Tian Ying - Vlado's WWM DB

Overview

Campaign dungeon boss residing beneath the Buddha Light Pagoda at Halo Peak, Qinghe.

Mechanics

A three-phase boss with completely distinct toolkits per phase. The fight takes place in the Thousand Buddha Cavern beneath the Buddha Light Pagoda - circular arena with a large central Buddha statue that becomes a Phase 2 environmental hazard.Phase 1 is staff combat with golden power - long-range Gold Slash line attacks, Golden Swings, longer War Staff combos, and Golden Dance (spinning sequence ending in a ground shockwave). Meridian Touch cancels the shockwave channel for a knockdown window. Phase 2 drops the staff entirely - Tian Ying uses fists and feet with rapid combos, and eventually floats up to make the Buddha statue project wide AoE attacks across the arena (stay on the side, the statue's front-line is the blind spot). Phase 3 is dagger + clone summoning - three clones attack simultaneously while Tian Ying hides for blindside strikes. Parrying Tian Ying directly removes one clone per parry.

Phases

Phase 1
Phase 1: Golden Staff

Long-range polearm + golden-energy attacks. Gold Slash linear projectile, Golden Swings combos, Golden Dance spin-into-shockwave. Meridian Touch cancels the shockwave channel for a free knockdown. Simplest phase - pure parry/dodge/punish.
Phase 2
Phase 2: Unarmed Buddha

New arena transport. Staff dropped - unarmed fists and feet for lightning-fast combos. Mid-phase Tian Ying floats up and channels through the Buddha statue, which projects wide AoE strikes across the arena. The statue's flanks are blind spots - fight from the sides. Punishing speed change from Phase 1.
Phase 3
Phase 3: Dagger Clones

Dagger weapon + teleport mobility + three clone summons. Clones attack simultaneously; Tian Ying hides for blindside strikes. Each successful parry on Tian Ying removes one clone. Ignore clones - focus parries on Tian Ying himself. Lowest individual hit difficulty but tightest HP margin.

Strategy

Phase-specific weapon thinking - fast parry weapons (sword, fan) shine in Phase 2-3's accelerated tempo; Phase 1 favours anything that can interrupt the Golden Dance channel. Meridian Touch is the Phase 1 free-knockdown answer - use it on every Golden Dance.Phase 2: hug the Buddha statue's flanks during the AoE-projection sub-phase. Phase 3: tunnel-vision on Tian Ying himself - clones telegraph but exist mainly to dilute attention. Common mistakes: trying to clear clones in Phase 3 (parry-removes them for free), staying in the centre during Phase 2 Buddha-statue AoEs (centre is the lethal zone), and not banking Meridian Touch for Golden Dance.Pre-fight: requires ~6,000 Qinghe Exploration Points (Area Exploration Level 6) to challenge from the Campaign menu freely.

Rewards

First-clear: Echo Jade, cosmetic chest, Buddha Light Pagoda gear set pieces
The Promised Light quest completion rewards
Buddha's Light Jade lore artifact
Qinghe Exploration Points
Mystic Art unlock - possibly clone-themed

Lore

Located in the Thousand Buddha Cavern beneath the Buddha Light Pagoda at Halo Peak, Qinghe. Tian Ying is a corrupted-monk / fallen-disciple archetype - the cavern is a Buddhist sanctuary, and his three-phase progression (staff → unarmed → dagger) tracks a degradation from monastic discipline (staff) through ascetic unarmed combat (the Buddha statue's blessing) into murderous assassin-craft (dagger and clones). Each phase is a step further from his original path.The Buddha-statue Phase 2 mechanic - where the statue itself becomes a weapon - is the lore peak: the sacred object he was supposed to protect now extends his violence. He functions as the Qinghe arc's religious-corruption boss, paralleling Earth Fiend Deity (corrupted temple) and Coffin Master (corrupted funerary rite). His unlock requires deep Qinghe exploration, marking him as a 'secret depth' reward rather than a critical-path encounter.

Overview

Mechanics

Phases

Phase 1: Golden Staff

Phase 2: Unarmed Buddha

Phase 3: Dagger Clones

Strategy

Rewards

Lore

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