The Deepmaw

The Deepmaw: the briefing

What the game tells every player before this wave.

What it does

• Burrow: it dives under the maze for stretches. Nothing can hit it down there.
• When it breaks the surface, every tower within 2 tiles is buried for the rest of the wave.
• If it reaches the goal: 10 lives lost and no lives restored for Act III.

How to beat it

• The HUD shows where it will surface next. Build around that spot, not on it.
• Move towers while it is underground: every sale refunds 100 % while it walks.

Giant rules

• Burrow: it walks 14 tiles on the surface, then 16 underground where nothing can hit it; breaking the surface buries every tower within 2 tiles for the rest of the wave.
• If it reaches the goal: 10 lives lost, and the act's lives are not restored.
• While it walks, every tower you sell refunds 100%: sell what it has passed and rebuild ahead of it.
• Towers more than 6 tiles from it deal ×0.6. Slows work on it at 65% strength, poison at ×0.5.
• Its body is huge: a splash hit lands on it 2 more times, and a chain with nothing else to jump to hits it again at ×0.35.
• Each race's towers deal giants their own share of damage: Fire ×1.35, Frost ×1.4, Water ×1.2, Light ×1.3, Gale ×1.45, Storm ×1.25 and Arcane ×0.72.

What works against it

• Armour 10%: every hit is cut by that much, except true damage (Rime Shatter, Glow, Beacon, Pulsar, Flash, Judgment, Wrath and Smite and 5 more).
• It regenerates, so damage has to come faster than it heals. Slowed creeps regenerate at 50% of their rate.