With Remnant: From the Ashes, not only does the world bring rich content to players that’ll keep them both on their toes and engaged, but also, it rewards them for their deeds, taking out bosses, enemies, doing maps, dungeons, and other activities. Finding each of these bosses, depending on their popularity within the story, can be either an easy task or one that will require a re-roll of the entire campaign to get them to spawn.
Once bosses are located, however, it’s just a matter of figuring out tactics for taking them out, what rewards they drop, and what needs to be done with the reward to get the best possible use out of it. It’s often not a weapon that drops, but the precursor to the weapon, or the item with which to buy or craft the weapon or mod. Each of the bosses listed below will reward you with something fancy.
Updated February 23, 2021 by Jacob Buchalter: A lot of gamers have given Remnant: From the Ashes and it has grown significantly in popularity. It was one of the free games on the Epic Store, so that helped. Plus, its VR-Exclusive prequel, Chronos: Before The Ashes, just released on PC at the end of 2020.
There are a lot of new faces in the Remnant community, which is nice to see considering the quality and replayability of this game. Replayability means more chances to take on bosses and collect their drops. With replayability comes a deeper understanding of what their alternate kills are (if they have one), and what weapons or mods those items turn into.
Disclaimer: This guide is sorted by the four “Realms” in Remnant, in this order: Earth, Rhom, Corsus, Yaesha, and Reisum.
38 Shroud, The First Boss
If you’re in the sewers of Earth (not the railway), there are only a couple of different Dungeon Bosses that could be waiting for you at the end, Gorefist or Shroud. As such, Shroud is likely the first boss players will fight in Remnant in general. It’s a pretty simple encounter, as far as bosses go. Because it’s so early in the game, Shroud is insanely easy with no alt-kill, so all that it drops is:
37 Gorefist, The Alternate First Boss
The other boss that might spawn instead of Shroud, Gorefist is the “boss” variant of the “Hulk” enemies, only this one summons Rot Warts whenever it feels like it. Again, a pretty easy fight if experienced with the regular variant. Players must focus on clearing all four Rot Warts out as soon as they’re summoned in. The only reward for beating it is:
36 Brabus & His Endless Gang Of Bandits
Brabus is a unique case, as he is a Dungeon Boss who has three potential drops, depending on if killed outright, given the Pocket Watch from his father Mud Tooth, or engaged him with a co-op companion. If players choose not to give him the Pocket Watch or not to kill the friend, a fight ensues with Brabus and his gang, where he uses his shotgun to stun the player while summoning continuous bandits around him. It’s an incredibly simplistic fight. Brabus drops three rewards:
35 The Tower Defense-Like Root Mother Encounter
The Root Mother boss isn’t necessarily a “boss.” It’s more of a tower-defense mini-game where players have to defend the Root Mother from a variety of enemies breaking into the Church as she disconnects herself from the Root hivemind. On the first run, this boss can be laughably easy, but if players go for a second campaign or even Hardcore mode, they might find that this encounter is way more difficult than previously expected. For beating this encounter, players unlock two things:
34 The Mangler, A Large Tumbler
The Mangler is another simplistic Dungeon Boss for the Earth Realm. Basically, it’s a larger variant of the Tumbler enemies, only this one grows in size in relation to its remaining health. That, and it also summons Hollows from time to time. As long as players dodge its rolling attack, this boss is incredibly easy to deal with. It also has no alt-kill, and only drops:
33 Riphide, The Cloning Machine
Riphide is a Dungeon Boss many players might not have known was in the game, considering it only spawns at the end of the elusive Leto’s Lab. It’s a boss with three simple attacks including a melee strike, a projectile, and an AOE attack. After taking a certain amount of damage, Riphide splits into two perfect clones, which then keep splitting into more clones as the fight continues. While it can be overwhelming, the simplistic attack pattern makes this fight pretty easy to approach overall. Sadly, this is another boss without an alt-kill, and it only gives:
32 Earth World Boss: The Ent
Next up is the Cthulhu Tree, otherwise known as the Ent, which is one of two possible World Bosses that spawn for the Earth Realm. AOE slams and mob-spawning is all this boss has going for it. It also has two potential drops:
31 Earth World Boss: Singe
This tree dragon that Chronos: Before the Ashes players might recognize is the second potential World Boss of Earth. Singe is no doubt the more difficult boss fight of the two, and the rewards that come from it are the Blazing Heart or the Dragon Links, much like the Ent, which drop spawns depends on how exactly Singe is killed:
30 Scourge, A Battle of Attrition
The most common of Rhom’s potential Dungeon Boss spawns, fighting Scourge is a battle of attrition.
