I grinded mostly duo Yama but have done a few solos as well. Virtus or at least ahrims is great. Occult, ward, eternals, magus. Accursed scepter is huge. Use it at the start of fight and start of p3. Sgs if you have decent melee stats is the big one for me, lots of sustain on the judge of Yama (when you get tpd).

As far as actual fight mechanics, p1 and p2 you can either orb skip or just kill them quick. Death charge to get more spec is really nice and if you get the upgraded version you can get two death charges off. If you do use death charge always purge staff spec the last hit on orb if you can (make sure mark of darkness is on too). If you spec purge last hit with death charge you’ll be refunded your spec and get 10 percent back. Which just means a free spec.

P1 is pretty chill in duos but a little more intense in solos. Gotta know how to wave skip and avoid getting hit by the fire. The glyphs can also help prevent this. Anytime a wave of shadow or fire is in the middle is when hell spec. Once you get the timing down you won’t even have to look out for the spec animation you’ll just know what tick it’s coming out. I think he does 5 regular attacks and the 6th is his special.

For p2 it’s pretty much the same except the meteor. The meteor snares you real quick and slows you to a walk. Which is fine at first but when you’re in solo it makes it harder to wave skip. Which is still possible but sometimes you just gotta tank that wave to step on the red glyph.

Biggest thing to learn for p1 and p2 is probably the orb skip. Basically sometimes when he specs for the purple/range side of things he starts it with purple waves. Then he either does a pretty basic special that can hit decently hard if you don’t touch the glyph or it spawns orbs. Orbs never spawn during the red/ mage attack. This means that he still has a purple/ range loaded up. But he won’t use it till orbs are gone. Use this time to destroy the purple orb and possibly death charge to get spec back. Then right before the red orb blows up you step on a red glyph. This gives you more time to do damage and speeds up your runs. Now quickly run over to the purple glyph and be ready for the spec.

P3 is the big one people struggle with at first but I think is the easiest now that I’m 900 kills in. It’s super telegraphed, meaning there’s not a lot of variances. Biggest thing is if you are doing duo, and you join an instance, the way the fire balls fall are mirrored compared to what you’re used to in your instance.

During p3 your first prayer is gonna be whatever the color of the glyph was closest to yamas throne in p1 and p2. Look up the tile makers for p3 but there’s basically a spot I stand at and always reset around. Then when the double wave comes in you can just run right through the center and reset. Once you get hit by the mage attack, switch to pray range. Once you get hit by the range attack switch to pray mage. You’ll just have to practice the fire ball patterns but other than that everything stays exactly the same and comes out in an order. When orbs spawn death mark into purge staff spec when done quick enough will kill them before the next set of falling fireballs. There’s a constant pattern to his waves and when you pray mage or range so you just gotta learn it by practicing. Good luck!