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BossCrumbling Farum AzulaChanged in 1 patchVerified on build 25080141

Dragonlord Placidusax

26,651 HP at Crumbling Farum Azula · Dragonlord Placidusax, with the area's scaling applied. It takes the most damage from Pierce and the least from Magic.

Where you fight it 1

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).

PlaceHPStanceScaling
Crumbling Farum Azula · Dragonlord Placidusax26,651160×7.047

Damage negation

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

Standard35%
Slash35%
Strike35%
Pierce10%
Magic40%
Fire40%
Lightning40%
Holy40%

Flat defense

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

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).

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison1,3501,8071,8071,807
Scarlet Rot1,3501,8071,8071,807
Bleed1,3501,8071,8071,807
Frost1,3501,8071,8071,807
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

HP in each journey

At Crumbling Farum Azula · Dragonlord Placidusax: new game plus multiplies HP, defense and resistances again on top of the area's scaling.

NGNG+1NG+2NG+3NG+4NG+5NG+6NG+7
26,65126,67829,34630,68032,01434,68136,01537,349

How its AI decides verified

  • Its attack choices change at 65%, 45%, 30% 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 5 m, 8 m, 15 m, 20 m, 30 m, 50 m.
  • It chooses among 27 attack routines; 19 have a cooldown (20–120 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 Dragonlord Placidusax 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 Dragonlord Placidusax

Patch history 1

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

  1. 1.02.1from 1.00
    • HP3,491→3,782
    • Standard negation40%→35%
    • Slash negation40%→35%
    • Strike negation40%→35%
    • Pierce negation40%→10%

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