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Treasure Thieves is the DLC boss better known in the data as the Black Sprite King. He switches between four weapon states, throws fire pots, poison darts and smoke bombs, calls black sprites, and has the highest Defence of the three DLC bosses. He is one of the Bosses and is fought in the DLC arena Arena14012.

Overview#


Story monster id	9070 (`ES_StoryMonster`, story 9, area 4); `BossFinal` = 0
Model	Hero 20055 (body radius 1.0; no type flag)
Attribute points	10 across the board
Poise / Resilience	70 (regen 10) / 160 (regen 20); Stamina 80
Crit resistance	600: the crit bonus against him is multiplied by 0.6
Weak points	No bonus damage: all weak-point multipliers are 0 (x1) and he gets no bonus Resilience loss on armour break (`WeaknessPermilSub` = 0). The barrel is a weak collider with its own pool (see Hidden mechanics)
Sanity cost	`SanDamage` 130
Self-heal	His parry `DP4` restores 5% of his maximum Health

Phases#

He has no grade at all (GetGradeThreshold = 0, one empty row in ES_StoryMonsterProperty). The suffix of a move name is the state he is in:

State	Suffix	Gear
1	1	Bare hands, the weak state: swing and back-step `L1`, pants for breath `S1`, state-change moves (see Hidden mechanics)
2	2	Barrel and throwables: fire pots `NSS2`, bomb charge `SP2`, poison darts `HP2`, black sprites `OP2`, kick `LP2`, barrel hits `LL2`, smoke bomb `H2`
3	3	Ladle and pole: heavy and light ladle combos `HH3`, `LL3`, pole vault `S3`, jump slam `SP3`
4	4	Hammer: light combo `LL4`, charge `HP4`, sweep `SP4`, grab `OP4`, parry `DP4`

The moves NL1, NLP1, ND1, NDP1, NHP1 and NH1 move him between the states, either picking up or dropping the barrel.

Stats#

How the numbers scale#

Stats come from the model's attribute points plus the placement level and the grade rows of ES_StoryMonsterProperty (New Game Plus enemy scaling#What a level does to a stat). Journey 1 is the first playthrough; journeys 2 to 4 are New Game Plus, and later journeys reuse journey 4 (BattleData.GameLoopMax = 4). The values below were calculated with the game's own formula and rounded down.

Journey	Level	Stage	Health	Physical attack	Elemental attack	Defence	Elemental resist.	Pierce resist.
1	25	Whole fight	12,565	425	412	296	417	835
2	50	Whole fight	21,315	737	725	343	500	1,000
3	70	Whole fight	26,740	940	975	368	515	1,030
4	89	Whole fight	30,065	1,130	1,212	378	522	1,045

His Defence (296 at journey 1) is about 45% higher than Guderian's, and his elemental resistance is only slightly lower than Guderian's.

Moves#

The "Attack mult." column is each move's BaseRate.

Move	What it does	Flat power and effects	Attack mult.	AI (range, cone, chance, cooldown)
`L1`	Swing and step back	70 phys	x0.7	≤4 m · 30° · 35% · cd 6s
`S1`	Pants for breath (vulnerable)	110 phys	x1	35% · cd 10s
`NH1`	To state 4 (no barrel)	110 phys	x1
`NSS2`	Throws fire pots (arc)	80 fire	x0.8	4–12 m · 30° · 35% · cd 5s
`SP2`	Charges holding a bomb	80–120 phys, guard break 150	x0.8-1.2	5–12 m · 30° · 35% · cd 6s
`HP2`	Throws poison darts	110 poison, Poison	x1	4–15 m · 30° · 35% · cd 8s
`OP2`	Calls black sprites that throw firecrackers	110 phys, guard break 150	x1	35% · cd 18s
`LP2`	Kick	100 phys, guard break 200	x1	≤4.5 m · 45° · cd 2s
`LL2`	Barrel: 2 hits	100 phys	x1	4.5–5.5 m · 45° · cd 2s
`H2`	Smoke bomb (leaves a cloud)	50 phys	x0.5	6–13 m · 30° · 35% · cd 8s
`HH3`	Ladle: heavy combo	80–100 phys	x0.8-1	4.5–6 m · 45° · cd 2s
`LL3`	Ladle: light combo	80–110 phys	x0.8-1.1	4.5–6 m · 45° · cd 2s
`S3`	Pole vault	110 phys, guard break 150	x1	3–18 m · 30° · 35% · cd 6s
`SP3`	Jump and slam	100 phys, guard break 150	x1	4–8 m · 45° · 35% · cd 4s
`LL4`	Hammer: light combo	110 phys	x1.1	4.5–5.5 m · 45° · cd 2s
`HP4`	Hammer charge	110–130 phys, guard break 150	x1-1.3	7–15 m · 45° · 35% · cd 5s
`SP4`	Hammer sweep	80 phys	x0.8	≤5.5 m · 60° · cd 5s
`OP4`	Grab	120 phys, guard break 150	x1.2	2–5.5 m · 45° · 35% · cd 8s
`DP4`	Parry (below 70% HP; heals him)		x1	45° · 30% · cd 15s
`NL1`	To state 2 (no barrel)	110 phys	x1
`NLP1`	To state 2 (picks up the barrel)	110 phys	x1
`ND1`	To state 3 (no barrel)	110 phys	x1
`NDP1`	To state 3 (picks up the barrel)	110 phys	x1
`NHP1`	To state 4 (picks up the barrel)	110 phys	x1
`skill102`	Dodge (state 2 only)		x1	cd 6s

Raw strength of three typical hits#

A move's raw strength is attack stat x the move's attack multiplier + the move's flat power, using the stat that matches its damage type; your defence or resistance then reduces it (see Damage formula and Damage types and resistances). The table shows that raw number before your defence is applied.

