Lore
Who are the Ashbound?
The old forges burn inside these empty shells.
Ashbound belongs to The Ash Legion. An army that marched into the furnaces and kept marching. They guard the deepest floors. As a melee: The bulk of every horde: slow, plentiful and dangerous only when they surround you.
Attack
Contact
Has no special attack: it hurts by touching you, and it is dangerous only in numbers.
How to handle it: Keep moving so the pack never closes the circle, and let area skills thin it out.
Floors
Where Ashbound appears
The spawn weight says how common Ashbound is against the rest of that floor’s pool; higher is more common.
- Floor 7: Ashen March — from the start, spawn weight 45
- Floor 8: Ember Wastes — from the start, spawn weight 40
- Floor 9: Blackstone Keep — from the start, spawn weight 36
- Floor 10: Emberreach — from the start, spawn weight 30
Strategy
How to fight Ashbound
- The bulk of every horde: slow, plentiful and dangerous only when they surround you.
- Keep moving: a melee only wins when the pack closes the circle around you.
- Elite versions carry more health and hit harder; items that raise damage to elites pay off deeper down.
Skills that handle melees well: Cyclone, Venom Flask, Blade Sweep.
Family
More of The Ash Legion
