Crystal Guardian

Hunter's Journal


''Heavyset miner of the Crystal Peak overcome by crystal growth. can discharge blazing beams of light from its crystallised limbs.   ''

''How does the world look to this creature, gazing out from within its crystal prison? Does it see only light? Is that what drives it into a frenzy?''

Behaviour
Along with dealing contact damage, the Crystal Miner only has two attacks:
 * Crystal Beam: Charges and shoots an energy beam from it's arm in the direction of the player.
 * Beam Strike: Calls down multiple energy beams from the sky that target several different spots on the ground.

Tactics
This is a difficult boss to defeat, mostly due to difficulty in finding a safe spot. Your best plan is to slash at the Guardian a few times and then get distance to avoid the beam from its arms. The beams from above have very little warning as to where they appear so, just keep moving is your best bet with those.

In short, slash at it whenever you see an opening, and move the rest of the time. Of course, you could always just face-tank its attacks with Joni's Blessing, Lifeblood Heart/Lifeblood Core, Quick Slash, Steady Body, and Stalwart Shell.

Second Encounter
He appears in the room above the bench where he was first defeated. He has the same attacks as before, but is more aggressive, and his attacks deal two masks of health instead of one.



Tactics
There are no safe spots in the boss room, however when standing on the far right of the room, most of the beams from above wont hit you, so you only really have to watch for his beam attack. When he jumps close, he tends to shoot backwards so it is easy to land 3-5 hits each times.

Trivia

 * Aside from Hornet, the Crystal Guardian is the only living multi-fight boss in the game (the other multi-fight bosses being Dream Bosses). The first time after you beat it, it jumps away, the second time is when you actually kill it.
 * The first time it is encountered, it is seen sitting on a Bench. When you die, it sleeps on the bench until you kill your Shade.
 * The Crystal Guardian's battle theme is a remix of Crystal Peak's theme.
 * If you die during the second fight with the Crystal Guardian, your Shade will appear in the boss room, and you'll have to fight your Shade and the boss at the same time. It is unknown if this is the only instance of its kind, although it's the only one with recorded evidence. This might be an oversight by the developers due to how in your first fight with the Crystal Guardian, if you die, your Shade appears in the boss room, but the boss itself sleeps until engaged.