Ancient Guardian
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| Base Health | 2250 HP | |||
| Phases | 3 | |||
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Guardian Minion | |||
| Found In | Ancient Vault | |||
| Unique Drops |  Any Microformer (50%)
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Ancient Guardian is a unique, procedurally generated boss found in Ancient Vaults. All Ancient Guardians have a elemental type, either Fire, Poison, Electricity or Ice. Vault Guardians are procedurally generated post endgame bosses found at the end of every Vault. A Vault Guardian is associated with one of the four types of elemental damage (fire, poison, ice or electric) which means it will take 50% less damage from its respective element weapons. These bosses are immune to all status effects. After defeating an Ancient Guardian it drops 1250 essence and has a 50% chance to drop any microformer.
As Vault Guardians are procedurally generated, there's no universal strategy for defeating them. However, it's good to have a non-elemental weapon (the Asuterosaberu DX and Ex Machina work well) or weapons of all elements to minimize the chance of bringing a low-effective weapon or even maximize the chance of bringing the high-effective one (an Adaptable Crossbow is useful here). A Guardian's element is recognized by its glowing parts (orange is for fire, green for poison, blue for ice and purple for electric).
Due to their procedural generation, each one is different, though they draw their attacks from a pool. Shielded Guardians will have some way of momentarily disabling the shield. Non-shielded Guardians will either have very high health or very high defense, and the latter will have a way for you to apply a special damage buff to more effectively damage them.
The door to the boss room is a one-way door, forcing one to defeat the boss in order to open a doorway on the opposite side. The strategy for defeating a given guardian varies based on the set of attacks used by that guardian as well as by the kind of shield (or lack of shield) possessed by the guardian. Defeating the guardian will open a door that leads to a room with two unique crafting stations, which only appear at the end of Ancient Vaults the Terraforge and the Weapon Upgrade Anvil.
