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{{Infobox boss
{{Infobox monster
| name     = King Scorpia
| name           = King Scorpia
| image   = Kingscorpia.png
| image         = Kingscorpia.png
| image_size = 120px
| found_at      = [[The Dunes]] (South) — region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes
| zone    = [[The Dunes]] (West)
| hp_or_lives    = Boss encounter
| combat_level = 30+
| aggro_tiles    = 12 tiles
| hp      = 1,500
| contact_damage = '''23–36''' per hit (rolled)
| respawn  = Every 30 minutes
| combat_xp      = 1,300 [[Combat]] XP per kill
| drops          = King Scorpia Mount, Scorpia cosmetic set pieces, Royal Sceptre, Hard Scroll, Medium Scroll, Gold, Cacti, Health Potion+
| notes          = World boss in The Dunes South. Spawns in region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes. Scroll rates: Hard 1/500, Medium 1/300.
}}
}}
'''King Scorpia''' is a world boss located in the western [[The Dunes|Dunes West]]. He is the strongest combat encounter in Kintara and the only source of the rare [[King Scorpia Mount]] and [[Hard Scroll|Hard Scrolls]].
'''King Scorpia''' is a world boss located in [[The Dunes]] (South realm). Players must reach [[The Dunes South]] to participate. Loot is distributed to the top 3 damage dealers who are still alive when he falls.


Loot is distributed to the top 3 damage dealers who are still alive when he falls. Squad-based but individualized rolls — no competing with your own team.
The fight is squad-based but uses independent rolls — no competing with your own team.


== Location & Access ==
<div class="kin-note"><span class="kin-note-label">Requirement:</span> No level requirement from either entrance — but The Dunes is a paid area: [[Free to play|free-play accounts]] (holding under 1,000 [[$KINS]]) can't enter. The previous Total Level 20 gate via The Shores was dropped in a 2026 update.</div>
King Scorpia roams [[The Dunes]] (West realm). No level gate, but you must reach [[The Dunes]] to fight him.


<div class="kin-note"><span class="kin-note-label">Update — Scroll rates:</span> King Scorpia's scroll rates are Hard Scroll '''1 in 500''' and Medium Scroll '''1 in 300'''. Once killed, he stays down until his region's next spawn wave (waves fire every 20–40 minutes on the region's clock, so the wait after a kill can be anywhere up to ~40 minutes).</div>
<div class="kin-note"><span class="kin-note-label">Update:</span> Because he can now be fought many times a day, his HP was raised (2,500 → 4,000) and his drop rates were retuned to compensate for the much higher kill frequency. See Loot pool below.</div>
<div class="kin-note"><span class="kin-note-label">Update:</span> King Scorpia has relocated from [[The Dunes West]] to the new [[The Dunes South]] realm. The Dunes West camp gates that previously let players fight him from the edge of a safe pen have been removed entirely. Dunes West keeps its pens and its 6 Giant Scorpions, but no longer has a boss.</div>
== Encounter ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Requirement
! Detail
! Details
! Value
|-
| Encounter type
| World boss
|-
| Location
| [[The Dunes South]]
|-
| Requirement
| No level requirement from either entrance — but The Dunes is a paid area (free-play accounts can't enter)
|-
| HP
| 4,000
|-
|-
| Total Level
| Aggro range
| 30 (to enter The Dunes)
| 12 tiles (flat radius — no edge of the arena to stand on)
|-
|-
| Combat skill
| Spawn
| No hard requirement, but 30+ recommended
| Appears in region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes: when a wave fires, he spawns on every server in the region at once (US, EU, and Asia run independent clocks). Once killed on a server, he stays down until the region's next wave.
|-
|-
| Heat protection
| Participation
| [[Desert Robe]] top + bottom (immune), or [[Health Potion+]] for constant healing
| Squad-based, individualized loot
|-
|-
| Loot eligibility
| Loot eligibility
| Must be alive when he dies to roll loot
| Top 3 damage dealers who are alive at kill time
|-
| Leaderboard
| Does '''not''' count on the public Boss Kills leaderboard or your guild's lifetime boss tally (the [[Venomweaver]] is the only boss there). The top 3 damage dealers who dealt at least 40 damage earn [[Guild Seasons|Guild Season]] boss points.
|-
| Nearby mobs
| Shares the realm with 8 regular [[Giant Scorpion|Scorpions]] — one fewer than Dunes East's 9, leaving room to fight the boss without standing in other players' aggro
|}
|}


== Boss Stats & Mechanics ==
=== Keeping your claim ===
Your loot rank is not locked in the moment you hit him:
 
* Stop damaging him for around 45 seconds and your banked contribution is forfeited — a warning appears at around 30 seconds idle.
* Dying, disconnecting, or leaving the realm also forfeits your contribution.
* Damage he was never able to answer (attacking from behind fences or out of his reach) earns no rank, kill credit, or XP.
 
