Nick: hey guys, remember how obnoxious Greavers were before we nerfed them? How they basically created floor traps that demolished player shields with their half-second pulses?

Yeah, let's make a monster that dashes like the Greaver (but doesn't flinch as easily,) creates MORE of those floor trap effects that last LONGER and can inflict TWO kinds of status when lit.

Ooh, let's give them the Lichens' spray-'n'-pray spin so players will constantly have to guess which behavior to expect.

Also, let's not make a maximum cap for the oil spawns like we did with the Shadow Fire in the Vanaduke fight. That would just be silly.

And you know what would make these things perfect? Polyps that generate MORE of these things. Everything will be constantly covered in flaming poison oil! Won't that be fun?