The Mask-Maker
Boss · The Gallery of Masks · band B, The Ante-Hell
Where The Mask-Maker waits
The Mask-Maker holds the gates at depths 3,100, 3,300, 3,500 in The Gallery of Masks, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Thousand-Faced.
What The Mask-Maker is
The Mask-Maker 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 Mask-Maker 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
EXPOSING- every blow cuts your resistances by 15 for 4 s
MANGLING- +35% chance to cause bleeding
ENRAGED- builds 2 Rage with every blow it lands, up to 50; each point is 1% more damage
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
STORMSHIELDED- +75% lightning resistance (capped at 75%)
BURNING- +35% ignite chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes fire
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
SHOCKING- +35% shock chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes lightning
ETHEREAL- takes 60% less from HITS, and double from damage over time
OF SHOCKING DEATH- leaves a pool of lightning where it falls
DRAINING- you recover half as much: leech, regen, recoup
FROSTBOUND- +75% cold 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 Mask-Maker leads with 103,113,182 health, against 82,434,976 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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