The Root Hollow · monster · floor 16 down
Wardbark
145 HP and a bite of 8 on floor 16; 175 HP and 9 bite on floor 20. 9–13 basic swings fell one on floor 16 before gear.
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How it fights
The wardbark protects the others. It keeps between 4.5 and 6.5 tiles from you, behind its pack, and while it stands every other monster within 3 tiles of it takes only 50% of each hit’s damage (at least 1). The game draws its reach as a faint violet ring on the ground round its lantern, and a small violet ellipse at the feet of every monster inside it. A boss is never warded, and the wardbark does not ward itself. It barely fights (a 3-point base bite) and has the least HP of its band (145 on floor 16), so the answer is to cut through to it first: with it alive, a pack of ten husks around it needs twice the swings. It pays the most of its band to kill, an item 14% of the time before the floor’s loot multiplier. At most 3 are alive at once, and an open area’s pack holds at most one.
- Base HP
- 38
- Base bite
- 3
- Bites at most every
- 1.17 s
- Base speed
- 1.2 tiles/s
- Body radius
- 0.34 tiles
- XP
- 7 (elite 35)
- Coin chance
- 60%
- Item drop chance
- 14% × the floor’s loot
Floor by floor
The same wardbark gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite wardbark has 3× the HP, gives 5× the XP and always drops at least a magic item plus 5 coins. “Share of waves” is the part of the floor’s wave monsters that roll as a wardbark.
| Floor | HP | Elite HP | Bite | Speed | Share of waves | Item drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 145 | 435 | 8 | 1.55 | 4.4% | 40.6% |
| 17 | 152 | 456 | 8 | 1.56 | 5.9% | 42.0% |
| 18 waypoint | 160 | 480 | 8 | 1.57 | 7.5% | 43.4% |
| 19 | 168 | 504 | 8 | 1.58 | 9.0% | 44.8% |
| 20 boss | 175 | 525 | 9 | 1.6 | 10.1% | 46.2% |
| 25 boss* | 400 | 1200 | 14 | 1.68 | 10.1% | 58.9% |
| 30 boss* | 915 | 2745 | 22 | 1.68 | 10.1% | 75.3% |
* Floors past 20 are not written out in the game’s tables: their numbers are the engine’s own extrapolation from floor 20 (HP and bite keep growing every floor).
In the same band
- Delver — 168 HP on floor 16
- Cleavecap — 175 HP on floor 16
- The Mournroot, the band’s boss on floor 20 and every fifth floor after it — how to beat him
- Every monster