Endstone Protector

The Endstone Protector is a Boss added in Patch 0.7.8. It spawns in several locations in the Dragon's Nest after a large number of Zealots are killed in its server.

Spawning
The Endstone Protector spawns in a number of predetermined locations in the Dragon's Nest. 5,000 Zealots must be killed in order to summon the boss.

For every 1,000 Zealots killed, a message will appear in chat and the boss's body will rise further out of the ground. When the 5,000 kill milestone is reached, the message "The ground begins to shake as an Endstone Protector rises from below!" will be displayed, and the boss will spawn 20 seconds after.

The Endstone Protector will always spawn behind the endstone statue.

Drops
Endstone Protectors drop:


 * 1 Endstone Rose
 * 1-10 Enchanted End Stone
 * 0-2 Crystal Fragment
 * 0-1 Golem Pet. Its drop chances are unknown.
 * 0-1 Tier Boost Core. Its drop chances are unknown.
 * Runecrafting XP

Contributing up to 100 Zealot kills to the 5,000 kill milestone increases the chance that a player can obtain the Golem Pet and Tier Boost Core. The number of Zealot kills the player contributed is displayed in the boss kill message.

The Crystal Fragment drop is only given to players who place in the top 5 (only counts if the player damages the golem), where the 1st place damager will receive 2.

Behavior
The Endstone Protector attacks the nearest player and rapidly swings its arms, tossing the player into the air and dealing damage. It is only capable of targeting one player at a time, so while one player is getting attacked all of the others are killing the Golem.

The Endstone Protector also has two abilities. Its toss launches all nearby grounded players into the air, dealing True Damage; this attack can be avoided by jumping into the air before the attack is cast. It also can cause iron blocks to crash into nearby players, dealing damage.

Upon dying, it replaces the ground beneath it with iron blocks, and a beacon signals its location. Its drops spawn within the iron blocks for collection. Occasionally, it will implode on death, dealing damage to nearby players.

Strategies
There are several strategies for fighting with the Endstone Protector:

1. Bones

Weapon: Bonemerangs with Soul Eater enchantment, Giant's Sword / Emerald Blade with enchantment, Endstone Sword

Armor: Ancient Elegant Tuxedo with Crown of Greed.

Pet: Ender Dragon (Tier Boosted or really / Golem.

Support Items: Weird Tuba, Manaflux / Overflux / Plasmaflux Power Orb.

Method:

First of all, we have to know something before learning this strategy.


 * Swapping to weapons which have high stats can increase  to mobs.
 * When the bonemerang swings back, its will be doubled when it hits a mob.
 * Soul Eater enchantment on bonemerangs can store the soul of the mob killed by it and the effect won't disappear till the player use the bonemerang to hit a mob.
 * The ability of Endstone Sword, which is named Extreme Focus, will still work when the player activate it and then swap to another weapon and hit.

So in this way, we can deal large amounts of damage to the protector. When the protector turns to stage 5, you will have 20 seconds to prepare. Just place orb, use the tuba, activate Endstone Sword, and start swinging your strong bonemerangs.

If you are using golem pet, one more thing you have to do before the fight: count 4 mob kills and avoid activating the third ability of Legendary Golem pet. In order to deal more ghost dmg to the protector. You can use mage stuff like Frozen Scythe or Hyperion for grinding zealots if you want.

2.Mages

Weapon: Midas' Staff or Hyperion

Gear: Necrotic Elegant Tuxedo (Loving on the chestplate) with any helmet (the Endstone Protector is not undead, so Wither Goggles will not work

Pet: Sheep Pet

Method:

Keep right-clicking when the protector nearly spawns, if there are no bonemerang users, mages will get first place easily.

3.Melee

Weapon: Emerald Blade with enchantment and at least 700mil coins in purse (Giant's Sword if you don't have that many coins in purse)

Gear, Pets, Support Items are same as with bonemerangs

Method:

Like bonemerangs, but hitting the protector instead of swinging bones to it.

4.Ferocity

Weapon: Valkyrie or any weapon with the Dirty reforge.

Gear:Werewolf Armor, preferably with Renowned and Legion enchantment to increase your ferocity

Pet: Tiger Pet, or a Legendary Ender Dragon Pet

Support items: Same as bonemerangs strategy

Method: Same as melee strategy but instead of focusing on pure damage, you rely on ferocity procs to significantly increase damage output.

Trivia

 * In the Patch Notes, it was implied that the Endstone Protector will drop a brand new Pet or Pet Item. It was then discovered that it actually was referring to both.
 * "If any adventurers could defeat him they may just find themselves with a special new pet or pet item."
 * When update 0.7.8 released, killing the boss did not drop anything. Within a few hours the bug was patched and now will drop a Tier Boost Core, Enchanted End Stone, Poppies, Enchanted Iron, and Crystal Fragments.
 * Poppies as a drop were later replaced with Endstone Roses and Enchanted Iron was removed from the loot table.
 * Players can still get Endstone Roses and Enchanted End Stone without actually hitting the End Stone Protector once.
 * Upon reaching a total of 5,000 Zealot kills in the lobby, a message in chat will display "The End Stone Protector is Spawning" for the Endstone Protector to spawn. However, despite the fact that the message says "The End Stone Protector is Spawning," it actually spawns instantly, and players not near it will lose valuable time. This has been changed where the message is given 20 seconds prior to actual spawn of the Endstone Protector allowing players have time to fight the mini-boss.
 * Assuming all 16 Zealots are killed each spawning round, it takes approximately 52 minutes for each Endstone Protector to spawn. Assuming the player kills 2 zealots every spawning round, it should take 9 minutes to reach 100 zealot kills. Due to this, if one wants to fight this miniboss, it is recommended finding a lobby where it is at stage 3 or 4.
 * For early game players wanting to gain some Runecrafting XP, Endstone Protector is a good boss to start with, as it can only attack one player at a time, allowing them to deal some damage while the protector is targeting other players.