Rock Worm

Rock Worm

General Information

Item	Value
Location	Stonefang Tunnel: 2-2
Description	Fire spitting close range turret worm
Souls	Pure White: 165	Neutral: 165	Pure Black: 248
HP	Pure White: 320	Neutral: 353	Pure Black: ??
Attack	Melee	Physical
Special Attack	Fire Spit	Spits a pool of fire damage The pool lasts on the ground ~5 seconds
Weak to	Magic attacks Attacks which hit the 'head'

Attack Patterns

• Pulls its head back and lunges its head forward, biting the player
• Swings its body in a horizontal circle
• Spits a pool of fiery liquid
• Rock Worms guarding the pair of Hands of God: These only spray fiery liquid upwards, dealing fire damage in a sizeable circle around it

Strategy

These guys lurk underground until you approach. Then they burst forth and begin to spit vile stuff on you. Semi-dangerous for melee guys, especially the larger ones that spit up a 360 degree fountain, they are pitifully easy for ranged guys. Use target lock and flick the right analog stick until you target their mouth. Fire an arrow or spell (soul light for massive damage) into their mouth directly and they should die in one hit, and give you bonus soul for a one-hit kill. A good time is when they first spit at you, since their mouth is stationary for a moment. Remember they are extremely weak to magic attacks, so even though their defense is strong, even just a few body slashes with a magic damage-dealing weapon will do them in.

If you happen to have a Great Sword of some kind, it's strong vertical slash throws a direct hit to their mouth!

Item Drops

Enemy Variety	Item Drops
All	Shard of Greystone Chunk of Greystone (rare) Pure Greystone (very rare)

Enemy ID and Stats

The information below reflects the game's hard programmed values for enemy stats and values. However, these values don't always align precisely with values seen in game. This is due to Special Effect Multipliers (similar to NPCs) and World Tendency Multipliers.

Name	ID	Location	HP	Souls	Defense						Resistance
					Physical	Slash	Blunt	Thrust	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Rock Worms	310000	2-2	228	165	563	583	538	513	18	613	75	100	500

Special Effect Multipliers

Special Effect Multipliers are blanket multipliers that are applied to NPCs, including Black Phantoms. For example, if the HP multiplier is "x2", the NPC will have twice the health that the player would have if they had identical stats and equipment. The NPC's attack multipliers are applied before the damage is affected by the player's defenses and resistances. Damage received by the NPC is slightly more complicated. When the player does damage to the NPC, the raw damage is put into a formula and computed against the NPC's resistances. These resistances are multiplied by the values in the Physical/Magic/Fire Defense columns before calculation. Afterward, the remaining damage is reduced by resistances, it is then multiplied by the Damage reduction multipliers in the Physical/Magic/Fire Reduction columns. The output damage remaining is the dealt to the NPC.

Enemy	Location	HP	Stamina Damage	Attack			Damage Reduction			Defense			Resistance
				Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Rock Worm	2-2	x1.55	x1.3	x1.75	x1.75	x1.75	-	-	-	x1.25	x1.25	x1.25	-	-	-

Footnotes

1. Souls gained are from the first run through of the game, white, neutral and black world tendency without any modifiers
2. HP totals are from the first run through of the game, white, neutral, and black world tendency