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Strategy Writeup

Be warned: this boss has a minimum Gear Score of13. Facing him on your first playthrough will be challenging.

The boss fight has three phases:

Phase 1:

The Boss will remain with its hands on the back. It can cast two type of spells:

• Spawn ads that will come out of the coffins located in the room. When this happens try to quickly dispatch them and then keep firing at Undying King head to deal extra damage.
• Spawns two flying orbs that remain stationary and fire projectiles at your location. Try to destroy them as soon as they appear.

In this stage of the fight, the Undying King won't deal direct damage to you and will try to evade your shots. Try to aim for his head as it deals extra damage. Respond to its spells dispatching the ads as soon as you can. You can stay near him, and he won't attack you but run away as soon as he spawns his weapons.

After a while he will invoke his melee weapons and phase 2 will begin

Phase 2:

When he invokes the melee weapons, he will start following you around the room. He moves very slow, so try to run far away from him and dispatch any remaining adds and fire to its head. He can leap in your direction and follow up with a melee combo, when this happens, leap forward and run in the opposite direction. He deals very high damage and can kill you in one full combo, but has a long delay between each combo. Avoid focusing him until you've cleared up most of the ads from phase 1.

After a while he will cancel the melee weapons and go backto phase 1.

Once he is at around half health he will transition to phase 3.

Phase 3:

In this phase the Undying King will spawn many adds and ignore you while walking to the altar. Once in the altar, he will start meditating which will restore his health while remaining immobile. Make sure to first deal with all the ads. Then use the opportunity to replenish your own health and stock on ammunition. Once you are done, get close to him and aim for the head to deal as much damage as you can. Continuous area of effect damage such as Spore Shotworks well here since you can funnel all ads through the stairs to the altar. You will eventually break his meditation and phase 1 will restart.

After you deplete his HP for the first time, he will revive with a portion of health. Kill him again and the boss fight will be complete.

While playing in Coop, you can split the roles focusing one party on the ads while the other deals with the boss.

With enough damage Phase 3 can be brute-forced through to kill the boss before he reaches the altar to regenerate (tested on Nightmare difficulty, solo).

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Undying King Lore

• The Undying King is a Basha from Rhom and is part of the Basha priesthood. Heis the Nui, the prophet of the guardian and the spiritual leader of Rhom. He helped solve disputes between the nation states and was able to forge a truce between them ushering in an age of peace and prosperity but was cut short with the Root invasion.

  The Root invasion was brutal and lasted 50 years. Rhom couldn’t defend itself from them, and the Undying King was forced into sacrificing his civilization by ordering the activation of a doomsday device that, while decimated the Root, left Rhom devastated. The threat of the Root, though, still looms.

• Upon meeting the player the Undying King will make a deal. He will grant the player with the Labyrinth Keyif the player agrees to bring the Corsus guardian's heart. He will explain that Rhom is healing, and this will attract the Root again. In order to keep the Root from invading, he needs the guardian heart to restore Rhom's guardian so that it can protect Rhom. The Undying King is aware of theeventstaking place on Corsus and warns the player about it. Upon getting the heart, he will present it to Rhom's dying guardian (pool) to restore it.
• Undying King traveled to the other worlds through the labyrinth portal.
  The Akari mentioned he was the only one using the portals.She also mentioned there has been only one Nui which is the Undying King.
• The Undying King warns the player about the Iskal and its corruption before opening the portal, and his choosing of Corsus was not at random since he was aware of what the Iskal were doing to Corsus as well as their intention to kill the Guardian of Corsus.
• The rumor the Houndmaster heard about the Undying King grinding bodies into powder to maintain his immortality is false. His source of immortality is Rhom's guardian (pool).

Theories:

• The statues of the Undying King
• The Undying King may be limiting how many people are living on Rhom because, as he says, the world is healing and the Root will return so by keeping the population low he is also trying to keep the Root from noticing them until their guardian recovers.

Lore confirmed by the developers:

• The pool is Rhom's guardian.
• Undying King is restoring the guardian.
• Rhom's guardian is not dead, rather it is dying, which is why the Undying King was able to start the restoration.
• The Undying King is from Rhom and he is the Nui, prophet of the guardian.
• Nui means speaker of the guardian.
• The guardian is what made the Undying King immortal.
• Undying King opened a portal for the Root to destroy them and protect Rhom.

Source:

• Confirmed lore(o) (1)
  
• Developers blog (arcgames-remnant news section-Rhom)

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Lore theories should be clearly marked as such.

Undying King Notes & Trivia

Voice Actor: Dave B. Mitchell
Homages, and other trivia go here.