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Grave Marcher

The empty court still expects its morning guard. Melee of The Hollow Court.

Lore

Who are the Grave Marcher?

The empty court still expects its morning guard.

Grave Marcher belongs to The Hollow Court. Courtiers, bowmen and chain-bound wardens of a city that forgot how to die. 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 Grave Marcher appears

The spawn weight says how common Grave Marcher is against the rest of that floor’s pool; higher is more common.

Strategy

How to fight Grave Marcher

  • 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 Hollow Court

SpecialistFloor 4+

Bone Bowman

Every arrow carries an oath long forgotten.

SpecialistFloor 4+

Bell Acolyte

Its cracked bell tolls for a sovereign who never wakes.

TankFloor 5+

Chain Warden

The prisoner and the jailer now share one chain.

SupportFloor 5+

Reliquary Bearer

One stolen oath shelters one companion.

TankFloor 6+

Sepulcher Knight

Its iron salute became a killing stroke.

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