Lore
Who are the Chain Warden?
The prisoner and the jailer now share one chain.
Chain Warden belongs to The Hollow Court. Courtiers, bowmen and chain-bound wardens of a city that forgot how to die. As a tank: Slow and heavily armored. Tanks soak hits and block your escape routes.
Attack
Cleaving cone
Winds up and cleaves a wide cone in front of it — one of the heaviest single hits in the game.
How to handle it: Watch the cone appear on the ground and step out to the side or behind the attacker before it lands.
Floors
Where Chain Warden appears
The spawn weight says how common Chain Warden is against the rest of that floor’s pool; higher is more common.
- Floor 5: Cursed Ruins — from 0:45, spawn weight 12
- Floor 6: Hollow Citadel — from the start, spawn weight 12
- Floor 7: Ashen March — from the start, spawn weight 10
- Floor 8: Ember Wastes — from the start, spawn weight 5
Strategy
How to fight Chain Warden
- Slow and heavily armored. Tanks soak hits and block your escape routes.
- Keep moving: a tank 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 tanks well: Fireball, Arrow, Soul Reaper.
Family
More of The Hollow Court
