Elemental wellspring

Useful Info

Elemental wellsprings are obnoxious aquatic monsters which batter you with Primal Waves, all the while summoning many hostile water elementals. They can be found mainly in Cocytus and Cocytus-themed Ziggurats, but also rarely in Shoals and the Depths.

Tips & Tricks

• Primal Wave is a fairly powerful spell, dealing significant damage and pushing you around the battlefield. Resisting it is tricky: unless you're an amphibious character (octopodes, merfolk, barachim and grey draconians) or non-breathing (the undead, djinn, gargoyles and Statue Form), you'll take full damage. Flight will help you navigate the suddenly flooded battlefield. A side-effect of the primal flood is a 3x3 square of shallow water that renders useful terrain features (like stairways!) temporarily inaccessible.
• The water elementals an elemental wellspring summons function like any other summoned unit: if you kill the summoner, the summons die with it. However, ignoring them might be risky for spellcasters, as their attacks can effectively silence you. Moving away from the elemental will break its hold on you and end the silence... at least until it hits you again.
• Wellsprings can't see invisible, and are much less likely to cast magic against an invisible character. Just be aware that invisibility is negated by being in water if you aren't flying.
• Wellsprings themselves aren't particularly vulnerable to fire damage, but Ignition works very well against their densely packed summons. This will also create large numbers of sightline-blocking steam clouds if the wellspring is over a large body of water (which is common in Cocytus).

History

• Prior to 0.33, elemental wellsprings weren't amorphous.
• Prior to 0.28, elemental wellsprings had fast regeneration. Wellsprings took damage when using Primal Wave (5-19 HP), and water elementals were summoned through the use of the spell. Also, wellsprings only created shallow water directly underneath themselves.
• Elemental wellsprings were originally used in Depths and Forest during 0.13 and 0.14 development, with an initial version directly and relentlessly casting an uncapped Summon Water Elementals alongside Primal Waves. They were considered excessive for their depth in their spam, and removed before the stable releases. Though retired, they were brought back in 0.16 for use in post-game.