Does the trove mimic always cast death?

[cheyrn]

I've only tried twice. Both times, the mimic appears and immediately casts death. Is this always or usually the case?

[Isola]

That's the gimmick. Upon pop instant death. And it does it again every 20% or something like that.

It will wipe reraise instead of killing you if you have it up.

[cheyrn]

Ah, that is good to know about reraise. Thanks.

[Dzspdref]

I've had reraise up and it still wiped the RR AND killed me.
But as she said, gimmick is totally random.
I've gotten killed first chest many times, and opened 3~4 chests many times.
Maximum I've opened was 7 plus central gold one without getting killed.
And I know there's a video of someone opening all 9 chests plus center one on Youtube somewhere.
All random chance.... (Good Luck!)

[cheyrn]

Yeah. I tried using reraise, it canceled reraise then cast death... Maybe if someone is very fast with flash or break, that would make a difference.

[Isola]

I mean, you're never going to solo it, and it's a complete waste of time to kill anyway, so

[Alhanelem]

That's the gimmick. Upon pop instant death. And it does it again every 20% or something like that.

It will wipe reraise instead of killing you if you have it up.
Though the damage is still high enough that you'll probably die without decent mitigation.

[Alhanelem]

I mean, you're never going to solo it, and it's a complete waste of time to kill anyway, so
Would you not get anything more if you say, opened every single chest leaving just the mimic, opening it, and killing it?

[Isola]

To be brutally honest, there are 3 things that can happen in AMAN Trove.

1) You open a "loud thud" and exit.
2) You open boxes until you hit a mimic and you leave because the rewards aren't good enough from "noises" to justify the battle.
3) You just open the Gold box and leave as it's worth a "loud thud"

If say, killing the mimic allowed you to open all 9 boxes AND "9 noise runs" did not exist, then there would be a reason to consider fighting the mimic. As it stands it is a complete waste of effort, under all conditions.

[Stuzey]

I was told recently, that if you open 8 chests, it improves your chances of the gold one being a loud thud....

I have no idea if this is true, but it would be kind of cool, if the gold chest scaled up with the number of chests opened

[Sirmarki]

I got the Omen body from just noise, noise.

[Isola]

I got the Omen body from just noise, noise.

Incorrect. You got the body from the terminal coffer. The 2 noises did nothing.

[cheyrn]

I think Simarki means that. I had watched a video on youtube where someone said essentially nothing good worthwhile will be in the gold chest if the previous chests all produced "You hear a noise". So, that is interesting to note. But, I don't think I'll be trying the gold chest after "you hear a noise".