#BEHOLDER MONSTER HOW TO#
Note that none of its attacks respect reflection. How to unlock the Look into the monsters eyes achievement in Beholder Complete Edition: Fear must be overcome. As in other variants, covering your eyes makes it nearly harmless with the exception of a relatively weak bite attack. They're prime targets for genocide in Grunt. They usually generate asleep, but when awake, they can instapetrify you, disintegrate you (the same kind of disintegration as gods do) and cancel your inventory. In GruntHack, beholders pose a significant threat. Gaze 0d0 slow, Gaze 2d25 sleep, Gaze 0d0 disintegrate, Gaze 0d0 petrification, Gaze 2d4 cancellation, Bite 2d4 physical Since the random gaze attacks include death and petrification gazes as well as damaging elemental gazes, it is best not to go near one without reflection and a blindfold.Ī beholder corpse does not rot, offers a lot of nutrition, and grants clairvoyance, but is very heavy. Gaze attack 4d6 random gaze type, Gaze attack 4d6 random gaze type, Passive 1d100 paralysisīeholders in dNetHack attack twice per round with random gaze attacks, and share the floating eye's paralysis gaze counterattack.
You'll know it has been defeated when the game says "All that remains is a single eye." This means that if you are invisible, reflection will not protect you from instant death. With other gaze attacks what usually happens is that you are protected from the effects of the gaze but the monster is not hit by it (because it can't see the reflection), but in the case of the Beholder's death gaze, it simply bypasses reflection entirely if it cannot see you. Important Note: There is an interesting quirk (possibly bug) about the Beholder's death gaze attack when you have reflection - it will not be reflected at all if the Beholder cannot see you (for example, if you are invisible). Reflection will only protect against the gaze of death: blinding yourself is almost always preferable. Even if you don't have telepathy, the Beholder is easy to find if you close the door behind you. The easiest way to defeat the Beholder is to put on a blindfold or towel before entering its room, which will block all of its attacks. It also has a damaging gaze attack which deals up to 24 damage.ĭespite its description, it does not have a bite attack and is, in fact, possibly the easiest alignment quest nemesis. The Beholder combines the gaze attacks of various creatures: the catoblepas (instant death), bloodshot eye (stun), umber hulk (confusion), and chasme (sleep). Since the Beholder is not difficult to kill by physical or magical means, it should be easy to kill it in such a way as to get the Eye. If the Beholder is killed by means that would not prevent it from leaving a corpse-in other words, not by stoning, sliming, or disintegration-it leaves behind the Eye of the Beholder instead of a regular corpse. It holds the Key of Neutrality, one of the three Alignment keys you need two of these keys to unlock the indestructible doors in Vlad's Tower. The Beholder is the quest nemesis for the Neutral Quest. wants the Amulet of Yendor, the Bell of Opening, the Book of the Dead, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and your quest artifact.Gaze 1d4 Death, Gaze 3d8, Gaze 1d3 stun, Gaze 1d3 confusion, Gaze 1d4 sleep
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