Fifteen Reasons Why/The Catacombs - Master Mode - Floor VIII

## Raid

### Monsters

all monsters from the previous floor, with new additions including:* Crypt Witherlord
* Zombie Acolyte
* Skeleton Acolyte
* Werewolf Master

### Rewards

as follows:* 1B Experience
* 2M-3.5M Catacombs XP (scaling)
* 40 Liquid Galleons
* Master Emblem - Tier 11

Master Catacombs - Floor VIII is a secret and challenging dungeon floor and final raid with MINI-BOSS Watcher and FINAL-BOSS Amycus Fauci. Unlike previous floors, it is an Extra-Large Dungeon, spanning an 9x9 grid as opposed to the 7x7 on the previous floor.

## New Enemies

* **FINAL-BOSS** Amycus Fauci
* *Mini-Boss* Servant Jawbus
* *Mini-Boss* Enrager
* *Mini-Boss* Blazing Adventurer
* Crypt Witherlord
* Zombie Acolyte
* Skeleton Acolyte
* Werewolf Master
* Watcher Undeads (The Professor, Spirit Bear, Maxor, Storm, Goldor, Necron)

## New Items

* Emblem of the Mastery
* Master Emblem - Tier 11
* Crypt Witherlord Armor
* Crypt Witherlord Sword
* Zombie Acolyte Armor
* Skeleton Acolyte Armor
* Lord Jawbus' Necklace
* Adventurer's Burning Cloak
* Acolyte Belt
* Werewolf Gauntlet
* New Identification (Loot Quality)
* New Major ID (Reach)
* New Reforge Stone (Bewitched Jewel)
* New Reforge Stone (Hyperspeed Gemstone)
* New Enchantment (Hypersonic)
* New Enchantment (Guardian)
* New Enchantment (Savior's Sacrifice)
* New Enchantment (Dominance)
* Kaeman's Shortbow
* New Attributes: Mending, Cold Resistance, Heat Resistance, Pet Luck, Recall-Strike, Legionnaire, Dexterity

## New Mechanics

* Blood Room is a 3x3 as opposed to a 1x1 room.
* The entire dungeon must be cleared before Blood Room can be opened.
* New Puzzles can appear: Simon Says, Five in a Row
* Minibosses can spawn in Fairy Room
* Up to 5 Yellow Miniboss Rooms can spawn
* 5 Puzzle Rooms is guaranteed in a run.
* The dungeon has a garunteed rare room each run.
* Watcher Undeads have 3 waves of Mini-Bosses that must be killed before any more undeads can be attacked:
	+ The first wave consists of one of the four Wither Lords
	+ The second wave consists of one of the four Sadan Giants
	+ The third wave consists of any of the bosses from Floors 1 through 5.
	+ The Watcher will spawn other undeads normally, but cannot attack you, nor take any damage until all mini bosses are killed.
	+ Upon defeating all Undeads, The Watcher will attempt to kill you using a fatal Killing Curse (dealing massive amounts of true damage). He will become attackable.

## Run Specifics

### Dialogue

**Upon Joining the Instance (For the First Time, in a party.)**

* **Gi Ae-Cha:** Stop! You know how dangerous things can get past this point.
* **Gi Ae-Cha:** It's not as easy as you think. Just be careful out there.
* **Gi Ae-Cha:** Speak to me again to change your class and ready up. Best of luck to you all.

**Upon Joining the Instance (For the First Time, solo)**

* **Gi Ae-Cha:** Stop! <Playername>! You know how dangerous things can get past this point.
* **Gi Ae-Cha:** It's not as easy as you think. Just be careful out there.
* **Gi Ae-Cha:** Speak to me again to change your class and ready up. Good luck.

**Upon Joining the Instance (After the First Time)**

* **Gi Ae-Cha:** Talk to me to change your class and ready up

**Watcher Phase (Upon Opening Blood)**

* **The Watcher:** Hmmm...
* **The Watcher:** So you came, to what end?
* **The Watcher:** Well, you see, things are drastically different here.
* **The Watcher:** I've expanded the room and re-modeled it to look more interesting.
* **The Watcher:** Let's not waste any more time here. Are you ready to *explode*?

