eh for a one room boss he's to weak he only ended up killing 3 of my 4 guys

Hey, how did you make it so the Rotting trinkets had that sparkle around their edges?

When the boss killed both his cultists he just kept passing turns. Is that normal? I feel like I've missed something here.

Ok so, this boss is literally a pushover if you have an ability that summons an ally enemy.
For example, any summoning trinket from Spider Nests 2 (Monster Mod) or Magician Class mod's crystal summoning ability.
So, yeah, you can consistently win this fight without taking a single hit of damage

I only got 2 trinkets out of the three :(

So I've had the mod loaded 2nd to the top and I'm far past the required weeks and have way more than 4 lvl 6 hero's

can you turn this boss into a playable class ? not like a leper re-skin , cause the boss look so cool.

I really enjoyed the fight xd
Would prefer honestly to see his mini-version as wandering boss somewhere.
Visual is just OUTSTANDING! Cant be used just one time xd
I barely killed him with mage, cainheirst knight, bogatyr and veiled.

He is simple, but strong boss. So much HP and you literally cant stun him. Even healing doesnt help, cause he is overdamaging. So, better to pray for working deaths doors and his rare misses.
Im really not sure if its possible to make him better. Maybe its fair that you cant stun him, but he is vulnerable to the blood at least?
For now I can say it was great fight. Ill try to investigate it more!


+karma for russian translation. Much better to play.

My mans thiccer then a bowl of herbs

Heya, id love to translate this into czech if possible:)

really cool idea for a boss but with 2 crusaders, a jester and a vestal (thought he would be a front line because leper) i found it a bit to easy to just brute force. i didn't know about the mechanic at first and only when he killed both cultists did i realise what was going to happen, still managed to get out of there with all 4 alive though. although i did get a decent few lucky crits.

he kinda thick tho ngl

Just a had Leper die because of the Crown of Corrosion and it gave me the line
"Foliot - Legend Leper, died of shenanigans."

Is that a unique death line from the mod or something unused from vanilla? Never seen it before, until now. Looked it up and only found a page for Don't Starve.

Can you make him a class his so cool

I lost my jewelry and I can never get it back

bless

the muscles.
dear god the muscles.
and the ass.


I feel as though there were seperate motives for making this mod than simply making a boss mod.

nice ass mr leper

I love the concept for the mod. The idea of minibosses based off of the characters is such an interesting idea. Now I want to see one for all the heroes and tying all of the boss fights to the back stories of them all. I have seen the mod played and haven't fought it myself, but I have seen it played and just love the concept in general. Great stuff.

Just out of curiosity if he is "The Rotting King" wouldn't it make more sense for him to appear in the warrens where there is an abundance of rotting things?

nevermind, just saw royal execution. Probably exists to stop such an easy whittledown kill.

so you can just keep attacking the cultists at his feet and he will never attack you if you can outpace him in damage?

Felt a bit weak but I was using unchained: vestal/bounty hunter/ crusader and golem character mod, so I guess they are unbalanced as well. pretty cool though, is this repeatable?

I just fought this guy,
Hes great, super cool, and very intimidating. I felt immediate regret upon entering the dungeon, mixed with lasting terror, and i was super involved in the fight emotionally. However, (maybe spoilers) I think a bleed effect could be added to his attacks, or maybe even a stun instead. Really just 1 point of bleed a round is enough, It makes him 100% more deadly, and not as useless against all party healers, like the vestal. As soon as I realized that he didnt have any bleeds or stuns, I was very happy I brought my vestal over my occultist. As far as adding a stun to his attacks goes, one could simply shuffle party or use mobile skills to get your healers out of his attacks range. However I still think bleeding would be better mechanically, but stun maybe suites his style a bit more.

Finally faced him and I must say I liked him a lot, but I feel like he was extremely weak, I basically facerolled him without using what I think is supposed to be his mechanic (sandbaging the lil guys infront of him).

Seras Ming, just out of curiousity... aren't you playing on Bloodmoon with any mods changing the game over week limit?

also for the placement of the mod its in 4th of the mods i have active. Should i just move it to the top?

so question, i have 32 recruits all at lvl 6 and im on weak 243 and after downloading the mod i have done 13 missions. Do i need to make a new save or something because the boss has not shown up yet...

Will we get a chance to fight him more than once?

Thicc Boi

No, that was removed when he was rebalanced

Does this boss ignore the Death Door resistance?

