Oryx the Mad God (Rev. 60)

Stats

Base HP: 60,000 (+20% [12,000 HP] per player in Dungeon)
DEF: 60
EXP: 10000
Location: Oryx’s Chamber

Counts toward God Kills
Counts toward Oryx Kills
Immune to Stasis
Level 1 Quest

Combat

Attacks

Aesthetics	Damage	Condition effects	Speed (tiles/sec)	Range (tiles)	Comments
	40		10	20	Minions 1
	75	Slowed for 5s	8	16	Minions 1,2
	90		8	12.8	Pierces Armor Piercing Minions 2
	280		10	8	Piercing Gaze
	290		3	1.5	Piercing Artifacts
	160		3	2.1	Piercing Artifacts
	90	Blind for 2s	4	10	Piercing Artifacts
	400		5.5	11.55	Piercing Artifacts
	1	Quiet for 8s	9	16.2	Piercing Dance 1,2, Universe
	1	Weak for 8s	9	16.2	Piercing Dance 1,2
	120		3	5.7	Dance 2
	210	Weak for 4s	5.5	16.5	Piercing Universe
	100	Weak for 3s	3	12	Piercing Gaze, Universe
	120		3	2.4	Piercing Universe
	100	Weak for 8s	1	2	Parametric Piercing Daze
	100	Weak for 3s	3.5	10.5	Piercing Chase 1, Daze
	100	Dazed for 4s	4	12	Piercing Chase 1,2
	180		8.5	25.5	Chase 2
	220			8	Radius: 4 Cooldown: 1s

Behavior

During combat, Oryx cycles through a number of phases randomly. In between phases, he will be invulnerable, and during most of his phases he will have periods of invulnerability. However, there are some exceptions to this random order:

• He will use Minions 1 when attacked for the first time
• He will always use Minion Despawn after a Minion phase is complete
• He will only use Rage when at critical HP

Phases:

Minions 1
Taunt: “Go forth minions! Crush these weaklings!!!”
When first approached, Oryx is alone and shoots wide Fire Bolt shotguns and single Green Stars. After being damaged, he goes invulnerable and summons multiple Minions of Oryx, shooting a 4-star shotgun. Slows are everywhere.

Minions 2
”My minions will make short work of you!”
Oryx summons numerous Minions and Assassins while shooting multi-directional, high damage armor-piercing shots and slow stars - beware!

Minion Despawn

Taunt: “These minions will only get in my way!”
“Bah! I need no minions to destroy you!”
“I will finish you off myself!”
“Leave me my minions…I wish to crush them PERSONALLY!”
Oryx despawns all existing minions and transitions into another phase shortly after.

Artifacts
Taunt: ”My Artifacts will protect me!”
Oryx summons 3 artifacts that rapidly revolve around him from a distance while firing white, triple-shot bullets at you. These bullets deal 50 damage each. Near Oryx, 4 larger artifacts revolve around him that fire white balls at you. Their main task is to protect Oryx while dealing damage to you. Oryx, himself will be firing radial bursts of silver shields and will also be alternating between shooting 3 heavy-hitting bullets (400 DMG!!) and 6 blinding bullets.

Dance 1
Taunt: ”BE SILENT!!!”
Oryx summons Anti-Spectators the rapidly revolve around him from a distance while firing purple shots at you. Near Oryx, a circle of Ring Elements spawn to trap players with him, pulsing white bullets in all directions. Oryx himself will be throwing 3 simultaneous high-damage (220), red AOE bombs, usually in a “Y” formation, and constantly pulsing white, short-ranged bullets. He will occasionally fire an omnidirectional burst of Weak and Quiet stars.

Dance 2
Taunt: ”Time for more dancing! Hahahaha!”
Ring Elements are spawned in a circle around Oryx, trapping players. Anti-Spectators rapidly revolve around Oryx from a distance and fire purple shots at you. Inside the circle, Oryx is firing a messy barrage of white balls while throwing bombs, equal to the damage of the “Dance 1” phase and occasionally firing bursts of Weak and Quiet stars. Is essentially the Dance 1 phase, but with an additional barrage of shots.

