Dusking

Dusking

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Statistics

Type	Boss
Environment	Surface – Night
Damage	45 / 90 / 135
Max Life	21,000 / 42,000 / 53,550
Defense	32
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts Debuff	Shadowflame
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Losing life
Inflicts Debuff	Darkness
Debuff duration	5 seconds (Aura in Phase 2)
Debuff tooltip	Decreased light vision
Immune to

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Dusk Shard (25-35)
  100%
• One of the following 4 items will always be dropped
• Shadowflame Sword
  25%
• Shadowmoor
  25%
• Umbra Staff
  25%
• Shadow Sphere
  25%
• Greater Healing Potion (5-15)
  100%
• Dusking Mask
  14.29%
• Dusking Trophy
  10%
• Treasure Bag(Dusking)

  • Dusk Pendant

  100%
• Skull Chime
  25%
• Dusking Relic
  100%

Bestiary entry

The nightmarish consequence of a failed seance by goblin warlocks. This abominable spirit remains a burning reminder of the chaos shadowflame magic can bring.

Beware the King of Night...

Dusking is a Hardmode boss that is intended to be fought alongside or after the Mechanical Bosses.

While Dusking is alive, his exclusive music will play.

Spawn

Dusking does not spawn on his own and requires the player to summon him with the Dusk Crown. He can be fought anywhere at nighttime.

Behavior

Dusking floats in the air, moving towards the player while flinging a series of projectiles, while summoning Antumbral Skulls. He also rapidly rushes at the player a few times every several seconds. When he reaches 8,000 / 9,000 health, he enters his second phase, where he gains a purple, enchanting aura, and starts to move erratically around the area, firing projectiles, and sometimes catching up to the player and floating above them, then moving away. This process repeats until he is defeated.

Dusking and his minions and most of his projectiles inflict the Shadowflame debuff.

Attacks

• He fires seven fast-moving purple sphere projectiles that inaccurately home on the player and go through tiles. These projectiles can be destroyed with any weapon.
• He aggressively charges at the player up to four times to deal contact damage.
• He fires shadow pulse lasers from his eyes that do not go through tiles and this attack is also performed when he's charging at the player.
• He will occasionally spawn a ring of eight tiny crystal shadows from himself that move slowly before accelerating at full speed and do not go through tiles.
• He will also spawn Antumbral Skulls along with his projectiles. They move slowly and follow the player.

Phase 2

• He has a circular shadow aura that spins around him at all times and no longer summons Antumbral Skulls.
  • While the player in his aura, they will be inflicted with the Darkness debuff.
• He will move erratically while periodically spawning a ring of crystal shadows.
• He will also attempt to catch up with the player and stay above them for a brief moment before moving erratically again.

Summons

Image	Name	Condition	Condition (in Phase 2)
	Antumbral Skull	3 times every instance Dusking releases projectiles	Never

Trivia

• Dusking's name is a portmanteau of the words 'Dusk' and 'King.'

History

• 1.4.4.1: Now drops a Master Mode Relic and light pet item.

• 1.4.3:
  • Now immune to Shadowflame and Confused.
  • Can now despawn properly.

• 1.4.0.0: Resprited.

• 1.0.0.0: Introduced.