Vassago

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Vassago
Attributes
Class	High-Ranking Hell Noble
Enemy Rank	Boss Enemy
Health Points	1000
Attack Damage	5-40 (direct hit) 0-10×10 (blast radius) 105-140 (direct hit + blast radius)
Speed	93.33 map units per second

The Vassago is a new monster that is the main enemy force of the storyline of Doom II's expansion, Legacy of Rust. Here, it's a large skull-headed charred-black Hell Noble with wings that throws fireballs that burn for a few seconds after impact.

Combat characteristics

A Vassago emits a snarling roar when sighting the player. With one thousand hit points, it is as tough as a Baron of Hell or a Tyrant. When defeated, a Vassago combusts near entirely, leaving only its skull head and a heap of ashes behind.

Tactical analysis

The Vassago behaves mostly like a Baron of Hell, having the same speed and size, and taking the same time to attack. It has a higher pain chance than the Baron, but recovers from pain more quickly. The main particularity of the Vassago is that the flames it throws keep burning on the ground at the point of impact, dealing radius damage. This allows the Vassago to play a role of area denial. However, it also makes it useful for inciting infighting.

The Vassago's flames after impact burn for 132 tics (3.77 seconds), dealing damage in a wide area (128 radius) every twelve tics, ten times in total, from the moment of impact to 108 tics after impact.

While the Vassago is officially a new breed of Hell Noble, it will infight with Hell Knights and Barons.

Trivia

• The Vassago is intentionally and purposely named after the benevolent demon prince of classic occultism from the Lesser Key of Solomon, Good Prince Vassago himself. However, the real Vassago is much different from the enemy monster named after him. Not only does he help find lost items, give knowledge of present, future and past events, reveal hidden treasures and give sensible advice of the love of women, he is also an eccentric, but kind and caring bedtime storyteller to children and a passionate writer and author of children's and wishes to have a positive impact through his own writings, and so far, it's drastically working. See here.
• The Vassago's roaming sound, DSVASACT, is the same stock sound as the generic demon pain sound in the Sony PlayStation port of Doom, and other Doom titles that used the PSX Doom soundscape (such as Doom 64).