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Burrow
Overview[edit]
Burrowing is a monster special quality, a movement mode.
Description[edit]
A creature with this movement mode can tunnel through dirt, sand, earth, and sometimes rock and masonry. Most burrowing creatures do not leave behind any sign of their passage, but some do leave tell-tale marks on the ground in the entry and exit points.
This is a potent defensive ability, since you can't target a burrowing creature.
It is an offensive ability as well, since it allows a creature to attack you by surprise, provided you don't spot it before it burrows.
Tactics[edit]
Sometimes, you can track subtle signs of underground movement that enable you to roughly estimate the general direction and speed of the creature.
Moreover, since a burrowing creature's combat routine usually involves a recurring pattern of attack and burrow, if you manage to hit it with an attack that deals damage over time while aboveground, it will keep damaging the creature even when underground.
Creature Entries[edit]
The following creatures have been confirmed to be capable of burrowing (there might be more - research continues - be on your guard).
- Large Monstrous Scorpion
- Medium Monstrous Scorpion
- Night Scorpion
- Monarch Scorpion
- Bile
- Ravenous
- Spawn of Vulkoor
- Blacktail
- Rancor
- Vilesting
- Stone Scorpion
- Rhath
- Ebony
- Snikkit
- Hatchling
- Wrathspawn
- Purple Worm
- Jungle Scorpion
- Fiendish Monstrous Scorpion
- Purple Worm Tail
- Elder Purple Worm
- Sineater
- Cave Twilight Scorpion
- Large Twilight Scorpion
- Fiend-Blood Scorpion
- Menechtarun Crusher
- Dunestalker
- Doomstalker
- Cove Scorpion
- Scorpion Guardian
- Aspect of Wrath
- Sandstalker
- Gloom's Huntress
- Crystal Scorpion
- Death Stalker
- Vile Twilight Scorpion
- Desert Twilight Scorpion
- Duskspur
- Island Scorpion
- Armored Scorpion
- Spellspew Scorpion
- Fellsting
- Hell Scorpion
- Scorpion Ambusher
- Roaming Scorpion
- Nesting Scorpion
- Menechtarun Cleaver
- Desert Scorpion
- Darksting
- Infernal Stinger
- Mother Scorpion
- Guard Scorpion
- Relentless Obsession
- Verminous Scorpion
- Aqueduct Scorpion
- Vulkoorim Scorpion Statue
- Elder Purple Worm Tail
- Death Stalker Scorpion
- Canyon Scorpion
- Dervinyre's Tail