Seed 1161: Mountaintop, Greg

Record details

Special event

Fellomen — Day 1Newly found Sites of Grace raise attack power.

Churches

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Township

Present in this seedA small settlement built around a merchant. He looks like the ones scattered across the map, but his stock is deeper. He sells a Stonesword Key to each player, so a squad that stops here leaves with one apiece. Nowhere else in the game is a key certain, and squads running Evergaols route through a Township for that reason alone. He is also the only merchant who sells talismans, and the only one who sells a +2 smithing stone, which is as far as an ordinary smithing table can take a weapon. Buying it can save the squad a run through a Tunnel, the mine that otherwise guarantees that stone. Bring runes.

Stonesword Keys

4 to open every EvergaolThis map holds 4 Evergaols, and opening one is the only thing a Stonesword Key does in the game. What is sealed behind each one stays hidden until the key goes in, which is the part the seed settles ahead of time. The Township in this seed sells a key to each player, the only guaranteed source in the game, and the rest have to be found on the map.

Fellomen — Day 1

The day is fixed by the seed and it is written above. The minute is not: the same seed can fire the same event at different times, so treat this as something to be ready for rather than something to set a clock against.

The Fell Omen picks exactly one player, marks them with a red dot, and pursues that target across the whole map, teleporting to catch anyone who tries to run. The translucent red circle over the whole map is there to say there is nowhere to go.

The reward buff does not work the way the in-game text reads. It says graces the player touches, but the buff only moves when you create a grace that did not exist before, and the only way to do that is to kill a boss. The ceiling is ten: eight field bosses plus the Night 1 and Night 2 bosses. So the run comes with a field objective attached: kill bosses to build the reward.

If the targeted player dies even once the raid fails, and the whole team carries a permanent debuff taking 10% extra damage from every source for the rest of the run.

Only one event can happen per expedition, and which ones are possible depends on the Nightlord. So this is the event for this run, with nothing else queued behind it.

Bosses in this seed

The castle, the night bosses and the bosses placed around the map are fixed for seed 1161: open it again and the same bosses are waiting in the same places. A field boss marker points at the ground it holds rather than the exact step it stands on, so expect to find it moving around nearby. Knowing which ones you are walking into decides what damage type to build and which detours are worth the time.

Castle, held by Banished Knights

This is the Limveld Castle, the fixed structure near the centre of the map, and the pattern behind it never changes: a guard faction, one chest, one boss in the basement and one boss on the rooftop. What the seed decides is which of the three factions is holding it and which bosses are inside. Noklateo is the one Shifting Earth that removes it. The Great Hollow has castles of its own, but they are built to a different plan and hold a different spread of enemies, so nothing described here applies to them.

Banished Knights are the middle option. They are not much of a wall, and both the runes and the rarity of what they leave behind are modest. If the castle is on the route, this is the version that costs the least time and the least skill to clear.

The chest holds a talisman, and the path to it does not open until the basement boss is dead. That there is a talisman in it is fixed. Which talisman is not: it is rolled when the chest opens, so the same seed can hand you any talisman in the game, which is why nothing on this page names it. It pays out as a Dormant Power, so in a trio all three players get one.

Neither castle boss is unique to the castle. Both are stronger versions of bosses that also appear as field bosses, with more health, more damage and bigger rewards. Killing the basement one opens the path to the chest, and with it a shortcut that lets you cross the castle from the inside. The rooftop one is the reason to make the climb: every boss carries a small chance of dropping a legendary, and this one carries a higher chance than normal. It is a chance and not a guarantee. The only guaranteed legendary comes from the Crater event, which converts an item you are already carrying rather than leaving it to a drop.

• Bell Bearing Hunter

  Basement

  Pierce roughly doubles on it and lightning lands well, while standard, slash and strike are all resisted. It is aggressive at close and mid range but the attacks are slow, and it can be parried, though a stance break costs two parries rather than one.

  The Bell Bearing Hunter is not a hard fight in the field or at night. The basement is what changes it. More health, more damage, and a sword that reaches across most of the room, in a space with no room to back off. At launch it was a running joke: players would see him down there and immediately back out.

• Draconic Tree Sentinel

  Rooftop

  A golden-armored knight on horseback with lightning and fireballs at every range. The raised shield means a single-target bolt; the hammer planted behind him means a wide wave. Poison and Scarlet Rot work unusually well.

Field bosses (6)

• Leonine Misbegotten

  Field boss

  A greatsword swung with more strength than technique, fast and heavy, but the bigger attacks leave openings wide enough that patience beats trading. Watch the stomp, which rolls straight into a spin and a half with the blade out. Slash and fire both work.

• Red Wolf

  Field boss

  A giant wolf that casts. It alternates between closing for bites and throwing sorcery from across the arena, and the one to watch is the glintblade: it sidesteps, leaves a floating orb behind, and the orb fires at you a moment later, homing.

• Ulcerated Tree Spirit

  Field boss

  The whole fight is learning which of its movements actually have a hitbox. It flops and twists constantly and most of that is harmless, which makes the real attacks easy to miss.

• Demi-Human Queen

  Field boss

  Her poise is low, so stance breaks come quickly. The opener is usually a staff slam into a sideways drag along the ground, and getting through both buys you a pause. Fire, poison and scarlet rot all work; madness does nothing.

• Black Blade Kindred

  Field boss

  Most of what it does is slow and well signposted. The exception is Fury of the Kindred, a five-hit combo with awkward gaps between the slashes; when the sword comes up to the left of its face, sprint out rather than roll.

• Erdtree Avatar

  Field boss

  It deals Holy damage and resists Holy, so a holy loadout is the wrong answer twice over; fire does roughly double. A headless stump with a huge staff, slow and easy to read, but the leaping body slam sends out a shockwave when it lands.