BossForbidden LandsGreyoll's DragonbarrowChanged in 1 patchVerified on build 25080141

Black Blade Kindred

Fought in 2 places, from 8,452 HP to 12,297 HP at Greyoll's Dragonbarrow · Bestial Sanctum: each placement carries its own area scaling. It takes the most damage from Strike and the least from Holy.

Where you fight it 2

Each place uses its own copy of the boss with that area's scaling. HP and stance as you meet them (first phase, offline, no new game plus).

Place	HP	Stance	Scaling
Forbidden Lands · Grand Lift of Rold	8,452	110	×4.844
Greyoll's Dragonbarrow · Bestial Sanctum	12,297	110	×7.047

Damage negation

How much of each damage type it shrugs off. Lower is better for you; the type it takes most is highlighted.

Standard10%

Slash35%

Strike0%

Pierce35%

Magic20%

Fire40%

Lightning40%

Holy80%

Flat defense

Subtracted from each hit before negation; it matters most for weak hits. Area scaling raises it along with HP.

Forbidden Lands · Grand Lift of Rold

Physical115

Magic115

Fire115

Lightning115

Holy115

Greyoll's Dragonbarrow · Bestial Sanctum

Physical121

Magic121

Fire121

Lightning121

Holy121

Status buildup to proc

Buildup needed for the first proc, and how much more each following proc needs (it grows after every proc, up to the fifth).

Status	1st proc	2nd	3rd	4th
Poison	Immune
Scarlet Rot	Immune
Bleed	Immune
Frost	Immune
Sleep	Immune
Madness	Immune
Death Blight	Immune

HP in each journey

At Greyoll's Dragonbarrow · Bestial Sanctum: new game plus multiplies HP, defense and resistances again on top of the area's scaling.

NG	NG+1	NG+2	NG+3	NG+4	NG+5	NG+6	NG+7
12,297	12,309	13,540	14,155	14,771	16,002	16,617	17,233

How its AI decides verified

Its attack choices change at 50% of its HP: some attacks unlock, get likelier or are forced below those points.
It picks attacks by how far you are, with cut-offs at 2.5 m, 3 m, 4 m, 5 m, 7 m, 10 m, 15 m, 17 m, 18 m, 19 m, 20 m, 25 m, 30 m, 35 m.
It chooses among 49 attack routines; 31 have a cooldown (10–40 s).

Read from the game's AI script for this boss. Which animation each routine plays isn't named yet.

Kill-speed simulator New

How many hits Black Blade Kindred takes with your weapon and stats, in any journey: damage per hit through its defense and negations, stance, and status procs as its thresholds grow.

Simulate Black Blade Kindred

Patch history 1

Every patch that changed its numbers, read from the game's balance file (regulation) of each version.

1.02.1from 1.00
- HP1,551→1,745
- Standard negation20%→10%
- Slash negation40%→35%
- Pierce negation40%→35%