So, I've had a night of bad attempts on Haukke Manor. Some of which could have been explained by DPS with their darklight weapons - others I just don't understand.

Various guides around the web on this place describe the first boss as being done with ease and is largely a dps race. I do not believe this to be true, as while with low DPS I have seen numerous additional butlers and stewards spawn from the summoning rituals, I have also done fights where no additional mobs spawned at all. Only the ones from the cages.

Can somebody please explain to me how the summoning ritual (I think it's called, the big purple thing) works. Does it spawn mobs even if the boss touches it? I was under the assumption that it only spawned when the butlers touched it. But we've gotten more mobs even when we havn't seen any butlers touch the ritual. It's giving me a headache because I refuse to believe we should just brute force it with 2x relic weapon dps.