I've fought the worm probably a dozen times, following the current guides the entire time. Every single time, at around the third or fourth round (it seems to vary), instead of applying another + or -, it instantly kills one of my pets. I take great care to memorize which symbol comes next so I know it isn't a problem with the wrong symbol being applied. It makes the worm impossible to kill because it quickly kills my other two pets while the "dead" one is being revived. Is this how it's supposed to be? Has anyone else had the same issue?


These are the pets I use, as well as the mega boss debuff and ent flasks:

Dawnbreaker ~ Birch ~ Frost (in that order)

(I am aware of Birch's mismatched armor setup, but it doesn't seem to affect him as he is somehow the sturdiest member of my party)

Edit: I've tried using Ice Shield + the regular shield when the hit happens and it makes absolutely no difference

This happened to me the first time I tried to killing him. My pet with the lowest health was in a front (~9k health), and got KOed when they were getting the + and - thing. I think it's because whenever the Behe give the signs, he also does a lot of damage to the pet he's putting the +/- on, and maybe with the critical hit too, it's able to KO a low-health pet.

I don't know if this is the case for you or not, but it might be an option, or it may be a real bug.

I had to take one point from dex or agil and move it to health for every pet. (For damagers I always prioritize 3 points str/int; for tanks it's situational but I'm fairly certain my water tank had 1 pt health, 3 str, 2 agil for the worm)

The additional health on the damagers should help them survive a potential 1-hit kill.



Have you been keeping track of it's Empowerment counter? If that gets too high, there's no surviving regardless of what you do for the other mechanics of the fight.

As Kivoichi mentioned, that would be my best guess. Without seeing the battle log of this happening though, there isn't much else I can guess on.