Steel Watcher Titan/Combat

Overview

Combat

This page focuses on Steel Watcher Titan's behaviour during combat encounters.

Attacks and abilities

 Defensive Protocol: Bulwark

Hunker down into an  Unyielding state and  Repair yourself. While hunkered, you can launch  Hellfire Missiles and  Repel combatants.

 Hellfire Curse ()

Induce a spark of hellfire within a target to give them Disadvantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution Saving throws

WIS Save

 Range: 9 m / 30 ft

AoE: 6 m / 20 ft (Radius)

 Hellfire Missiles ()

96d6 (96~576) Fire

Shoot 24 hellfire missiles upwards that rain down on enemies. Each missile deals 4d6Fire damage.

Hellfire ignores Resistance and Immunity to Fire damage.

DEX Save

 Range: 100 m / 333 ft

 Launch Protocol: Bola ()

2d12 (2~24) Bludgeoning

Shoot a projectile that possibly  Restrains your target.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Main Hand Attack ()   –  Watcher Greatsword

Normal weapon damage Make a melee attack with your equipped weapon.

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft

 Multiattack ()

Normal weapon damage

+ Normal weapon damage

Strike twice with a colossal blade to knock targets  Prone and  Maim them.

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

 Self-Detonate

12d12 + 78 (90~222) Fire

Explode in a burst of raging hellfire - eliminate all nearby wrongdoers.

DEX Save

 Range: Self

 Repelling Protocol ()

2d8 (2~16) Thunder

Expel a wave of force to push assailants back 9 m / 30 ft and knock them  Prone.

STR Save

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Targeting Protocol: Hellfire Missiles ()

Prime and aim your  Hellfire Missiles at a target to fire on your next turn. Hellfire ignores Resistance and Immunity to Fire damage.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Terminate Bulwark Protocol

End your  Defensive Protocol: Bulwark and return to your normal combat calibration.

Allies

• 3x Hellfire Watcher

Conditions

Immunities

Steel Watchers are immune to the following conditions:

•  Blinded
•  Charmed
•  Frightened
•  Poisoned
•  Prone
•  Surprised

Encounter details

• After taking a certain amount of damage, the Steel Watcher Titan will always trigger  Defensive Protocol: Bulwark before activating  Targeting Protocol: Hellfire Missiles and firing those  Hellfire Missiles on the following turn. This attack can be interrupted by damaging it enough to remove all of the temporary hp granted by Defense Protocol: Bulwark.
• Upon reaching low hp, the Steel Watcher Titan will use  Self-Detonate (Steel Watcher Titan) to explode just like a regular Steel Watcher.
• On Tactician and Honor difficulty, the Steel Watcher Titan loses its vulnerability to Lightning damage and gains additional resistances.

Honour

On Honour difficulty, the Steel Watcher Titan becomes the Hellfire Steel Watcher Titan, with a redder model similar to Hellfire Steel Watchers. Additionally, while in the Titan's Defensive Protocol: Bulwark state, it gains 200 Temporary Hit Points instead of 75, Unyielding Construct (Condition) prevents damage below 40 instead of 15, and Repair Matrix (Condition) heals for 6d8+14hit points instead of 3d8hit points.

Tactics

• Flashblinder grenades are exceedingly effective in this fight. Not only will they  stun the Titan (and the other Steel Watchers in the fight) for 2 turns, they will also instantly remove  Defensive Protocol: Bulwark. In Honour mode, Flashblinders become even stronger since the guaranteed stun ignores the Titan's  Legendary Resistance and since Defensive Protocol is significantly buffed compared to lower difficulties.
• On Explorer and Balanced difficulty, Lightning damage is particularly effective since the Steel Watcher Titan and all 3 accompanying Hellfire Watchers are vulnerable to it.
• The Steel Watcher Titan can knock back party members with  Repelling Protocol, and the Hellfire Watchers can pull them forward with  Reposition Malefactor. Make sure to position party members so that such repositioning doesn't knock them into  Hellfire Missiles or an exploding Steel Watcher.
• Given its low int score,  Absorb Intellect can quickly reduce the Steel Watcher Titan's int to 0 which will instantly kill it with the  Atrophied condition. However, this will prevent the Titan from dropping any loot.