Blind Pest

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

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.

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.

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