Every dungeon has a boss waiting at the bottom — a named monster far tougher than anything else down there. It will not come out on its own: you call it up by farming gold in its dungeon, then face it alone in its own room. Win and you walk away with the best loot a dungeon has. Lose and you lose the gear you went in with.
Every dungeon has a gold bar for its boss. Every coin you pick up in that dungeon goes towards it — bonus gold from a Dungeon Boon, a Potion of Power, a Paragon kill or a gold-finding pet all counts, and so does gold earned while you are offline, from kills your party makes, and from dungeon bounty contracts. Each boss has its own price, listed in the roster below.
Each dungeon's bar is separate: gold farmed in one never counts towards another.
Beat a boss and it is locked to you until the next weekly reset, every Friday at noon GMT. Other bosses are not affected, so you can beat each of them once a week.
Your gold bars reset then too. Gold you farmed towards a boss is lost at the Friday reset if you have not used it, so you cannot save up a bar over several weeks.
| Item | What it does | Where from |
|---|---|---|
| Boss Time Extension | Right-click it and the coming Friday reset is skipped for you: your gold bars carry over, and you have another week to fill them. Bosses you have already beaten stay beaten. It covers one reset only. | The Wanderer's Exchange, Dungeons shelf — 5 Dungeoneer Tokens |
| Boss Slayer Token | Right-click it, pick any Dungeon Boss, and you are taken straight into the fight. It does not need a full bar and does not use up your weekly win, so your bar and your one normal kill that week are still waiting for you. The token is spent when the fight starts, win or lose. | World Bosses — see World Bosses |
Summoning takes you into the boss's own room under the dungeon, and the fight plays itself out. Your character walks up and fights; the boss fights back. You cannot do anything by hand in there — no Flee, no casting, no using bandages or potions yourself, no Recall, no travel. What you set up beforehand still works: Auto Magery, auto-eat, auto-drink and a continuous song all carry on as normal. So the fight is won or lost by how you prepare.
There is no leaving early. Closing the game does not end the fight: it pauses, and picks up where it left off — at the same health, for both of you — when you come back. The only ways out are the boss dying, or you.
A boss hits like the monsters of its own dungeon, only much harder, and has far more health. Each one also has a signature move it uses about every 10 seconds — you can see it wind up just before it lands. Each boss's move is listed in the roster below (a couple have none, and rely on the enrage alone).
| Your gear | The gold bar | This week's win | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You win | Kept, plus the loot | Emptied | Used — that boss is locked until Friday |
| You lose | Unblessed items destroyed | Emptied | Not used — refill the bar and try again this week |
A fight started with a Boss Slayer Token leaves your bar and your weekly win alone either way.
A boss drops no gold — you already farmed that to summon it. Here is what it gives you instead.
| Drop | Details |
|---|---|
| A magic weapon | Always magical to some degree, and now and then the dungeon's own Slayer weapon. It arrives unidentified unless you can identify it on the spot. |
| Leather | A big haul skinned from the body, sometimes a better grade than the dungeon normally gives. Trains Camping. |
| Cap Stones | Each one raises your total skill cap. From 1 (the first boss) up to 9 (the deepest) — see the roster. |
| A Facet shard | One for your weapon, and sometimes a fragment as well. |
| Skill scrolls | One, sometimes two, for a random skill. |
| Virtue Binding XP | A large fixed amount. Deeper bosses generally give more. |
| Special Loot rolls | Chances at rings, cloaks and the carried crafting charms. A boss rolls several times, and deeper bosses roll more often — the roster shows how many. |
| Drop | Details |
|---|---|
| Its trophy | A house decoration unique to that boss, which also does something useful once placed (listed in the roster). It is a rare drop, not a certain one — expect to beat a boss a few times before you see it. |
| Crafting Lace | An occasional find, wanted by scribes. |
| Wall Artwork | The rarest of all: about a 5% chance from any boss, from a collection of 63 pieces. Paintings hang on your house wall. A tapestry is one picture woven across two or three cloths that each drop separately — hang the whole set side by side, in order, to complete it. Artwork can be traded, so you can buy the piece you are missing. |
Listed from cheapest to summon to most expensive, which is roughly easiest to hardest.
Britain Sewers · Trivial
Plague Burst. A lingering affliction that keeps damaging you every 2 seconds for 6 seconds after it lands. It ticks on its own, so walking it off is not an option — bring the healing.
Britain Graveyard · Moderate
Wrath of the Grave. No timed move to watch for — its signature is the enrage every boss has. It hits hard all fight and harder still below 30% health.
Vesper Graveyard · Challenging
Withering Wail. Weakens you for 6 seconds. It weakens your your damage.
Wrong · Tough
Warcry Slam. Staggers you outright — you cannot attack, cast or bandage for 3 seconds while it holds.
Shame · Tough
Static Shock. Weakens you for 6 seconds. It weakens your your chance to hit.
Orc Fort · Dangerous
Sunder Plate. Weakens you for 6 seconds. It weakens your your armour.
Covetous · Tough
Venomous Breath. A lingering affliction that keeps damaging you every 2 seconds for 6 seconds after it lands. It ticks on its own, so walking it off is not an option — bring the healing.
Despise · Dangerous
Warchief's Bellow. Staggers you outright — you cannot attack, cast or bandage for 3 seconds while it holds.
Deceit · Deadly
Curse of Deceit. Weakens you for 6 seconds. It weakens your your armour.
Ice Dungeon · Deadly
Frostbite. A lingering affliction that keeps damaging you every 2 seconds for 6 seconds after it lands. It ticks on its own, so walking it off is not an option — bring the healing.
Fire Dungeon · Deadly
Hellfire Wrath. No timed move to watch for — its signature is the enrage every boss has. It hits hard all fight and harder still below 30% health.
Hythloth · Legendary
Void Slam. Staggers you outright — you cannot attack, cast or bandage for 3 seconds while it holds.
Destard · Legendary
Dragonfear. Weakens you for 6 seconds. It weakens your your damage and your chance to hit.
