Template name: bracken_stats_ds2x
Created from the magic of the Vai'lutra Forest, the Bracken were once creatures of peace, working in unison with the trees -- caretakers of the vast forest. When the Vai'kesh's corruptive magic began to spread through their home, the Bracken changed as well, becoming gnarled and violent.
The start of the game’s own Bestiary text.
- Game
- Broken World (new Act 4 map)
- Type
- Melee
- Habitat
- Burnt Forest
- Act
- Act 4 (Broken World)
- Rank
- Weak
Drops
Weak monster drop table. Chance per kill, before Magic Find:
| Drop | Chance | Item level vs. creature level |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | 14% | |
| Health potion | 4.0% | -10 to 0 |
| Mana potion | 2.4% | -10 to 0 |
| Item | 5.0% | -6 to 0 |
| Rare item | 0.45% | -5 to +1 |
| Unique item | 0.15% | -40 to +2 |
| Set item | 0.15% | -50 to +2 |
Confidence: Medium Read from the drop table named in the creature’s template. Fixed rewards of story bosses, quest items and what a placed monster carries are not read here. Not tested in game.
Details
Level and strength
| Mercenary | Veteran | Elite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level | 44 | 72 | 97 |
| Life | 1,733 | 4,280 | 7,508 |
| Damage | 139 to 231 | 309 to 515 | 517 to 861 |
| Defense | 150 | 261 | 374 |
| Experience | 1,754 | 21,464 | 223,469 |
Confidence: Medium Worked out from the formulas in the creature’s template, for the levels the template gives. Not compared with the game’s own Bestiary screen; spawn spots may change a monster’s level.
Weaknesses and resistances
| Mercenary | Veteran | Elite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | +110% | +125% | +150% |
| Ice | -25% | -5% | -1% |
Confidence: Medium As written in the template. A negative number means it takes more damage of that kind. Values of 100% and more are shown as given; the effect of going past 100% has not been tested.
What it can drop: Broken World
4 different items can drop (the best are shown) Confidence: computed from data, not measured
| Consumables | Mercenary | Veteran | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colossal Health Potion | - | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| Super Health Potion | 2.0% | - | - |
| Colossal Mana Potion | - | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| Super Mana Potion | 2.0% | - | - |
The chance is for one kill of this creature (level 44 / 72 / 97 in Mercenary / Veteran / Elite) with magic find at 0: the chance that its drop table rolls an item of this kind, times this item’s share of the items that can come out at that level. Items with the same name are added up. Creatures of the same kind that the Bestiary lists under other names share the same drop table at their own level. Computed from the game’s drop tables, not measured. A source rolls the entries of its drop table; an entry asks the game’s item table for one item of the right class inside a level window; every matching item is equally likely (the game picks a random row, there is no rarity weight). Chance is per kill or per opening, with magic find at 0.
Where it is found
| Place | Placed | Spawned | Random encounters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Vai'lutra Forest | 69 | 42 |
Confidence: Medium From the game’s map files. How many random encounters you meet is a roll the data does not fix.
Does it count for the Bestiary?
Can be completed
Enough of them exist, or a scene or conversation gives the credit.
- Broken World book
- No. 31
- Kills needed
- 1 kill
100+ placed, 1 needed.
Confidence: High the audit of the data files, confirmed by the in-game kill test
In-game kill test: unlocked after 1 kills (agrees with the data audit)
Natural spawn census: seen in 4 of 4 runs, most in one region: 17. A lower bound; a run only loads the areas near the party.
Kill counts are kept separately for Mercenary, Veteran and Elite. See how the Bestiary works.