Fifteen Reasons Why/The Catacombs - Master Mode - Floor VIII

"Emerging from the shadows, this estranged son of the man every Republican politician hated has terrorized the world, fearing everything: living AND dead."

- Raid Lore

Master Catacombs - Floor VIII is a secret and challenging dungeon floor and final raid with MINI-BOSS Watcher and FINAL-BOSS Amycus Fauci. Unlike previous floors, it is an Extra-Large Dungeon, spanning an 9x9 grid as opposed to the 7x7 on the previous floor.

New Enemies

 * FINAL-BOSS Amycus Fauci
 * Mini-Boss Servant Jawbus
 * Mini-Boss Enrager
 * Mini-Boss Blazing Adventurer
 * Crypt Witherlord
 * Zombie Acolyte
 * Skeleton Acolyte
 * Werewolf Master
 * Watcher Undeads (The Professor, Spirit Bear, Maxor, Storm, Goldor, Necron)

New Items

 * Emblem of the Mastery
 * Master Emblem - Tier 11
 * Crypt Witherlord Armor
 * Crypt Witherlord Sword
 * Zombie Acolyte Armor
 * Skeleton Acolyte Armor
 * Lord Jawbus' Necklace
 * Adventurer's Burning Cloak
 * Acolyte Belt
 * Werewolf Gauntlet
 * New Identification (Loot Quality)
 * New Major ID (Reach)
 * New Reforge Stone (Bewitched Jewel)
 * New Reforge Stone (Hyperspeed Gemstone)
 * New Enchantment (Hypersonic)
 * New Enchantment (Super-Ability)
 * New Enchantment (Savior's Sacrifice)
 * New Enchantment (Dominance)
 * Kaeman's Shortbow
 * New Attributes: Mending, Cold Resistance, Heat Resistance, Pet Luck, Recall-Strike, Legionnaire, Dexterity

New Mechanics

 * Blood Room is a 3x3 as opposed to a 1x1 room.
 * The entire dungeon must be cleared before Blood Room can be opened.
 * New Puzzles can appear: Simon Says, Five in a Row
 * Minibosses can spawn in Fairy Room
 * Up to 5 Yellow Miniboss Rooms can spawn
 * 5 Puzzle Rooms is guaranteed in a run.
 * The dungeon has a garunteed rare room each run.
 * Watcher Undeads have 3 waves of Mini-Bosses that must be killed before any more undeads can be attacked:
 * The first wave consists of one of the four Wither Lords
 * The second wave consists of one of the four Sadan Giants
 * The third wave consists of any of the bosses from Floors 1 through 5.
 * The Watcher will spawn other undeads normally, but cannot attack you, nor take any damage until all mini bosses are killed.
 * Upon defeating all Undeads, The Watcher will attempt to kill you using a fatal Killing Curse (dealing massive amounts of true damage). He will become attackable.

Dialogue
Upon Joining the Instance (For the First Time, in a party.)


 * Gi Ae-Cha: Stop! You know how dangerous things can get past this point.
 * Gi Ae-Cha: It's not as easy as you think. Just be careful out there.
 * Gi Ae-Cha: Speak to me again to change your class and ready up. Best of luck to you all.

Upon Joining the Instance (For the First Time, solo)


 * Gi Ae-Cha: Stop! ! You know how dangerous things can get past this point.
 * Gi Ae-Cha: It's not as easy as you think. Just be careful out there.
 * Gi Ae-Cha: Speak to me again to change your class and ready up. Good luck.

Upon Joining the Instance (After the First Time)


 * Gi Ae-Cha: Talk to me to change your class and ready up

Watcher Phase (Upon Opening Blood)


 * The Watcher: Hmmm...
 * The Watcher: So you came, to what end?
 * The Watcher: Well, you see, things are drastically different here.
 * The Watcher: I've expanded the room and re-modeled it to look more interesting.
 * The Watcher: Let's not waste any more time here. Are you ready to explode?

Watcher Phase (After Defeating All Undeads)

Watcher Phase (If All Players Died after the Killing Curse)
 * The Watcher: You have proven yourself, but you may not pass yet.
 * The Watcher: There is something inside of you that I want...
 * The Watcher: Something.... of my interest...
 * The Watcher: AVADA KEDAVRA!


 * The Watcher: Well, never mind. I'd take that back. You'll truly prove yourself if you can gear up for what's true.

Watcher Phase (If Any Player Survives)


 * The Watcher: Well, you leave me with no choice. I may seem to be an eyeball, but I'm actually a Metamorphmagus.
 * The Watcher: Even if I turn into a humanoid form, I can still deal my attacks.

Watcher Phase (After Defeating the Watcher a Second Time in the same run)


 * The Watcher: Whatever...
 * The Watcher: Guess you win... For now.
 * The Watcher: You may now pass.

Amycus

Enemies
Please note that Neutral Damage is accounted for any enemies with defense. The neutral indicator does not show in-game.

Weakness calculates differently from EHP. Weakness is capped at 1,000 at 75% Reduced Effective Health.,

Tips and Strategies

 * Similar to M7, players cannot rely on purely rainbow damage.
 * This is essentially true for Neutral and True damage attacks as well, as most bosses and mini-bosses are immune to True Damage and Neutral Damage.
 * Using a Wither Cloak Sword is not effective against The Watcher's fatal killing curse, as it is hardcoded damage to instantly kill the player.
 * In Hypixel Skyblock, the Wither Cloak sword is an effective way to counter many insta-kill mechanics, such as Yang Glyphs or Fire Pillars. This cheese is partly not that useful here though.
 * The only way to mitigate this is to use the Amulet of the Survivor, which converts all incoming true damage attacks into Neutral
 * However, as the Killing Curse (this applies everywhere) deals 500% of your Health as by default, a Spirit Mask may be needed.

Trivia

 * The Eight Floor on the Hypixel Network used to include the boss fight Goldor. But was later scrapped. Goldor can still be seen in The Catacombs - Floor 7 of either universe.
 * In the Yellow Room, like with M7, multiple mini bosses can spawn in that room. However, if Enrager or Jawbus spawns in that room, no other miniboss can spawn in said room.
 * Amycus' Phase 2 & 4, involving collecting files and destroying the backend is a reference to the previous floor.
 * The previous floor requires Catacombs 36, and this floor requires Catacombs 45, which is a gap of 9 Catacombs levels.
 * This can be seen in terms of the difference in fishing up Mythic Sea Creatures in Hypixel Skyblock, but it's likely a coincidence.
 * This floor adds a new set of Attributes (Except Vitality, which was previously Mending, but changed. The current Mending as-of-right-now is a separate attribute and a seprate government
 * The boss used to have 3 actual bosses to kill: The Eye, Bak'al and Amycus. The first two were later removed during the rework.