Quick Summary
Monsters are the primary enemies encountered by the player. Killed monsters may grant experience and drop items and gold. Monsters can belong to four rarity types: Key points: Normal: This is the weakest and most common rarity of monsters, but such enemies appear in larger numbers, often forming 'monster packs'. They can have some innate abilities but do not have any modifiers by default (though they can have properties granted to them by nearby rare monsters). · Magic: These monsters are more powerful and less common. They will randomly generate with one or two modifiers that empower them and improve their drops. · Rare: These are the least common and most powerful type of randomly generated monsters. They can have multiple modifiers which can significantly increase their difficulty. Certain monster types have different base abilities and stats when they appear as rare monsters, beyond the random modifiers affecting them. Some of the modifiers that can affect a rare monster can take the form of auras or other buffs that empower other nearby monsters, and the combination of modifiers that affect any specific rare monster can make it more dangerous than a similarly levelled unique monster.
Monsters are the primary enemies encountered by the player. Killed monsters may grant experience and drop items and gold. Monsters can belong to four rarity types:
- Normal: This is the weakest and most common rarity of monsters, but such enemies appear in larger numbers, often forming 'monster packs'. They can have some innate abilities but do not have any modifiers by default (though they can have properties granted to them by nearby rare monsters).
- Magic: These monsters are more powerful and less common. They will randomly generate with one or two modifiers that empower them and improve their drops.
- Rare: These are the least common and most powerful type of randomly generated monsters. They can have multiple modifiers which can significantly increase their difficulty. Certain monster types have different base abilities and stats when they appear as rare monsters, beyond the random modifiers affecting them. Some of the modifiers that can affect a rare monster can take the form of auras or other buffs that empower other nearby monsters, and the combination of modifiers that affect any specific rare monster can make it more dangerous than a similarly levelled unique monster.
- Unique: These monsters are not randomly generated. Specific unique monsters are guaranteed to appear in specific campaign areas and maps when they are inhabited by a boss, as well as certain Atlas encounters such as rogue exiles. These monsters have carefully constructed abilities and move sets to provide a challenging and rewarding fight, and many in the campaign are required to be killed to complete Quests.
Boss
Bosses are unique monsters typically encountered in boss arenas. Boss arenas are usually preceded by checkpoints. Dying against a boss will reset the encounter.
Mechanics
Many bosses are capable of using deadly attacks that ignore block and evasion, indicated by the boss flashing red and giving a sound cue before unleashing the attack.
Bosses take less damage when they first spawn in. This damage reduction gradually tapers away over time, and tapers off faster while the boss is moving. Bosses which cannot or barely move have a shorter damage reduction period.
| Version | Changes |
| 0.4.0 | Bosses now have an Anti-Burst damage mechanic: Once a boss has finished it's emerge or becomes aggro the damage reduction period starts counting down. The damage reduction tapers down from full effect to no effect over the course of this du |
| 0.3.0 | Monsters have 30% more Stun Buildup against players who have their Shield Raised, and ~12% more Stun Buildup vs players who are Parrying. Lowered the growth on Monster Evasion Rating with level. This results in level 80 monsters having 30% |
| 0.2.0g | Except for a few Unique Bosses at the start of Act 1, all Unique Monsters will always drop a Rare item. In campaign, you only get the guaranteed Rare item the first time you kill each boss. In maps you always get it. |
| 0.2.0f | Moderately reduced the capacity for monsters to Light Stun you especially towards Cruel and Endgame by lowering the amount of Stun-Damage they deal, and increasing the minimum they must deal to Light Stun you. Additionally, Elemental, Chaos |
| 0.2.0e | Many human monsters including the Cultists in Freythorn, the Faridun and the Tribal Humans in Act Three have behaviour where they can interrupt their melee attacks if the player moves too far out of range during the attack, especially for a |
| 0.2.0b | All non-unique monsters have less life, tapering from 100% to 75% of what they had between levels 8 and 15. All monsters between level 15 and 46 now have exactly 25% less Life. All monsters between level 46 and 64 now have less life, taperi |
| 0.2.0 | Bosses that need to perform certain actions to progress their fight will now become immune to damage if their life is brought significantly past the point at which that action should be used. This should have no noticeable effect to most pl |
| 0.1.0e | Critical Strikes from Monsters now deal 40% less bonus Damage. Chaos Damage now scales less aggressively over the Endgame. |
| 0.1.0 | Introduced to the game. |
