Storm Beast

Storm Beast

General Information

Item	Value
Location	Shrine of Storms: 4-1, 4-2, 4-3
Description	Resembles a flying Manta Ray
Souls	White: ?-1270	Neutral: 440-1270	Black: ?-1905
HP	White: ??	Neutral: 71-166	Black: ??
Attack	Ranged	Physical
Special Attack	None
Weak to	All damage types

Attack Patterns

When it flies near a player, it will pull back and launch a large, gray spike. The spike has limited homing, so be wary that you'll still be hit if you move slowly. These attacks are preceded by a loud intake of air.

Strategy

These guys fly around the background looking like nothing more than graphical set-pieces. But once they get close to you they emit a weird sound and toss a giant barb at you. This can be blocked with your shield without much trouble. To kill them, get within close lock-on range and use arrows or spells. They don't have much HP. When they die they usually drop a Cloudstone. Try to kill them over solid ground when you can to claim your prize. Also, if you equip a Thief's Ring , they won't bother you at all, except for rare circumstances (on the ridge in 4-1 with the Gold Skeletons even with Thief's Ring on you can get bombarded by them so be wary). They get a little more alert in New Game+.

Note for 4-3: The Storm Beasts become berserkers of sorts here. Without a Thief's Ring equipped, they'll dash towards you in groups, firing volleys of barbs that will overwhelm your shield. Unless you are farming them with the Stormruler sword, you probably don't want them to bunch up like that. Advance very slowly and they will come at you one at a time. It is even possible to hit them with regular melee weapons in some circumstances.

Item Drops

Enemy Variety	Item Drops
All	Shard of Cloudstone Chunk of Cloudstone Pure Cloudstone

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
Storm Beast	503101	4-1	53	440	58	58	83	58	73	70	75	75	75
Storm Beast	503102	4-2	53	1040	58	58	83	58	73	70	75	75	75
Storm Beast	503100	4-3	71	1270	58	58	83	58	73	70	75	75	75

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
Storm Beast	4-1	x1.35	x1.19	x1.52	x1.52	x1.52	-	-	-	x1.15	x1.15	x1.15	-	-	-
Storm Beast	4-2	x1.55	x1.3	x1.75	x1.75	x1.75	-	-	-	x1.25	x1.25	x1.25	-	-	-
Storm Beast	4-3	x2.35	x1.81	x2.2	x2.2	x2.2	-	-	-	x1.6	x1.6	x1.6	-	-	-

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