Madeleine — DPS

Meet Madeleine

Madeleine is the party's primary damage dealer — an energetic dual-wield fighter who attacks faster than anyone else and dodges less than anyone should. She outputs the highest sustained DPS in the party, making her survival critical for meeting incremental kill-time targets. Her low max HP and tendency to stand in ground effects earn her the most deaths in community surveys, but when kept alive she shortens every dungeon run significantly.

Madeleine's combat AI prioritizes attacking the highest-HP enemy, which usually aligns with Bagel's tank target but breaks when adds spawn. She does not kite or retreat when low on health — she fights until you heal her or she falls. Reactive healing on Madeleine is mandatory; proactive Guardian Ward before AoE mechanics saves more of her HP than emergency Vital Surge.

Madeleine's Stats and Abilities

Madeleine has the lowest max HP and highest attack speed in the party. Her passive Flurry grants a 5% crit chance that scales with level. Auto-battle rotation: Dual Strike (two fast hits), Whirlwind (AoE spin every eight seconds), and Enrage (self attack speed buff below 50% HP that unfortunately prevents her from playing safe).

Enrage makes sub-50% HP especially dangerous for Madeleine — she attacks faster and draws more enemy swings. Many players pre-cast Guardian Ward when Madeleine crosses 60% HP on boss fights to prevent the Enrage death spiral. Purify from healing spells removes curses that reduce her already-low effective HP.

Keeping Madeleine Alive

Treat Madeleine as your highest healing priority during trash pulls with ground AoE. Her HP bar moves faster than Bagel's in absolute terms even though Bagel takes more total damage. Renewing Pulse with HoT stacks provides baseline sustain; Vital Surge covers sudden spikes when she eats a whirlwind attack.

Buff spells directly multiply Madeleine's value. Inspiration and Haste Prayer stacked during a boss burn phase can shave seconds off kill time — seconds that translate to less total damage taken across the party. The party damage build assumes Madeleine stays above 80% HP for maximum Enrage-free uptime. If she dies, party DPS drops roughly 35% until revived.

Madeleine Synergies

Offensive spells from Kale complement Madeleine's physical damage. Plague Touch disease debuff stacks with her bleed effects from Whirlwind for compound damage on trash. On bosses, Kale should focus heals while Madeleine sustains auto-attacks rather than splitting attention to damage spells unless mana allows.

Skill tree nodes buffing party attack speed disproportionately help Madeleine. Support branch investments that increase all party HP also help Madeleine more than others because flat HP bonuses represent a larger percentage gain on her small pool. Read the party overview for role comparisons and the survival guide for encounter-specific tips.

Madeleine's achievement track includes a damage milestone requiring her to land the final blow on fifty elite enemies. Let her finish low-HP targets during farming runs while Kale holds heals back briefly — a small optimization that unlocks cosmetic dual-wield skins without risking dungeon failure.