The Brandmaster
Boss · The Branding Pits · band B, The Ante-Hell
Where The Brandmaster waits
The Brandmaster holds the gates at depths 2,100, 2,300, 2,500 in The Branding Pits, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Thrice-Marked.
What The Brandmaster is
The Brandmaster is a Wight: it swings an axe, and the body asks for burst damage — it heals as it fights. As a boss it wears the type's defences at 35%, carries no status of its own, and enrages below half health: it hits harder and moves faster.
The Brandmaster by the numbers
The card at each gate — health, damage per swing, armour and the modifiers it rolls — straight from the game's spawn table. On the floor the boss leads with 60% of the card's health and 60% of its damage, before the road's own pressure.
What those modifiers do
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
WITHERING- every blow leaves damage over time on you: 15% of the blow each second for 4 s
MANGLING- +35% chance to cause bleeding
LUCKY- 15% of its blows land twice over
OF THE EXECUTIONER- you recover half as much within 4.5 tiles of it
STORMSHIELDED- +75% lightning resistance (capped at 75%)
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
EXPOSING- every blow cuts your resistances by 15 for 4 s
ENRAGED- builds 2 Rage with every blow it lands, up to 50; each point is 1% more damage
PIERCING- penetrates 25% of your resistances
RETALIATING- strikes back at once when one blow takes more than 8% of its health and you stand within 2.5 tiles
FIREPROOF- +75% fire resistance (capped at 75%)
Modifiers are rolled per depth and are the same for every player. Bosses always carry at least 3 and never a pace modifier (SWIFT, BRUTE), so a boss's swing rhythm is its own; of the seals only the walls — BLOODLESS, INERT, ASHEN, ETHEREAL, DENSE — ride a boss. The full list is in Enemy modifiers.
At its first gate The Brandmaster leads with 45,694,736 health, against 36,519,407 for the leader one floor above, and swings every 1.25s.
What a gate floor is
A gate is a floor like any other, with the boss leading its last pack. Nothing below it opens until the floor is cleared. A lost floor costs nothing; you can fight it again. How a floor is fought is under Combat.
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