Brimstone Warden

Guardian

Fought on floor 28, in Act 2: The Brimstone Reach.

Who They Were

Warden of a border nobody outside Ashkar has ever crossed and lived to describe. It holds the line not for Sulfen's sake alone but because letting anything of the god's realm through feels, to it, like one more small surrender in a war Ashkar has been losing for a thousand years.

Mythic, cursed, and divine relics sit above legendary, the fusion ceiling. In the dungeon, mythic and divine drop only from boss and guardian kills: mythic from floor 50 on Nightmare and Infernal only, divine from floor 90 on Infernal only. Cursed relics can drop, rarely, from any enemy from floor 80, but on Infernal only from boss and guardian kills from floor 50 (1.5% each). All three can also be summoned in the Summoning hall. This fight sits below every gate, so no apex relic drops here.

Abilities

Arcane Bolt

Targets enemy · No cooldown

A reliable single-target magic missile.

• damage, power 6 + 1.1×magic

How to Prepare

• You fight Brimstone Warden 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 Brimstone Warden 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.