Picking up on HOTW last boss of story mode, here’s a redesigned encounter worthy of fractals or a new dungeon!
The Huntsman and his pet Bane’s Teeth
Situation:
Player’s fight in a circular ice area, falling out of this area translates in falling into water filled with high-damaging sharks (basically u’re dead)
Mechanic:
Gluttony
The Huntsman Abilities
Pull: The same ability as Kholer
Throw Bear Trap: Throws 3 traps randomly to the area, lasting 10 seconds or until triggered. These traps cause an uncleansable immobilize for 5 seconds and cause Bane to take aggro onto you.
Hunter’s Call: If hit for the full duration of this you are dealt 15k damage over 3 seconds, so you will need to dodge atleast once to survive if you are squishy or at low health!
Hornet’s Sting(1): same skilll. very high damaging melee skill and causes the boss to evade backwards after.
Monarch’s Leap(2): same skill. high damage and causes cripple for 5 seconds.
Throw Food: The Huntsman throws a juicy steak to a random player’s location. If Bane passes through that food he will consume it, gaining 10 stacks of Gluttony and healing both bosses for 10% and grating swiftness and protection for 10 seconds.
Forked Arrow Barrage: The Huntsman charges for 3 seconds, glowing red. After the channel he rotates 360 degrees while spraying shots that deal high damage and inflict 12 bleed stacks. Can be reflected, dodgeable.
Concussion Shot: The Huntsman charges for 3 seconds and then fires a fiery arrow that knocks-back the player hit. Can be reflected, dodgeable and the CC-negated by stability.
Lightning Shield: The Huntsman places a lightning shield on target player. This shield grants the player swiftness and doesn’t damage the target player, but it deals very high DoT damage to surrounding allies. This shield also stops Bane’s Eat skill.
Bane’s Teeth Abilities:
Eat: Bane channels during 1 seconds and then uses the skill, being able to move while the player is being digested. Similar to FOTM Jellyfish. Player is inside Bane’s Teeth. Each second the player is being eaten, Bane gains 1 stack of Gluttony and Might. Eat can be cancelled by kiting Bane to a Huntsman AoE or hitting Bane with Lightning Shield (this does not damage Bane, only cancels the digestion process). If bane digests the player during 15 seconds, or until he reaches 15 Gluttony stacks, he downs that player and spits him out to a random location in the area.
Jormag’s Breath: Bane channels for 1.5 seconds. After the channel it spits a icy breath, damaging and chilling enemies hit by hit. Every 1/2 second hit by Jormag’s Breath player’s gain 1 stack of Ice Vault. At 10 stacks that player is encased in an Ice Vault, unable to attack. The Vault must be broke with other party members attacks. Players with more than 5 stacks of Jormag’s Breath are also encased in Ice Vault if they attempt to attack one. If a Ice Vault endures more than 7 seconds without being destroyed, it explodes, downing the encased player and triggering an AoE Meteor Shower (Ice version) on the entire area, with random locations of impact (similar to FOTM Ice Shaman)
Leap: Bane leaps at the furthest player, launching players hit during the flight path towards the victim.
At 15 stacks of Gluttony, Bane’s abilities are empowered. Bane consumes all the 15 stacks and temporarily grows in size and does a massive circular Tail-Swipe that hits the entire Area. Players hit by it are knocked back (into the shark area if they are not carefull enough). If Tail-Swipe fails to hit any players, Bane repeats the attack one last time, gaining swiftness for 20 seconds. (unstealable swiftness).
Tail-Swipe deals 10K damage, it’s dodgeable, aegis’able and the knock back is negated with stability or mid-air stunbreaks.
Leap-Gluttony. Bane Leaps again after Leaping to a target. Leap ‘s flight path now leaves an icy wall that is uncrossable or destroyable. This wall melts after 15 seconds and is mostly used for heavily restricting player’s movements on the area if the two Leap victims are heavily scattered!
Jormag’s Breath-Gluttony. Starts a radial AoE starting from the edges of the area to the center. After the waves reach the center, Bane gain’s quickness for 5 seconds and will use Jormag’s Breath normal version. Be careful that, with quickness, Ice Vault debuff stacks will tick faster!!
Let me know what you think!
