The Spawning Hollow

This boss's marks deal a fixed amount set for its level (23), in place of the blow multiples below: a move you could dodge 255 damage, a hazard 223 damage, its signature failed 350 damage, burning ground 76 damage a second. More levels and better gear mean more health, so the same hit takes a smaller part of it. Armour, shields and barriers turn aside at most 20% of it.

It draws a red ring round itself (radius 3 tiles); 1.5 s later it hits everyone inside for 2 × a normal blow. It stands still while the mark lasts.

WhenIn turn: Venom Spit and The Croak; one move every 8 s, the first 5 s into the fight.

EnragedMoves every 6 s. The ring grows (radius 3.6 tiles).

TipAs soon as the ring appears, move away from the boss: walking, you cover 5.3 tiles in 1.5 s, enough even from right beside it. Then come back and keep hitting.

It spits venom down lanes through the party (1/2/3 for 1, 2–3 and 4–5 players), 1.5 tiles wide; 1.5 s later the gobs fly, hitting everyone they pass for 1.8 × a normal blow, and leave little pools of poison along the lane.

WhenIn turn: Venom Spit and The Croak; one move every 8 s, the first 5 s into the fight.

EnragedMoves every 6 s.

TipStep sideways out of the lane (0.8 tiles is enough), and don't stand in the poison it leaves.

Her tongue lashes at one of you who is not her foe: a red line 1.4 tiles wide, marked 1.4 s. The first one on it is swallowed: acid, 0.4 × a normal blow each 1 s, and you strike her from inside. The others' blows fill her belly bar (3%/2.5%/4% of her health, alone, 2–3, 4–5; alone, your own blows): full, she retches you out and reels 3 s. Not burst in 8 s, she spits you out half digested (350 damage) and heals 4%.

WhenFrom 60% on, every 26 s

Enragedevery 22 s

TipStep off the red line. Swallowed: keep striking. Outside: burst her belly fast.

It flushes red and rages: its normal blows come 1.3× as often, and all its blows are 15% harder.

WhenAt 30% of its health; it lasts to the end of the fight.

EnragedMoves every 6 s.

TipThe last part is the most dangerous: save your strong skills and potions for it, and dodging the marks matters more than ever.

This boss's marks deal a fixed amount set for its level (25), in place of the blow multiples below: a move you could dodge 276 damage, a hazard 241 damage, its signature failed 380 damage, burning ground 83 damage a second. More levels and better gear mean more health, so the same hit takes a smaller part of it. Armour, shields and barriers turn aside at most 20% of it.

It draws a red ring round itself (radius 3 tiles); 1.5 s later it hits everyone inside for 2 × a normal blow. It stands still while the mark lasts.

WhenIn turn: Lunge and Tail Sweep; one move every 7.5 s, the first 5 s into the fight.

EnragedMoves every 5.5 s. The ring grows (radius 3.8 tiles).

TipAs soon as the ring appears, move away from the boss: walking, you cover 5.3 tiles in 1.5 s, enough even from right beside it. Then come back and keep hitting.

It lowers its head and marks a lane through the player farthest from it (1.8 tiles wide, 5–11 tiles long); 1.4 s later it runs the lane (17.5 tiles a second) and hits everyone in its path for 2.1 × a normal blow.

WhenIn turn: Lunge and Tail Sweep; one move every 7.5 s, the first 5 s into the fight.

EnragedMoves every 5.5 s. It runs faster (21.3 tiles a second).

TipStanding far off doesn't help: it runs at the farthest one. Step to the side of the lane, not to its end; 0.9 tiles sideways is enough.

The peat-cutters' old pilings stand round its floor. A lunge whose lane meets a piling ends there: Mirefang slams into it and is dazed for 5 s.

WhenEvery lunge.

TipWhoever it lunges at (the farthest) stands behind a piling: let it come, then everyone hits it while it reels.

It shouts: "(The silt stirs: its brood crawls out!)" 1/2/2 Mudlurker (level 24) come and attack the boss's target.

WhenAt 70% and 40% of its health, once each.

TipCut down the newcomers first: whoever holds the boss keeps holding it, the others turn on the helpers. Use your area skills here.

It dives into the mud (1 s); its wake follows whoever is farthest at 3 tiles a second for 4 s. A wake that comes within 1.3 tiles of a piling cracks its skull: it is dazed 5 s. Otherwise a circle 2.3 tiles round is marked where the wake stops: 1.8 s later it bursts up, 380 damage to everyone in it.

WhenFrom 50% on, every 22 s

Enragedevery 18 s

TipWith its wake after you, put a piling between you and it.

It flushes red and rages: its normal blows come 1.3× as often, and all its blows are 15% harder.

WhenAt 30% of its health; it lasts to the end of the fight.

EnragedMoves every 5.5 s.

TipThe last part is the most dangerous: save your strong skills and potions for it, and dodging the marks matters more than ever.