Echidna

Echidna is the first boss of the Hive of Gorgons raid. She is ancient and greying, branches worn, with sharp obsidian crystals protruding from her back.

Echidna can sense you through the ground and focuses her rock armor to absorb your attacks.

She is a Level 70 Angry Earth enemy with 6,986,800 health. Her armor provides 50% mitigation to Physical and Elemental attacks. She is weak to Fire (+5%), Slash (+2.5%), and Thrust (+1%) damage.

Attack and Damage types

Echidna's Attacks

Name	Type	Damage	Damage Type	Additional Effects
Pounce	Heavy	52,364	Strike
Face Smash	Heavy	39,273	Strike
Pillar Explodes (bottom)	Heavy	32,728	Standard Physical	Can be dodged.
Pillar Explodes (top)	Heavy		Standard Physical	Cannot be dodged, instantly kills.
Tail Swipe	Heavy	30,109	Strike
Obsidian Crystals Detonate	Heavy	30,109		Cannot be dodged.
Obsidian Crstals' Vine Projectiles	Light Ranged	26,182	Thrust	Roots you in place until the Obsidian Crystal is destroyed.
Scrape	Heavy	26,182	Slash	Inflicts Rend, causing 10% increased damage from all sources for 20 seconds. Rend can stack up to 6 times from combined sources.
Body Slam	Heavy	26,182	Strike
Pillar Shoots Up	Heavy	24,873	Strike	Cannot be dodged.
Bite	Heavy	22,255	Slash	Inflicts Bleed, causing damage every 2 seconds for 16 seconds. Stacks up to 4 times. Cannot be cleared by Sword's Upheaval Ability.
Claw Swipe	Light	20,946	Slash	Inflicts Rend, causing 10% increased damage from all sources for 20 seconds. Rend can stack up to 6 times from combined sources.
Claw Stomp	Heavy	19,637	Slash	Inflicts Rend, causing 10% increased damage from all sources for 20 seconds. Rend can stack up to 6 times from combined sources.
Obsidian Crystals Land	Light Ranged	13,091	Thrust	After landing, Obsidian Crystals have a purple radius around them. Players within the radius are inflicted with Rend, causing 40% increased damage from all sources and players' stamina rate regenerates at half its usual rate.
Tremor Shockwave	Heavy	10,473	Standard Physical
Rock Projectile	Heavy Ranged	9,164	Strike
AoE Knockback	Heavy	6,546	Strike

Boss Fight

Phase 1

Echidna does a great deal of Rend and Stamina damage to anyone tanking her.

During the fight, players out in the arena will see rumbling on parts of the ground indicating that a pillar will pop up soon. If you stand on the rumbling area you will be shot into the air onto the top of the pillar (it will damage you). There are 4 height-levels to the pillars. You can mine pillars to lower their height.

Echidna inflicts a Weaken mechanic throughout the entire arena for the duration of the fight. This debuff is stronger the closer players are to the ground.

• Players on the ground suffer -70% to the base damage of their attacks.
• Players on the lowest (height 1) pillars suffer -60% to the base damage of their attacks.
• Players on the next-highest (height 2) pillars suffer a -40% to the base damage of their attacks.
• Players on top of the higher (height 3) and tallest (height 4) pillars are not Weakened. They instead gain a +10% to the base damage of their attacks and do 3 times as much damage to Echidna's stamina.

When her stamina bar is depleted, Echidna will fall on her side. Players attacking Echidna's back during this time do 200% damage.

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins when Echidna reaches half health.

Trivia

• When designing Echidna's model, they used the same rig model as the Armored Drakes in Elysian Wilds and Sulfur Dragons in Brimstone Sands.
• The Echidna of Greek mythology was a monster, half-woman and half-snake. She was the mate of Typhon and the mother of many of the most famous monsters of Greek myth.
• Echidna animals have poor eyesight and spikes on their backs.