The Root Mother |
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| Location | Earth |
| Enemies | Devil Slayer Hulk |
| Reward | Mother's Blessing Trait Root Mother will join Ward 13 |
Check Root Mother for the NPC version.
The Root Mother is a Boss in Remnant: From the Ashes. Bosses are special Enemies that are uniquely named and must be defeated to progress the game and to acquire special items and gear.
The Root Mother Information
The Root Mother is actually not a boss that you fight, rather she is an NPC that you defend for a set amount of time. After progressing enough through the Earth Realm while in Campaign Mode (Root Mother does not appear in Adventure Mode) you will come across a church with a white fog wall, and a Crystal to rest at. Upon entering, she gives dialogue options, and ultimately, you must defend her from a Root Ambush. Upon victory, she will move to Ward 13 where she is used for gaining additional heals, assuming you have the materials.
The Root Mother Location
- Location: Church of the Harbinger - Earth
- This boss is not optional.
The Root Mother Rewards
- Mother's Blessing Trait
- Root Mother will join Ward 13
The Root Mother Strategies
Video Strategies
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Strategy Writeup
After you talk to The Root Mother, an event will begin where you have to defend her from The Root for two minutes. Devils will start coming out of the windows. If you kill them all, more will spawn. However you can leave one alive and kite it around the room with relative ease.
After around 30-40 seconds, 1-2 Slayers will spawn and immediately target the Root Mother. Kill them ASAP. There should be roughly 1 minute left on the clock at this stage.
Enemies will begin to spawn with increasing regularity. One option is to use Rattle Weed to draw enemies' attention away from the Root Mother, allowing you to focus on high priority targets such as additional Slayers, or the Hulk who will appear in the final 45 seconds. The Hulk's attention can also be gained with sufficient damage. Hunter's Mark is another solid choice for spotting swarming targets ahead of time and moving to address them, providing additional crit chance as well.
The Root Mother need only survive until the countdown ends, whether she has full health or 5% is irrelevant, so deal with the Hulk and Slayers first as their damage output is far greater than one solitary devil. Allowing multiple devils to swarm her though, is also ill-advised.
Given the small size of the area, a short-range, high-damage weapon such as the shotgun is well suited for this fight. Modded with Hot Shot, the player will have decent single target damage when confronting Slayers and Hulks.
Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Counter |
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| Devil | Try to dispatch them as soon as they appear. They can provide you with ammunition. However consider sparing one and kiting it to prevent further spawns. |
| Slayer | Shoot them in the head as soon as they appear, when they teleport, fire at them quickly so they don't have time to attack. |
| Hulk | Fire at its head. If it charges at you, dodge to either side and keep firing until its dead. |
The Root Mother Lore
- The Root Mother was once human but made the decision to sacrifice herself in an attempt to interface with the Root hive mind and hinder it from the inside, going to the old church and physically binding herself to the Root there, transforming her into a human-root hybrid. Eventually the player frees her from her prison, and she returns to Ward 13 to aid them.
- Root Mother name is Evelyn Ceder.
- She is Commander Ford’s grandmother.
- Ford is her husband.
- The world stone is what made Ford immortal. He had to find the Root Mother to become mortal again.
- A journal of hers can be found in the room the player awakens in upon entering Ward 13, with the writings detailing earlier days of the war, the start of her dreams, and her romance with Ford. A second journal can be found in a room in the church after defending the Root Mother, detailing more dreams, connections to the Root, and events leading to her becoming the Root Mother.
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Lore notes, information on folklore, etc go here
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The Root Mother Notes & Trivia
Voice Actor, homages, and other trivia go here.
The Root Mother Image Gallery
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AnonymousWish we could grab the sniper rifle before having to free her. Woulda made defending a bit easier.
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Hulk (climbing through the window): time to beat up the tree grandma
Me: oh no you don't (5 rifle shots to hulk's face)
Hulk: are there bees in here? HI GRANDMA
Me: fffffff (3 SMG clips to the back of hulk's head as it relentlessly clubs the old woman)
Root Mother: yeah just keep trying until the hulk doesn't spawn, it's bullshDEATH WAVE WHOOARRRRRRR
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So I have a hardcore mode save and I'm really damn scared for this bit, lmao
Any preparation tips? Weapon mods or Weapons I can get from other worlds in Adventure mode ect?
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The balancing in this area is stupid. At some point you are either overrun by the amount of enemies, or they will just go straight to her. You are kinda forced to go with equipment you don't want to play with.
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Nightmare mode this boss is bs, I already see it coming lol...
I think I shouldve done hard on 2nd playthrough not nightmare lmao.
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This is one of the hardest events to help people with. Seriously, the amount of dumb people that continue to kill her over and over and over and over...thinking this time it will be different. How hard is it to understand that you are supposed to protect her...
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The Rattle Weed mod helps a lot with this one. Use it, and enemies will go after it rather than the Root Mother.
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This one is difficult to categorize the way the pages are named right now. It has far more in common with the random events than the bosses, with the exception that it is not random. Perhaps the random events page should be renamed to simply "Events", so it could include this encounter.
This isn’t a boss, this is a defense objective. If this is a boss then so are the Warframe cryopods
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At some point she shoots an aoi and you need to safe roll or die with all mobs remaining in the room. I died twice before figuring it out. Feels kinda stupid unless there is something I don't understand or miss. You clue is when she say "they start weaking".
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I just have a general question with is it possible to use menders aura to heal her?
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With ruin equipped, if you let her die with the perk active, you will revive and the event will restart, but she will have "0" health so you cant fail. Definitely a glitch
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Man its some hot bull*****on hard mode where ranged enemies will focus entirely on attacking root mother while ignoring the magazine you emptied into them while more come along to focus just on her and give no damns about how many times you shoot them to get them to focus on you.
This fight wouldn't be bad if this dumb ****ing retard with the big sword would notice the hot lead I'm pouring into his face and stop attacking his own kind
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