The Cog Widow
A brass spider built to spin chains. She walks on six legs, and each knee can be broken off. How many legs she has left sets how she moves and fights.
Phases
1
Phase 1Starts at 100% health left, about 7650
2
Phase 2: Two legs gone, she lurchesStarts at 66% health left, about 5049
3
Phase 3: Two legs left, the boiler screamsStarts at 38% health left, about 2907
4
Phase 4: She spins on her bellyStarts at 15% health left, about 1148
Base health. The game multiplies boss health by 1.8, and by 1 plus 0.5 for every floor of depth, so the real number on its own floor is higher. 1700 × 4.5 = 7650.
Attacks
Six or five legs
She walks: leg stabs (circles where a foot comes down), fans of bouncing cogs, a burst of steam around her.
Four or three legs
She lurches in jerks: adds a skitter lunge along a lane, and stabs come in fours.
Two or one leg
She can no longer walk: she hops at you and lands in a ring of embers.
No legs
On her belly she spins round the room, bouncing off walls and spraying embers.
How to win
- Each knee you break costs her 5% of her health and stuns her for a moment.
- While five or six legs hold the boiler up it is out of reach and takes 75% damage. Break legs early.
- Her health forces the count down anyway (to four at 66%, two at 38%, none at 15%), so learn every gait.
Moves, as animated in the game
Idle
Aims
Steam
Cracked boiler
Spins
Reward
A gold chest that opens without a key, a hatch to the next floor, eight coins and thirty souls.
Its own drops
- Slag ore: 6 to 10, 100% chance
- Bone meal: 2 to 4, 40% chance
- Hare rune, tier 2: 35% chance
- Hale's heart: 12% chance
- Blueprints from the pool of Furnace Golem
Related
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