The Tolling Warden

Boss · The Frozen Deep · band D, The Foundations

Where The Tolling Warden waits

The Tolling Warden holds the gates at depths 23,900, 24,500, 25,100, 25,700, 26,300 in The Frozen Deep, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Sleeper in the Ice and The Keystone Warden and The Drowned Architect and The Brittle Colossus and The Under-Delver.

What The Tolling Warden is

The Tolling Warden is a Knight: it swings a sword, and the body asks for fast builds beware: the more you swing, the more it hits back — and it wards off blows from afar. 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 Tolling Warden 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 23,900 · boss

Health12,096,418,071

Hit · swing40,605,926 / 1.25s

Armor43,835,823

Fire res50%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

OF FLAMING DEATHBURNINGEXPOSINGOF HINDERINGVAMPIRICOF SHOCKING DEATH

Depth 24,500 · boss

Health12,735,601,291

Hit · swing42,751,679 / 1.25s

Armor46,152,139

Fire res50%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res75%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

OF HASTEROTPROOFMANGLINGSUNDERINGOF FLAMING DEATHOF CHILLING DEATH

Depth 25,100 · boss

Health13,391,819,687

Hit · swing44,954,621 / 1.25s

Armor48,530,187

Fire res75%

Lightning res50%

Cold res50%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

LUCKYFIREPROOFVENOMOUSOF HINDERINGOF FLAMING DEATHSHOCKING

Depth 25,700 · boss

Health14,065,101,700

Hit · swing47,214,849 / 1.25s

Armor50,970,072

Fire res50%

Lightning res50%

Cold res75%

Chaos res30%

Dodge0%

Barrier0

VENOMOUSOF PRECISIONOF DAMAGINGFROSTBOUNDOF FLAMING DEATHOF ENDURANCE

What those modifiers do

OF FLAMING DEATH

leaves a pool of fire where it falls

BURNING

+35% ignite chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes fire

EXPOSING

every blow cuts your resistances by 15 for 4 s

OF HINDERING

you move 30% slower within 4.5 tiles of it

VAMPIRIC

heals 1.5% of its maximum health with every blow it lands

OF SHOCKING DEATH

leaves a pool of lightning where it falls

OF HASTE

the pack within 4.5 tiles moves and swings 30% faster

ROTPROOF

+75% chaos resistance (capped at 75%)

MANGLING

+35% chance to cause bleeding

SUNDERING

every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s

OF CHILLING DEATH

leaves a pool of frost where it falls

LUCKY

15% of its blows land twice over

FIREPROOF

+75% fire resistance (capped at 75%)

VENOMOUS

+35% chance to poison you

SHOCKING

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

OF PRECISION

the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often

OF DAMAGING

the pack within 4.5 tiles hits 25% harder

FROSTBOUND

+75% cold resistance (capped at 75%)

OF ENDURANCE

gains an Endurance charge every second while hit recently: +15% physical reduction and +15% to the elements 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 Tolling Warden leads with 7,257,850,843 health, against 3,225,431,192 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.