Gloom

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Lightning based melee attack, Charge (Physical attack with running start, knocks you back and ignores avoidance)
Comment: Not aerodynamic, but can fly anyway.
Strategy: Avoid that a pack of them rushes to you, or you might get badly hurt, VERY badly, in fact. A charge will KB you, leaving you vulnerable to another charge, which will leave you vulnerable to another one, which... Well, you possibly got the point already.
In order to avoid that, if you see they’re going to charge lock you get yourself next to a wall, since if they don’t KB you they can’t charge anymore.

Thunder Beetle

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Lightning attack, casts Claw Tornado on attack (weapon based (1/2 damage) skill which hits multiple times (it has a ND of 4))
Comment: It’s huge and hard, but it’s still just a bug.
Strategy: Not letting them corner you when being attacked by other mobs is a good idea, but in fact these guys don’t really pose a threat.

Unholy Scarab

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Casts Claw Tornado on attack, Lightning melee attack.
Comment: Should we supose that there are Holy Scarabs too?
Strategy: As long as they don’t corner you, you shouldn’t have any problem... and even if they do, you shouldn’t have an problem anyway.

Tomb Guardian

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Casts Claw Tornado on attack, lightning melee attack.
Comment: Former tomb protector spirit, now turned to destroy.
Strategy: Where’s the insecticide?

Tomb Curse ELITE

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Lightning attack, casts Claw Tornado on attack, calls hostile Darkwarden on attack.
Comment: Urban legends say that they can outlast a nuclear bomb. As Beacon sins have proved, they can’t.
Strategy: Melee combat isn’t the best choice, mainly because their simple attack is pretty strong and their Claw Tornado is likely to kill you if you get to low life and attempt to chicken out. But that’s not the worst part... they call Darkwardens on attack... and Darkwardens are bad.
Range is obviously reccomended, if you really don’t have any other way than melee, then dive in, hit a few times and get away before they call King Kong’s angry cousin.
Since they only have weapon based attacks, defense is very helpful when fighting them.

Darkwarden ELITE Summoned by Elite Beetles.

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Lolling thunder (basically, a nova of weapon damage that KBs you and multihits. Similar to Retaliate, but without the “get hit” factor nor the added magic damage), apocalyptic physical attack.
Comment: This specific kind of giant used to roam hell berserkly and happened to have quite a thing for squashing giant beetles. It was Azmodan’s idea to cage them into talismans to unleash them safely in the middle of battles. Mephisto thought that it’d be much more fun to make them be summoned by scarabs.
When those two screwed it up, it took Baal quite a while to change their AIs so that they were actually “friends” of the bugs and didn’t squash them right after appearing.
Strategy: If this is the first time you come across this monster, please profit of his low speed and recover your corpse. Done? Good.
You really should leave him alone, I know that you might consider that “lol fleein’ suxorz”, but you’re NOT meant to kill this guy at low level. :roll: You still want to kill him, don’t you?
---KILL ALL THE BEETLES BEFORE, ALSO GET RID OF OTHER ANNOYING MONSTERS AROUND---
Ok, ranged characters should simply keep a distance and range him, I know it’s shocking. More or less same for casters, simply don’t let him catch you at all. Summoners should also just keep summoning over and over until he dies.
The thing is: “What the heck do melee chars do?” There are two options:
Ez mode-> Buy a few “Stun attack” MOs or get yourself some other stun source, then once you start hitting him it’s done.
Real man mode-> Dive in, hit twice, flee-> Dive in, hit twice, flee -> Dive in, hit twice, flee... Just don’t let him touch you or you’ll be dead meat. Maybe you can hit a few more times before fleeing if you have a decent defense rating.
Of course, if you think you can tank a pack of these monsters then you should leave drugs, seriously, that sh*t’s no good for you.
-Remember that you don’t have to kill anything in your way, we won’t laugh at you if you don’t. Or maybe we will, but you won’t know, so it doesn’t matter.