== Boss Mechanics ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Stat
! Mechanic
! Value
! Details
! Notes
|-
| HP
| 1,500
| Strongest boss in the game
|-
|-
| Bite damage
| Bite damage
| 25
| '''23–36''' HP per hit (rolled)
| Main attack
|-
|-
| Riposte damage
| Riposte damage
| 10
| 10 HP counter-attack after you hit him
| Counter-attack after you hit him
|-
| Aggro range
| Standard (3 tiles)
| —
|-
|-
| Movement speed
| Movement speed
| 2x normal
| 2x faster than ordinary Scorpions
| Chases aggressively
|-
|-
| Terrain interaction
| Terrain interaction
| Walks through scenery
| Walks straight through scenery (does not path around obstacles)
| Does not path around obstacles
|-
|-
| Hit-stun resistance
| Hit-stun resistance
| 2x normal
| 2x more resistant than ordinary Scorpions — shrugs off stun twice as fast
| Shrugs off stun twice as fast as ordinary Scorpions
|-
| The Throw (1 in 5 attacks)
| Picks you up, hurls you 6 tiles away, bounces off walls and terrain. No damage, just repositioning. Wearing the complete four-piece Scorpia cosmetic set makes you immune to the throw.
|-
|-
| Respawn timer
| World boss exemption
| 30 minutes
| Not subject to aggro fatigue (the 90-second chase → 30-second breather rule that applies to regular mobs). King Scorpia chases without a break.
| After death, he returns in 30 minutes
|}
|}


=== The Throw ===
== Combat XP ==
One in every five of King Scorpia's attacks (his own bite or his riposte) triggers **The Throw**:
Defeating King Scorpia grants '''1,300 [[Combat]] XP''' to every player who dealt damage and is still alive in [[The Dunes South]] when the boss dies. This is a flat grant per participant.


* Picks you up and hurls you 6 tiles away
{| class="wikitable"
* Bounces off walls, scenery, realm edges, and safe camp fences
! Target
* Can separate you from the group or push you into danger
! Combat XP
* Deals no damage itself — just repositioning
! Notes
|-
| King Scorpia (boss kill)
| 1,300
| Granted to each damage-dealing participant alive at kill time.
|}


== Loot Distribution ==
For comparison, other retuned combat XP grants include 110 XP for a [[Giant Scorpion]], 100 XP for a [[Magma Brute]], and 750 XP for [[Venomweaver]].
Loot rolls are given to the top 3 damage dealers **who are still alive** when King Scorpia falls.


* **Ranking:** By total damage dealt (not last hit)
== Loot pool ==
* **Alive requirement:** You must have HP > 0 when he dies to be eligible
Every King Scorpia kill rolls each of the following. Top 3 damage dealers who are alive at death get to roll.
* **Independent rolls:** Every player rolls separately — no competition within your squad
* **Loot cannot be bought with corpses:** You cannot buy a loot slot by dying


== Loot Table ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Drop
! Drop
! Chance
! Chance
! Quantity
! Amount
! Notes
! Notes
|-
|-
| [[Gold]]
| [[Gold]]
| 1 in 200
| 1 in 100
| 18–30
| 18–30
| Direct payout
| Direct payout to top 3 damage dealers. Raised from 1 in 300.
|-
|-
| [[Hard Scroll]]
| Scroll (Hard or Medium)
| 1 in 100
| See note
| 1
| 1
| Third scroll tier. See [[Hard Scroll]] for redemption rewards.
| '''Only one scroll drops per kill''' — Hard Scroll is checked first, Medium only pays if Hard doesn't hit. See note below.
|-
|-
| [[King Scorpia Mount]]
| [[King Scorpia Mount]]
| 1 in 500
| 1 in 1,500
| 1
| 1
| Exclusive mount. One per player. Only source.
| Exclusive mount. Duplicates can be collected. Gildable. Free-play accounts are excluded from the mount drop.
|-
| [[Scorpia Outfit]] piece (Helm, Cuirass, Greaves or Sabatons)
| 1 in 2,000 per piece
| 1
| Each of the four pieces rolls independently per winner. Wearing the complete set makes you immune to King Scorpia's throw.
|-
| Royal Sceptre
| 1 in 10,000
| 1
| His rarest drop — a tradeable cosmetic.
|-
| [[Cacti]]
| 1 in 25
| 10–25
| Consolation drop — unchanged.
|-
| [[Health Potion+]]
| 1 in 50
| 5–15
| Consolation drop — unchanged.
|}
|}


