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FractureExclusive to The Color of Madness DLC
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Enemy Class Husk
Size Average (1)
Actions per round TurntickerTurntickerTurntickerUses "Seeds of Despair" once at the beginning of the fight
Stats
HP 115
HP (Stygian/Bloodmoon) 138
Dodge 0
Protection 20
Speed 7
Tray stealth Stealth No
Resistances
Poptext stun Stun 140%
Poptext poison Blight 100%
Poptext bleed Bleed 240%
Poptext debuff Debuff 90%
Poptext move Move 140%

Focus PointExclusive to The Color of Madness DLC



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Enemy Class Husk
Size Small (1, no corpse)
Actions per round None
Stats
HP 25
HP (Stygian/Bloodmoon) 30
Dodge 0
Protection 10
Speed 4
Tray stealth Stealth No
Resistances
Poptext stun Stun 240%
Poptext poison Blight 105%
Poptext bleed Bleed 130%
Poptext debuff Debuff 80%
Poptext move Move 40%

Unfinished AberrationExclusive to The Color of Madness DLC


Seedling blackSeedling purpleSeedling red


Seedling yellowSeedling blue
Enemy Class Husk
Size Small (1, no corpse)
Actions per round None
Stats
HP 25
HP (Stygian/Bloodmoon) 30
Dodge 0
Protection 15
Speed 3
Tray stealth Stealth No
Resistances
Poptext stun Stun 240%
Poptext poison Blight 100%
Poptext bleed Bleed 140%
Poptext debuff Debuff 70%
Poptext move Move 65%

Finished AberrationExclusive to The Color of Madness DLC
Seed blackSeed purpleSeed red

Seed yellowSeed blue
Enemy Class Husk
Size Small (1, no corpse)
Actions per round Turnticker
Stats
HP 30
HP (Stygian/Bloodmoon) 36
Dodge 0
Protection 20
Speed 5
Tray stealth Stealth No
Resistances
Poptext stun Stun 240%
Poptext poison Blight 100%
Poptext bleed Bleed 140%
Poptext debuff Debuff 70%
Poptext move Move 65%

The star-spawned horror rattles its crystalline cage!
~ The Ancestor upon encountering Fracture

Fracture is a boss found within the Farmstead in The Color of Madness DLC, and the first phase of the fight against The Sleeper.

It will always appear as the second boss in an Endless run, after the Miller. Then, it can be randomly encountered again at the end of wave groups.

Behaviour[ | ]

The Fracture does not usually attack the heroes directly outside of the low-damage Slow the Sands; instead, it focuses on summoning and empowering other enemies to fight for it. At the beginning of the fight, it automatically uses Seeds of Despair once to spawn 3 Focus Points; during the battle, it will use Vile Focusing every turn to recreate one Focus Point at a time. If Focus Points are active on the field when its turn comes, it can use Befouling Tint to change a Focus Point into a randomly colored Unfinished Aberration, and then use Ceaseless Expansion to complete the development into a Finished Aberration.

While Focus Points and Unfinished Aberrations do nothing except get in your heroes' way, most Finished Aberrations will self-destruct, dealing damage to the whole party while also inflicting a status effect depending on its color:

  • Black (Traumatic):
    Horror Horror 3 (6 rds)
    ,
    Debuff 140% Debuff: -75% Healing Received (2 rds)
  • Purple (Temporal):
    Stun 140% Stun
  • Red (Unstable):
    Heal Heal Fracture for damage dealt
  • Green (Pestilential):
    Blight 140% Blight 5
  • Blue (Adamantite): No attack (Guard Guard Fracture)

After its HP is lowered to below 20%, the Fracture will use Blooming Chaos to transform into The Sleeper, becoming much larger and more aggressive in exchange for losing its ability to summon and enhance Focus Points.

Strategy[ | ]

The Fracture has three actions per round, and will typically use all of them to create a Focus Point or upgrade an existing Focus Point or Aberration. Both Focus Points and Unfinished Aberrations are healed to full health upon upgrading, so do not attack them if you don't believe you can destroy it during your turn. (They are not cured of blight and bleed, however.) The fully upgraded Finished Aberrations have 30 health each with 20% PROT (with the exception of the Adamantite Aberration which has 5% PROT), making them relatively easy to destroy provided you focus fire, using area of effect attacks to damage Fracture as well.

The most dangerous summon is the (purple) Temporal Aberration, which deals higher damage and stuns the entire party, putting you at a severe disadvantage in keeping up with the Fracture. It should be focused over any other summon to avoid losing momentum. Also important are the (red) Unstable Aberrations, which will heal the Fracture for the total damage it deals when it explodes, setting progress back significantly.

Fracture summons Focus Points in position 1, putting them in easy range of frontline damage dealers. High-damage moves like the Hellion's Bleed Out or Leper's Chop can possibly take out any Focus Points or Aberrations in a single attack, particularly with a crit. Ideally, try to take out two Aberrations; Fracture can only summon one Focus Point every round, and consistently dealing with them will mean you have many openings to damage Fracture.

