Seeker Brood

Seeker Brood

Seeker young, soft and yellow, and never a problem one at a time.
Biome	Mistlands
Alignment	Aggressive
Faction	Mistlands
Health	20
Damage	Attack: 60 Pierce
Weak To	-
Resistant To	Blunt, Slash, Pierce
Immune To	Spirit
Stagger	30%
Tameable	No
Trophy	-
Spawn ID	`spawn SeekerBrood`

Crack open one of the pale eggs in an Infested Mine and you will most likely get a Seeker Brood: a juvenile seeker, softer and yellower than the adult, about knee height, with the same pincers. With twenty health it dies to almost anything you swing. It still deals sixty pierce damage, though, so if you let six of them surround you in a mine corridor, their low health stops mattering very quickly.

Behaviour

Broods are small, quick and come in numbers. They scuttle rather than fly, swarming towards anything hostile in a loose mob and getting underfoot exactly where you need room to swing. They have one attack, used over and over: the brood leans back, then sweeps its pincers down to clamp whatever is in front of it. The arc is barely a metre and a half long and comes back every three seconds. They do not flee and cannot call for help, but they seldom need to, since whatever spawned one usually spawned several. They stagger at a very light threshold, and that is the saving grace of the whole encounter: one wide swing knocks a cluster off balance at once and buys you time to clear the rest. In an infested mine they are almost always the second problem, spilling out of a broken egg while a full grown Seeker is already coming down the passage behind you.

Where to Find It

Broods belong to the Infested Mines of the Mistlands, and you usually meet one by breaking a seeker egg, which spawns a brood about three times in four. They cannot have stars, so every brood is exactly as strong as the last. Before the Queen is dead there is also an event, They sought you out, which sends them at you in large numbers and is very common while it runs. After she dies, a few can spawn on their own at night anywhere in the Mistlands, though this is rare, and they clear at dawn like the adults. Nothing else spawns them, and they never appear outside the Mistlands.

Where and When	At Once	How Often	Stars
Anywhere in Mistlands at night after defeating The Queen, despawn at dawn	5	Very rare	No
75% chance when destroying Seeker eggs found in Infested Mines	-	One time	No
During "They sought you out." event before defeating The Queen	8	Very common	No

Strengths and Weaknesses

Twenty health is not a fight, it is a chore, and all the danger is in the head count. Broods shrug off half of everything physical just like a full grown Seeker, but against twenty health that barely registers, and almost any weapon kills one in a swing or two. What matters is area. An atgeir sweep, a two-handed sword, a wide axe swing, anything that catches three at once clears a nest far faster than a one-handed weapon behind a shield. Because they stagger easily, that same wide swing knocks the group down and lets you finish them without taking a hit. Do not fight them in a doorway, where they pile onto you from one direction and leave you no room to swing, and do not break eggs while something larger is already on its way. When you can, break eggs on purpose, one at a time, with a wall behind you and open floor in front. Any Mistlands gear makes them trivial and Black Metal is more than enough, but a bad position at any tier will get you clamped from three sides at once.

It resists Blunt, Slash and Pierce damage.
It is immune to Spirit damage.

Drops

Broods drop Royal Jelly about half the time, which is the whole reason anyone goes looking for eggs to break.

Item	Image	Base	1 Star	2 Star
Royal jelly		50%	-	-

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Name	Biome	Alignment	Health	Very Weak To	Weak To	Resistant To	Very Resistant To	Immune To	Drops	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Dvergr Mage	Mistlands	Neutral	350	-	-	Fire, Frost	-	Spirit	Coins, Black marble, Soft tissue, Dvergr trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn DvergerMage`
Dvergr Rogue	Mistlands	Neutral	350	-	-	-	-	Spirit	Coins, Black marble, Soft tissue, Dvergr trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Dverger`
Gjall	Mistlands	Aggressive	1500	-	-	Fire	-	Spirit	Bilebag, Gjall trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Gjall`
Seeker	Mistlands	Aggressive	200	-	-	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	-	Spirit	Seeker meat, Carapace, Seeker trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Seeker`
Seeker Brood	Mistlands	Aggressive	20	-	-	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	-	Spirit	Royal jelly	-	`spawn SeekerBrood`
Seeker Soldier	Mistlands	Aggressive	1500	-	-	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	-	Spirit	Carapace, Mandible, Seeker meat, Seeker soldier trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn SeekerBrute`
Tick	Mistlands	Aggressive	50	-	Pierce	-	-	Spirit	Blood clot, Tick trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Tick`

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