Prowler

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Cast Mark of the wild on striking and melee/ranged (javelins) physical attack.
Comment: Luckily for you, they don’t really prowl.
Strategy: Show them who is the master of the beta 47.

Prowler Priestess

Immune to: Abracadabra.
Skills: Ranged/melee physical attack, has Fanaticism (damage/ attack speed increasing aura) mapped under the rmb.
Comment: Many ignore the reason why this kitten can actually use an aura... I count myself among the ignorants, too.
Strategy: Simple, while aura looks pretty cool and stops charmers from commanding these monsters, it actually doesn’t rise the damage to any noticeable amount, therefore you don’t really have to worry about killing them first, despite it’s reccomended.

Sun Tiger

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Casts a slow moving directional fire ball that explodes on striking.
Comment: Member of the Sun’s priesthood, this kind of feline is an adept at spellcasting.
Strategy: Yet once again, unless you have negative fire resistance they won’t actually do anything.

Moon Panther

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Cast slow moving directional lightning balls that releases charged bolts on striking.
Comment: They make covens at full moon nights where they explicitly rub each others to gather an electrostatic charge and improve their arcane powers... wish you were a cat, don’t you? ;)
Strategy: While those covens look interesting, they hardly achieve any real improvement with them, in short: lit res + beta 47.

Desert Cat

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Cast Mark of the Wild, melee or ranged physical attacks.
Comment: “Meow, I’m gonna rip out your filthy innards, meow.”
Strategy: Nothing to worry about.

Desert Priestess

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Fanaticism aura, also buffs herself with Mark of the Wild when striking with her ranged physical attacks.
Comment: From the werecats lost tribes of the desert, this kind of feline channels the power of long time forgotten deities and empowers her allies’ blows with their arcane might. (Who said I can’t be serious, eh? :P)
Strategy: The buff from her aura is fairly weak, but well, it’s always better to kill her first, just in case.

Black Cat ELITE

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Ranged physical attack, casts Nightmare on striking.
Comment: The number of trucks that run over grannies dramatically increases when these cats are around.
Strategy: While they’re not dangerous by themselves, Nightmare slows you down (a lot) and that renders you extremely vulnerable to other monsters, also, it stops your summoned / reanimated monsters from healing in any way; in order to avoid that, kill them first and try to avoid the javelins.

Corruptor Mage

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Casts Poison Hands.
Comment: Once again, some random undead with shiny white bones that poisons you from a distance, did you actually check what that green glowing thing they hurl at you is?
Strategy: They can only be really dangerous in a couple situations, like when you’re locked in melee and they poison you from behind the mobs wall.
However, with some decent poison resistances, some “Reduced poison length” (NPCs sell it as a MO modifier) and trying to avoid the (pretty slow) bolts, you shouldn’t really have trouble with them.
Also remember that their moving speed is pretty high and that they will flee from melee combat.

Fell Pit Fiend

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Melee physical attack, shoot a weapon based ball of more physical damage.
Comment: Fell down a pit when they were younger, never got over it.
Strategy: Some defense will be enough to tank them the little time you’ll need to send them back to their pit, ranged characters should laugh at their pathethic speed and kill them while they’re 20 yards away.

Sand Devil

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Poison melee attack.
Comment: Are you wondering why out of all of the demons, these spiders are the ones carrying the “Devil” title? *points to Astrogha, sitting in his infernal throne*
Strategy: Beta 47 pl0x.

