Bride of Iratus

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**Bride of Iratus** is a ranged minion that players can create, adding to Iratus' army of undead. Bride of Iratus is one of the few Minions that is available to new players at the start.

## Abilities

Heartpiercer | +5
Chestpiercer | +2

Flames of Eternal Love | +2
Flames of Love | +1

Careful Watch | +2
Overwatch | +1

Worship Him | +2
Think of Him | +1

You Won't Get Him! | +2
Warning Shot | +2

Master's Rose | +4
Rose for a Lady | +10

## Strategy

***Role: Heavy physical damage dealer  - Magical damage dealer  - Stress dealer  - Stunner***  ***- Mana***  ***support - Self-Buff*** ***- Position Disrupt  - Stance interrupt***  ***- Movement disable***

***Upgradable Stats:*** Attack , Dread , Vigor , Accuracy , Luck , Evasion , Block , Ward

***Best Positions:***

The Bride's fierce loyalty to Iratus is reflected by her capability in dealing huge critical damage. Having very low base Vigor  and poor defensive stats, she makes up for this with high offensive stats: Attack , Dread , Accuracy , Luck  and ability to deal both physical and magical damage. With a bit of investment on her high base Accuracy , she easily counters enemies relying on their high Evasion  to survive (Conscript, Trader, Elven Ranger,...). Her feature  gives her an edge against dangerous and annoying female opponents such as Bard, Oracle or Conjuress. The Bride has few utilities aside from damage. Since her entire ability set targets almost all positions, she is very reliable for aggressive play style.

***Chestpiercer*** and ***Heartpiercer*** deal devastating critical damage once the Bride has invested enough on Attack  and Luck . Also with high Luck , the Bride can use ***Lungpiercer*** to constantly stun  on crits for safe play. In case there are high-Armor  enemies, ***Flames of Love*** can be used instead to deal magic damage and inflict Ignition effect dealing true damage. Lich 's ***Dominate Undead*** and Ghoul 's ***Alluring Mark*** give a large Buff to the Bride's Attack , amplifying her critical damage to a much greater extent.

***Rose for a Lady*** is a powerful squad nuke that can be used to take out multiple low-Vigor  targets. ***Bloody Rose***'s critical damage is very useful for Monster Slayer fight, helping the squad heal, gain resources and deal damage to the Monster Slayer at the same time.

If a squad can afford to prolong a battle, the Bride may become the sole damage source and Buff herself with ***Think of Him*** to reach a ridiculous damage output. Lost Soul  and Blood Phantasm  duo can constantly heal the party. Have Mummy to remove Debuff if enemies has dangerous Marks. Black Widow  uses ***Spider Cocoon*** to direct attacks to herself, possibly coupled with a minion to Buff damage for the Bride. Bringing some minions (Shade , Dark Knight ,...) to refill Mana  for full-heal Battle Eternal spell is a good option as well. In this case, the Bride should go for ***Worship Him*** for even more Mana  gain.

***Overwatch*** Stance is good against enemies that move around a lot in combat such as Geomancer, Heavy Firethrower. Heavy Firethrowers are highly susceptible to this as they always attempt move to the very front. Using this ability, the Bride goes well with minions that can force enemies to move. Lost Soul  and Wraith  are fairly effective at this. Lost Soul  moves 2 targets at the same time with ***Inspire Heroics***, while Wraith  has ***Terrorwave*** to change positions of an entire enemy squad. Lich 's ***Bedlam*** does the same but deals heavy damage and Ignition to allies. For better combination of Vigor  damage, Head Hunter 's ***Catch' Em*** can be considered.

***Warning Shot*** is the Bride's main way to deal stress. The movement effect of ***Warning Shot*** and ***Get Away From Him!*** combines well with Lich 's ***Toxic Cloud*** and Banshee 's ***No!*** Stance to quickly cause substantial stress on enemies. ***You Won't Get Him!*** prevents targets such as Heavy Firethrowers or Demolition Experts from moving to lessen their effectiveness.

## Dialogue

* **Starting combat with female enemy:** *"Ugly mortal whore..."*
* **Starting turn:** *"Let me adore you!"*
* **Starting turn on the first position:** *"Back off! I can smell the stench of life!"*
* **Killing an enemy:** *"My beloved will make me a necklace out of your teeth!", "Your skin will look so fine sewn upon me."*
* **Receiving a critical hit:** *"M-my perfect body! M-my love, am I still beautiful?!"*
* **Delivering a critical hit:** *"My devotion is your death. Through your weak hearts!"*
* **Enemy flees:** *"Come back! Am I not worth dying for?!"*
* **Ally is killed:** *"I would give my life for Iratus!"*
* **Buffed by Iratus:** *"My undead heart beats for you!"*
* **Vigor** **is low:** *"Until death do us part, beloved."*
* **Using *Heartpiercer*:** *"Our love shall carry...through the hearts of our foes!"*
* **Using *Flames of Love*:** *"This is the fire of my passion!"*
* **Using *Overwatch***: *"None will get close!"*
* **Using *Adore Him*:** *"I will shoot out their eyes so that only I may look upon you!"*
* **Using *You Won't Get Him!***: *"Over my undead body!"*
* **Using *Rose for a Lady*:** *"When I opened my undead eye, this was his gift to me..."*

## Trivia

* Iratus designed the Bride in his younger years.

## Gallery

Base skinCustom Artwork (drawn by satanya99\_san)
## References

1. ↑ Iratus.org - "Dead vs Alive"
2. ↑ [1] Source: Steam Community