Darkling

Darkling
HP	48-56 50-59 (Ascension 7+)
In Party With	2 other Darklings
Debut Act	Act 3
Powers	Life Link

Life Link
Description	Cannot be targeted for 2 turns once HP reaches 0. On its second turn after its HP reaches 0, revives with half HP if other Darklings have over 0 HP.
Type	Buff
StackingBehavior	None

Darklings are an Act 3 encounter. The player will fight 3 Darklings at a time, and they all start with the Life Link buff.

Pattern

On the first turn, all Darklings have a 50% chance of using Nip and a 50% chance of using Harden. The middle Darkling continues this pattern afterwards; it cannot use Chomp.

After the first turn, the outer 2 Darklings have a 30% chance of using Nip, 40% chance of using Chomp and 30% chance of using Harden.

Harden cannot be used twice in a row, Chomp cannot be used twice in a row and Nip cannot be used three times in a row.

After the HP of a Darkling reaches 0, the Darkling can no longer be targeted and Regrow will interrupt its current intent. It will use Reincarnate on the next turn.

Name	Intent	Effect	Asc 2+	Asc 17+
Nip		Deal D* damage.	Deal D* + 2 damage.	Deal D* + 2 damage.
Chomp		Deal 8 x 2 damage.	Deal 9 x 2 damage.	Deal 9 x 2 damage.
Harden		Gain 12 Block.	Gain 12 Block.	Gain 12 Block and 2 Strength.
Reincarnate		Revives with 50% HP.	Revives with 50% HP.	Revives with 50% HP.
Regrow		Does nothing.	Does nothing.	Does nothing.

*D is chosen between 7 and 11 at the beginning of the battle.

Notes

Kill effects that work on minions do have their kill effect on all Darklings regardless of whether it is the last Darkling (e.g. Sunder). However, fatal Kill effects that do not work on minions (i.e. Feed, Ritual Dagger, Lesson Learned, Hand of Greed) only work if you kill the final Darkling.

Gallery

Darkling as seen in the Wallop card art.

Darkling as seen in the Lesson Learned card art.

Update History

• Patch V2.0: The Watcher
  • Fixed double-played Sunder gaining energy twice on Darklings and Awakened One.
• Weekly Patch 40: Forethought
  • Darklings defensive move had the incorrect intent on Ascension 17+.
  • Fixed bug in Darklings that makes them unable to combine with other monsters. (For modders)
• Weekly Patch 35: Aggregate
  • Fix for crash when playing Havoc against half dead enemies (Darkling/Awakened one).
• Weekly Patch 33: Terror
  • Corpse Explosion power can now trigger on Darklings.
• Weekly Patch 23: Testing Continues...
  • Sunder should now work on half dead enemies (Darklings/Awakened One)
• Weekly Patch 10: Quality of Life
  • Hotfix: Sentry/Darkling anti attack-at-once wasn't working. Fixed
  • We updated the animations for several monsters! Affected monsters include: Darklings
  • All 3 Darklings can never do 8 x 2 dmg at once now.
  • Darkling AI now utilizes aiRNG.
• Weekly Patch 3: Balance Balance Balance
  • Feed no longer works on enemies that go into a half dead state (Darkling, Awakened One).
• Weekly Patch 2: Slimes!
  • Fixed bug where enemies that don't fully die (Darklings) do their full multi-hits even if they die from thorns.
• Day 1 Patch
  • Life Link power on Darklings now communicates better what it does.