This fight is really a test of endurance and will require quite a few consumables or a good build to get through, as the constant radioactive projectiles Scourage spawns and the non-stop Ghast mob summons can be overwhelming. Once it is defeated, players get:
29 Shade & Shatter Of The Ardent Temple
These two, Shade and Shatter, found in the Ardent Temple, are a pair of Dungeon Bosses who fight simultaneously. Shade fights at range, and Shatter specializes in melee combat. Players need to defeat both to win the fight. The easiest strategy is just to fight Shatter while keeping peripheral vision on Shade’s projectiles, then focus them both down when they group up for their force field attack. Killing them earns:
28 Raze & The Swarm Of Skulls
Located in the Lair of the Eyeless, Raze summons a swarm of Wasteland Skulls by screaming at the player during their fight, as well as peppering them with fireballs off and on. It’s honestly a pretty frustrating confrontation. Luckily, defeating it gives:
27 The Houndmaster & Maul
One of Rhom’s rarest boss spawns, the Houndmaster and his canine companion Maul, are a real pain. If players sneak into the arena while the hounds sleep, they can talk to Houndmaster and even buy jerky from him. Once ready to fight, focus on the Control Rod in the Houndmaster’s eye first, as breaking it is what drops it and also turns Maul and the rest of the dogs against their master. Otherwise, this fight is just amount managing mobs, as Maul will constantly summon more canine companions. After beating it, the player earns:
26 The Ancient Construct
Outside Wud’s shop, a merchant that may spawn in the Rhom Realm, there’s an Anointed buried in the ground with a hole in its chest. This boss can only be activated if the Rhom has Wud’s Shop and Houndmaster on the same map, and the player successfully got the Control Rod from the Houndmaster, so it’s a bit of an involved process. The Construct is one of Remnant’s worst designed bosses, as it is just a tanky Anointed Enemy who constantly summons a pair of turrets that melt the player’s health bar before they can stop them. Upon its death, the player will be rewarded with:
25 Rhom World Boss: Claviger
Claviger can be found in The Spindle and is one of the options to get The Howling Key to access the Undying King, the other being The Harrow. Claviger is a unique fight since it summons Anointed, has a radiation beam, and has that whole shield mechanic. Claviger also has an alt-kill, meaning that it has two potential drops:
24 Rhom World Boss: The Harrow
Located in The Bunker and the second option for the Howling Key, it’s The Harrow. This boss is simple, but deadly. Basically, it swings around wildly until enough damage is done to it, then it runs away and summons waves of Ghasts and Lurkers, only coming back after they’re defeated. Like most World Bosses, Harrow has both a regular and alternate kill, each of which will reward the player with:
23 Rhom (Optional) World Boss: Undying King
The Undying King is an optional World Boss of Rhom that players can find in the Throne Room that is accessed thanks to the Howling Key. He’s optional, obviously, because the player doesn’t have to fight him to move forward. They can just simply agree to his request, let him open the portal to Corsus, and continue the campaign. If the player doesn’t bring the Guardian’s Heart back to him, that’s when he might get bloodthirsty. He’s a pretty tough fight, no doubt about that. After learning his patterns, it isn’t all too bad. Upon defeating the Undying King, who has no alternate kill, he’ll drop:
22 The Thrall & It’s Swarm Bugs
This boss is very similar to fighting Shroud in that it will want to stay at a distance while lobbing projectiles at the player. Radiated damage is the name of the game with this boss, so bring lots of Greenleaf to increase protection. Oh, and watch out for Swamp Bugs. Its rewards are:
21 Canker Of The Mire Hollow
Found in The Mire Hollow just inside the Drowned Trench, Canker is one of the most stereotypical “monster” designs and also one of the worst fights in the game. It’s not hard, it’s not fun, it’s just a slog. Basically, Canker’s arena is full of water that it can create waves with.
Other than that, and the mobs it spawns from eggs, this boss literally just runs back and forth. If the player just stands on the plot of dry land near the entrance and shoots him from there, its water attacks can’t even hit them. Unsurprisingly, its reward is equally lackluster:
20 Corsus World Boss: The Unclean One
Corsus is unique because both of its World Bosses spawn 100% of the time during the main campaign, those being The Unclean One and Ixillis. The Unclean One is one of the most well-designed fights in the game, with clear attack patterns and without such a heavy focus on mob spawns. That said, it still does still have some potential mobs that spawn, so if players want to avoid all mob encounters, just go for its alt-kill downstairs. Fighting the Unclean One, both upstairs and downstairs, nets:
19 Corsus World Boss: Ixillis
Moving on to Corsus’ Guardian Ixillis, located in The Grotto, this boss fight is situated on a rather small bridge, and it involves a lot of dodging spectral orbs and laser beams. Oh, and there’s two of them instead of one. Its rewards are:
