The Manticore is Scorched Earth’s boss, summoned through the map’s portal with a tribute of three talons and three artifacts. The health pool is lower than every Island boss — and the fight still ends runs.
The stats (from the wiki dataset)
| Difficulty | Health | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Gamma | 100,000 | 85 |
| Beta | 130,000 | 110 |
| Alpha | 160,000 | 120 |
Low health, modest melee damage. The threat model is not the hit points.
The tribute list (from the wiki tribute table)
Player level requirement: 55 (Gamma) / 70 (Beta) / 95 (Alpha)
All difficulties:
| Item | Gamma | Beta | Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Talon | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Lightning Talon | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Poison Talon | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Artifact of the Gatekeeper | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Artifact of the Crag | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Artifact of the Destroyer | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Deposit at the Scorched Earth portal. The talons scale hard: Alpha wants twenty of each, which is a genuine farming project against Scorched’s wyvern population.
The fight
The Manticore’s design is mobility and adds:
- Teleporting. He repositions around the arena constantly, which punishes static strategies and single-position turret setups.
- Add waves. The fight spawns support creatures that stack up if ignored, the same swarm pattern as the Overseer but in an open arena.
- The arena is flat and exposed. There is no cover to hide behind, so the answer is a mount that can chase and a loadout that clears groups.
The standard approach is a tanky, mobile mount with area damage, plus medical brewers. Because his melee damage is modest, the fight is a war of attrition against the adds, not a duel against his health bar.
Why the numbers mislead
At 160,000 health on Alpha, the Manticore looks like the easiest boss in the game. He is not, because the fight’s length comes from the adds and the teleporting stretches out the encounter. Players who bring a pure single-target damage build run out of patience andbrewers before the health bar empties.
Clear the adds. Chase the teleports. The health bar is the smallest problem.