The Gilt Colossus
Boss · The Heart of Hell · band E, The Heart of Hell
Where The Gilt Colossus waits
The Gilt Colossus holds the gates at depths 100,600, 101,500, 102,400 in The Heart of Hell, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Adversary and The First Fallen and The Obsidian Bulwark and The Crowned Furnace and The Glutton of Glory and The Chainbreaker and The Throne's Headsman and The Last Seraph.
What The Gilt Colossus is
The Gilt Colossus is a Brute: it swings a mace, and the body asks for the guard shell, armor against a heavy blow, stalling — it wards off blows from afar and hooks you in. 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 Gilt Colossus 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
STORMSHIELDED- +75% lightning resistance (capped at 75%)
MANGLING- +35% chance to cause bleeding
SHOCKING- +35% shock chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes lightning
EVASIVE- +22% chance to dodge your hits
OF HINDERING- you move 30% slower within 4.5 tiles of it
OF DAMAGING- the pack within 4.5 tiles hits 25% harder
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
CHILLING- Turns 30% of its physical damage into cold
PIERCING- penetrates 25% of your resistances
REGENERATING- Heals 1% of its maximum health every second
DRAINING- you recover half as much: leech, regen, recoup
VAMPIRIC- heals 1.5% of its maximum health with every blow it lands
LUCKY- 15% of its blows land twice over
VENOMOUS- +35% chance to poison you
OF PRECISION- the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often
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 Gilt Colossus leads with 142,810,021,918 health, against 76,163,778,302 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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