Detailed Guide to the Throne of Thorns (EN)

In this guide, I will cover the last minigame of Act 4 of CrowFall - Thorn Throne - in as much detail as possible

Introduction

Throne of Thorns is a mini-game where you can choose a hero, create your own build, and pass echelons.

Initially it may seem difficult, but the first 4 echelons are easy to pass once you understand how to play.

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It's important:
This guide I made originally in Russian, so if you see translation errors or pictures with inscriptions in Russian - sorry, it's hard to make two guides in different languages
And I hope there will be no negativity towards the fact that I am from Russia, I just wrote a guide to make it more convenient for you

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Heroes

There are three heroes in total and each has a starting ability and passive

1) Dragonus - Has the Arcane Bolt starting ability and passive:
ㅤ"Dragonus has less health, but fires extra projectiles with all of his
ㅤ abilities."

2) Shen - has the Magic Missile starting ability and passive:
ㅤ“Shen's magic damage reduces physical resistance in enemies.”

3) Kez - Has the starting ability Echo Slash and the passive:
ㅤ“Kez has extra movement speed and periodically tags the most
ㅤ strongest nearby enemies, causing the next physical attack to deal
ㅤ critical damage.”

Echelons(Levels)

Echelons are levels, there are 7 of them in total, and with each level it becomes more and more difficult to repel waves of monsters, but there are rewards for clearing them.

Echelon	Difficulty	Reward
1	No additional modifiers	Token for the final award
2	Enemies have increased damage and health	Loading screen
3	Enemies slow down attack	Phrase for general chat
4	Enemies have increased health and speed	Style on the Juggernaut
5	Invulnerable Scythe follows you everywhere, touching it will instantly kill you	Phrase for general chat
6	Hold on for 1 more minute and the final boss is even stronger	Smiley face
7	Meteorites continuously fall from the sky, and enemies have increased health and damage	Phrase for general chat

Bosses

There are also bosses in this game, there are a total of five bosses in the mini-game, including the final boss, and there can be four in one game, the first three are spawned randomly
The first three bosses drop aganim, which are needed to improve abilities.

The final boss is Empire, which can be defeated (or attempted) after 12 (13 starting from the 6th legion) minutes of farming and pumping.

In the mini-game, bosses are marked as side quest and are marked on the mini-map


Over 5 echelons and a bunch of tries, I've categorized the bosses by difficulty relative to the echelons

The Granite Legion - The easiest boss on all echelons, has three stages:
Stage 1 - he is single and large
Stage 2 - he splits into 3 smaller cheliks.
Stage 3 - 3 cheliks are divided into microcheliks that are fast and if they slow you down, they can bite you to death.


The Evershade- An easy boss, but at 4th echelon if you don't have speed or yasha he will easily catch up to you on stage 2 and even more so on stage 3
The boss has 3 stages in which he revives and speeds up twice


The Wailing Mass is the easiest boss on echelon 1-4
Its peculiarity is that it gets bigger as it passes over monsters, and if you don't have enough damage on the 5th-7th echelon, it can become a problem for you, as there will be a lot of monsters around you and it will crush you instantly.


The Cinderguard- the most difficult boss, when summoned he puts 5 illusions that shoot the player with fireballs, and you have to find and kill him 5 times through piles of monsters

Upgrade (Character Enhancement)

If you pass a level, you get gold for it, which increases when you defeat the final boss and is given even if you lose the level
Gold is needed to pump up the characteristics that apply to all characters
Initially you only need gold for some characteristics, but for further improvements you will need tokens.
Without their pumping you will not be able to pass the 5-6 echelon, or at least you 100% have to take the item on the speed of movement, as the monsters will become faster
I for example with such pumping already opened the 6th echelon

Magical abilities

For convenience, I will separate the abilities into physical and magical damage
IMPORTANT
The damage of all heroes is different at level 1, so somewhere there may be errors of 1-5%

LAGUNA BLADE

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Range	Number of Projectiles
1	40	3	1000	1

ARCANE BOLT

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Range	Number of Projectiles
1	7.7	1.2	1200	2
2	7.7	1.14	1200	4

CHAIN FROST

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Range	Number of Projectiles	Bounce Count
1	60	14	800	1	5

FROSTBITE

Level	Magic Damage	Cooldown	Stun Duration	Range	Projectiles	Damage Percentage
1	4	3.5	1.5	800	2	25%

SPIRITS

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Number of Projectiles	Duration
1	6	6	1	4

MAGIC MISSILE

Level	Damage	Cooldown	Range	Number of Projectiles	Bounces	Stun Duration
1	22	2.4	1000	1	1	1
2	22	2.4	1000	1	2	1
3	33	2.16	1000	1	2	1
4	33	2.16	1000	1	3	1
5	44	1.92	1000	1	3	1

MORTIMER'S KISSES

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Radius	Range	Projectiles
1	6	5	300	1000	1

Yes, I know some images look flawed, but that's a consequence of compressing image sizes to make the table fit to the right of them

ROT

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Radius
1	5	1	250
2	7	0.9	250

Physical abilities

SWASHBUCKLE

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Length	Directions	Temporary Damage
1	2	1.6	520	2	2

COUNTER HELIX

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Radius	Knockback Distance
1	25	3.5	360	30

ECHO SLASH

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Length	Temporary Damage	Time Between Ticks	Area of Effect
1	10	2.1	720	1	1	0%
2	10	2.1	720	2	0.8	0%
3	20	2.1	720	2	0.8	15%

