Boss · Found in Queensbury Crypt

The Duchess

boss Queensbury Crypt Difficulty: Medium

The Spark Generator boss of Queensbury Crypt. Keep your distance through phase one; when its health hits zero it removes its head to reveal a mass of tentacles.

Recommended: Sidearm: Daggers

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How to beat The Duchess

2 phases. Watch the tell, burrow the wind-up, punish the recovery.

Phase 1 — Stone Statue

Pattern: A large stone statue guarding the Queensbury Crypt generator. Wide horizontal swing that travels far across the arena, and jumps onto floor pressure plates that fire arrows along the ground.
Tell: Watch for the wind-up before the wide swing; her jumps telegraph the arrow plates.
Counter: Burrow to safety on the swing wind-up. None of her attacks are vertical — stay above or below her. Arrows break on her body, so put her between you and them. Don't get greedy.

Phase 2 — Tentacle Reveal

Pattern: At zero health she removes her head, revealing tentacles. The same wide swing returns but faster and is immediately followed by a lunge, plus a tentacle ground-slam that bursts at your position 3–6 times. Arrows spawn for most of the phase.
Tell: Quicker swing wind-up; the lunge follows instantly. The ground-burst tracks where you stand.
Counter: Keep moving in one direction to outrun the repeated bursts. Stay above/below her (attacks are horizontal except the post-swing lunge). Burrow through arrows and favour ranged sidearms.

Quick tips

·Break the tombstone in the top-left of the room beforehand for a Side Arm if you lack one.
·The arrow plates only hurt you, never the Duchess — treat them as terrain.
·Phase 1 is forgiving; bank healing and aggression for phase 2.
·Sealing The Duke in his coffin here grants the Proto Spark trinket.

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