Noctessa, the Wick-Eater
A night moth that hunts the light of your lantern. While you move the lantern burns bright and she knows where you are.
Phases
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. 1350 × 3.6 = 4860.
Attacks
A lane is shown, then she dives along it at the light. From the second phase she dives twice in a row.
A wing beat throws a cone of dust that stays on the floor for a while.
A ring of small moths that turn toward the light.
From the second phase: the eye-spots on her wings burn up, then a beam sweeps where the light is. It locks on just before it fires.
From the second phase she circles the room, dropping dust behind her.
How to win
- Stand still for a moment to shade the lantern: the light dims and she goes for the last place she saw it. A dashed ring shows her guess.
- Her moths home on the light the same way, so stopping also throws them off.
- Move again right after a dive or a beam misses, while she turns.
Moves, as animated in the game
Reward
A gold chest that opens without a key, a hatch to the next floor, eight coins and thirty souls.
Its own drops
- Candle wax: 6 to 10, 100% chance
- Rot root: 3 to 6, 80% chance
- Gale rune, tier 2: 35% chance
- Heart of Maud: 12% chance
- Blueprints from the pool of Rot Mother Tree