Aetherian Archive
Craglorn · base game
Bosses4
A storm atronach, and the first thing the Aetherian Archive puts in a group's way.
The Archive's second boss, a stone atronach grown far past the usual size and cut with old Nedic carvings.
A wispmother, and the third boss of the Aetherian Archive.
The Mage Constellation given a body, appearing as a masked sorceress the Firstmages called the Learned One. The Serpent corrupted her Apex Stone to force her into physical form, and she waits at the top of the Aetherian Archive.
Most run comp
The exact group makeup most often logged clearing this trial at this difficulty. The lines a subclassed build mixes are not listed.
Tank
Pureclass Warden
Healer
Pureclass Arcanist
DPS
3× Pureclass Necromancer · 3× Pureclass Nightblade · Pureclass Arcanist · Pureclass DragonKnight · Pureclass Sorcerer · Pureclass Templar
This exact makeup was logged 6 times.
Ranked by how often a build is run, from the top 100 boss-DPS parses per boss. U50 data, as of 4 Aug 2026.
Sets from this trial4
Every set that drops here, with all of its bonuses. Perfected and non-perfected versions share one entry.
- (2 items) Adds 1487 Armor
- (3 items) Adds 1487 Armor
- (4 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
- (5 items) When you Block, you deal 1196 Magic Damage to all enemies within 10 meters of you and heal for 100% of the damage done. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds and scales off your Max Health.
- (2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
- (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
- (4 items) Adds 4% Healing Done
- (5 items) When you use an area of effect heal ability, you apply Minor Cowardice to enemies within 10 meters of you, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 215 for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 3 seconds.
- (2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
- (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
- (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
- (5 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance, Your Heavy Attacks deal an additional 900 damage to monsters. Enemies you damage with fully-charged Heavy Attacks are afflicted with Minor Vulnerability for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 5%.
- (2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
- (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
- (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
- (5 items) Reduces the costs of your Stamina abilities by 8%. When an enemy you have recently damaged dies, you restore 2454 Stamina and gain Major Expedition for 8 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%. These effects can occur once every second.