Move (flat power, type)	Journey 1	Journey 2	Journey 3	Journey 4
Poison darts HP2 (110, poison)	522	835	1085	1322
Bomb charge SP2 (120, physical)	630	1004	1248	1476
Hammer charge HP4 (130, physical)	682	1088	1352	1599

Drops and rewards#

His row has no drop list, no story item and no sanity drop. Defeating him fires these quests: 99104 (leave boss mode; achievement Beg, Borrow or Steal, id 40003), 99115 (removes the black-sprite placements 9200 to 9225 from the arena), 99112 (opens a door), 99113 (dialog 94267) and 99109 (save).

Hidden mechanics#

No weak points, no Resilience shortcut. Every weak-point multiplier in his model is 0, so a hit on any body part does the same damage, and breaking his armour only gives the guaranteed critical hit. The barrel is the one special target; see the next entry.
The barrel is his weak spot and the weak state is a punishment window. Hits on the barrel collider drain a separate pool of 10% of his maximum Health (1,256 at journey 1, BarrelHpPercent 0.1); when it is empty his Resilience is set to 0 and he is Weakened and drops the barrel (hero20055_value.lua:14-57; hero20055.lua:266-278; whether the barrel collider is the model's weak collider is inferred from the isWeak flag at animalbase_value.lua:2083-2097). When a Weakened state ends while he holds the barrel, ladle or hammer, he switches to state 1 (hero20055.lua:384-392). In state 1 he gives himself status 10110 (physical defence -40% of base) and 10111 (max Resilience -30%) (hero20055.lua:112-127; ES_StatusData); a state is held for at most 30 s (state 1) or 120 s (the others) before a change is forced (inferred from IsChangeTimeArrival, hero20055.lua:84-99; hero20055_define.lua:53-54).
The state-change moves are armoured. Skills 3 and 20 to 24 (NH1, NL1, NLP1, ND1, NDP1, NHP1) carry DamageSub 900, a 90% damage reduction while their armour window is open (Damage formula#6. Damage-reduction moves).
Crit bonus cut to 60%. His crit-resist stat of 600 multiplies your crit damage bonus by 0.6.
The parry heals him. DP4 is only chosen at 70% Health or lower (SkillDP4HPPercent = 0.7), has a 30% chance and a 15 s cooldown; the second part restores 5% of his maximum Health (hero20055.lua:728-740, HpAddPercent = 0.05). That is about 629 Health at journey 1 per successful parry. Do not attack into the hammer stance when he faces you.
He can only dodge in state 2. Every skill row of this model carries a state number in SkillCondition (state 1 rows 1-3 and 20-24, state 2 rows 4-10 and 102, state 3 rows 11-14, state 4 rows 15-19), and the Dodge row (102) is a state 2 row, so he cannot dodge while he holds the ladle, the hammer or no barrel. (Derived from ES_SkillData HeroId 20055 and the skill-condition check in animalbase.lua:4215-4230.)
Pants for breath is free damage. S1 is a 4 second recovery with a 35% chance and a 10 s cooldown; it is a built-in opening.
Some moves deal 999 Poise damage (see Poise and stagger) (inferred: a guarded hit of that size will still stagger you).
Sanity cost 130. Same as the other DLC bosses; about 38% of his Health drops you to the Lunatic line.

Strategy#

Stay out of the hammer state's reach (OP4 grab at 2 to 5.5 m, charge HP4 7 to 15 m) and use the barrel states for your openings.
The poison darts HP2 apply poison, the smoke bomb H2 leaves a cloud: both reward a sidestep and a forward roll rather than blocking.
Kill or ignore the black sprites that OP2 calls, but note that the arena is cleaned of them when he dies.

Sources#

Tables: ES_StoryMonster row 9070; ES_HeroData 20055 (all weak-point multipliers 0); ES_StatusData 10110, 10111; ES_SkillData HeroId 20055 (DamageSub 900 on skills 3, 20-24); ES_StoryQuest 99104, 99109, 99112, 99113, 99115; ES_Achievement 40003; ES_SkillData HeroId 20055.
Code: hero20055.lua:84-127, 266-278, 301-303, 384-392, 728-740; hero20055_value.lua:14-57; hero20055_define.lua:30-33, 46, 49-54, 72; attack20055.lua:183, 1243, 1476-1480; animalbase_value.lua:2463-2467.
Move list: reports/bosses_and_enemies.md section 17 and reports/data/boss_moves.json (hero 20055).

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