Malus

Behavior

Malus is found in a large square room with a red pentagram painted in the middle. He stands on one corner of the pentagram, with his 4 other followers on the other corners.

When the cultists are approached, they will provide some dialogue before attacking. Malus speaks last and taunts “SILENCE!” “These people are here to destroy us, followers of Azamoth! We cannot allow this to happen!”.

Note that in both of his phases, when he is pushed to a phase transition HP threshold, he will heal himself to that threshold (so players cannot overdamage him).

Phase 1

Malus teleports around, firing circle-shaped bursts of red Cultist Shots at nearby players. At 85% HP, he will teleport back to his corner of the pentagram and remain invincible and dormant until all the other cultists have been damaged to the same threshold. Malus will taunt “Deities of the underworld, grant us a champion to fight for us!”. When this happens, the cultists will summon Molek and disappear.

When Molek is dead, Malus will taunt “Our strength has only grown from this distraction!”, and the cultists will repeat the above process, albeit now firing 3-round bursts of their shapes. When they are damaged to 65% HP he will taunt “Azamoth, we require the assistance of another warrior so that we may bring glory to you!”, and they will summon Balaam and disappear again.

Once Balaam is dead, Malus will taunt “We shall not let these gifts be in vain!” , and the cultists repeat the above process, albeit firing 5-round bursts of their shapes instead. Once all of them are at 25% HP, Malus will move into the center of the pentagram, taunt “Argus, Gaius, Basaran, Dirge, we must combine our powers!”, and the other cultists will sacrifice themselves to give Malus their essence.

Malus will then taunt “This power…it is overwhelming! IT PULSES THROUGH ME!” and transform into his second form, identifiable by its glowing eyes.

Phase 2 (100% HP)

Taunt: “Rise, my friends! Strike them down!”
Malus’ second form has significantly higher health and slightly higher defense than his normal form. He now has immunity to Stun, and retains his life-draining abilities.

Malus can now use the other cultists’ attacks in addition to his own. When an attack is finished, he will teleport to a random other location in the room before firing another random one. When using an attack, his eyes will turn the color of the respective cultist and he will also take their form.

• If his eyes remain red (himself), he will fire several wide spreads of Armor Breaking Fire Shots at the nearest player. This will always be his first attack, and he’ll be invulnerable for its duration.
• If his eyes turn blue (Basaran), he will fire rapid, nonstop shotguns of Slowing Ice Shots at the nearest player.
• If his eyes turn yellow (Gaius), he will fire spreads of Paralyzing Lightning Shots that curve and fly back to him.
• If his eyes turn grey (Dirge), he will fire a fast spiral of Quieting Light Shots. The spiral will frequently change direction.
• If his eyes turn purple (Argus), he will fire rings of wavy Unstable Shots that move in a crisscrossing pattern.

From this point onwards, random Cultist Followers will start spawning from 4 symbols at the edges of the pentagram to assist him. They will spawn in groups of four at fixed intervals.

Phase 3 (60% HP)

Taunt: “Azamoth will protect me!”
Malus discards his elemental attacks and begins teleporting around, using variants of the other Cultists’ shape attacks. Like before, his eyes and form will change to match the Cultist whose attacks he is drawing from. Every time he teleports, he will pick a random Cultist and fire several attacks using the respective Cultist’s shapes.

• For his own attack, he will fire four rings of seven red circles that inflict Armor Break
• For Basaran’s attack, he will fire four rings of eight blue triangles that inflict Slow.
• For Argus’ attack, he will fire four five-round spreads of purple crosses that inflict Unstable.
• For Gaius’ attack, he will rapidly fire six three-round spreads of yellow pentagons that inflict Paralyze.
• For Dirge’s attacks, he fires four 4-way bursts of Quieting grey squares in a cross pattern, rotating the burst 45 degrees each time to cover the cardinal/diagonal directions.

Phase 4 (15% HP)

Taunt: “Even if you are victorious, that…that THING still crawls in the halls! You make an irredeemable mistake by defeating the only people keeping it suppressed!”
Malus teleports to the center of the room, and fires fast rings of all of the different Cultists’ “shapes” of shots (in order: red, purple, yellow, blue, grey). He will be invulnerable while firing, and will become vulnerable and stop shooting after firing his last ring. If he isn’t killed fast enough, he will become invulnerable again and repeat the process.

Once he dies, all Cultist Followers will stop spawning, although any left alive will still persist.

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Drops

	Mark of MalusG	Schematic
	Vial of Pure DarknessG - 1	Helmet Rune	Tier 10 Weapon
	Tier 11 Weapon	Tier 12 Weapon
	Potion of Life	Potion of Mana
	Unholy Sacrifice Blueprint	Corrupted Souls Blueprint	Ritual Robe Blueprint
	Bloodshed Blueprint	Burial Blades Blueprint	Mini Malus Sorcerer Skin
	ST Master’s Chest
	Tier 6 Ring
	Staff of Unholy Sacrifice	Skull of Corrupted Souls	Ritual Robe
	Bloodshed Ring	Burial Blades

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