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.

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.