Courtyard Reaper

Courtyard Reaper is a Diamond Hoe awarded through The Knights Castle Guard Class Loot in The Knight’s Castle, the EliteMobs lair. Its flavor text reads: “The gardeners no longer come to this castle.”

Four enemies can award loot from this same Guard table: Ser Prancelot, Arcane Knight, Brave Knight, and Cowardly Knight. That gives you several fights to choose from, but it does not mean all four drop Courtyard Reaper every time.

A Diamond Hoe in a cursed castle sounds like the equipment list got mixed up with the gardening shed. Courtyard Reaper is still a named Guard class-loot item, and its description gives the courtyard a bleak little bit of history.

Overview

Where to Get It

What Makes This Item Different

Its Royal counterpart is Reaper of the Court, another Diamond Hoe with a different name and drop source. Courtyard Reaper is in the Guard table, while Reaper of the Court is in the Royal table tied to Charlemagne. The shared material does not mean the two items have identical enchantments.

This is the sort of loot where the reward route matters more than a flashy item name. The Guard table has several weapon and armor materials, and each eligible player receives one class-chosen item from that table rather than the entire collection.

There is no special on-hit effect attached to Courtyard Reaper. Its identity is the named Diamond Hoe and its Guard loot source, so judge an actual copy by the enchantments it receives rather than expecting the name to hide a guaranteed combat power.

Difficulty and Reward Choices

The Knight’s Castle has Normal with level sync +5, Hard with level sync +0, and Mythic with level sync -5. The castle mobs scale with the dungeon rather than sticking to one fixed level, so a change in difficulty changes the encounter conditions.

Guard items are class loot: each player is awarded one item from the table selected for their class, not all nineteen listed items. A table entry marked 100% is not a 100% promise of this named piece on every kill. Class-loot enchantments are rolled for the item awarded, with harder difficulties allowing higher enchantment levels; Mythic is the difficulty to pursue if the goal is the strongest possible rolled copy.

Class Loot

Courtyard Reaper is class loot. It has no fixed stats: its enchantments are rolled every time it drops, so no two copies are exactly alike, and harder difficulties allow higher enchantment levels. When a mob drops class loot, each player who wins the drop roll gets one item from that mob’s class loot pool, weighted toward their class.

Dropped as class loot by:

• Ser Prancelot (miniboss): 25% chance per player who dealt at least 10% of the mob’s health
• Arcane Knight, Brave Knight, Cowardly Knight (regular mobs): 5% chance per player who dealt at least 10% of the mob’s health

Possible Enchantments

The levels below are the most each enchantment can roll. Each drop receives about half of the listed levels at random, so most copies land below these maximums. The chance shows how often an enchantment appears at all.

From minibosses:

From regular mobs:

Where to Farm the Guard Table

Arcane Knight is the spell-heavy threat of the group. It fires a slow plasma shot every four seconds at a valid target within 30 blocks, attacks nearby players with arrows every eight seconds, and can blind players it hits for three seconds. Its shield walls can trigger when struck, so do not assume continuous attacks will pass straight through.

Brave Knight tries to control your position instead. A successful hit pulls you toward the knight and can leave a temporary cobweb on you for three seconds while the mob gains Speed III. Its web move has a three-second cooldown, but the vacuum pull has none. Creating space between hits matters more than just standing still and trading blows.

Cowardly Knight fights with crossbows, Poison I on hit, a pushing attack, and homing arrows aimed at nearby players every three seconds once it has a target. Those arrows can keep tracking for up to 60 seconds. Plan around repeated incoming shots rather than assuming one dodge ends the threat.

Ser Prancelot is the miniboss route. Its first phase applies Wither I when it hits and can trap a player in packed ice with Slowness VI for three seconds. At 50% health it shifts phases, summons guards, and has the Guard class-loot table active. Its second phase also has bonus-loot and bonus-coin powers, which makes this a distinct encounter from clearing regular knights.

All four routes share the same named Guard class-loot table, but they do not share the same combat rhythm. For a steady series of attempts, choose the enemy whose mechanics you can handle reliably rather than assuming that the hardest fight guarantees the named item you want.

Is It Worth It?

Courtyard Reaper is worth looking at if you want a Diamond Hoe from Guard class loot and you are already fighting Ser Prancelot or the castle knights. Its named identity and material are certain; the value of a particular enchanted copy comes down to the roll you actually receive.

Harder difficulties allow higher enchantment levels, which makes Mythic the run to farm for the best copy. If you are comparing it with Reaper of the Court, compare the specific loot source and the stats on the finished item rather than assuming similar materials or names guarantee similar effects.

Is It Worth It

Its main enchantment is Sharpness, which can reach III on Normal, III on Hard and IV on Mythic when it drops from a miniboss. If you want this piece at its strongest, Mythic is the run to farm. Since every copy is rolled, two drops from the same difficulty can still differ, so check each one against what you are already using.

See Also

• Ser Prancelot
• Arcane Knight
• Brave Knight
• Cowardly Knight
• Oath Notch
• Portcullis Bite
• Battlement Yew
• Last Watch Arbalest
• Moat Fork