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The Hollow Watcher

Guardian

Fought on floor 96, in Act 6: The Abyss.

Who They Were

Her eye, the one she uses to look up at the Light Above without leaving her own depths. It has watched every one of the hundred champions arrive, and watched every one of them stop arriving. It does not blink. It has never needed to.

Mythic, cursed, and divine relics sit above legendary, the fusion ceiling, and drop only from boss and guardian kills: mythic from floor 50, cursed from floor 80, and divine from floor 90, but only on Infernal. Here, mythic, cursed, and divine relics can all drop from its floor 96 kill.

Abilities

Arcane Bolt

Arcane Bolt

Targets enemy · No cooldown

A reliable single-target magic missile.

  • damage, power 6 + 1.1×magic
Soul Drain

Soul Drain

Targets enemy · 3s cooldown

The abyss drinks the target's life force, leaving wounds that refuse to close.

  • damage, power 4 + 0.4×magic
  • debuff, applies Withering (antiheal, 4 turns)

Statuses It Inflicts

Inflicts: WitheringWithering

How to Prepare

  • You fight The Hollow Watcher solo, and there is no rest heal before the encounter, so arrive with real HP in the bank and sustain already flowing: lifesteal earned in the fight itself, plus potions bought with gold beforehand.
  • An escort wave of the biome's regular enemies fights first. Only after they fall does The Hollow Watcher step out alone for the closing wave, so keep enough HP and cooldowns in reserve for the real fight.
  • If you wipe, you restart at floor 1, but your permanent upgrades and talents carry over, so a loss here is a setback, not a full reset. Optional Hardcore mode also destroys your equipped gear on a wipe.