Heroes Of Hammerwatch Watcher

[Recaredo Latreche]

TheWatcher has multiple spheres circling around it at all times damaging and inflicting the confusion debuff upon hitting a player. The Spheres will orbit at a steady speed and move towards the player by slowly extending/retracting the orbit. If there are multiple players the spheres will be split up each tracking a different player

The Watcher momentarily closes it's pupil and a set of summoning circles appear on the ground for a brief moment as traps. If the player walks over a circle it will summon a small eyeball mob and damage the player if still on it.

Because the Watcher is a five stage boss with the option to rest in between, he can be easier to handle than other bosses. Understanding and avoiding his confusion spheres is critical. Although menacing it should prove not to difficult to avoid and their slow speed in extending/retracting the orbit should provide opportunity to evade them and attack the watcher. Melee heroes would do best to first lure the spheres far away from the watcher and than close in on the watcher and attack while the spheres return. Extremely tanky characters may wish to simply stick to the watcher and expect to be confused, aiming backwards when hit and dealing as much DPS as possible to take it out of the fight quickly.

When the Watcher is damaged enough it will disappear and four ritual icons will light up. The rituals trigger events where waves of small eyeballs will spawn and attack the player, with some minor additional effects (the green wave has poison eyeballs, the purple wave takes place in partial darkness). Once the player survives long enough after performing the correct ritual, the Watcher will spawn in and the player can damage it until it reaches the next health threshold. An incorrect ritual will spawn enemies without spawning the Watcher. With each ritual the watcher will appear with an additional confusion sphere increasing difficulty.

The order of the Rituals can be learned from the books encountered in the archives. The number and color of the book will be listed in a tooltip at the top of the screen when the book is read, so no memorization is needed. Using process of elimination, finding three of the books is enough to summon the Watcher correctly any time.

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