Ancient Ash Titan

**Ancient Ash Titans** are the highest echelon of Ash Titans. Currently. they are the largest creatures to be encountered in the wild.

## Health and Types

* Legendary
* Elite
* Standard

**Legendary Ancient Ash Titan**

**Elite Ancient Ash Titan**

**Ancient Ash Titan**

## Characteristics

### Weak Points

Known Weak Points: * Open Sores on arms
* Open Sore on back
* Open Sore on chest

## Hidden Attributes

* Full Rage Frenzy
* Death Explosion

## Etymology and Anatomy

    Ancient Ash Titans get their names from *Ancient* (Something very old), *Ash* (remains of anything burned by fire) and *Titan* (One that is gigantic in size or power).

Ancient Ash Titans are considered Elementals by Arcanists. Fire is their element. They are sentient, humanoid bipedal giants. Their bodies are made of a nearly impenetrable rock-like material. They have two forward-facing eyes and a mouth on their igneous heads. They are made of a living flame on their insides. They are significantly larger than Lesser Ash Titans.

Titans are said to have a stone heart that can pump a “blood-like” liquid metal. When a titan dies, this liquid is not pumped anymore. It solidifies inside the stone heart and becomes one of the toughest and rarest metal known to the people of Coda called Corium.

Titans can move around freely. But they are usually found in a dormant state. They do not like to be disturbed from their slumber. If awakened, a titan will rampage until put out of its misery, or consume itself by self-destruction, in an effort to take its foes down with it.

## Narrative Involvement

Ancient Ash Titans aren’t usually found in nature. They are very rare, and almost always have to be summoned through Shaper relics or come out of a cataclysm. Until 458 LV, titans were very rare in Bastion. But when the cataclysm that destroyed Freemark was unleashed by the Dominion, the Heart of Rage began to disgorge elementals including Ancient Ash Titans. Eventually these elementals breached the Shadow Lock and made their way to Northern Bastion.

The freelancer also defected at least 3 additional titans to obtain corium to craft the Dawn Shield. Along with that they encountered several Ancient Ash Titans inside the Heart of Rage in 466 LV, but couldn't fight them out of inexperience. They also defeated on when they returned to silence the Heart of Rage for good.

## Encounter Locations

Titans are needed to obtain corium to craft the Dawn Shield. For the list of missions to find Titans to obtain corium, click here.

As of 468 LV, Ancient Ash Titans can usually be found near the northern parts of Bastion. These are the ones that regularly breach the Shadow Lock. If they are found in other locations, then the chances are they were summoned by Shaper relics or due to intense Shaper activities:

* Ruins of Shadowmark
* Monument Watch
* Academy Ruins
* Great Falls Canyon
* Valley of Tarsis
* Shaper Disturbance inside the Spires Anomaly
* Heart of Rage

## Behavior and Abilities

    Ancient Ash Titans are aggressive enemies. Since they do not like to be disturbed, they can attack their foes when they come within their line of sight.

**Homing Fireballs**: Ancient Ash Titans summon a fiery orb above them which splits into several fireballs that can track and hit their enemies.

**Fire Shockwave**: Ancient Ash Titans summon a fiery orb on the ground and hammer it with their fist which makes it release shockwaves ripples of fire.

**Chest Firebeam**: Ancient Ash Titans target a foe and jut out a beam of fire through their chests.

**Fire Strike**: Ancient Ash Titans summon an orb of fire beside their foe to have it explode using their hand movements to deal a large fire damage.

Ancient Ash Titan using Chest Firebeam and Fire Shockwave
**Melee Swipe**: Ancient Ash Titans swipe their arm to do melee damage to nearby foes.

**Ash Elemental Summons**: Ancient Ash Titans summon Ash Elementals to do their bidding.

**Erratic Chest Firebeam**: Ancient Ash Titans go on a frenzy of jutting out a continuous chest firebeam at everything around them.

### Hidden Attributes

Ancient Ash Titans have the following hidden attributes:
**Full Rage Frenzy**: At low health, Ancient Ash Titans go completely berserk and begin erratically attacking anything in their line of sight, especially using their Chest Firebeam.