Hivehost ELITE

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Physical/poisoned attack, calls hostile Brood Swarm on attack, casts directional Carpet of Spiders on attack.
Comment: Instead of actually burying the eggs of the bees in the victim’s flesh, as many seem to believe, what they actually do is spraying his face with an extremely bad smelling liquid, which guides those insects hordes to their foe.
Strategy: Ok, first of all, standing in a place when fighting them is a bad idea, even if you’re a melee char move, if you stay still you’ll get yourself locked due to the summoned packs and killed when they proc their CoS.
If you manage to actually keep moving, they won’t be a real threat, use your most devastating (or less suxy :P) abilities against them, focus on the spiders themselves, ignoring the bees or any other random mobs.
(Note: I would suggest not ignoring Darkwarden type monsters, though :P)

Brood Swarm ELITE Summoned by Hivehosts

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Physical melee attack™.
Comment: They might be small, but their spectral power is high... and it sort of hurts when they all bite your butt, too.
Strategy: Since all they do is following you around and attacking in melee, the Beta 47 is the perfect solution... once you’ve gotten rid of the Hivehosts, that is.

Blood Stinger

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Phys melee attack, opens wounds, casts Poison Flash on attack, also drains stamina... but who gives a damn about stamina anyway?
Comment: He stings, you bleed, the usual.
Strategy: As long as you have some poison resists, these guys are pathetically ridiculous and ridiculosly pathethic.

Undead Vulture

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Physical melee attack, casts Bloodlust (buffing skill) on death.
Comment: Now, look who was the one eating carrier pidgeons!!
Strategy: They suck by themselves... but their Bloodlust death is no joke, try to leave them for last when fighting packs of other mobs unless you want to feed them extra damage.
Also, they’re totally invulnerable when flying.
And just a note, many times once they land they’ll turn out to still be invulnerable to every single of your attacks, no matter if spell or weapon based, that’s a sort of bug which will fix by itself once they begin moving. Take it as another hint telling you that you should kill other stuff first.

Oasis Guard

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Melee physical attack, invulnerability on flight, casts Bloodlust on death.
Comment: Likes to sit on picnic tables.
Strategy: Leave them for last, you don’t want to buff all the other other mobs around, do you?

Pit Knight

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Pounce, Fire based melee attack.
Comment: Though it looks cute all that, it’s not friendly at all... Yeah, just realized you chose the wrong side, didn’t you?
Strategy: You won’t see them getting close, they’ll just Pounce on you and then begin whacking you with those big bad swords of them. Nothing you can’t actually withstand.
Btw, do yourself a favor and remember they they reproduce by tainting human corpses, hence you can’t score with them anyway, it’s just not physically possible.
Sucks, I know.

Asatruar

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Casts Punisher with no timer at distance, but for some reason just physically whacks you with that stick of him when he’s at melee range.
Comment by Diablo, Prime Evil of Terror, original designer of these monsters: “Oh, yeah *giggles* you’ll see, so that they actually didn’t collapse after casting three Punishers in a row, we had to delete a pretty much huge part of their AI, so now once they actually reach you in melee they prefer chasing you and hitting your skull with their bat instead of casting again *winks*”
Strategy: Pretty obvious, avoid getting crippled by the first extremely slow Punishers wave, then kill them whichever way you prefer.

Raider

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Slowing physical melee attack.
Comment: Skilled warriors of a pigmy tribe of the dessert, they have allied with Hell’s legions in exchange for... meh, you possibly can guess it by yourself.
Strategy: Not a real threat due to their slow attack/moving speed, but still they can pack a punch, beware of getting locked by them and their pretty long attack range.

Crusher

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Melee physical attack.
Comment: Always angry, there’s no room for talk.
Strategy: They’re VERY slow, but in exchange they can pack quite a punch when they hit you. Hence, range is better than melee combat. However, they’re not that strong, with some defense you might find yourself tanking them with relative ease.

