King's Gauntlet

This many-storied tower is the King’s personal challenge to MouseHunters everywhere: anyone who can reach the top is among the kingdom’s elite. The King’s Gauntlet works on a tier system, with Hunters advancing to the next floor by hunting with cheese that they collect on the current floor. The Gauntlet is meant as a challenge for hunters of all skill levels, but in order to ascend to the very top, a Hero’s rank will come in handy.

Description and Requirements

King's Gauntlet is a location in the Valour region requiring a minimum rank of Initiate and the King's Gauntlet Floorplan to enter. Mice in this location may steal points, gold, or multiple pieces of cheese if not captured.

The Gauntlet consists of eight tiers (also referred to as "floors" or "levels"). At each tier, hunters collect potions that imbue cheese capable of attracting mice on the next tier. Hunters need not actually travel between floors, but simply equip the cheese for for the tier they wish to hunt on.

Shops

These are the shops that can be found in the King's Gauntlet:

• Cheese Shoppe
• Trapsmith

King's Gauntlet Mice

This section summarizes the information hunters need to know about Gauntlet mice:

• Theme: Each floor's mice are organized according to a thematic element. While this has no bearing on hunting, it can help hunters easily remember which floor a mouse can be found on.
• Bait preference: Mice on floors 2-6 require tier-specific cheese for successful hunts.
• Primary power type weakness: The mice on each floor are especially weak to a given trap power type, although this may not be the only power type that any tier of mice is vulnerable to.
• Loot: Every mouse breed on floors 1-7 is known to drop the potions required to hunt at the next tier.

Additionally, all mice in the Gauntlet are in the Gauntlet Gladiators mouse group. The point and gold values are listed below by tier; these increase at each floor.

Tier 1

Theme: Toy
Bait Preference: None. All regular cheeses will attract mice on this floor, but hunters are cautioned that using Brie will result in a net gold loss.
Primary Weakness: Unknown. Mice are very weak and most traps have no difficulty catching them.
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 2

Mouse	Points	Gold
Clockwork Samurai	150	210
Hapless Marionette	90	100
Puppet Master	200	210
Sock Puppet Ghost	225	210
Toy Sylvan	115	100
Wound Up White	70	100

Tier 2

Theme: Thief
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 2
Primary Weakness: Physical
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 3

Mouse	Points	Gold
Bandit	300	180
Escape Artist	200	295
Impersonator	120	180
Lockpick	150	180
Rogue	700	295
Stealth	500	295

Tier 3

Theme: Melee
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 3
Primary Weakness: Tactical
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 4

Mouse	Points	Gold
Berserker	425	210
Cavalier	1,300	700
Fencer	300	210
Knight	900	700
Page	325	210
Phalanx	430	1,000

Tier 4

Theme: Bard
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 4
Primary Weakness: Tactical
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 5

Mouse	Points	Gold
Cowbell	700	800
Dancer	2,900	1,700
Drummer	2,800	800
Fiddler	4,090	800
Guqin Player	5,000	800

Tier 5

Theme: Magic
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 5
Primary Weakness: Shadow
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 6

Mouse	Points	Gold
Aquos	6,750	1,000
Black Mage	4,440	3,500
Ignis	4,490	1,000
Terra	4,200	1,000
Zephyr	5,900	1,000

Tier 6

Theme: Noble
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 6
Primary Weakness: Arcane
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 7

Mouse	Points	Gold
Paladin	25,200	2,500
Sacred Shrine	19,500	9,000
White Mage	20,400	9,000

Tier 7

Theme: Dust
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 7
Primary Weakness: Hydro
Loot Dropped: Gauntlet Potion Tier 8

Mouse	Points	Gold
Fiend	72,000	50,000
Necromancer	17,000	4,000

Tier 8

Theme: The Eclipse
Bait Preference: Gauntlet Cheese Tier 8
Primary Weakness: Forgotten
Loot Dropped: none

Mouse	Points	Gold
Eclipse	379,000	300,000

Hunting Strategy

In the King's Gauntlet, unlike in other regions, a hunter does not need to travel to change the mice they are attempting to catch. All a hunter must do is equip the appropriate cheese for the tier they wish to go after. The mice on each tier have a differing difficulty and different weaknesses, and the best hunting strategy may not always be clear. Progress to more difficult levels of the King's Gauntlet requires the use of special cheese, acquired through the use of potions dropped as loot in this location.

A trap's Luck is known to increase the chance of captured mice dropping loot, including the potions vital to progress through the King's Gauntlet. Because mice in early tiers are quite weak, hunters may wish to consider using high-Luck setups that are not of the power type most effective on a tier.

Hunting tips by Larry

Why hello, Mousehunter! It looks like we’ll be ascending the King’s Gauntlet together!

Hunters have flocked in from all over the land to face the terrors, the wonders, and the challenges of the King’s Gauntlet. If you can make it to the top of this tall, tall tower, you will gain lots of loot, and you will be able to count yourself among the land’s elite.

Every Hunter starts on floor one, using any bait they wish. From then on, Hunters progress to the next floor by using potions collected on the previous floor to make special cheeses. There is no need to travel-- just equip the right cheese to move to the next floor!

On each floor, the mice are weak to a different power type. If you get confused, the cheese descriptions may lend a hand. The further you go up the Gauntlet, the more difficult, and profitable, the mice become. Can you make it all the way to the top, and defeat the mysterious Eclipse Mouse?

Good luck, MouseHunter, and don’t get tired on the stairs!

Links

• Trap Setup Options for the King's Gauntlet
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