Quartz Gastrocin

 is an enemy in Outward.

Description
A variant of a Gastrocin with quartz crystals growing out of it.

Combat
The s only use their spells, they do not have a melee attack. The spells are wide AoE blasts so it can be difficult to fight multiple of them with melee, you will need to move around a lot or make use of magic or ranged weapons.

Skills

 * Shoots several blasts which deal 50 Decay damage, 140  Impact, and inflict Plague (49% buildup).
 * Blasts which deal 30 Frost damage, 80  Impact and inflicts Chill (49% buildup).
 * Retreats into its shell, gaining +25 to all Damage Resistances, healing 50 health instantly and continuing to regenerate for a few seconds. This also creates a blast which deals 3 Decay and 3  Frost damage, and inflicts Slow Down (20%) and Hampered (10%) every 0.5 seconds for 3.5 seconds.