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Hornsent

Fought in 8 places, from 15,558 HP to 53,291 HP at Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza: each place carries its own area scaling. It takes the most damage from Lightning and the least from Standard.

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HP (NG)
15,558–53,291
HP in NG+7
95,591
Stance
100
Weakest to
Lightning -25%
Resists most
Standard 0%
Nearest grace
Main Gate Plaza

How Hornsent fights

At Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza, its toughest placement: 53,291 HP.

What hurts it most

  1. Lightning-25% +25%
  2. Standard0%
  3. Slash0% ±0
  4. Strike0% ±0
  5. Pierce0% ±0
  6. Magic0% ±0
  7. Fire0% ±0
  8. Holy0% ±0

Negation (lower lets more through), and how much more or less damage that type deals than Standard does.

Status procs to kill it

Status1st procHP per procProcs to kill
Bleed2718,09477,510 buildup
Frost2715,3591014,503 buildup
Poison2713,9871423,827 buildup
Scarlet Rot2719,98365,179 buildup

From full HP with that status alone; thresholds grow after each proc. Frostbite's extra 20% damage taken isn't counted.

Weapons that hit it hardest

Attack rating that gets through its negations at max upgrade with every stat at 50, best affinity per weapon (flat defense left out). Try your own build in the build planner →

  1. Anvil HammerStandard1,042 of 1,041 AR
  2. Prelate's Inferno CrozierLightning993 of 882 AR
  3. Bloodfiend's ArmSacred978 of 977 AR
  4. Duelist GreataxeLightning975 of 867 AR
  5. GreatswordLightning964 of 857 AR
  6. Royal GreatswordStandard961 of 961 AR

AI facts are read from the boss's own battle script: selection weights, HP checks, distances and cooldowns. Its attacks aren't traced in the files yet, so they aren't listed.

Video: Hornsent

Where to Find Hornsent NPC Invasion and Get Falx [Church of the Bud] · Meta Game Guides · Watch on YouTube

Where you fight it 8

Each place uses its own copy of the boss with that area's scaling. HP and stance as you meet them (first phase, offline, no new game plus).

PlaceHPStanceScaling
Scadu Altus · Highroad Cross15,558100×10.031
Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom · one entry of this fight18,999100×12.25
Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza · one entry of this fight18,999100×12.25
Specimen Storehouse · Messmer's Dark Chamber18,999100×12.25
Gravesite Plain · Three-Path Cross21,132100×13.625
Ancient Ruins of Rauh · Church of the Bud, Main Entrance21,859100×14.094
Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom · one entry of this fight21,859100×14.094
Specimen Storehouse · Dark Chamber Entrance ×245,075100×29.063
Shadow Keep · Shadow Keep Main Gate50,019100×32.25
Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza · one entry of this fight53,291100×34.359

Damage negation

How much of each damage type it shrugs off. Lower is better for you; the type it takes most is highlighted.

Standard0%
Slash0%
Strike0%
Pierce0%
Magic0%
Fire0%
Lightning-25%
Holy0%

Flat defense

Subtracted from each hit before negation; it matters most for weak hits. Area scaling raises it along with HP.

Scadu Altus · Highroad Cross, Specimen Storehouse · Dark Chamber Entrance

Physical122
Magic122
Fire122
Lightning122
Holy122

Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom, Specimen Storehouse · Messmer's Dark Chamber, Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza and 1 more

Physical123
Magic123
Fire123
Lightning123
Holy123

Gravesite Plain · Three-Path Cross, Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom, Ancient Ruins of Rauh · Church of the Bud, Main Entrance

Physical124
Magic124
Fire124
Lightning124
Holy124

Status buildup to proc

Buildup needed for the first proc, and how much more each following proc needs (it grows after every proc, up to the fifth).

Scadu Altus · Highroad Cross

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison263342466642
Scarlet Rot263342466642
Bleed263342466642
Frost263342466642
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom, Specimen Storehouse · Messmer's Dark Chamber, Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison276359489673
Scarlet Rot276359489673
Bleed276359489673
Frost276359489673
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Gravesite Plain · Three-Path Cross

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison285371504695
Scarlet Rot285371504695
Bleed285371504695
Frost285371504695
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Enir-Ilim · Cleansing Chamber Anteroom, Ancient Ruins of Rauh · Church of the Bud, Main Entrance

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison288374510703
Scarlet Rot288374510703
Bleed288374510703
Frost288374510703
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Specimen Storehouse · Dark Chamber Entrance

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison262341464639
Scarlet Rot262341464639
Bleed262341464639
Frost262341464639
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Shadow Keep · Shadow Keep Main Gate

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison265345469647
Scarlet Rot265345469647
Bleed265345469647
Frost265345469647
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza

Status1st proc2nd3rd4th
Poison271352480661
Scarlet Rot271352480661
Bleed271352480661
Frost271352480661
SleepImmune
MadnessImmune
Death BlightImmune

HP in each journey

At Shadow Keep · Main Gate Plaza: new game plus multiplies HP, defense and resistances again on top of the area's scaling.

NGNG+1NG+2NG+3NG+4NG+5NG+6NG+7
53,29168,27975,10778,52181,93588,76392,17795,591

Kill-speed simulator New

How many hits Hornsent takes with your weapon and stats, in any journey: damage per hit through its defense and negations, stance, and status procs as its thresholds grow.

Simulate Hornsent

Patch history 1

Every patch that changed its numbers, read from the game's balance file (regulation) of each version.

  1. 1.12.4from 1.12.2
      Every changed value (1)
      ValueBeforetoAfterChange
      Linked data 1
      SpEffect ID [29]×3 variants-120,018,050changed

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