**Watcher Phase (After Defeating All Undeads)**

* **The Watcher:** You have proven yourself, but you may not pass yet.
* **The Watcher:** There is something inside of you that I want...
* **The Watcher:** Something.... of my interest...
* **The Watcher:** AVADA KEDAVRA!

**Watcher Phase (If All Players Died after the Killing Curse)**

* **The Watcher:** Well, never mind. I'd take that back. You'll truly prove yourself if you can gear up for what's *true*.

**Watcher Phase (If Any Player Survives)**

* **The Watcher:** Well, you leave me with no choice. I may seem to be an eyeball, but I'm actually a Metamorphmagus.
* **The Watcher:** Even if I turn into a humanoid form, I can still deal my attacks.

**Watcher Phase (After Defeating the Watcher a Second Time in the same run)**

* **The Watcher:** Whatever...
* **The Watcher:** Guess you win... For now.
* **The Watcher:** You may now pass.

**Amycus (If the floor has not been completed)**

* **Amycus:** Adventurers! The eye has told me all about you.
* **Amycus:** I have to admit, that night, I went in and ravaged that poor innocent soul
* **Amycus:** The cruciatus curse is such a powerful force.
* **Amycus:** I'm afraid you will be the next to suffer.
* **Amycus:** CRUCIO

**Amycus (If the floor has been completed)**

* **Amycus:** Adventurers! You've gone further than ever before.
* **Amycus:** I'm afraid your journey ends here tonight.
* **Amycus:** CRUCIO

**Amycus (When Phase 1 Ends)**

* **Amycus:** ARGH! YOU GOT ME. LET'S HAVE A LITTLE FUN, SHALL WE?

**Amycus (When Phase 2 Starts)**

* **Amycus:** I HOPE YOU LIKE EXPLOSIONS!

* **Amycus:** HASTA LA VISTA BABY

### Enemies

Please note that Neutral Damage is accounted for any enemies with defense. The neutral indicator does not show in-game.

Weakness calculates differently from EHP. Weakness is capped at 1,000 at 75% Reduced Effective Health.,

## Tips and Strategies

* Similar to M7, players cannot rely on purely rainbow damage.
	+ This is essentially true for Neutral and True damage attacks as well, as most bosses and mini-bosses are immune to True Damage and Neutral Damage.
* Using a Wither Cloak Sword is not effective against The Watcher's fatal killing curse, as it is hardcoded damage to instantly kill the player.
	+ In Hypixel Skyblock, the Wither Cloak sword is an effective way to counter many insta-kill mechanics, such as Yang Glyphs or Fire Pillars. This cheese is partly not that useful here though.
	+ The only way to mitigate this is to use the Amulet of the Survivor, which converts all incoming true damage attacks into Neutral
		- However, as the Killing Curse (this applies everywhere) deals 500% of your Health as ❂ True Damage by default, a Spirit Mask may be needed.

## Trivia

* The Eight Floor on the Hypixel Network used to include the boss fight Goldor. But was later scrapped. Goldor can still be seen in The Catacombs - Floor 7 of either universe.
* In the Yellow Room, unlike M7, multiple mini bosses can spawn in that room. However, if Enrager or Jawbus spawns in that room, no other miniboss can spawn in said room.
* Amycus' Phase 2 & 4, involving collecting files and destroying the backend is a reference to the previous floor.
* The previous floor requires Catacombs 36, and this floor requires Catacombs 45, which is a gap of 9 Catacombs levels.
	+ This can be seen in terms of the difference in fishing up Mythic Sea Creatures in Hypixel Skyblock, but it's likely a coincidence.
* This floor adds a new set of Attributes (Except Vitality, which was previously Mending, but changed. The current Mending as-of-right-now is a separate attribute and a seprate government
* The boss used to have 3 actual bosses to kill: The Eye, Bak'al and Amycus. The first two were later removed during the rework.
* Enemies in the fight used to boast trillions of HP. A balancing patch would nerf this to be slightly more linear in regards to difficulty scaling in Master Mode, making it slightly more difficult than its predecessor, Floor VII.
* In the 2023.11.11 Patch, In addition to the health nerfs, Phase 5 has become much more difficult, whilst aligning with its lore:
	+ Amycus Fauci can cast the Cruciatus Curse at full potential, dealing 500% of its Base True Damage per second.