THODES, THE WIDOWMAKER

Boss ·
Astraeos Gamma · Lv 45Beta · Lv 65Alpha · Lv 85

The Fight

what you are walking into

A club-wielding Cyclops Guardian, the second boss added to Astraeos.

Thodes takes reduced damage until his eye begins to pulse with energy — shoot the eye and he weakens, wrapped in a red mist, for a short window. The whole fight is built around forcing and spending those windows.

Move Set

what it can do, and what to expect

Behavior

Thodes is aggressive and will bash any challengers that enter its lair

General

Thodes is a very resilient Guardian that takes reduced damage for a while until its eye begins to pulse with Energy.

Dangers

• Thodes attacks have a wide reach, easily hitting tames all around it

• Thodes will be very durable, making this a fight of attrition and keeping your tames going until his eye begins to pulse

• The fight is significantly tougher without a Ranged Weapon to hit Thodes' Eye, as it makes it harder to put Thodes in his weakened state.

• On higher difficulties, Thodes has much more health.

Weaknesses

• Thodes has no Minions whatsoever, so you can easily divert all your attention to Thodes.

• Thodes doesn’t afflict any Ailments, similarly to the Megapithecus.

• A fast mount can easily dodge around it and can make taking pot shots at its eye easier.

How the fight works

  • Bring a gun. Without a ranged weapon to hit the pulsing eye, the weakened state is nearly impossible to trigger and the fight becomes pure attrition.
  • Acrocanthosaurus fit the rhythm: damage-reduction stance to tank between windows, enrage to spend them.
  • He has no minions and inflicts no ailments — divert all attention to Thodes himself, and keep a Daeodon topping tames up between eye phases.
  • His swings have a wide reach that hits tames all around him; a fast mount like an Equus can dodge around him and take pot shots at the eye.

At a glance

Astraeos
TypeBoss
Arena
Artifacts3

The Arena

Thodes, the Widowmaker

Rewards

Element — 200 Gamma and 750 Alpha, with Beta's figure unrecorded — plus the Thodes Trophy of the difficulty cleared.

Artifacts it needs

3

Referenced by

pages that mention this one3

Caves that supply it

What to Bring

community loadout — not a game value
Bring a gun — his eye must be shot when it pulses to break his damage reduction, and no tame can do that for you. Everything else is surviving between windows.

Tekgrams It Teaches

unlocked on kill — γ gamma, β beta, α alpha is the lowest difficulty that grants it full tree →

Fought on the same maps

everything else Astraeos asks of you all bosses →
Values are transcribed, not derived: where no figure is on record, this page shows none.
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Player Tips

tricks from other survivors, for this page