The Strandmaster
Boss · The Acheron Strand · band B, The Ante-Hell
Where The Strandmaster waits
The Strandmaster holds the gates at depths 5,100, 5,300, 5,500 in The Acheron Strand, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Salt-Crowned.
What The Strandmaster is
The Strandmaster 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 Strandmaster 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 SHOCKING DEATH- leaves a pool of lightning where it falls
BARRIERED- Opens behind a barrier worth 25% of its health
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
OF POWER- gains a Power charge on every hit it lands: +200% critical chance each, up to 3
OVERWHELMING- ignores 30 points of your armor
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
THICK-SKINNED- Overwhelm and armor you ignore count at half
OF DAMAGING- the pack within 4.5 tiles hits 25% harder
OF PRECISION- the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often
OF CHILLING DEATH- leaves a pool of frost where it falls
BURNING- +35% ignite chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes fire
EVASIVE- +22% chance to dodge your hits
RETALIATING- strikes back at once when one blow takes more than 8% of its health and you stand within 2.5 tiles
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 Strandmaster leads with 291,479,991 health, against 303,015,220 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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