W101 Drowned Dan – Skeleton Key Boss

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The summer 2022 update began a massive change in Wizard101’s Skeleton Key bosses. Wooden and stone keys are being phased out and gold keys will be the primary way to unlock all the new key bosses. Gold keys will mainly be found through events and as drops from existing key bosses. The update has introduced 10 new key bosses. Four of these are brand new, while the other six are old key bosses revamped with a higher difficulty. One of the newly introduced Skeleton Key Boss is named Drowned Dan, let’s check him out in this article!

Boss Location

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Drowned Dan can be found in the Science Center in the Arboretum, which is at the center of the map. He’s located in the same tower as the side quest boss Praxus. You’ll need 1 golden key to be able to access this boss.

The Fight

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Drowned Dan has 4 Level Bands:

• Tier 4 – Levels 110+ – Drowned Dan is a Rank 20 Life Boss, the minions are Rank 19 Ice Elite
• Tier 3 – Levels 66-109 – Drowned Dan is a Rank 14 Life Boss, the minions are Rank 13 Ice Elite
• Tier 2 – Levels 51-65 – Drowned Dan is a Rank 10 Life Boss, the minions are Rank 9 Ice Elite
• Tier 1 – Levels 1-50 – Drowned Dan is a Rank 9 Life Boss, the minions are Rank 8 Ice Elite

Boss’ Stats

Cheats and Battle Process

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At the beginning of the battle a helpful message will appear saying:

It basically means you need to defeat all the minions to get a code. However, you must do this one minion at a time.

During first round Drowned Dan will cast an Invulnerability aura giving him immunity to any damage. (Casting Supernova will make Drowned Dan recast this aura).

 

 

After casting the aura, he will reveal the first number in a four digit code. You’ll need the full code in order to get rid of his aura. Every time you defeat a minion, he will reveal another digit from the code.

Attempting to use an AOE hit to kill the minions all at once will result in the boss healing everyone in his team (including himself) to full health.

After you’ve successfully defeated all the minions you will be left with the full code.

Now you’ll need to hit the boss with spells of the same pip value as the order of the code. Note that you have to include the different pip costs in your deck.  Since the code is random for each fight, a possible strategy is to have one player pack hits costed 1-3 pips, one 4-6 pips, etc. An alternative is to have everyone fill their sideboard with one hit per pip value, allowing you to break the code in a single round.

For example, for the 4 7 3 11 code you would use a sequence of spells like this in this order:

For every successful hit you will get messages like:

(If you manage to mess up the code you will have to start over from the first digit / rank.)

After the spells are cast, the boss will no longer have his aura on and you can finish the battle normally.

Rewards

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Just like the other bosses Drowned Dan also drops around 16 spellements from the Celestian Spellemental Pack every fight. He can also occasionally drop some gear from the said pack.

 

The Badge

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Defeating this boss will grant you another badge to the Skeleton Key Bosses category, this one is called ‘Undead Pirate’s Scourge’.

 

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