The Black Glass · monster · floor 31 down
Shardback
701 HP and a bite of 36 on floor 31; 2319 HP and 83 bite on floor 50. 39–59 basic swings fell one on floor 31 before gear.
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How it fights
The shardback bursts when it dies. The moment it falls, 2 smaller shardbacks break out of it, 0.45 tiles from where it fell, one to your left and one to your right, and are flung 6 tiles a second sideways before they turn back on you. Each copy has 45% of a whole one’s HP (315 on floor 31) and 70% of its size, bites like a whole one, gives half the XP and drops nothing; a copy never bursts again. Unlike the cleavecap’s halves there is no wait: the copies are on you in the same instant, so one shardback is 701 + 2 × 315 HP of work on floor 31, and the copies land beside you, not behind it. Kill it with your back to a wall or with a sweeping skill ready. At most 3 whole ones are alive at once (copies do not count).
- Base HP
- 58
- Base bite
- 6
- Bites at most every
- 1 s
- Base speed
- 1.15 tiles/s
- Body radius
- 0.34 tiles
- XP
- 8 (elite 40)
- Coin chance
- 55%
- Item drop chance
- 13% × the floor’s loot
Floor by floor
The same shardback gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite shardback has 3× the HP, gives 5× the XP and always drops at least a magic item plus 5 coins. “Share of waves” is the part of the floor’s wave monsters that roll as a shardback.
| Floor | HP | Elite HP | Bite | Speed | Share of waves | Item drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31* | 701 | 2103 | 36 | 1.61 | 6.0% | 58.6% |
| 35 boss* | 901 | 2703 | 43 | 1.61 | 8.1% | 71.4% |
| 40 boss* | 1235 | 3705 | 53 | 1.61 | 10.7% | 91.0% |
| 45 boss* | 1692 | 5076 | 66 | 1.61 | 13.4% | 116.2% |
| 50 boss* | 2319 | 6957 | 83 | 1.61 | 16.0% | 148.3% |
* Floors past 30 are not written out in the game’s tables: their numbers are the engine’s own extrapolation from floor 30. HP and bite keep the growth every floor from 6 has: ×1.065 HP and ×1.045 bite a floor, compounding.
In the same band
- Ashmantle — 494 HP on floor 26
- Dregmaw — 529 HP on floor 26
- Hushglass — 459 HP on floor 26
- Gloamveil — 773 HP on floor 31
- Sinkfang — 604 HP on floor 31
- The Vitrarch, the band’s boss on floor 30 — how to beat him
- Every monster