Daystar ELITE

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Angelfire! Obviously fire elemental spell. Also a dreaded physical melee slap.
Comment: May the daystar light your path. On fire. –Laz.
Strategy: Simple, Angelfire is a powerful spell because it doesn’t have NextDelay and therefore it hits you twenty fricking five per each second you stay into it. The fact that you actually notice that the HP globe goes down instead of simply auto-emptying is already showing you that the damage per frame is pretty low, so then, the obvious hints are moving and getting a very decent fire resistance. Also you can get some “Magic Damage Reduction”, which, with relatively low amounts, will negate almost (if not totally) all damage.
(Thankees go to Sing_In_Silence for the MDR tactic idea and test ^^).
However, moving is cheaper.
You should also note that these mobs do have melee atacks (laughable of course), exploit them! You don’t want to be yards away from them so that they can crisp you in seconds, you want to get closer and stab them in their respective livers with a rusty spoon while they attempt to slap you.
-Just a note about Angelfire itself, it’s actually a trap with pretty wide trigger radius, the fact that you never see the shining light when Daystars attack you is because they cast it right on your head, making it trigger instantly.
This is quite more noticeable if you get allied Daystars and simply kill faster than them. If you killed a monster in the moment when they were casting Angelfire, it won’t trigger it.

Gargoyle

Immune to: Ligthning.
Skills: Lightning melee attack, casts Shower of Rocks on attack.
Comment: *looks at the rocks raining down from the sky*... Maybe they didn’t want a tea, after all...
Strategy: Simple, the avalanche can be easily dodged, it has a 2 seconds delay since you see the “impact zone” on the ground. Once you see it, move.
Getting locked in melee by these monsters is almost impossible... but if you do, you’re pretty much doomed. Note that defense helps dodging the stones.

Arcane Toad

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Magic Missiles, Stunning melee physical attack and cast Arcane Fury on attack .
Comment: They have managed to merge thousands of years of knowledge and millions of arcane words into a single devastatingly powerful magical word: Croak.
Strategy: Magic damage is usually a problem since common gear doesn’t usually give any Magic resistance, this is pretty much an exception, though.
Not because the spell won’t hurt, it will, but they’re not likely to last enough to really cast it more than twice. Also, don’t expect them to actually proc Arcane fury and start casting, they’re not that smart.

Fata Morgana

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Melee physical attack, invisibility.
Comment: A relative of the ghosts of the Past, Present and Future Christmas.
Strategy: An invisible melee enemy, you know what to do.

Ice Clan ELITE Brainless minion edition!

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Melee physical onslaught, also cast a self-only speed boost on attack.
Comment: You thought that there were not FLIYING POLAR GOATMANS, didn’t you? Well, you were right, they don’t fly :P
Strategy: It is much better to lure them away from the caster before actaully killing them, if you don’t then the mix of physical, magic and cold damage is most likely to kill you. If you manage to lure them out of his range, though, they’ll die pretty soon.

Ice Clan ELITE Caster edition!

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Casts Pain Spirit (magic damage), uses Ice Clan corpses (only) to cast Shatter the Flesh, damage increases as life lowers.
Comment: After biking across Europe with his faculty pals for a year, he has finally decided to finish his thesis about the effects of ice on human flesh; currently doing some tests on the field.
Strategy: Unless you want them to Shatter your Flesh, luring his melee pals is reccomended, kill them out of his range and then come back and kill him whichever way you prefer. Remember that he won’t use other corpses to cast StF than Ice Clan’s.

Mummy’s Sarcophagus

Immune to: NOTHING SUPER-DUPER LOL.
Skills: Calls hostile Genies ( real skill name = Rub Lamp)
Comment: Not your mummy’sarcophagus... I think.
Strategy: It’s often better killing the thing that spawns your enemies before dealing with those enemies themselves.
On an unrelated note, some say that fire is the best way to fight fire, that’s stupid: The best way to fight fire is to place several particle-disruptor-thingie-dee units that, by projecting a delta waves concentrated beam, change the electron’s charge of the air in their effect’s zone and turn the oxygen into something not flammable... like cheez.

Genie

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Cold melee attack, invisibility.
Comment: Will grant you three wishes.... not.
Strategy: While you should destroy the sarcophagus that spawned them first, there’s no real need of strategy for these ones. Note that in some places they’ll spawn all by themselves.

