Lore
Who are the Bark Guard?
Old wardens still obey a forgotten command.
Bark Guard belongs to The Rootbound. Bark, spores and roots — the forest that turned on its keepers. They fill the first floors. As a tank: Slow and heavily armored. Tanks soak hits and block your escape routes.
Attack
Contact
Has no special attack: it hurts by touching you, and it is dangerous only in numbers.
How to handle it: Keep moving so the pack never closes the circle, and let area skills thin it out.
Floors
Where Bark Guard appears
The spawn weight says how common Bark Guard is against the rest of that floor’s pool; higher is more common.
- Floor 1: Thornwood — from 2:30, spawn weight 9
- Floor 2: Mossbound Grove — from the start, spawn weight 10
- Floor 3: Withered Crossing — from the start, spawn weight 10
- Floor 4: Fallen Sanctum — from the start, spawn weight 8
- Floor 5: Cursed Ruins — from the start, spawn weight 6
Strategy
How to fight Bark Guard
- Slow and heavily armored. Tanks soak hits and block your escape routes.
- Keep moving: a tank only wins when the pack closes the circle around you.
- Elite versions carry more health and hit harder; items that raise damage to elites pay off deeper down.
Skills that handle tanks well: Fireball, Arrow, Soul Reaper.
Family
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