While frontliners use damage to take out the Focus Points and Aberrations, backliners should focus the Fracture. Because of its 3 actions, blight is very effective at dealing a lot of damage quickly, especially when buffed enough to land consistently. (Fracture is immune to bleed, so focus more on direct damage for heroes with mostly bleed-based attacks.) The Plague Doctor is the most effective in this regard, able to target Fracture both in the front or back with powerful blight; alternatively, the ShieldbreakerExclusive to The Shieldbreaker DLC can also function very well, as she can ignore the Fracture's PROT with Pierce if it is in the backline, or deliver both good damage and blights with Adder's Kiss or Captivate in the front. The Shieldbreaker can also use the camping skill Snake Eyes to help other heroes deal with the Focus Points' PROT.

On the other hand, it is perfectly viable to ignore Focus Points and Aberrations altogether and focus down the Fracture with strong damage dealers with reach to rank 4. Debuffs and marks are not very useful due to 3 actions of the Fracture, so Arbalest/Musketeer or Houndmaster are not ideal, but Shieldbreaker with Pierce works perfectly since Pierce also pierces Fracture's innate PROT. A well-established Farmstead party of Vestal, Jester, Shieldbreaker, Shieldbreaker (with damage trinkets) can consistently transition to the Sleeper phase without a single Aberration exploding: both Shieldbreakers spam Pierce, Jester spams Battle Ballad for extra CRIT and outspeeding Aberrations, and Vestal chips in on the Fracture with the Judgement or heals the rest of the party as needed. The same team has no problem transitioning to the Sleeper either, when Shieldbreakers can use Pierce or Adder's Kiss, Vestal heals and Jester buffs the team or drops the Finale to end the fight quickly.

It is also possible to pull the Fracture to the front ranks. Its 140% Move Resist makes it difficult, but not impossible with right trinkets. Then (unless the Aberrations in the backline are killed) the Fracture has no way of moving back and can be focused down with dedicated frontline damage dealers.

Fracture will rarely use the skill Slow the Sands if at least two summons are present. Because of how unlikely it is to stun, its low damage, and the relatively negligible SPD debuff, using this skill is more like a free turn where Fracture doesn't upgrade any Focus Points or Aberrations.

Once Fracture's HP is dropped to below 20%, it will transform into The Sleeper. There is no rest in between, so make sure the party can survive both battles in one go.

Abilities[ | ]

Fracture[ | ]

Darkest Level
Skill Name Range Rank Target Accuracy Crit
Chance
Damage Effect
(Target)
Effect
(Self)
Notes
Seeds of Despair Support 1,2,3,4 Self
Summon Summon 3 Focus Points
Vile Focusing Support 1,2,3,4 Self
Summon Summon 1 Focus Point
Befouling Tint Support 1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4
(allies)
Panel monster newmove Transform Focus Point into a Unfinished Aberration of a random color
Ceaseless Expansion Support 1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4
(allies)
Panel monster newmove Transform Unfinished Aberration into a Finished Aberration of the same color
Slow the Sands Ranged 1,2,3,4 1+2+3+4 105% 7% 3-5
Debuff 130% Debuff: -2 SPD (2 rds)

Stun 100% Stun
Blooming Chaos Support 1,2,3,4 Self
Deathsdoor Kill Other Enemies
Panel monster newmove Transform into The Sleeper

Finished Aberrations[ | ]

Darkest Level
Skill Name Range Rank Target Accuracy Crit
Chance
Damage Effect
(Target)
Effect
(Self)
Notes
Eternal Blossom
(Traumatic)
Ranged 1,2,3,4 1+2+3+4 115% 2% 3-5
Debuff 140% Debuff: -75% Healing Received (2 rds)

Horror Horror 3 (6 rds)
Deathsdoor Kill Self
Eternal Blossom
(Temporal)
Ranged 1,2,3,4 1+2+3+4 125% 5% 5-11
Stun 140% Stun
Deathsdoor Kill Self
Eternal Blossom
(Unstable)
Ranged 1,2,3,4 1+2+3+4 100% 1% 4-6
Heal Heal Fracture for damage dealt
Deathsdoor Kill Self
Eternal Blossom
(Pestilential)
Ranged 1,2,3,4 1+2+3+4 125% 2% 6-10
Blight 140% Blight 5
Deathsdoor Kill Self

The Adamantite Aberration has no attack, and instead will always GuardGuard Fracture as long as it's alive.

The Adamantite Aberration also has different resistances than all the other Finished Aberrations - Stun (85%), Blight (85%), Bleed (100%), Debuff (40%), Move (75%), Prot (5%), and Speed (5). Noticably, all of the Adamantite Aberration's resistances are markedly lower with the exception of Move, which makes eliminating it with Blight and even Bleed (if your Bleed skill is strong enough) a viable option.

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