 m
- Area: ring from 24 m to 35 m
Around the casterStun3 sExtra damage scaled on max HP
Phazkhi“Hurry up and get away! Don't get hit by a lightning soul!”
Necromancer Duanka“Flee the oncoming storm, if you can!”
AdviceThe banner gives you time to run: past 24 m the rings no longer hit (the last ring, out to 35 m, deals no damage). The guide also warns about lightning souls the boss sends out in every direction: keep moving between them rather than standing still on a line out from the boss. Their path is not in the client data. Melee start moving the moment the banner appears.
9 more attacks
- Cast
- 0.7 s
- Ground marker
- 1.2 s
- Cast range
- 9 m
- Min. cooldown
- 12 s
- Cast
- instant
- Cast range
- 20 m
- Min. cooldown
- 7 s
Aimed at a targetTeleports- Cast
- 1.5 s
- Min. cooldown
- 25 s
- Cast
- 1.47 s
- Min. cooldown
- 55 s
Summons Mau Sentry's Soul, Mau Sentry's SoulNecromancer Duanka“Souls trapped within the alter—awaken!”
- Cast
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 90 m
- Min. cooldown
- 40 s
- Cast
- 1.26 s
- Ground marker
- 10 s
- Cast range
- 35 m
Aimed at a targetSummons Detoxifying RafflesiaNecromancer Duanka“Souls trapped within the alter—awaken!”
- Cast
- 1.47 s
- Min. cooldown
- 55 s
Summons Mau Sentry's SoulPhazkhi“Duanka is absorbing all the summoned Mau, kru!”
Phazkhi“Before they are absorbed, collect the soul orbs on the altar and defeat the Mau souls, kru!”
- Cast
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 90 m
- Min. cooldown
- 40 s
Ferocious Horn Nuakum
Names in other regions: Korean
KR사나운 뿔 누아쿰
What Ferocious Horn Nuakum says (cues you can hear)
- When Frenzy starts“Ever fiercer, ever sharper!”
- On pull“Commence the hunt!”
- On death“I lost... But how?”
- In Conquest the enrage timer runs out at 05:00. After it Frenzy gives the boss +200% damage and +100% combat speed: treat the timer as the damage check of the run. Exploration has no enrage timer.
- The prey: at most every 20 s Nuakum picks a player, and his doppelganger charges at them. Somebody must block the charge, and the circle under the prey's feet tells the party what to do: a large circle, the prey takes it alone; a small circle, everyone gathers on the prey to share the damage.
- Fafnite Energy: Nuakum creates it with a 3 s cast. Drag his attacks onto it before it explodes, then detonate it, as the guide says.
- His twin strike: a 3 s cast at most every 45 s, with extra damage scaled on max HP, that leaves Hunt Mark on the player hit for 8 s. The guide's answer: take turns blocking it.
- Most of his front attacks add a stack of Prey, a bleed. At full stacks it turns into Ruptured Prey: after 4 s a bleed zone forms where you stand. Step out of it; the tank drops it away from the melee.
11 attacks
- Cast
- instant
- Cast range
- 40 m
- Min. cooldown
- 20 s
Aimed at a targetTeleports- Cast
- 0.95 s
- Min. cooldown
- 50 s
Around the casterFear2.5 s
AdviceA circle of 30 m around Nuakum that inflicts Fear for 2.5 s, at most every 50 s. Ranged players stay outside it; melee keep a crowd-control break, since a feared player can run into the prey's circle.
- Cast
- 1 s
- Cast range
- 4 m
- Min. cooldown
- 8 s
Ruptured Prey4 s
- Cast
- 1 s
- Ground marker
- 1.5 s
- Cast range
- 16 m
- Min. cooldown
- 42 s
- Cast
- 1.1 s
- Ground marker
- 1.5 s
- Min. cooldown
- 20 s
- Cast
- 1.3 s
- Cast range
- 4 m
- Min. cooldown
- 25 s
- Area: cone of 200°, radius 9 m · 5 hits on the same area
- Cast
- 0.85 s
- Ground marker
- 1.2 s
- Cast range
- 4 m
- Min. cooldown
- 10 s
Aimed at a target- Cast
- instant
- Cast range
- 4 m
- Min. cooldown
- 12 s
- Area: line 10 m long, 3 m wide
- Area: line 12 m long, 7 m wide
Pulled- Cast
- instant
- Min. cooldown
- 20 s
Around the casterTeleportsPhazkhi“Nuakum has selected his prey! His doppelganger is about to charge, so somebody be sure to block it!”
Phazkhi“Watch under the feet of the chosen prey, kru! Take the large circles alone, but gather to share the pain of the small ones!”
Ferocious Horn Nuakum“My dear prey! Will you fight together, or go it alone?”
AdviceAgree on the blocker before the pull, usually the tank or a sturdy melee. The circle sizes are not in the data block, so learn them on your first pull. The guide also says to strike at the doppelganger, not at the prey.
- Cast
- 3 s
- Cast range
- 90 m
- Min. cooldown
- 8 s
Aimed at a targetPhazkhi“Nuakum is creating Fafnite energy, kru!”
Phazkhi“Draw Nuakum's attacks towards the Fafnite Energy before it explodes and then detonate it, kru!”
Ferocious Horn Nuakum“Despair! For you will never halt the Abyss!”
AdviceThe tank does the work here: move Nuakum so that his attacks land on the energy. In the client data, the cast's circle of 6 m around his target only affects things on Nuakum's side, not players: so his target, usually the tank, stands within that distance of the energy.
- Cast
- 3 s
- Cast range
- 30 m
- Min. cooldown
- 45 s
Hunt Mark8 sExtra damage scaled on max HP
Phazkhi“Vakron does two powerful attacks in a row! Take turns blocking them!”
