Skull Shrines (Old)

These entities were scrapped

About

Back in the days (before Build 100) there were not only one Skull Shrine however three different ones that varied in difficulty and yielded worse or better loot than the other. They all had the same sprite and same sprited minions and only varied in size, minion reproduction, damage and loot.
The three Skull Shrine variants varied greatly in loot (yet to be added) and the strongest of them was considered too overpowered for most players.

Stats

Lesser Skull Shrine:

Name	HP	DEF	Size	Projectile Damage	Num Projectiles
Lesser Skull Shrine	300	5	80	25	5
Lesser Red Flaming Skull	80	0	80	20	1
Lesser Blue Flaming Skull	80	0	80	20	1

Skull Shrine:

Name	HP	DEF	Size	Projectile Damage	Num Projectiles
Skull Shrine	1500	15	100	50	7
Red Flaming Skull	200	0	100	40	1
Blue Flaming Skull	200	0	100	40	1

Greater Skull Shrine:

Name	HP	DEF	Size	Projectile Damage	Num Projectiles
Greater Skull Shrine	10000	40	120	100	9
Greater Red Flaming Skull	1000	0	120	80	1
Greater Blue Flaming Skull	1000	0	120	80	1

Behavior

The behaviors for each of the Skull Shrines and their minions will be broken down in three parts to keep it somewhat comprehensible.

Lesser Skull Shrine:
The Lesser Skull Shrine will not move once spawned, and is arguable one of the easiest event encounters in the game (keep the time period in mind. ~2010). It will reproduce a maximum of 10 minions, where those 10 minions are a mix of Lesser Red & Blue Flaming Skulls.
The Lesser Skull Shrine will shoot a burst of 5 projectiles at the player every 2 seconds, while the Lesser Flaming Skulls will “protect” the Lesser Skull Shrine by staying at most 3 tiles close to it while they wander with a speed of 0.5 and shoot a single projectile at the player every 2 seconds.

Difficulty described by users on the Wild Shadow Forum:
The Lesser Skull Shrine can easily be defated by any player above level 5 with just any gear.
~ 2010

Skull Shrine: For The Skull Shrine it too won’t move once spawned, and lies in the middle of the three Skull Shrines in terms of difficulty. It will reproduce a maximum of 20 minions this time, where those 20 minions are a mix of Red & Blue Flaming Skulls. The Skull Shrine will shoot a burst of `7` projectiles at the player every second, while the Flaming Skulls will “protect” the Lesser Skull Shrine by staying at most 3 tiles close to it while they wander with a speed of `0.5` and shoot a single projectile at the player every second as well as their master.

Difficulty described by users on the Wild Shadow Forum:
The Skull Shrine can be taken down by a decent group of people.
~ 2010

Greater Skull Shrine:
For The Skull Shrine it too won’t move once spawned, and lies in the middle of the three Skull Shrines in terms of difficulty. It will reproduce a maximum of 20 minions this time, where those 20 minions are a mix of Red & Blue Flaming Skulls.
The Skull Shrine will shoot a burst of 7 projectiles at the player every second, while the Flaming Skulls will “protect” the Lesser Skull Shrine by staying at most 3 tiles close to it while they wander with a speed of 0.5 and shoot a single projectile at the player every second as well as their master.

Difficulty described by users on the Wild Shadow Forum:
The Greater Skull Shrine was generally too overpowered and would take a really skilled group of level 20 players with priests and paladins spamming healing spells.
~2010

History

The Lesser, Regular and Greater Skull Shrines were all scrapped sometime around Build 100, and the Greater Skull Shrine was turned into the Skull Shrine that we have today.

A very old and very low-quality screenshot of the player Sour that has died from a Greater Skull Shrine (One of its minions).