The Ashen Crucible

Custom Level 20

The Ashen Crucible: a forge-temple sunk into a living volcano, where the Ashwright smiths quench the god's metal in whoever comes looking for it. Harder than the Lychfield: the crew hits for 45-110, burns (Bleeding), weakens and breaks armor; the Quench Warden guards the caldera gate and Pyrrhos the Slagfather waits on his anvil in the lava. Crew drops T8-T9, the Warden T9-T10, Pyrrhos T10-T11 plus three uniques that roll an affix of the Crucible's own pool.

Getting in

Portal: Ashen Crucible Portal
Key: Ashen Crucible Key — type /key ashen crucible in chat to get one, use it, walk in.
The key drops from Pyrrhos (5%)
The portal drops from Djinn (7%)

Boss: Pyrrhos

HP	44,000 (+25% per other player here)
Defense	34
Level	20
Hits up to	130
XP multiplier	1.0
Immune to	stasis

Pyrrhos the Slagfather, the god of the forge, on his anvil in the lava lake. Dormant until you reach the island; four phases, and every change is announced and telegraphed first.

Phases

dormant
rise
temper Temper (100-75%): the hammer. Two alternating slag rings, aimed bolts, and three anvil blows that land where you stand (watch for the orange circles).
pourwarn
pour Pour (75-50%): the island floods. Slag bombs turn the floor to lava for a while, embers circle him spitting fire, and a spiral of fire turns slowly round him.
eruptwarn
eruption Eruption (50-25%): the mountain answers. Meteors from above, dense rings, the hounds of the forge.
whitewarn
whiteheat White Heat (<25%): he drops the hammer and comes for you. Charges, armor-breaking flame at close range, a fast double spiral and burning pools where he walks.

Lines

More metal walks in on its own. Good. Onto the anvil.

Every blade in this realm was beaten on this anvil.

Heat. Hammer. Quench. You are at the second step.

POUR THE MOLDS!

Stand in the mold. It is your shape now.

*the lake rises over the stones*

THE CALDERA WAKES.

Feel that? The whole mountain is my forge.

Drops

Loot	Chance	Bag
Brand of the Slagfather	4%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Ashwright's Bulwark	4%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Heart of the Crucible	3%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 armor	12%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T11 weapon	10%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 weapon	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T10 armor	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T6 ability	12%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
T5 ability	30%	own bag for the cyan-and-better ones, else shared
T5 ring	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Health Potion	100%	shared bag
Magic Potion	100%	shared bag
Potion of Attack	50%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Dexterity	40%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Speed	30%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Potion of Life	6%	own bag, each player with 2% of the damage
Ashen Crucible Key	5%	shared bag

Chance per kill. A shared bag is one roll for everyone. An own bag is rolled separately for every player who did at least that share of the damage, and only they see it: soulbound items and everything that comes in a cyan or better bag drop this way. A tier row splits its chance over every item of that tier. Loot rules

Unique drops

Brand of the Slagfather Custom UT Soulbound
130–190 · 4.6 tiles · 90% rate
From Pyrrhos 4%

Ashwright's Bulwark Custom UT Soulbound
+20 DEF, +60 HP, -3 SPD
From Pyrrhos 4%

Heart of the Crucible Custom UT Soulbound
+6 ATT, +6 DEX, +60 HP
From Pyrrhos 3%

Spell of the Caldera Custom UT Soulbound
80–130 · 13.5 tiles · 85 MP
From Anvilheart 3%

Enemies

Enemy	HP	DEF	Hits up to	On map	Notes
Pyrrhos	44,000	34	130	1	Pyrrhos the Slagfather, the god of the forge, on his anvil in the lava lake. Dormant until you reach the island; four phases, and every change is announced and telegraphed first.
Anvilheart	18,000	32	125	1	Anvilheart, the Quench Warden. Guards the gate to the caldera. Two phases.
Slag Vent	10,000	0	95	8	A crack in the floor that breathes fire on a beat: it glows twice, then erupts and sets you burning.
Mold Pour	10,000	0	–	12	A mold on the casting floor. A golem pours out when someone walks past.
Obsidian Sentinel	3,200	45	65	2	Never moves. Spins four arms of fire round and round while anyone is near; walk between the arms.
Molten Golem	2,400	38	110	summoned	Pours out of a casting mold when you walk past. Slow, armored, throws slag that pools and burns, and breaks into three blobs when it dies.
Ashwright Smith	1,700	30	110	3	The tank of the halls. Walks at you and brings the hammer down twice where you stand, then once at its own feet; a fan of sparks between blows.
Ash Revenant	1,300	22	75	2	Elite. Charges through you, breaking your armor (Armor Broken), and bursts into a ring of fire where it stops.
Crucible Ember	900	20	60	summoned	Circles the Slagfather and spits slow fire outward. Each one keeps Pyrrhos's furnace lit.
Ember Acolyte	800	14	55	4	The cult's priest. Mends the crew around it, calls imps out of the coals. Kill it first.
Bellows Wraith	650	12	65	3	Keeps its distance and breathes: a slow ring of choking smoke that weakens (Weak), and quick fireballs at you.
Slag Hound	600	18	70	5	Hunts in pairs. Lopes at you, then lunges the last tiles and bites three times.
Slag Blob	320	6	75	summoned	What is left of a golem. Rolls at you and bursts when it dies: do not finish it in melee range.
Cinder Imp	300	10	45	6	Small, fast and everywhere. Its fire bolts set you burning (Bleeding): no regeneration for a moment.