If what Kenobi down there says is true, this may be turning into the Abyssal Horror all over again. Difficulty is nice, and is needed for something like this chunky cholesterol collection of corpses, but too much and you have something not worth the fight. Yes, the high damage and the HP is like that of an actual Leper, our best Tank in the game, but that might be the problem... just buffing that to high hell and calling it a day. We wanted it to be more difficult, just not too much.

I fought it day one, and I enjoyed it, even without the OP-ness and the 100% DB Removal. Again, like I've said before on the Abyssal Horror, DO NOT make the same mistake twice. Don't make a boss that has such a fantastic idea, but butcher it with terrible balancing.

Stupidly powerful, 360 health and 1-shots every party member because he almost always crits? Moreso he attacks twice every turn and knocks everyone out of order and can't be stunned. How to ruin a playthrough = fight this boss.

Fought this guy today for the first time. Balance feels dead on now, he hits like a truck and is absolutely terrifying, I barely squeaked out.

(Not enough people talk about him cleaving through his worshippers as he approaches you, that was the most intimidating and flavorful thing I've experienced in this game.)

Good grief, look how they massacred my boy!

I kill the boss and get the trinkets. However, the hero with the trinkets is killed by other boss. I try to kill the shrieker, but I did't find the trinkets that I lost. May I ask for adding a rotting king event in order to help me get the trinkets that I lost? I really enjoy rotting king rewards.

Nice boss but way too easy. He really needs more skills or if he had at least three moves. He can't do anything agains Vestal's AoE heal

Really cool boss, really cool concept for trinkets. After playing with a leper oriented party and losing two to the damage taken by the trinket upon taking damage, I would say the drawbacks of negative speed for a chance to hurt myself on hit + damage is really unusual. I like the set, and I like the -25% healing received instead of the deathblow resist, I'd want the damage trinket to get a buff in some fashion, maybe +30% damage for hew or purge, or even a +5% hp restore or an aegis block on top of the +25% damage in exchange for a guaranteed 3, or 4 damage taken instead of a 50% chance seeing as most of the attacks the Rotting King himself uses were mostly purge or hew, which understandably would be that. The drawbacks are just too overwhelming for the trinkets for it to be anything but kind of like trophy trinkets. Just felt like putting that out there, super cool stuff though, really happy with the fight and all the other little bits of thematic stuff floating around with it.

Love the art, but there's a metric boatload of problems with this design. Lots of cheap artificial difficulty (bloated HP, guard bypass, death blow resist bypass, and the retreat tax) where there could have been more Leper-flavored attacks with real complexity.

now if this was a character class or a skin that would be even better!

Is there any chance that u can make a Rotting King skin for Leper?

leper represent

Hey all, read a bunch of feedback and made some changes to make the Rotting King feel a bit more like a darkest level boss. Check the change notes for more details.

I really like the idea with the cultist serving as a barrier between you and the boss but right now I feel that the mechanic is not used to it's full potential.

I got only two of the three trinkets after I defeated the boss. How do I get the other one?

I'm very curious what you'd done with him! I've just installed him and will leave a review shortly.

the two 1/999 hp punching bags are cool but they buy you two turns for free.

if you still like using them then maybe make them have actions that mark the hero in position 1
or maybe any of the heroes. then you can have the king hit the target. or you could make them summons. so every time the the king is hit summon a punching to guard the king. then he hits a follower and stress the party something like 20 stress or 12 stress points. then you give the king that shuffles a hero and give the hero or the party horror for 5/4 or 7/3. oh you could have a punching bag give the king a action, heal, or buff. but you be you and do what you think is or fits for your mod.

ps. i killed him before he could do any damage to me. because I used a mark party

I don't personally think he needs to deny healing. If anything he needs more turns and more moves. He also has pretty bad accuracy, which is accurate but doesn't help him at all. He wastes 2 of his turns attack the Worshippers and they can actually tank Corpse Chop if you hit them before hand, lowering their relevance further.
User Ghost had a good critique of this boss. He shouldn't really ignore prot or Death Blow resist cause in all honestly, that's both cheap and irrelevant since he's so damn slow you never have to worry about being put into Death's door. He just needs to be able to hit multiple times and have a more varied moveset to prevent stalling and cheese. If not, give him a second phase at like half HP where he uses Withstanding cause he's also EXTREMELY fragile due to his lack of prot
Its only made worse with other class mods like the Thrall with his Phantasmal Gauntlet.

could you implement a feature were all healing abilities are disabled during the entire fight? similarly to the baron or the weald skeleton guy.