Mortal Shell 2 Tarstone XP ranked: Snowworm pays 4.9x better than the biggest reward in the game

Snowworm is the most efficient Tarstone XP target in Mortal Shell II, returning 160 XP from only 130 health. That is 4.9 times more XP per point of health than Solnir, the Gloom Seeker, which pays the biggest raw reward in the game at 800.

1.23

SNOWWORM XP PER HEALTH

4.9x

BETTER THAN THE TOP PAYER

ENEMIES RANKED BELOW

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The biggest Tarstone payouts are the worst places to farm
Snowworm leads the ten most efficient targets
Every named enemy, ordered by reward per point of health
Why the ranking is a shortlist and not a route

The biggest Tarstone payouts are the worst places to farm

Tarstone XP scales with how dangerous an enemy is, and so does its health pool. The two rise together, which means chasing the largest reward number is close to the least efficient thing you can do. A 800 XP kill that takes minutes of careful fighting loses badly to a 160 XP kill you can finish in seconds and repeat.

Ranking every enemy by reward per point of health inverts the obvious order almost completely.

Snowworm leads the ten most efficient targets

🥇Snowworm — 160 XP from 130 health — 1.23 per point

🥈Huksar, The Grisha Hunter — 240 XP from 350 health — 0.69 per point

🥉BladeSlave — 200 XP from 325 health — 0.62 per point

04Gloombound Ritualist — 200 XP from 470 health — 0.43 per point

05Grisha Hunter – Axe — 200 XP from 500 health — 0.40 per point

06Grisha Hunter – Bow — 200 XP from 500 health — 0.40 per point

07Grisha Hunter – Spear — 200 XP from 500 health — 0.40 per point

08The Wandering Shepherd — 400 XP from 1050 health — 0.38 per point

09PapaRoach — 200 XP from 560 health — 0.36 per point

10Shellsnatcher — 250 XP from 800 health — 0.31 per point

Every named enemy, ordered by reward per point of health

Position 1 is the most efficient. The XP column is what you gain; the health column is roughly what you pay for it.

#	Enemy	Tarstone XP	Health	XP per health (Rank)	Poise
1	Snowworm	160	130	1.23	75
2	Huksar, The Grisha Hunter	240	350	0.69	75
3	BladeSlave	200	325	0.62	75
4	Gloombound Ritualist	200	470	0.43	85
5	Grisha Hunter – Axe	200	500	0.40	55
6	Grisha Hunter – Bow	200	500	0.40	55
7	Grisha Hunter – Spear	200	500	0.40	55
8	The Wandering Shepherd	400	1050	0.38	5
9	PapaRoach	200	560	0.36	125
10	Shellsnatcher	250	800	0.31	150
11	Tainted Vestige	300	1000	0.30	200
12	Starlight Anomaly	300	1100	0.27	90
13	Vrago, Solikar Champion	500	1900	0.26	250
14	Pale Grisha	700	2800	0.25	300
15	Solnir, the Gloom Seeker	800	3200	0.25	180
16	Vellen, High Lord of Mammon	350	1500	0.23	160
17	PapaRoach	100	440	0.23	100
18	Caged Grisha	700	3200	0.22	300
19	Grisha	400	2000	0.20	270
20	Starved Harridan	800	4200	0.19	240
21	Tishina’s Confessor	250	1400	0.18	220
22	Great Arbiter of Flesh	300	1750	0.17	200
23	Twin Sisters	110	650	0.17	200
24	Infested Miner	270	1600	0.17	200
25	Bor, the Deluded Monarch	280	1800	0.16	120
26	Vrannic, the Grand Illusionist	300	2000	0.15	100
27	Lucian, the Thirsting Knight	200	1400	0.14	150
28	Lucian, the Thirsting Knight	200	1400	0.14	150
29	The Warden	250	1750	0.14	200
30	Strange Grisha	400	3000	0.13	250
31	Prophet of Profane Infinities	280	2740	0.10	200
32	Sester Secundus	150	1500	0.10	90
33	Gloombound Wraith	250	2630	0.10	90
34	Stray Sester	110	1200	0.09	200
35	Viletongue Batushka	100	1100	0.09	80
36	Urrig, the Executioner	250	4200	0.06	190
37	Bloodcursed Lithopod	150	2600	0.06	150
38	Subjugated Guardian	135	2700	0.05	150
39	Tarblighted Stoner	35	1650	0.02	300

Why the ranking is a shortlist and not a route

Reward per point of health assumes damage output is what limits you. It is not the only thing that does. Kill speed also depends on animation locks, how much an enemy dodges or blocks, how densely it spawns, and how far you travel between spawns. A frail enemy that spends the fight running away is a poor farm whatever its ratio says.

Use the order above to decide where to look, then test the loop yourself.