Ferocious Horn Nuakum“Show your willingness to be sacrificed!”
AdviceThe client's English line for this cast says "Vakron", the final boss of another dungeon: a copy error in the English text only (the French and German lines name no boss), and the mechanic is Nuakum's. Our reading of "take turns": whoever takes a hit carries Hunt Mark for its duration, so the next hit goes to another player. Not checked in game.
Loot: the cube is the reward
The bosses themselves drop almost nothing. What you came for is in the cube each of them leaves, and opening a cube costs a resource that every character refills over time.
- Defeat a bossEach of the 3 bosses leaves its own Odyle Energy Cube.
- Open it with Odyle Energy
40Exploration
- Fill Condensed Cube EnergyEvery claim counts. When it is full you pick one Guaranteed Reward:Explorationafter 3 claimsConquestafter 28 claims
- Collect it before you go back
Dungeons can be entered after collecting the guaranteed reward.
- Clearing and exiting the dungeon without obtaining Odyle Energy Cube rewards will still lower the count.
- The count resets weekly. You cannot enter Conquest and Transcendence Dungeons when the count is 0.
- Limit is applied on a per-server basis.
Worth running it for
Nuakum GuardFinal Boss Rewards0.42%1 in 236Each mini-boss cube0.21%1 in 472All 3 cubes of a run0.85%1 in 118
Nuakum Breastplateand 6 more armour slots · 1.27% for one given piece from the final bossFinal Boss Rewards7.08%1 in 14Each mini-boss cube3.54%1 in 28All 3 cubes of a run14%1 in 7
Wrathful EgoFinal Boss Rewards2.4%1 in 42Each mini-boss cube0.8%1 in 125All 3 cubes of a run3.96%1 in 25
Artwork: Ferocious Horn DenFinal Boss Rewards0.75%1 in 133Each mini-boss cube0.25%1 in 400All 3 cubes of a run1.25%1 in 80
Sealed Dark Veil WingsFinal Boss Rewards0.75%1 in 133Each mini-boss cube0.25%1 in 400All 3 cubes of a run1.25%1 in 80
Wrathful MindFinal Boss Rewards0.6%1 in 167Each mini-boss cube0.2%1 in 500All 3 cubes of a run1%1 in 100
Wrathful WillFinal Boss Rewards0.6%1 in 167Each mini-boss cube0.2%1 in 500All 3 cubes of a run1%1 in 100
The last column assumes you open all 3 cubes of one run. Cubes also hold fixed rewards and more gear: Every drop with its odds
Guaranteed Reward: pick one
- Short on Odyle Energy? Open the final boss cube first: for
- In Exploration the pick comes after 3 claims: take the armour piece your set is missing first.
- In Conquest the counter is far longer
(28 claims), and the pick also offers
Gear Change Voucher: Ferocious Horn Den (Bound). Take an armour piece while your set has holes. After that the voucher is your
sure way to a Guard: its own text says it can become a Guard or a gear selection chest, while
- Wrathful Ego, Wrathful Mind and Wrathful Will are tradeable crafting materials (their item pages say what they make): keep or sell them even if you do not craft yet.
Exploration vs Conquest
| Fact | Exploration | Conquest |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | 45 | 45 |
| Item Level | 2,100 | 2,100 |
| Players | 1–5 | 1–5 |
| Time limit | 60 min | 60 min |
| Weekly entries | none | |
| Cube cost | 40 Odyle Energy | 40 Odyle Energy |
| Guaranteed Reward | after 3 claims | after 28 claims |
| Best gear grade in cubes | Unique | Unique |
| Final boss enrage | none | then Frenzy |
| Boss level | 63 | 63 |
The weekly count in the game's own words
[Conquest/Transcendence] Remaining Unobtained Cube CountClearing and exiting the dungeon without obtaining Odyle Energy Cube rewards will still lower the count.The count resets weekly. You cannot enter Conquest and Transcendence Dungeons when the count is 0.※Limit is applied on a per-server basis.The reset time is the client's server-time field, as of the data build named at the top of the page.
+1 version · Later The client holds 1 more version that EU/NA cannot enter yet; it is left out here. Boss HP per version is not in the client data.
FAQ
What level and item level do I need for Ferocious Horn Den?
Exploration opens at level 45 with Item Level 2,100. Conquest opens at level 45 with Item Level 2,100.
How many bosses are in Ferocious Horn Den?
3 bosses, each with its own cube: Watchdog Kwapo,
Necromancer Duanka and the final boss,
Ferocious Horn Nuakum.
How do you survive Soul Caller?
Necromancer Duanka announces it with an alert banner 8 s ahead. Run out
of its rings, past 24 m, before the banner ends: the game's own
guide, Phazkhi, tells you to get away.
How do you handle the twin strike of Ferocious Horn Nuakum?
Nuakum winds it up for 3 s, and the player hit carries Hunt Mark for 8 s. The game's own guide, Phazkhi, tells you to take turns blocking it.
Does Ferocious Horn Nuakum enrage?
In Conquest, yes: after 05:00 the boss gains Frenzy. In Exploration the client sets no enrage timer.
What is the best loot in Ferocious Horn Den?
The Nuakum armour and Nuakum Guard drop in both versions. Conquest adds Wrathful Ego, Wrathful Mind, Wrathful Will, Sealed Dark Veil Wings and Artwork: Ferocious Horn Den. After 28 cube claims you also pick a Guaranteed Reward.
How long does a Ferocious Horn Den run take?
The client only sets a time limit of 60 min. It holds no data on typical clear times.
Try it
The tools that do what this guide explains, with the game client's own numbers.