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

"Emerging from the shadows, universally hated by the woke left for the torturing of those inferior, this estranged son of the man most far-right politicians 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 (Guardian)
 * 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)

Amycus (If the floor has not been completed)
 * The Watcher: Whatever...
 * The Watcher: Guess you win... For now.
 * The Watcher: You may now pass.
 * Amycus: Adventurers! The eye has told me all about you.
 * Amycus: I have to admit, that night, I went in and ravaged that poor innocent soul
 * Amycus: The cruciatus curse is such a powerful force.
 * Amycus: I'm afraid you will be the next to suffer.
 * Amycus: CRUCIO

Amycus (If the floor has been completed)


 * Amycus: Adventurers! You've gone further than ever before.
 * Amycus: I'm afraid your journey ends here tonight.
 * Amycus: CRUCIO

Amycus (When Phase 1 Ends)
 * Amycus: ARGH! YOU GOT ME. LET'S HAVE A LITTLE FUN, SHALL WE?

Amycus (When Phase 2 Starts)


 * Amycus: I HOPE YOU LIKE EXPLOSIONS!


 * Amycus: HASTA LA VISTA BABY

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, unlike 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.
 * Enemies in the fight used to boast trillions of HP. A balancing patch would nerf this to be slightly more linear in regards to difficulty scaling in Master Mode, making it slightly more difficult than its predecessor, Floor VII.
 * In the 2023.11.11 Patch, In addition to the health nerfs, Phase 5 has become much more difficult, whilst aligning with its lore:
 * Amycus Fauci can cast the Cruciatus Curse at full potential, dealing 500% of its Base True Damage per second.