The boss ladder

A boss for every scale of ambition, every one a different kind of fight.

What you see

The rules

  1. Wardens (per floor): Sealed once, Breached forever (bible). Mechanics kill regardless of gear when Sealed (ADR-017).
  2. Archons (every 10th floor): stratum capstones, 30–40 players, a Riddle phase, a correction phase.
  3. Errata (roaming, server-scale): pressure, Fronts, Unwriting, settling (bible Errata).
  4. Sanctum raids (week lockout, 8–16): the Seal-gated best-in-slot source; three difficulties (Read / Struck / Unwritten).
  5. Depth bosses (dungeon ends): scale with Depth key; the Depth Atlas (PoE atlas): keys map into a per-floor lattice; completing regions of the atlas grants permanent Depth modifiers (breadth).
  6. Timed Bosses (time-limited): at Vesper, one floor per stratum spawns a boss for one hour, announced in the Ledger; first kill in the Ledger; parts for a week recipe.
  7. Trial bosses (skill): the Elder Tree, the Leviathan, the Master Forge, the Great Feast (bible §4).
  8. Hold bosses: guilds build Wrought (Siegecraft + Building constructs) to defend Holds; a Wrought is a boss other guilds fight in sieges; player-made bosses with player-authored Intents from a closed primitive list.
  9. Named (SYS-22) and Hunts.
  10. Your Draft (personal, Marginalia): the Quill's earlier draft of you — your own character state from N floors ago, loaded from the event log, with your old deck and Script — wrong in small ways. Beating it grants nothing but a Achievement and a line in the Ledger; losing to it costs nothing; people talk about it for years.
  11. Rivals: a player-declared rival (both consent) gets a Ledger record of duels; Marginalia may write a quest for the pair.
  12. Boss variants: every boss exists as Read (normal), Struck (an Erratum has touched it: chaotic extra Intent, Struck drops), and Unwritten (mechanics from the Quill's register: Riddle checks, Lore-gated tells).

Generated from the game's own rules and tables by the Wiki agent. If the wiki and the game disagree, the wiki is out of date, not wrong.