All three rolls are independent — you can win multiple drops or none.
<div class="kin-note"><span class="kin-note-label">King Scorpia scroll mechanic:</span> King Scorpia's Hard Scroll and Medium Scroll are '''not''' both paid on one kill — at most one scroll drops per kill. Hard Scroll is checked first at 1 in 500; the Medium Scroll roll is compensated so the rate at which you actually receive Medium Scrolls lands at exactly its advertised 1 in 300. This is different from Venomweaver, where the two rolls are made independently (though there, too, at most one scroll pays per kill).</div>


== King Scorpia Mount ==
== King Scorpia Mount ==
The rare [[King Scorpia Mount]] drops only from King Scorpia himself (not from ordinary Scorpions).
The rare [[King Scorpia Mount]] drops only from King Scorpia himself (not from ordinary [[Giant Scorpion|Giant Scorpions]]).


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|-
|-
| Special mechanic
| Special mechanic
| Scorpion camouflage (see below)
| Scorpion camouflage
|-
| Duplicates
| Allowed — owning one no longer blocks further drops
|-
| Gilding
| Supported — [[Sorrel the Stablemaster|Sorrel]] can gild it into a Gold King Scorpia Mount (20%/40%/60% success for 1/2/3 mounts input, all inputs burned regardless of outcome)
|}
|}


=== Scorpion Camouflage ===
=== Scorpion Camouflage ===
While riding King Scorpia Mount, all ordinary [[Giant Scorpion|Giant Scorpions]] in The Dunes ignore you completely.
While riding King Scorpia Mount:


* Attack a Scorpion and camouflage breaks
* All ordinary [[Giant Scorpion|Giant Scorpions]] ignore you completely
* They hunt you for 30 seconds after the first attack
* Attack a Scorpion and camouflage breaks — they hunt you for 30 seconds
* Every further attack refreshes the 30-second timer
* Every further attack refreshes the 30-second timer
* Stop attacking and wait it out, you become invisible again
* Stop attacking and wait it out, you become invisible again
* Useful for farming or repositioning in the Dunes
* King Scorpia himself is not fooled — he hunts riders as normal, and hitting him does not break your cover with the pack
 
* Useful for farming or repositioning in The Dunes
== Strategy Tips ==
* **Squad up:** 1,500 HP is massive — bring a team
* **Heat management:** Bring [[Desert Robe]] or [[Health Potion+]] to manage heat damage
* **Positioning:** The Throw can separate you — stay coordinated
* **Stun strategy:** He shrugs off hit-stun faster than ordinary Scorpions — expect longer fights
* **Damage priority:** Focus damage on keeping yourself in top 3 (he only pays the top 3 alive)
* **Shield & armor:** Iron or Silver armor can help absorb his 25 damage bites
* **Sword tier:** Silver Sword hits for 30 base + 10 from Strength Potion = 40 damage per swing
 
== Respawn & Scheduling ==
King Scorpia respawns 30 minutes after death. Check with your guild or community for spawn timers.


