Bestiary/Verite Elemental

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Verite Elemental

General
Type	Elemental (ore)
Category	Elementals
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−3,500
Fame	3,500
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	226–255
Dexterity	126–145
Intelligence	71–92
Hit points	136–153
Stamina	126–145
Mana	71–92
Damage	9–16
Armor	35
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Verite Elemental can destroy your equipment with its blows. One of eight ore elementals; each has its own page because their stats and special defenses differ a lot. See also dull copper, shadow iron, copper, bronze, golden, agapite, verite and valorite.

Overview

• In-game name: a verite elemental
• Corpse: an ore elemental corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Bleed immune: bleed attacks (a weapon special New Bradford enables) don't affect it.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	226–255
Dexterity	126–145
Intelligence	71–92
Hit points	136–153
Stamina	126–145 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	71–92 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	9–16
Armor rating	35
Fame / Karma	3,500 / −3,500

Skills

Skill	Range
Tactics	60.1–100.0
Wrestling	60.1–100.0
Magic Resistance	50.1–95.0

Abilities

Dispels summons

Any summoned creature that can be dispelled is destroyed instantly when it hits the verite elemental in melee or the verite elemental hits it. Blade spirits, energy vortexes, summoned elementals and daemons are wasted against it.

Destroys equipment

Each time it hits a player next to it in melee, there's a 5% chance it destroys one random equipped item that has durability and isn't blessed, newbied or insured: "Your <item> is destroyed by the attack."

Loot

Every verite elemental carries:

• Gold: about 260–350 in total (from its "Rich" loot)
• 2 random gems (amber, amethyst, citrine, diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, star sapphire or tourmaline)
• 2 verite ore (a pile; 25 if it rose from a gargoyle's pickaxe dig)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 3 chances, from about 20% down to 1% each)
• A musical instrument (about 1% or less)
• A level 1 treasure map (1% chance)

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Location

• Mining with a gargoyle's pickaxe: when you mine with a gargoyle's pickaxe and the ore you dig up is the vein's main ore, there's a 10% chance a verite elemental rises next to you and attacks you. That elemental carries 25 verite ore instead of the usual 2. You need about 95 Mining to dig verite ore. Gargoyle's pickaxes drop from gargoyles, enslaved gargoyles, stone gargoyles, gargoyle enforcers and gargoyle destroyers.

Tips

• Don't wear gear you can't afford to lose, unless it's blessed or insured.
• Fight it at range to avoid its equipment destruction.