Mountainshell

Useful Info

Mountainshells are slow, yet powerful beasts found within the Lair. Their innate warding status makes them immune to damage at range, and their Landbreaker spell allows them to deal damage from afar while blocking your path with rubble.

Strategy

• Their melee attack is deceptively weak; it deals less damage than a death yak or komodo dragon and attacks slowly. Being in melee range where you can damage them is preferable to being pelted at range with their stomps.
  • Additionally, mountainshells have poor defenses and only moderately high HP.
• Running away is possible, but Landbreaker will cause your path to be blocked by rubble. Breaking line of sight is important to avoid taking unnecessary damage.

Tips & Tricks

• Allies can damage mountainshells even if you are not yourself adjacent to them.
• Hexes can also affect the mountainshell from a distance, but they have decently high willpower for a Lair monster.
• Landbreaker, unlike most shatter-type damage sources, does not deal reduced damage to flying targets.

History

• Mountainshells were added in 0.34.