Varnas the Black Horn
Varnas the Black Horn is fought once, as a scripted Act 1 story boss- the client data records only a single spawn, so there is no world or dungeon re-fight for this encounter. His template lists 400 base HP with a 0.35x Health Budget and 0x Defense Budget, but the variant also carries an explicit override of 850- Mythfall's boss variants sometimes hardcode a flat HP pool instead of scaling off the budget multiplier, and 850 is almost certainly the number that actually governs this fight rather than the 400x0.35=140 the budget math alone would suggest.
The fight runs two HP-gated phases. Phase 1 (100% HP down to 50%) opens with Engage, a 5-damage gap closer, and RuinousSurge, a parryable 6-damage poke, before ramping into EnforcersFury- a parryable slash combo capped by a block-breaker stomp. Phase 2 (50% HP and below) keeps the full Phase 1 kit and adds Downburst: Varnas teleports upward before slamming down for 20 damage in an AoE, block-breaker attack with a 20-second cooldown- by far his hardest hit. CrushingBloom (available in both phases) is a similar AoE combo: a parryable slash into a block-breaker slam. Disengage is a pure repositioning move that deals no damage.
His posture/stagger pool is a 300 base stagger HP, and his 300-stud aggro radius is the largest of any non-boss-tier Act 1 encounter in the data, meaning he engages from well outside melee range before the fight starts. On defeat he drops Varnas Hide, Varnas Horn and Varnas Cloth, all at a guaranteed 100% rate.
Details
Moveset
Engage- 5 dmg, 25 posture, 5s cooldown (melee, physical, gap_closer). Both phases.
RuinousSurge- 6 dmg, 20 posture, 10s cooldown (melee, physical, parryable). Both phases.
EnforcersFury- 6 dmg, 100 posture, 10s cooldown (melee, physical, parryable, block_breaker). Slashes are parryable, final stomp is block_breaker. Both phases.
CrushingBloom- 10 dmg, 100 posture, 15s cooldown (melee, physical, aoe, parryable, block_breaker). AOE slash (parryable) into AOE slam. Both phases.
Downburst- 20 dmg, 100 posture, 20s cooldown (melee, physical, aoe, block_breaker). Teleports up first, then AOE slam. Phase 2 only.
Disengage- 0 dmg, 0 posture, 2s cooldown (movement). Pure repositioning, no damage. Both phases.
Phase HP thresholds
Phase 1; triggers on spawn (HP ratio 1.0). Active moves: EnforcersFury, CrushingBloom, RuinousSurge, Engage, Disengage.
Phase 2; triggers at HP ratio 0.5 (half health). Adds Downburst to the active move pool on top of everything from Phase 1; this is the only new attack the second phase introduces.
FAQ
What level is Varnas the Black Horn in Mythfall?
Level 5, fought once as an Act 1 story boss on Kallos Island. The client data has no world or dungeon re-fight for Varnas- just the single scripted encounter.
What changes in Varnas's second phase?
At 50% HP he gains Downburst- a teleport-up-then-slam AoE, block-breaker attack with a 20-second cooldown and his highest single-hit damage (20). Everything from Phase 1 (Engage, RuinousSurge, EnforcersFury, CrushingBloom, Disengage) stays active.
What does Varnas drop?
Varnas Hide, Varnas Horn and Varnas Cloth- all three at a guaranteed 100% drop rate.
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Source-checked
Extracted from Mythfall client data. HP shown as base template HP x variant Health Budget, alongside the variant's explicit override where the data provides one; Mythfall does not expose a single computed max-HP value client-side, so no final HP number is published. updated · GuideDex staff. Report a correction.