OSRS Maiden of Sugadinti Guide: Nylo Freezes at 70/50/30%

The Maiden of Sugadinti at a Glance

The Maiden of Sugadinti is the first boss of the Theatre of Blood: a level-940, magic-only boss with 3,500 hitpoints in a five-player Normal Mode raid. When she first drops to 70, 50 and 30 per cent health she summons two Nylocas Matomenos per player, up to ten, and every one that reaches her heals her for twice its remaining hitpoints. Freeze them with Ice Barrage, kill them, stay off the blood splats, and the room is done.

She only attacks once every 10 ticks, but that attack cannot be tick-eaten and it grows each time a nylo reaches her. Blood splats that someone stands on heal her too. So the whole fight comes down to how many of her heals your team allows, and the freezers decide most of that.

In the lore she was a human called Serafina, warped by Ranis Drakan's experiments and given her name by Verzik, after Verzik's own father, Sugadinti Vitur. The vampyres spread a story that she had beaten the Theatre and won her freedom, to keep the people of Meiyerditch walking in.

Requirements and Getting There

The Maiden has no requirement of her own. The Theatre of Blood needs only Priest in Peril, which opens Morytania, and she is the first room you walk into. Hard Mode unlocks once you have finished one full Normal Mode raid.

Drakan's medallion from A Taste of Hope teleports you straight to Ver Sinhaza. Without it, use an Ectophial and run south from the Ectofuntus, or pay Andras 10,000 coins north of the Ectofuntus to sail to Slepe and run south from there. Normal teleports do not work inside the Theatre. The only way out mid-raid is an escape crystal, 75,000 coins each from the Mysterious Stranger outside.

Every boss in all three raids is in the boss requirements checklist, sorted by its entry requirement.

Recommended Stats and Gear

94 Magic is the level Maiden actually checks, because Ice Barrage is how the nylos get stopped. Hitpoints comes next: her hit cannot be tick-eaten, so 95 Hitpoints is your buffer against a 36 that grows with every nylo that gets through. The rest of the Normal Mode suggestions (90 Attack, Strength and Ranged, 80 Defence, 77 Prayer, 70 Agility) are in the Theatre of Blood guide, and Entry Mode asks for 75 in each combat stat.

Once her Defence is drained, the weapon order for Maiden is the scythe of vitur, the twisted bow and toxic blowpipe (both with elite void), the Soulreaper axe at five stacks, and the blade of saeldor ahead of the abyssal tentacle. Only melee her if you own a scythe; without one, range her. Freezers range her from a distance even if they own a scythe, except in a solo or duo, so they are already in position when the next set of nylos spawns.

Inventory and Supplies

• Ice Barrage runes for everyone who might freeze, and Blood Barrage if you are a freezer who wants to heal off the clump.
• Two free slots. The usual routine is to drop your salve amulet (e) and one piece of food at the start of the room, so you can equip a two-handed weapon and pull off negative magic-attack gear for freezing.
• Prayer restores. Protect from Magic stays up all fight, and standing on a blood splat drains prayer as well as hitpoints.
• Enough food to stay above her max hit. Her attack cannot be tick-eaten, so the buffer has to be there before she casts.
• Defence-drain specials: an elder maul, a dragon warhammer or a Bandos godsword.
• An escape crystal if you want an exit. Normal teleports are blocked for the whole raid.

The first supply chest in the Theatre comes after Bloat, the second room, so what you bring into Maiden has to last two bosses. Points from your own performance pay for what is in it: a Saradomin brew(4) or super restore(4) costs 3, a prayer potion(4) 2, and a shark or stamina potion(4) 1. Die at both Maiden and Bloat and the chest holds nothing but an onion.

Mechanics: Attacks, Nylos and Blood Spawns

Her hits work like TzKal-Zuk's: the damage is calculated beyond your current health, which is why eating on the same tick does not save you. Treat 36 as the number you must always be above, and remember it climbs with every leak.

The Freeze Order (Maiden Freeze Chart)

The nylos spawn from ten fixed points, five on the north wall and five on the south. Players call them N1 to N4 and S1 to S4, with N1 and S1 closest to the Maiden; there are two possible 4 spawns on each side, which is why each wall has five points. With fewer than five players, the points used are random.

N1, N2 and S1 cannot be clumped with anything. Every other spawn can be frozen on top of the others in front of her, and that clump is where Ice Barrage, Blood Barrage and chinchompas do their work. The 3s and 4s spawn on the eastern side and meet up 11 and 16 ticks after spawning.

