The Salt-Crowned

Boss · The Acheron Strand · band B, The Ante-Hell

Where The Salt-Crowned waits

The Salt-Crowned holds the gates at depths 5,200, 5,400 in The Acheron Strand, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Strandmaster.

What The Salt-Crowned is

The Salt-Crowned 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 Salt-Crowned 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 5,200 · boss

Health505,880,203

Hit · swing1,697,491 / 1.25s

Armor1,833,247

Fire res40%

Lightning res40%

Cold res40%

Chaos res25%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

PIERCINGENRAGEDLUCKYDRAINING

Depth 5,400 · boss

Health547,309,037

Hit · swing1,836,543 / 1.25s

Armor1,983,380

Fire res40%

Lightning res40%

Cold res40%

Chaos res25%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

SHOCKINGDENSEVAMPIRICOF FRENZY

What those modifiers do

PIERCING

penetrates 25% of your resistances

ENRAGED

builds 2 Rage with every blow it lands, up to 50; each point is 1% more damage

LUCKY

15% of its blows land twice over

DRAINING

you recover half as much: leech, regen, recoup

SHOCKING

+35% shock chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes lightning

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 FRENZY

gains a Frenzy charge on every hit it lands: 4% more damage, +15% attack speed and +5% movement 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 Salt-Crowned leads with 303,528,122 health, against 242,725,109 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.