| Spike Walker | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics | |||
| Category | Titan | ||
| Type | Shadow | ||
| Primary Biome | Shadow Tower (5th room, 1st Floor) | ||
| AI Type | Spike Walker Ai | ||
| Item Drops | |||
| Item (Quantity) | Rarity | ||
 Titan Soul(1-3 ) |
Once every week | ||
 Spikewalker Hatchling
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N/A | ||
| File:Spikewalker Trophy.pngSpikewalker Trophy | N/A | ||
| File:-.png- (-) |
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| “ | A massive mechanical monster with powerful spike attacks. | ” |
The Spike Walker is a Shadow Titan in the Shadow Realm location: the Shadow Tower. It is the first titan (located at the 5th room of the first floor) that players will face on Normal and/or Hard mode. It rewards 1x Titan Soul when done on Normal Mode, and 3x Titan Souls when done on Hard Mode.
Like all titans, he is immune to being frozen, stunned, or knocked back.
History
It was first hinted in the Create a Trove boss, like a boss and then finally featured on the July 24 Trove Stream with an animated .GIF file of it's walking animation. In the September 4 Trove Stream they showed off the Titan outside the Shadow Tower with it's battle animations and VFXs fully completed.
Behavior
Stage 1
The Spike walker starts off with various attacks that can deal damage to surrounding players. He can also spawn spikes everywhere he walks (if there is any space for the spike to spawn). Here are a few attacks he is capable of performing:
- Leg Slam: Slams one leg/foot on to the target, spawning spikes as it touches the ground. Has a 2 block hitbox on contact to the ground.
- Spike Slam: Slams a large platform of spikes that generate a 3x6 spike floor when hitting the ground.
- Spike Bomb: The machine compacts itself and shoots out a shield of spikes around itself that causes AoE damage and knockback to nearby enemies (about 20 block hitbox).
- Spikeling Spawns: Spawns several spiky minions to attach for him. Spawns about 5 every time he performs this move.
Stage 2
Once the Spike Titan has less than 50% of his health, he will attack at a faster rate and move quickly. His Spike Bomb not only will have a higher hitbox, it will roll about in the direction it is facing, dealing even more AoE damage.
Strategy
Dealing with boss can be a bit challenging. Keeping this boss in one place will help tremendously. Having the boss still will likely spawn less spikes within the area, so try not to move around or the floor will become covered in spikes dealing massive damage everywhere you stand. It is Recommended to have at least 2 players to take massive damage while ranged players deal damage to the boss. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when dealing with this boss:
- Make sure you have good gear. Death-Defying Vials are recommended, as well as a Unyielding Emblem which can benefit players in protecting against spikes and/or AoE damage.
- Make use of the damage multipliers if possible as well as using Emblems to boost damage (Martial Emblem for Physical attackers and Arcane Emblem for Magic users).
- Try not to get hit with his Bomb Explode attack; it does a lot of damage and will knock you back a fair amount.
- Make sure to point at the middle-head area instead of legs; supposedly, it does more damage.
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