Blind Pest

Speed | 6 m/s

The **Blind Pest** is a flying monster added in the *Survivors of the Void* expansion.

## Environments

* (replaces Lesser Wisp)
* Other Environments with the Artifact of Dissonance enabled

## Skills & Behavior

Blind Pests spawn by swooping down from above, and flap through the air haphazardly.

### Primary: Spit

The Blind Pest spits a fast-moving glob of acid moving at 100m/s, which deals 200% damage with a proc coeffcient of 1.0. While the attack is executed 0.35s after activation, the attack lasts for 2 seconds. Both of these timings scale with attack speed.

This skill has a cooldown of 1 second which does not start until the attack has finished.

### Behaviors

1. **Use primary and strafe**: the Blind Pest must be within 70m from its target and have line of sight.
2. **Chase while waiting for primary**: the Blind Pest must be within 50m from its target and have line of sight. This means the Blind Pest will continuously keep getting closer to its target while spitting acid every 3 seconds. If the Pest gets too close to the ground, or on top of its target, it will land closing its wings. In this state it will walk and even attempt its attack from melee range. However, it will rarely stay on the ground for long and will take flight again.
3. **Chase**: no requirements.

## Notes

* Blind Pests' fur color changes based on the stage; on Siphoned Forest and Rallypoint Delta, their fur is completely white.
* Despite Blind Pests not relying on sight, they will not attack invisible characters.

## Tips

* Although they have low health and their attacks are easily avoided by constantly moving, Blind Pests can be surprisingly dangerous. They become more difficult to dodge in groups or when other enemies are present, their damage scales quickly, and they generally keep a fair distance from the player, so it may be hard to kill them reliably.
* Blind Pests behave similarly to, but are considerably more dangerous. Pests' sound cues when attacking are less obvious than Wisps', their stats scale much faster, and they fly much further out of reach.

## Lore

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Welcome to DataScraper (v3.1.53 – beta branch)
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This is the logbook entry of D. Furthen, naturalist for the UES [Redacted] in conjunction with the UES Research and Documentation of Outer Life. I am joined by my good friend Tharson, who is keeping me safe through this journey.

 While hunting a group of Blind Vermin, Tharson and I were ambushed by a group of creatures that heavily resembled the Vermin we had been hunting. Their major difference, of course, was their ability to fly! I have assigned their common name as "Radkari Blind Pest".

* Much like their earthbound cousins, the Pests are blind and rely heavily on their smell and hearing. However, their pronounced tongue may indicate that they may use taste to identify things as well.

* The Pests' primary characteristic is their ability to fly. Alongside this, they also weaponize their acidic bile as a projectile attack. This could allow them to partially digest their prey as they hunt... How fascinatingly foul.

* They typically inhabit warmer, damper areas, like jungles. After our skirmish, I noted nests in the canopy. This indicates that the Pests are ambush predators, waiting for prey to waltz below their nests.
```

## Trivia

* The Blind Pest has a functional walking animation, which it rarely uses. Unlike , Blind Pests do *not* fall to the ground when stunned. They can, however, be grounded by freezing them using , , or , or when pulled to the ground by .
	+ If a target stands still for a period of time, the Blind Pest will gradually approach until it lands on top of the target. Any further attack or flight animations may give the appearance of the Pest "licking" the target, but this is not an actual programmed behavior.
* The Blind Pest's attack does not count as a combat skill, so it will not cancel the  buff granted by . This may be a bug.

## Version History

Survivors of the Void
* (Undocumented) Added New Monster: Blind Pest