**Death Explosion**: Ancient Ash Titans explode releasing a blast of fire when they die.

## Strategy

Ancient Ash Titans are Apex enemies. They are among the toughest enemies during combat. They even possess the ability to perform one hit knock out on low powered javelins.

* **Special Weakness to Armor**:  Armor Buster,  Acid
* **Special Resistance to Armor**:  Shield Breaker,  Lightning

### Overview

    Ancient Ash Titans, being Apex enemies, have a massive health pool. This means defeating them takes coordination and time, and a lot of damage. But when defeated, they are guaranteed to drop two rewards. This makes them an appealing enemy to challenge, whether during expeditions or if found in Freeplay.

Most of Ancient Ash Titans bodies are heavily armored and tough. They receive barely any damage to their bodies. But when they begin to attack, up to four sores open up on various parts of their body at different times during the combat. These are its weak points. When the sores open up, it is a cue to focus fire on them to inflict maximum damage.

They move relatively slowly, so their abilities and attacks can be predictable until their health becomes low. The more health the Ancient Ash Titan has, the less active it is and less frequent it attacks.
At regular intervals of reducing their health, Ancient Ash Titans drop ammo and repair kits. Use these resupplies to replenish your javelin.

### Combat

Combat with an Ancient Ash Titan always begins with Homing Fireballs. One fireball will split into the exact number of enemies near the titan. Since they are homing, they cannot be avoided. But taking cover will obstruct the fireballs from hitting a javelin.

Next comes the Fire Strike. During this attack, the Ancient Ash Titan summons an orb of fire beside its foes. It then rhythmically moves its arms and feet as if doing a dance to explode the orb.

    The following attack is the Fire Shockwave. If an orb is summoned near the Ancient Ash Titan’s foot, it is a cue to hover higher or get to a higher ground. When the titan hammers this orb, several ripples of fire are unleased on the ground and air.

All these attacks can do significant fire damage and induce a status condition on javelins.

It can also summon several (at least 2) Ash Elementals by summoning hammering a fiery orb by its feet. These elementals will charge towards nearby foes and explode doing a significant fire damage to them.

At regular intervals, the Ancient Ash Titan also does a provoking hand movement. When it launches its fireballs and while doing the hand movement, the sores on its arms become exposed. These open sores take a form of blazing fire. When the Ancient Ash Titan hammers orb to release shockwaves, the sore on its back opens up. Focusing fire on any of these three weak points can do immense damage to the titan.

At around 25% of its health, two cypher projected rings—blue and green—appear on the ground encircling the titan. The titan must be defeated before these two rings join for maximum bonuses. Around this time, the Ancient Ash Titan will rampage from its Full Rage Frenzy, releasing its Chest Firebeam erratically, without halting, all around it.

When the titan’s health is depleted or when the two rings meet, it will kneel on one of its feet, punch the ground and destroy itself through an explosion that can do massive fire damage to anyone around it.

## Every Named Ancient Ash Titan

There are only a handful of named Ancient Ash Titans in the game. There are Legendary Ancient Ash Titans that can spawn during an expedition if the squad comprises of 3 or 4 javelins in Grandmaster difficulties:

* Javelin Breaker is one of the first Ancient Ash Titan to come out of the Heart of Rage
* Doomsday Titan
* Legendary Ancient Ash Titan found during Shaper Disturbance

## Trivia (May Contain Spoilers)

* If the Ancient Ash Titan is defeated before the blue and green rings become one, the loot it drops will have a higher chance of having a higher quality.
* Ancient Ash Titans are among the few known enemies to have consistent armor-bar pips among standard, elite, and legendary types at 6 pips.
* Ancient Ash Titans are very old Ash Titans that have remained dormant for a long time.
* At release, it was only possible to damage Ancient Ash Titans on their weak points during battle. The damage done to the rest of their bodies was zero.
* Ancient Ash Titans have a deeper pitched voice when compared to their Lesser counterparts.
* The ability names are taken from the Anthem Prima Guide and datamined files. They may have been slightly modified to avoid confusion with other in-game names.

## Gallery

Ancient Ash Titan Prepares to For a Chest FirebeamAncient Ash Titan Just after Fire Strike