Steel Forge Watcher Boss Guide

The Steel Forge Watcher is one of the five "Watchers of the Netherrealm". You must defeat Watchers to collect boss keys and challenge the Traveler, one of the pinnacle bosses. The Watchers of the Netherrealm are harder than typical Beacon Bosses. The difficulty of the Watcher is based on which Timemark you are attempting.

In order to fight the Steel Forge Watcher, you have to collect Starshards by completing Netherrealm stages or trading with other players. Watchers have specific loot tables. Chaos Invasion Card Inheritance does not affect the Watcher's fight or loot table in any way. You can learn more about their loot tables by selecting the boss in-game.

Rewards

All The Watchers of the Netherrealm have a pool of exclusive Legendries and Precise Skills that can drop, this makes some Watchers more valuable than others. Watchers can also award various currencies, Memory Cards, Beacons, and items from the global drop pool. Farming Watchers is a great way to accumulate keys to take on the Traveler at your current Timemark.

Skill Breakdown

The Steel Forge Watcher becomes impervious to damage by taking flight, and then lands with a devastating stomp. This stomp is telegraphed with a large red circle marking the ground, move out of it's radius or take cataclysmic damage.

The Steel Forge Watcher flaps it's wings, slowly spawning 4 Balls of Fire around you. While spawning, Balls of Fire match any movement you make. After the 4th Ball of Fire has spawned, they stop matching your movement and then travel to where you were standing at that time. Balls of Fire deal high damage on contact, avoid them by moving perpetually.

The Steel Forge Watcher spawns 3 Tornadoes in an array with gaps behind it, then flaps it's wings to propel them forward. These Tornadoes deal minimal damage on contact. If you must avoid them, do so by moving through the array's gaps.

The Steel Forge Watcher creates 6 tornadoes around it, then flaps it's wings to slowly propel them towards you. These Tornadoes deal minimal damage on contact. If you must avoid them, do so by simply moving away from them.

Steel Forge Watcher Mechanics

The Steel Forge Watcher awaits in the center of the arena. This watcher's abilities revolve around creation of many mediocre lethality projectiles. Though not individually dangerous, you can be overwhelmed and led into taking cataclysmic damage from Balls of Fire and Arial Stomp. This fight consists of just one phase, where each of the boss's abilities are used randomly.

While fighting the Steel Forge Watcher, always keep an eye out for the Balls of Fire as this is the boss's most deadly mechanic. You may not be able to defeat the Watcher while this ability is active, so prioritize dodging. Remember, you do zero DPS while dead!

Summary

• Complete Netherrealm stages to gain enough stage attention to fight The Steel Forge Watcher.
• The Watchers of the Netherrealm have a pool of exclusive Legendries that they can drop.
• Avoid taking cataclysmic damage from the highly telegraphed Arial Stomp ability.
• Avoid taking high damage from the movement-matching Balls of Fire ability.

Credits

Written by: Xtra37
Reviewed by: Facefoot, Milkybk_