


The Destructive Curse casts the following effects on the player for 6 seconds:.Creates red flames that explode around the player, dealing 15% HP damage per second.The Creative Curse casts the following effects on the player for 6 seconds:.If you are inflicted with one curse and then receive the other curse within 6 seconds, you will lose 1 Life Count, take an additional 50% HP damage, and your skills will be sealed for 5 seconds. There are two kinds of curses: Creative Curse (White) and Destructive Curse (Black). Throughout the battle, you will be inflicted with a curse when getting hit by various attacks. This will make the boss fight much more intense than any other boss fight in the game. As the final boss, the Black Mage will use various attacks and skills based off ones used by previous boss fights, such as Magnus, Verus Hilla, Damien, Lucid and Will. The Black Mage cannot be subjected to any type of bind (except for his knights in Phase 1), and will only take the damage from the binding skill without being frozen in place. The Life Gauge you will be using during the fight, with a total of 12 spots. The battle has a time limit of 1 hour in Hard mode and 30 minutes in Extreme mode. You must be in a party of 1-6 players in order to fight him, as well as a Fragment of Destiny, and each player will have a Life Count of 12 if all players reach 0, then the battle will end and everyone will be kicked out. As such, you deal 10% more damage if your ARC is 1452-1715, 30% more damage if your ARC is at 1716-1979, and 50% more damage if your ARC is at 1980 or more (note that ARC is only available in increments of 5, and you can only bypass 1320 using the ARC Hyper Stat or the Guild Skill Arcane Force, while the ability to reach 1452 or higher is only available with special events). 1320 Arcane Force/Power is needed to deal normal damage during the battle, which is equivalent to 6 Level 20 Arcane symbols (except for Story mode, where you need 880 Arcane Force/Power). He can only fought on Hard and Extreme mode. The Black Mage is the final boss of Limina, the ninth area of Arcane River, and the third area of Tenebris, which were made permanent areas after the Expedition version of Black Mage has been defeated.

Some of his main attacks still 1 hit KOed, however. Note: He had the exact same life count mechanic and attack patterns as below, but with lower % HP damage. The HP bar for Phases 1 - 3 updated every few hours. His HP was shared between all worlds, except for Phase 4, which had 2.1bil HP for individual players. The Black Mage was presented to be the final boss you will face in Tenebris, with an invitation every 2 hours at specific times of the day. Players were limited to 3 entries a day, and were given 15 minutes to fight the boss, dealing as much damage as possible. The Black Mage boss made his debut as a "World boss" during the final stage of Tenebris expedition which was part of "Black Mage: Final Battle" patch.
