Scorchbeast Queen

The scorchbeast queen is a creature found in Appalachia, only encountered during Scorched Earth.

Background
The scorchbeast queen is considered to be the primary antagonist of Fallout 76 and serves as the game's final boss. It may only be spawned by completing Mission: Countdown and choosing to drop a blast zone upon Fissure site Prime, triggering the public event Scorched Earth. Eight or more participants are recommended for this difficult server-wide event, in which she must be killed within 30 minutes. During this engagement, waves of Scorched enemies will defend the queen.

Characteristics
The scorchbeast queen utilizes several different attacks, but is constantly shrouded by a large, potent radiation-damage cloak. All other attacks are treated explosions and rightfully deal area-of-effect damage.
 * Attacks:

When airborne, it will primarily release a long-range, targeted sonic attack, which counts as explosive physical damage. The interval between these attacks is at least ten seconds. The strafing attack, commonly referred to as "crop dusting", disperses a lingering poison damage fog across a wide area. If the queen is unable to detect players, it will continuously dust the approximate area.
 * 20 per second, for 5 seconds
 * 10 per second, 5 seconds

While grounded, the queen performs a sweeping attack using its wings to swing deliver heavy damage to players within melee range. It may also perform a lunging attack to close the gap should its target leave its range. When surrounded, it may cover itself with its wings before releasing a explosive shockwave which not only deals damage, but also summon Scorched to its aid. Unlike the standard scorchbeast, the queen can call nearly any Scorched creature to its defense. The possible minions are detailed below:

The resistances of the scorchbeast queen, like all other creatures in Appalachia, are determined by a level curve table, however even before her resistances take effect, she reduces all incoming damage by 70%. Similar to other creatures, the scorchbeast queen will rapidly heal itself over time after a period of not taking damage. As a legendary creature, the queen will regenerate health once upon reaching critical health.
 * Resistances:
 * Immune to radiation.
 * Immune nuke blasts.
 * Immune to stagger
 * Cannot trigger ricochet

Tips

 * Affected by both Hunter's and Zealot's gear.
 * Crippling both of a scorchbeast's wings will force it to land, after finding a suitable spot. The landing behavior can be interrupted by stagger effects applied by perks like Tank Killer or One Gun Army.
 * Attacking the head will deal 150% damage.
 * Due to her large hitbox, some explosions may not connect properly if unless precisely placed. To deal optimal damage, explosions should connect with its underbelly while it is grounded.
 * Barring the "cropdust" and "radiation cloak", all of the queen's attacks are considered explosions, and will be mitigated by the Fireproof perk or a padded/dense torso mod.
 * The scorchbeast queen will cease attacking momentarily while hovering over an it is trying to land. The cue for this is its behavior of floating largely in place, rather than strafing. Attacking and proc'ing a stagger will interrupt the animation and prevent the landing.

Bugs

 * The Scorchbeast queen may ocassional wander out of bounds, making the fight impossible if it strays too far.
 * If killed near the edge of the gameworld, the scorchbeast queen may fall out-of-bounds and be rendered unlootable.
 * A known-bug with Heart of the Enemy, fast traveling may cause the body of the queen to teleport behind you after arriving at your destination. This may be exploited as a work around for the above bug.


 * Patched:
 * After the Wastelanders update, the scorchbeast queen received an erroneous change that made it immune to limb damage. This prevented players from crippling its wings to force a landing. This was rectified in PATCH NEEDED.