currently playing a DEEE and came across this abomination, i havent played crawl in about a year and a half but picked it up again after picking up my crack cocaine habit again. It seems immune to all my spells and i even used that sif muna ability to cast polar vortex on it and it still wouldnt die, couldnt find an entry of it in the wiki though it has to be noted that im playing on trunk for some reason. any advice?
It likely won’t; as I recall the thing has “warding”, a new monster property that makes things immune to ranged damage. I’m unsure how that’s technically defined — pretty sure range-2 polearms still work — but you probably can’t kill it with spells unless you’re adjacent to it.
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It has warding. The source of damage needs to be adjacent to mountain shell to hurt it (new clockwork roaches have this mechanic as well).
Summons work, so if you absolutely sure you want to kill it, just Divine Exegisis some high tier summoning spell. Or you can also walk away from it, it’s slow.
Maybe stuff like Fulminant Prism, or Diamond Sawblades also works, but I haven’t tested it yet. Some science to be done for sure with this one.
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hmmm i killed several cockroaches earlier in the run with warding didnt make the conenction of stadning next to them = damage. i pretty much let it walk up to me and nuked them each time, will try again for sure next time i see it.
its trunk exclusive for now right?
Cockroaches don’t have warding; clockroaches do.
It is trunk exclusive, but I see no reason why it wouldn’t be included in the next stable, it’s an ok mechanic, IMO.
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