The Bronze Fathom

Boss · The Soulsea · band D, The Foundations

Where The Bronze Fathom waits

The Bronze Fathom holds the gates at depths 49,500, 50,100, 50,700, 51,300, 51,900 in The Soulsea, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Shepherd of Souls and Warden of the Drowned Fleet and The Ten Thousand and The Ballast King and Maw of the Soulsea.

What The Bronze Fathom is

The Bronze Fathom is a Golem: it swings a mace, and the body asks for Overwhelm, the elements instead of physical — and a second wind: a big one breaks into two. 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 Bronze Fathom 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.

Depth 49,500 · boss

Health54,793,313,005

Hit · swing183,942,688 / 1.25s

Armor198,563,718

Fire res75%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier2,876,648,933

OF HASTEFIREPROOFLUCKYVENOMOUSMANGLING

Depth 50,100 · boss

Health56,178,968,185

Hit · swing188,594,477 / 1.25s

Armor203,585,149

Fire res50%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge22%

Barrier2,949,395,830

OF SHOCKING DEATHEVASIVEREGENERATINGVENOMOUSDEADLYOF FLAMING DEATH

Depth 50,700 · boss

Health57,582,499,409

Hit · swing193,306,278 / 1.25s

Armor208,671,360

Fire res75%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier3,023,081,219

DENSEVAMPIRICFIREPROOFOF HINDERINGTHICK-SKINNED

Depth 51,300 · boss

Health59,003,920,673

Hit · swing198,078,139 / 1.25s

Armor213,822,403

Fire res50%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier3,097,705,835

OF CHILLING DEATHDEADLYOF HASTEOF POWEROF HINDERINGVAMPIRIC

What those modifiers do

OF HASTE

the pack within 4.5 tiles moves and swings 30% faster

FIREPROOF

+75% fire resistance (capped at 75%)

LUCKY

15% of its blows land twice over

VENOMOUS

+35% chance to poison you

MANGLING

+35% chance to cause bleeding

OF SHOCKING DEATH

leaves a pool of lightning where it falls

EVASIVE

+22% chance to dodge your hits

REGENERATING

Heals 1% of its maximum health every second

DEADLY

+20% critical strike chance

OF FLAMING DEATH

leaves a pool of fire where it falls

DENSE

takes 60% less from damage over TIME, and double from hits

VAMPIRIC

heals 1.5% of its maximum health with every blow it lands

OF HINDERING

you move 30% slower within 4.5 tiles of it

THICK-SKINNED

Overwhelm and armor you ignore count at half

OF CHILLING DEATH

leaves a pool of frost where it falls

OF POWER

gains a Power charge on every hit it lands: +200% critical chance each, up to 3

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 Bronze Fathom leads with 32,875,987,803 health, against 21,916,407,398 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.