The Great Draught
Boss · The Yoke Fields · band B, The Ante-Hell

Where The Great Draught waits
The Great Draught holds the gates at depths 4,700, 4,900 in The Yoke Fields, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Yokemaster.
What The Great Draught is
The Great Draught 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 Great Draught 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
OF THE EXECUTIONER- you recover half as much within 4.5 tiles of it
ROTPROOF- +75% chaos resistance (capped at 75%)
OF FRENZY- gains a Frenzy charge on every hit it lands: 4% more damage, +15% attack speed and +5% movement each, up to 3
OF CHILLING DEATH- leaves a pool of frost where it falls
RETALIATING- strikes back at once when one blow takes more than 8% of its health and you stand within 2.5 tiles
STORMSHIELDED- +75% lightning resistance (capped at 75%)
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
VENOMOUS- +35% chance to poison you
OVERWHELMING- ignores 30 points of your armor
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 Great Draught leads with 245,815,294 health, against 170,356,290 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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