Brigand Cutthroat

One of the many hardened bandits, brigands and killers that the Ancestor hired as a mercenary army to retake the Hamlet after the people rebelled against him. Under the leadership of Ancestor’s right-hand man they took back the Hamlet and greatly reduced the population. With his rule reasserted, the Ancestor order his mercenary army, which become known as "Brigands Brigade", to keep order within the Hamlet and police the remain population as he continue his excavations underneath the manor.

When the Ancestor died and no further payment for the lawless mercenaries in sight, many of the last remaining inhabitants of Hamlet hoped that this mercenary army disperse and leave for greener pastures. However that did not happened for the Ancestor’s former right-hand man had come to like his life as a merciless warlord, so he took control of leaderless band of brigands and turned his sight upon the Hamlet. In one night they raided, plundered, pillaged and burning most of the Hamlet to the ground, and preforming other heinous crimes better left unmentioned, when it was done they went forth and plunder the riches from the lands surrounding the Hamlet.

One of the members of the infamous "Brigands Brigade", the Brigand Cutthroat is arguably the most dangerous among their ranks. Only where light armor with negligible protection, these criminals must not be underestimated for they are masterfully skilled with two-handed weapons and able to deliver deadly thrusts that can easily decimate even the healthiest of adventuring parties. These bandits rarely travel alone and can be often found with a Brigand Bloodletter and a Brigand Fusilier at their sides or the Cutthroats will simply partner up with Fusiliers. When facing a group of these bandits be prepared for long and brute fight.

Behaviour
Brigand Cutthroat is human type enemy that can found every dungeon, but is most common in the Weald. While fragile with low health and negligible protection, his attacks result frequently in critical hits that can easily decimate even the healthiest of parties. They usually appear together with a Brigand Bloodletter and Brigand Fusilier each, or as a pair with 2 Brigand Fusiliers. These bladed bandits should be prioritized even more than the larger and more intimidating Bloodletters, but can be neutralized for a few turns if pushed to back ranks.

In Veteran and Champion level dungeons, he will usually start by debuffing Bleed resist using his "Slice And Dice" attack before exploiting it with a "Shank" in the 2nd turn (5x and 4x higher chance in comparison to his other skills), becoming an even higher threat to your party. Additionally, when he's present the Brigand Bloodletter is more likely to exploit your reduced Bleed resist with a nasty Rain of Whip.

In addition to this, at LVL 3 and 5 dungeons, even after the first 2 turns those two dangerous skills will be twice more likely to be used compared to "Uppercut Slice". As mentioned above, in these dungeons he should be downed/stunned/pushed back as soon as possible to mitigate the brunt of his assault.