The Stung Herald
Boss · The Vestibule · band B, The Ante-Hell
Where The Stung Herald waits
The Stung Herald holds the gate at depth 1,300 in The Vestibule, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Bannerless One and The Unchosen.
What The Stung Herald is
The Stung Herald is a Herald: it swings a wand, and the body asks for Recoup and Life Steal, elemental defense — kill it first: its chant shields its pack from the elements. 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 Stung Herald 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
DEADLY- +20% critical strike chance
MANGLING- +35% chance to cause bleeding
EXPOSING- every blow cuts your resistances by 15 for 4 s
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
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 Stung Herald leads with 16,760,303 health, against 10,597,783 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.
Fight The Stung Herald — play free