Behavior

The Killer Bee Nest is found in a very large setpiece resembling the interior of The Nest, complete with pools of Killer Honey. Much like the Lost Sentry, it has a marker on the minimap but does not have a Quest Arrow. It is surrounded by a number of Nest Colonies that heal it at a rapid pace while spawning groups of Red, Blue or Yellow Nest Colony Guardians.

The Boss itself is stationary and fires oscillating streams of multicolored orbs. It also fires various colored bombs all around it that inflict a number of status effects.

Once it takes enough damage, it will call in all nearby Colony Guardians to orbit it tightly to defend itself, as well as changing the shot patterns of the Nest Colonies. Its shot types also change to dense 4-directional spreads of various shots, firing a single color per burst.

Once it takes more damage, the Nest spawns in 3 Beehemoths, which chase players down and become the new targets. The Nest itself is invulnerable during this time, firing radial bursts of Red, Yellow, or Blue Balls and lobbing colored bombs to support the Beehemoths (if a Beehemoth is defeated, it stops firing that shot/bomb color).

While each Beehemoth has its own behavior patterns, they will all have behavior in common:

When all the Beehemoths are alive, they will chase down players. Once a Beehemoth is at about 40% HP, it will trigger a rage phase where it will become much faster and more aggressive in exchange for permanently Armor-Breaking itself. In addition, the Beehemoths that are not in rage will begin firing additional bullets. All 3 Beehemoths can enter rage if allowed to, but only the one that entered rage first can be killed - if any of the others are brought to low enough HP, they will become invulnerable and retreat to the Nest while healing rapidly.

When 1 Beehemoth is killed, the other two will begin orbiting the Nest while firing. If one is brought below 40% HP, it will enrage and cause both of them to start chasing again. The other Beehemoth will become permanently invulnerable.

Once 2 of the Beehemoths are killed, the remaining one will fly to the Killer Bee Nest and “consume” it, fully restoring its health and growing to a much larger size. The Nest will then explode into a ring of respectively-colored Hive Shots while the empowered Beehemoth attacks. The corpse of the Nest, now called the Destroyed Killer Bee Nest, will continue to fire rings of colored orbs: which color depends on which Beehemoth is still alive. When the last Beehemoth is at <50% health, it will begin firing spirals of respectively-colored orbs.

Once the last Beehemoth is dead, its corpse generates a portal to The Nest.

Reproduction

Assisted by:

Nest Colony

Spawns:

Red Beehemoth

Blue Beehemoth

Yellow Beehemoth



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Drops

The Killer Bee Nest does not drop loot, the Beehemoths shown above will drop loot.

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