The Plaguebringer Goliath

"A horrific amalgam of steel, flesh, and infection."

The Plaguebringer Goliath is a Hardmode boss and the central force of the plague afflicted onto the Jungle after the Golem's defeat.

Spawn
The Plaguebringer Goliath can be summoned manually with the Abombination. She must be summoned in the Jungle or Underground Jungle.

Behavior
The Plaguebringer Goliath behaves similarly to Queen Bee, charging at the player and using a variety of dangerous attacks. If the player leads The Plaguebringer Goliath out of the Jungle biome, she will enrage and fire more projectiles and have increased movement speed, and will accelerate faster and faster the longer she charges until she is faster than and ahead of the player. Attacks gain increased damage, speed, and intensity as her health drops.

Phase 1

 * Will level herself horizontally with the player and fly back and forth three times.
 * Fires powerful plague stingers and plague rockets at the player.
 * A plague rocket will replace every fifth stinger shot.
 * Spawns Plague Chargers that vary in strength and size.
 * Below 50% health, she no longer summons Plague Chargers and instead spawns a number of homing plague missiles that have their own individual health bars and can be killed.

In Expert Mode

 * Some of her stingers home in on the player.
 * Stinger projectiles now explode after travelling a certain distance.
 * All her projectiles deal more damage as she loses health.
 * Defense increases greatly as health depletes.
 * Spawns Plague Mines, which chase the player and explode at a close range. They move slower after a short period of time has passed, and are invincible until they have stopped moving.
 * Spawns additional Plague Mines when enraged.
 * At 50% health The Plaguebringer Goliath enters her second phase.

Phase 2

 * The status message "PLAGUE NUKE BARRAGE ARMED, PREPARING FOR LAUNCH!!!" appears.
 * Retains all abilities from her first phase.
 * Can now dash above the player, raining down missiles at the start of each dash.

In Revengeance Mode

 * The Plaguebringer Goliath moves faster and is able to perform diagonal dashes when she is below 80% health.
 * Missiles travel faster and shoots projectiles at a higher rate.
 * Can spawn more Plague Chargers at once.

In Death Mode

 * Fires more rockets and charges at higher speeds.
 * Gains increased top speed and spawns minions and shoots missiles at a higher rate.

Aftermath

 * Once defeated, the Witch Doctor will begin selling Abombinations.

Tips

 * Spamming projectiles which can overwhelm the screen with weapons such as scythes, magic weapons or summons/sentries that have ranged attacks, may give you a bigger chance to defeat this enemy as it will get constant damage thanks to her aggressive movement with the large hitbox.
 * Try making more vertical movements, as it will lower your chances of getting hit by her ram attack.
 * Take care to avoid her diagonal ramming attack, as it can throw the player off guard and potentially kill the player.

Trivia

 * The Plaguebringer Goliath's theme is Fly of Beelzebub, which was composed by the artist DM DOKURO.
 * If the Calamity Music add-on mod is disabled, Boss 3 will play instead.
 * Prior to the release of Fly of Beelzebub, the placeholder theme was a remix of Boss 1, which was also composed by DM DOKURO.
 * There is some foreshadowing to this boss with the Queen Bee's lore item talking about controlling them.

Lore
瘟疫使者歌莉娅