== Related pages ==
== Related pages ==
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! Page
! Page
! Why it matters
! Why it matters
|-
| [[Combat]]
| Required skill and source of XP reward.
|-
|-
| [[The Dunes]]
| [[The Dunes]]
| Location overview and heat/PvP mechanics.
| Parent zone.
|-
| [[The Dunes South]]
| Current location of King Scorpia.
|-
| [[The Dunes West]]
| Former location — no longer has a boss.
|-
|-
| [[Giant Scorpion]]
| [[Giant Scorpion]]
| Regular scorpion mob in The Dunes.
| Regular scorpion mob sharing the realm.
|-
|-
| [[King Scorpia Mount]]
| [[King Scorpia Mount]]
| Exclusive mount reward (1 in 500).
| Exclusive mount reward (1 in 1,500), duplicates allowed, gildable.
|-
| [[Gilded Mounts|Gold King Scorpia Mount]]
| Gilded variant via Sorrel.
|-
|-
| [[Hard Scroll]]
| [[Hard Scroll]]
| Third scroll tier (1 in 100 chance).
| Checked first on every kill ('''1 in 500''').
|-
|-
| [[Desert Robe]]
| [[Medium Scroll]]
| Full heat immunity (top + bottom).
| At most one scroll per kill; received at an overall '''1 in 300'''.
|-
| [[Maelor the Scrollbinder]]
| Redeems Hard/Medium Scrolls for Gold and cosmetics.
|-
| [[Sorrel the Stablemaster]]
| Gilds King Scorpia Mount into its Gold variant.
|-
| [[Desert Robes]]
| Heat immunity for The Dunes.
|-
|-
| [[Health Potion+]]
| [[Health Potion+]]
| Dunes-only healing potion.
| Dunes-only healing potion, also a King Scorpia consolation drop.
|-
|-
| [[Combat]]
| [[Cacti]]
| Skill used to fight King Scorpia.
| Instant healing, also a King Scorpia consolation drop.
|-
|-
| [[Shield Potion]]
| [[Gold]]
| Restore shield between boss attempts.
| King Scorpia is a significant Gold source.
|-
| [[Silver Sword]]
| Best melee weapon for high damage.
|-
|-
| [[Iron Armor]], [[Silver Armor]]
| [[:Category:Monsters|Mobs]]
| Defense and shield bonuses.
| King Scorpia is a world boss.
|}
|}


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Latest revision as of 09:40, 11 September 2026

King Scorpia
Found at The Dunes (South) — region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes
Hits to kill Boss encounter
Aggro range 12 tiles
Contact damage 23–36 per hit (rolled)
Combat XP 1,300 Combat XP per kill
Drops King Scorpia Mount, Scorpia cosmetic set pieces, Royal Sceptre, Hard Scroll, Medium Scroll, Gold, Cacti, Health Potion+
Notes World boss in The Dunes South. Spawns in region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes. Scroll rates: Hard 1/500, Medium 1/300.

King Scorpia is a world boss located in The Dunes (South realm). Players must reach The Dunes South to participate. Loot is distributed to the top 3 damage dealers who are still alive when he falls.

The fight is squad-based but uses independent rolls — no competing with your own team.

Requirement: No level requirement from either entrance — but The Dunes is a paid area: free-play accounts (holding under 1,000 $KINS) can't enter. The previous Total Level 20 gate via The Shores was dropped in a 2026 update.
Update — Scroll rates: King Scorpia's scroll rates are Hard Scroll 1 in 500 and Medium Scroll 1 in 300. Once killed, he stays down until his region's next spawn wave (waves fire every 20–40 minutes on the region's clock, so the wait after a kill can be anywhere up to ~40 minutes).
Update: Because he can now be fought many times a day, his HP was raised (2,500 → 4,000) and his drop rates were retuned to compensate for the much higher kill frequency. See Loot pool below.
Update: King Scorpia has relocated from The Dunes West to the new The Dunes South realm. The Dunes West camp gates that previously let players fight him from the edge of a safe pen have been removed entirely. Dunes West keeps its pens and its 6 Giant Scorpions, but no longer has a boss.

Encounter

Detail Value
Encounter type World boss
Location The Dunes South
Requirement No level requirement from either entrance — but The Dunes is a paid area (free-play accounts can't enter)
HP 4,000
Aggro range 12 tiles (flat radius — no edge of the arena to stand on)
Spawn Appears in region-wide waves roughly every 20–40 minutes: when a wave fires, he spawns on every server in the region at once (US, EU, and Asia run independent clocks). Once killed on a server, he stays down until the region's next wave.
Participation Squad-based, individualized loot
Loot eligibility Top 3 damage dealers who are alive at kill time
Leaderboard Does not count on the public Boss Kills leaderboard or your guild's lifetime boss tally (the Venomweaver is the only boss there). The top 3 damage dealers who dealt at least 40 damage earn Guild Season boss points.
Nearby mobs Shares the realm with 8 regular Scorpions — one fewer than Dunes East's 9, leaving room to fight the boss without standing in other players' aggro

Keeping your claim

Your loot rank is not locked in the moment you hit him:

  • Stop damaging him for around 45 seconds and your banked contribution is forfeited — a warning appears at around 30 seconds idle.
  • Dying, disconnecting, or leaving the realm also forfeits your contribution.
  • Damage he was never able to answer (attacking from behind fences or out of his reach) earns no rank, kill credit, or XP.

