The Coward's Trial

The Coward's Trial is a unique Cursed Crypt Map.

Mechanics

Except the mods Contains waves of Monsters and Contains additional waves of Undead Monsters , the rest of the mods are "optional" which can be reroll by Divine Orb to switch it "on" or "off" (1 or 0), or dropped naturally as "on" or "off". Thus, the map can have zero additional waves except the base waves of Monsters and waves of Undead Monsters , or have all 7 optional waves (Ghosts, Oriathan Zombies, Phantasms, Raging Spirits, Bone Rhoas, Ravager Maws and Zombies respectively). There are 2^7 = 128 combinations of map mods. The chance to have zero optional waves or all 7 optional waves, were 1/128 respectively, assuming equal chance to roll the mod value as 0 and roll as 1.

Layout

This map contains 4 floors with 6 waves[confirmation needed because of 3.7.0 change] of monster spawning per floor. The initial wave consists of 35 monsters and increases by 2 monsters per wave up to a possible maximum of 83 monsters on wave 25.[confirmation needed because of 3.7.0 change] The map is guaranteed to drop at least one unique item, regardless of map area level. It always drop as item level 100 from the map boss.

The Monster types of each wave are randomly picked from a pre-defined list of wave-types; The final wave is the exception to this, where Infector of Dreams is accompanied by monster types that can only appear during the final wave. While the monster level stays the same, magic and rare monsters increase with every wave. Additionally, at the end of every wave a rare Necromancer spawns.[confirmation needed because of 3.7.0 change]

Several flavour/hint messages appear in the chat window during the map:

• When a new wave begins: "The darkness looms forebodingly..."
• When the current room has been fully cleared: "The room grows still and quiet..."
• When the last room has been fully cleared: "The oppressive atmosphere slowly dissipates..."

Boss

• Infector of Dreams (unique Necromancer)

  • Casts Elemental Weakness Curse

  • Raises Undead

  • Allies deal increased Elemental Damage

In the last sub-area, the map contains several Abyss themed monsters:

• Thresher (cannot raised as spectre)
• Primeval Watcher (cannot raised as spectre)

Other monster of the map:

• Brittle Born-again (can raised as spectre)
• Rotting Damned (can raised as spectre)
• Frost Priest (can raised as spectre)
• Thunder Priest (can raised as spectre)

Note that only the last sub-area contain monster that leave corpse

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