Two freezers (four or five players)

1. 1

   North freezer: N1 on the first possible tick, then N2, then N3, then the 4s as they reach the clump.

   Barraging S3 instead of N3 is harder to hit but splashes onto S2, so it is the better play.

2. 2

   South freezer: S1, then S2 into the clump.

   Freezing S1 on the first tick means waiting one more tick before S2.

3. 3

   If the north freezer is late, the south freezer covers the 3s or 4s and says so in chat.

4. 4

   Both freezers barrage the clump until it is dead or nearly dead, while the DPS players kill the strays (N1, N2 and S1) and then go back to the Maiden.

5. 5

   Repeat at 50 and 30 per cent.

One freezer (solo to trio)

Hover the mouse over S1's spawn point as she nears the threshold, and react to whatever spawns if no S1 appears. Clumping the 3s and 4s comes before freezing a lone N2 or S2. If one nylo has to be left, the DPS players hit it as it walks so it heals her for as little as possible, and a new freezer should call this out loud until it becomes habit.

Two advanced options build on this. Skipping the 30s means killing the Maiden before the last set thaws, and if any nylo leaks it is usually better to kill it than to force the skip. Stacking means freezing the 50s on top of the 70s so every barrage hits more targets. It needs best-in-slot gear or an ancient sceptre, which makes the freezes on the Matomenos last longer.

Fight Strategy, Start to Finish

1. 1

   Assign freezers before anyone attacks:

   two in a four or five, one in a trio or smaller.

2. 2

   Drop the salve and one piece of food for two free slots, and put Protect from Magic on.

3. 3

   Drain her Defence first.

   In a four, the melee and ranger use their Defence-drain specs straight away and the freezers follow with Bandos godsword specs one tick later. Keep going until she is under 10 Defence or nobody has spec energy left.

4. 4

   Scythe her if you own one; otherwise use the twisted bow or toxic blowpipe.

   Freezers stay at range.

5. 5

   At 70, 50 and 30 per cent, run the freeze order, kill the clump and the strays, then return to her.

6. 6

   Step off blood splats every time she throws them, and kill blood spawns before their trails cover the floor.

7. 7

   Spend leftover spec energy on damage specials such as dragon claws or the zaryte crossbow during the last stretch, or Dinh's bulwark if your team is stacking.

The habit that separates clean Maidens from slow ones is treating every nylo as health she has not got back yet. In a five-player raid a single nylo that reaches her untouched puts 400 hitpoints back on her, more than a tenth of her health bar, and every leak also makes her next attacks hit harder.

Where the Maiden Sits in the Theatre

She is room one of six, and the order never changes. After her comes the Pestilent Bloat, then the Nylocas, Sotetseg, Xarpus and finally Verzik Vitur. Killing her refills everyone's hitpoints, prayer, run energy and special attack energy, but not drained stats, so a freezer whose Magic she drained carries that into Bloat.

Drops and What the Maiden Is Worth

The Maiden drops one item of her own, Serafina's diary, and stops dropping it once you have read it. Everything worth money comes from the chest after Verzik: the scythe of vitur, ghrazi rapier, sanguinesti staff, avernic defender hilt and the Justiciar pieces. Your Maiden still counts, because the game weights who receives a unique by deaths and by the damage each player dealt to every boss.

Combat Achievements

Perfect Maiden is a Master-tier task: kill her without anyone in the team taking damage from blood spawn projectiles or trails, without taking any hit off prayer, and without letting a single Nylocas Matomenos heal her. Keeping Protect from Magic up covers the prayer part, since she only attacks with magic. Standing far back, or reading when she throws her splats, covers the blood. The freeze order has to be clean at all three spawns. Skipping the 30s can work with very high damage, but do not plan the task around it.

Reaching the Master tier at 1,965 points also doubles how long thralls last, which the Arceuus meleer feels in every Theatre room. The Combat Achievements guide has the rewards for the other tiers.

Ironman Notes

Freezer is a sensible first Theatre job for an Ironman, because it runs on 94 Magic, Ice Barrage runes and magic attack bonus rather than a scythe or twisted bow. A Hardcore Ironman loses the status on any death in the Theatre, Entry Mode included, and a disconnect during a fight counts as a death. Learn the freeze order in Entry Mode anyway: a wipe there sends the team back outside the room with unlimited attempts instead of ending the raid.

Common Mistakes and Death Causes

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