Boss Mechanics

Mechanic Details
Bite damage 23–36 HP per hit (rolled)
Riposte damage 10 HP counter-attack after you hit him
Movement speed 2x faster than ordinary Scorpions
Terrain interaction Walks straight through scenery (does not path around obstacles)
Hit-stun resistance 2x more resistant than ordinary Scorpions — shrugs off stun twice as fast
The Throw (1 in 5 attacks) Picks you up, hurls you 6 tiles away, bounces off walls and terrain. No damage, just repositioning. Wearing the complete four-piece Scorpia cosmetic set makes you immune to the throw.
World boss exemption Not subject to aggro fatigue (the 90-second chase → 30-second breather rule that applies to regular mobs). King Scorpia chases without a break.

Combat XP

Defeating King Scorpia grants 1,300 Combat XP to every player who dealt damage and is still alive in The Dunes South when the boss dies. This is a flat grant per participant.

Target Combat XP Notes
King Scorpia (boss kill) 1,300 Granted to each damage-dealing participant alive at kill time.

For comparison, other retuned combat XP grants include 110 XP for a Giant Scorpion, 100 XP for a Magma Brute, and 750 XP for Venomweaver.

Loot pool

Every King Scorpia kill rolls each of the following. Top 3 damage dealers who are alive at death get to roll.

Drop Chance Amount Notes
Gold 1 in 100 18–30 Direct payout to top 3 damage dealers. Raised from 1 in 300.
Scroll (Hard or Medium) See note 1 Only one scroll drops per kill — Hard Scroll is checked first, Medium only pays if Hard doesn't hit. See note below.
King Scorpia Mount 1 in 1,500 1 Exclusive mount. Duplicates can be collected. Gildable. Free-play accounts are excluded from the mount drop.
Scorpia Outfit piece (Helm, Cuirass, Greaves or Sabatons) 1 in 2,000 per piece 1 Each of the four pieces rolls independently per winner. Wearing the complete set makes you immune to King Scorpia's throw.
Royal Sceptre 1 in 10,000 1 His rarest drop — a tradeable cosmetic.
Cacti 1 in 25 10–25 Consolation drop — unchanged.
Health Potion+ 1 in 50 5–15 Consolation drop — unchanged.
King Scorpia scroll mechanic: King Scorpia's Hard Scroll and Medium Scroll are not both paid on one kill — at most one scroll drops per kill. Hard Scroll is checked first at 1 in 500; the Medium Scroll roll is compensated so the rate at which you actually receive Medium Scrolls lands at exactly its advertised 1 in 300. This is different from Venomweaver, where the two rolls are made independently (though there, too, at most one scroll pays per kill).

King Scorpia Mount

The rare King Scorpia Mount drops only from King Scorpia himself (not from ordinary Giant Scorpions).

Stat Value
Base speed 25%
Max speed (trained) 55%
Special mechanic Scorpion camouflage
Duplicates Allowed — owning one no longer blocks further drops
Gilding Supported — Sorrel can gild it into a Gold King Scorpia Mount (20%/40%/60% success for 1/2/3 mounts input, all inputs burned regardless of outcome)

Scorpion Camouflage

While riding King Scorpia Mount:

  • All ordinary Giant Scorpions ignore you completely
  • Attack a Scorpion and camouflage breaks — they hunt you for 30 seconds
  • Every further attack refreshes the 30-second timer
  • Stop attacking and wait it out, you become invisible again
  • King Scorpia himself is not fooled — he hunts riders as normal, and hitting him does not break your cover with the pack
  • Useful for farming or repositioning in The Dunes
Page Why it matters
Combat Required skill and source of XP reward.
The Dunes Parent zone.
The Dunes South Current location of King Scorpia.
The Dunes West Former location — no longer has a boss.
Giant Scorpion Regular scorpion mob sharing the realm.
King Scorpia Mount Exclusive mount reward (1 in 1,500), duplicates allowed, gildable.
Gold King Scorpia Mount Gilded variant via Sorrel.
Hard Scroll Checked first on every kill (1 in 500).
Medium Scroll At most one scroll per kill; received at an overall 1 in 300.
Maelor the Scrollbinder Redeems Hard/Medium Scrolls for Gold and cosmetics.
Sorrel the Stablemaster Gilds King Scorpia Mount into its Gold variant.
Desert Robes Heat immunity for The Dunes.
Health Potion+ Dunes-only healing potion, also a King Scorpia consolation drop.
Cacti Instant healing, also a King Scorpia consolation drop.
Gold King Scorpia is a significant Gold source.
Mobs King Scorpia is a world boss.
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