Universe
Taunts: ”I am the master of this existence!”
”I control your fate!”
”The universe bends to my will alone!!!”
Oryx summons White Planets that revolve around him and White Moons that orbit farther away, all of which fire radial attacks. Oryx himself will fire a ring of Quieting stars before firing large medium-ranged shots in a pulsating star manner, along with rings of weakening blasts After a while, he will fire a spiral of white balls around himself. During the spiral, the white planets start to orbit Oryx closely. After a bit, he will revert to his previous firing pattern, fire another wave of Quieting stars, and return the White Planets to their orbits, signified by a taunt:
“Speak no more, fools!”
“You have spoken your last!”
“You have uttered your last pathetic whimper!”
“SILENCE!”

Daze
Taunt: ”Tremble before my cosmic might!”
Oryx summons Black Planets that circle him at low speed, and Black Moons that orbit the planets. The Planets fire rings of black bullets, while the Moons fire 3 slow moving shots that inflict Dazed. Oryx himself will maintain 3 parametric shots that circle him very closely, and fire 3 evenly spread out shots that do plenty of damage and inflict Weak. He also occasionally fires rings of weakening white bullets.

Note: Oryx tends to use that phase after the chasing grid phase. If he does not manage to get to the center of the chamber before spawning planets, they can pile up near the column, clearing the other side of it and rendering the phase very easy.

Gaze
Taunt:“Insufferable fools! If I see you, I will kill you!”
”All who looks upon my face shall die.”
Oryx will stand still and repeatdly fire pairs of large white bullets that deal very heavy damage at the nearest player. At the same time, Oryx will fire a messy spray of white balls around him that inflict Weak.

Chase
Taunt: ”You WILL fear me!!!”
”FOOLS! Flee while you can!”
”Yes, run for your worthless lives!”
”You shall never see the light of the day!”
Oryx summons Chase Elements, which fire bullets that form a grid. Oryx will then quickly chase players firing shotguns of 5 stars that inflict Daze, as well as 3-round spreads of white bullets that inflict heavy damage.

Rage
Taunt: ”ENOUGH!!!”
”I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU!!!”
”DIE!!!”
”THIS SHALL BE YOUR GRAVE!!!”
Oryx summons many Minions of Oryx and Assassins of Oryx that chase after you. Oryx enlarges, Armors, and heals himself, then starts to chase after the nearest player while firing pairs of extremely powerful white bullets. He also fires shotguns of snowflake-like shots that inflict Daze, as well as White Blasts along the diagonal directions. During this phase, he is always vulnerable but has the armored effect on him. Essentially, this is a combination of his Chase and Gaze phases.
This is Oryx’s final phase, it lasts until his death.

Every so often, Oryx will taunt in the chat, telling players how much health he has left.

Upon his death, all minions will freeze and explode into rings of shots. He will leave behind his loot and a locked portal to the Wine Cellar, along with a taunt.
“You have defeated my simulacrum, but I remain safe in my wine cellar!”
If one has a Wine Cellar Incantation, they can use it to open the portal and fight the Mad God proper.

Reproduction

Spawns:

Anti-Spectator	Assassin of Oryx	Black Moon
Black Planet	Chase Element	Guardian Element
Minion of Oryx	Ring Element	White Moon
White Planet

Tips and Strategies

• The Dancing phases are arguably the two phases which net the most deaths in Oryx’s Chamber; however, the first one is very much manageable with good dodging skills. During that phase, focus your attention on Oryx rather than on yourself, in order to be able to read the grenades more easily, which are the hardest part of this phase. With enough practice, you’ll be able to find ways to position yourself between the grenades easily and this part will become mostly trivial to you. High speed helps a ton, though. Don’t bother about the second dancing phase: the white bullets are too numerous and messy to read properly and their damage is notable; it’s better to wait it out.
• Knights are a godsend against Oryx as he is not stun-immune. A chain stun will allow most of his phases to become laughably easy and make the battle an easy kill.
• While in rage phase,(low health) Oryx will be extremely dangerous due to his double White Flames that can kill maxed characters very easily. However the space in between the two shots is large enough to not hit the player, so it’s recommended to slowly back away from Oryx Without moving left or right.
• If a large amount of people went for Janus the Doorwarden before going to Oryx and that the Chamber was entered by a very small amount of people ignoring Janus entirely prior, there is a possibility that Oryx’s HP will not scale properly, and as a result will be shredded to ribbons by the more massive group arriving after killing Janus. It is a known bug, and it’s not recommended to deliberately invoke it as it falls into the bug exploit category, and is liable for banning.

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Trivia

• Since 2006, Oryx has been suffering from a urinary tract infection

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