Crystallised Scorpion (Rev. 12)

Stats

HP: 50,000 (+20% [10,000 HP] per player in dungeon)
DEF: 30
EXP: 5,000
Location: Crystal Cavern

Immune to Stasis
Immune to Stun
Immune to Paralyze

Combat

Attacks

Aesthetics	Damage	Condition effects	Speed (tiles/sec)	Range (tiles)	Comments
	225		12	36
	115		10	30
	350				From Crystal Spikes Radius: 2
	175		12	36	From Fake Scorpion Explosion

Behavior

Randomly alternates between four behavior patterns:

• Circling the room while firing wide spreads of extremely damaging shards at players
• Stopping in place and firing a fast, two-armed spiral of yellow bullets
• Moving into the center of the room and summoning a large number of red crosshairs around the arena. These crosshairs will then start randomly moving around - if one comes into contact with a player, it will briefly stop and flash before causing a Crystal Spike to erupt from under it, dealing massive AoE damage. In the meantime, the Scorpion will be firing spreads of shards at the nearest player.
• Vanishing and spawning a large number of miniature scorpions around the arena. These scorpions have 2,500 (+20% [500] per player in dungeon) health, 100 DEF, and cannot attack, attempting to flee from players. One of the scorpions is substantially larger than the others and flashes - this is the one that players need to target (in addition, it has only 30 DEF). When the real scorpion is killed, all others vanish and the Crysallised Scorpion proper appears again, resuming its attack. If a fake is killed, it will explode into a ring of extremely damaging crystal shards. Unlike the Scorpion’s other phases, which are time-based, this phase will not end until the true scorpion is killed.

Drops

Luminous Armor

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Tips and Strategies

The easiest boss for a large group, but easily the hardest boss for a small group or solo player. The raw speed and power of its shots can deal massive damage, but what can be arguably the worst (or easiest) phase is the fake scorpion phase. Never stand over a fake scorpion because if it is killed, it will result in instant death without Invulnerability. It is imperative to take down the large scorpion as fast as possible to resume the bossfight and also to lower the chance of anyone dying. If it is not found and killed fast enough, it will stop flashing and make it even harder to identify (unless it was damaged and you kept track of its HP.) To make matters worse, the Crystal Entity’s fractals may cause you to lose track of the scorpion. The Crystal Spike phase can also be difficult, since it is hard to approach the center while avoiding both the crosshairs and its fast and highly damaging projectiles. However, you can always stand back and wait for a phase change if it is too dangerous to go in.

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History

Before release X32.4.1, the sprite originally looked like this:

Note that the old sprite was the same as that for the Iceion.