THE BAT

Level	Damage	Cooldown	Radius	Slowdown	Monster Slowdown	Collection Radius
1	10	6	300	1.5	50%	50

TRACK

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Number of Projectiles	Damage Boost	Duration of Damage Boost
1	6	10	1	20%	10

STAMPEDE

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Radius	Duration	Active Movement Speed
1	10	30	200	3.5	700

PROXIMITY MINES

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Radius
1	30	4	300

ANNIHILATION

Level	Damage	Number of Projectiles	Cooldown (sec)	Range
1	220	50	60	1600

KNIFE THROW

Level	Damage	Cooldown (sec)	Number of Projectiles	Number of Pierces
1	12	1.2	1	1

Items

For convenience, I will also divide the items into magic, physical, and passive items

Passive

Level	Effect Duration Extension
1	1
Max	2

Level	Additional Damage from Projectiles
1	5

Level	Additional Number of Projectiles
1	1
Max	2

Level	Cooldown Reduction
1	5%

Level	Pickup Radius
1	150

Level	Additional Ability Slot
Max	1

Level	Damage Reduction	Damage Reflection
1	10%	100%

Level	Movement Speed
1	25

Level	Health Increase
1	50
2	100

Level	Area of Effect
1	10%

Level	Health Regeneration
1	0.5

Level	Knockback Increase
1	???%

Level	Experience Multiplier
1	10%
2	20%

For Magical Damage

Level	Additional Magical Damage
1	15%

For Physical Damage

Level	Additional Damage
1	5

Level	Critical Hit Chance	Critical Hit Damage
1	30%	160%
2	30%	195%

Enhanced versions of items

They are assembled from two items and have better characterization gains, as well as freeing up a slot when crafting
To combine items, they must be of max level each

Title	Khanda	Yasha & Kaya	Kaya & Sange	Daedalus	Heart Of Tarrasque	Trident
Description	Critical hit chance from projectiles: 30% Damage from critical hit from projectiles: 250% Additional damage from projectiles: 20	Movement speed: 100 Magical damage multiplier: 60%	Knockback: 80% Magical damage: 60%	Critical hit: 30% Physical damage from crit: 250% Additional physical damage: 20	Max HP: 200 Health regeneration: 3	Knockback: 100% Movement speed: 125 Magical damage multiplier: 75%

Aghanims

Title	Laguna Blade	Arcane Bolt	Chain Frost	Magic Missile	Spirits	Frostbite
Description	Laguna can be directed at the same enemy multiple times	Doubles the number of "Bolts" released	Upon hitting a target, the kettle has a 50% chance to split into 2 more kettles	[Patch] Deals 0.035 more damage for each enemy killed by this ability	[Patch] Now, upon contact with enemies, the spirits explode	If the enemy dies from this ability, it will spread to all surrounding enemies

Title	Rot	Mortimer's Kisses	Counter Helix	Echo Slash	Track	Swashbuckle
Description	Leaves a putrid trail that slows enemies by 30%	Enemies killed by this ability have a chance to create a healing cookie (cheese)	When taking damage, the ability triggers with a 100% chance	The ability strikes both in front and behind you	Drops 2 items from Roshan	This ability starts hitting vertically (from the sides)

Title	Stampede	Annihilation	Snotty	Proximity Mines	Knife Throw
Description	Your physical damage from all abilities is 10% greater than from movement speed	Extra life	Now you have 2 bats	Pulls in the nearest enemies upon activation	While standing still, releases double the number of knives

Tips, Tricks and Bugs

This section needs information that I have little of

Tips and Tricks

• If you initially get bad abilities and items, and you spend rolls, it's better to restart the run.
• A tank build can look like this - Axe's spin, Spirits, and Centaur's ultimate, with items like Battle Fury, Heart, and Aghanim first on Axe, then on Spirits. The idea is to use Centaur's ultimate to charge into enemies and spin infinitely.

Bugs

If you type the command

 host_timescale 1 

in the console and replace 1 with a desired value from 0.1 to 9, the time in the mini-game will speed up or slow down accordingly, allowing you to skip the first few minutes of farming and see which of the first bosses you encountered, or easily dodge the Empire's ultimate.

Patches

Patch 1.1 from 20.11.24:

Items
Octarine Core: Cooldown reduction decreased from 6% to 5% per level.
Timeless Relic: Maximum level reduced from 3 to 2.

Abilities
Land Mine:

• Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
  
• Reworked Aghanim's Scepter: cooldown reduced by 20%. You now have the ability to place static traps (deal less damage, stun) and remote mines (deal more damage, no trigger time required).

Knife Throw:

• Recharge time reduced by 0.3 seconds at odd levels. (Cooldown at maximum level is 0)
  
• 1 additional pierce at levels 3 and 5.
  
• Reworked Aghanim - Knives now have an infinite number of pierces.

Counter Helix:

• Aghanim's change - Cooldown increased from 0.05 to 0.15 seconds.
  
• Base damage increased from 20 to 25.
  
• Damage scaling per level increased from 10 to 15.

Mortimer's Kisses:

• Base damage increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Damage scaling per level increased from 3 to 4.

Frostbite:

• Base number of targets increased from 1 to 2.
  
• Increase in the number of targets at levels 2 and 6 increased from 1 to 2.

Magic Missile: Aghanim's change - Damage dealt per kill reduced from 0.04 to 0.035.

Spirits: Reworked Aghanim - now spirits explode on impact.

Innate ability of Vengeful Spirit: Physical damage resistance reduction increased from 20% to 30%.

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