Sand Maggot Egg/Young/(Adult)

Immune to: Nothing.
Skills: They grow, from egg to young, then from young to adult. The young version has a melee physical attack. The adult one has that same type of attack, it lays eggs and hides under the sand when damaged. Also it can cast a short ranged poison sputter.
Comment: Yeah, there’s hell need of an entry for these ones! Really, you’ll fight them like... three times in your life ¬¬...
Strategy: Don’t make me laugh :P

Poison Spitter

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Casts poison sputter (a spell, so it ignores def).
Comment: Fast moving mutant lizard that spits deadly poison to any foe on sight.
Strategy: Unless your poison resistance utterly sucks, you should have no problem.

Red Storm

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Casts Flash, leaves trapped corpses.
Comment: Despite of his name, Flash is still blue.
Strategy: With some lightning resistances they won’t be match for you, but the thing is that you should avoid stepping on their corpses. They leave a Static Trap on death, that once triggered, releases several stunning bolts; this makes them a pain in the ass for most summoners.

Bone Archer

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Cold arrows.
Comment: Cold to the bone, nothing moves him.
Strategy: No real strategy needed here, this is just the typical static ranged random enemy and anything will do when it comes to wtfslay him.

Bone Warrior

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Melee cold attack.
Comment: So this is what happens when you freeze a Returned...interesting...
Strategy: Again, beta 47 is enough.

Bone Warlock

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Single target Frozen Soul.
Comment: Since last fall’s “incident” they can’t go into Lut-Gholein’s public library anymore.
Strategy: In packs, they might deal slightly decent damage even with good cold resistances, however, their HP suckzors and you can avoid Frozen Souls without too much trouble.

Cursed Soul

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Single target Frozen Soul.
Comment: Used to suffer halitosis, but not anymore.
Strategy: Even ignoring their random AI locks if you force them close to walls, they’re not dangerous.

Shredder ELITE

Immune to: Cold.
Skills: Casts Frozen Orb
Comment: Said to be Lazkarum’s punishment to an ancient clan of magicians whose powers surpassed the limit he had settled for humanity.
Strategy: With cold resistance you can melee them freely, their FO looks stronger than it really is. However, you might find youself in an icy tomb if you rush into a pack of them without cold resistance. Ranged characters can perfectly range them from out of the damage zone of FO.

Ghost Flame

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Lightning melee attack, casts Lightning.
Comment: A flame that is immune to poison and attacks with lightning??... I mean wtf.
Strategy: Ghost or not, they’re not immune to a good ole axe hack.

Lightning Spire

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Casts Glacial Nova and Lightning.
Comment: Don’t ask me why it doesn’t cast Supernova, which would have actually made sense.
Strategy: You might want to get rid of it before atacking the other mobs, since being frozen is quite likely to slow you down.

Condemned

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Casts Pyroblast and Apocalypse.
Comment: bbq?
Strategy: With non totally suxy fire resistances and maybe a hp pot, you’ll laugh at these pyromaniacs as you do with everything else. Even though you should avoid Pyroblasts.

Sand Raider

Immune to: Lightning.
Skills: Cold melee attack, teleports you on striking.
Comment: Loves to wear tall sandals when going out.
Strategy: They don’t pose a real threat, but there’s a chance they could teleport you next to enemies that DO pose a threat, hence killing them before other monsters is pretty much a good idea.

Marauder

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Cold melee attack, teleports you on striking.
Comment: Having six arms is useful even out of combat.
Strategy: They don’t hit hard enough to be a threat, but there’s always the chance that they tele you into a pack of frenzied monsters, hence, ignoring them isn’t reccomended.

Magma Demon

Immune to: Fire
Skills: Fire melee attack, casts a wave of fiery rocks.
Comment: When the Horadrim caged fire imps into stone they should’ve thought a little more about the consequences...
Strategy: Since their spell (rocks wave) ignores defense (like any spell), if you don’t have good resistances but do have decent defense, melee combat will be better, on the other hand, with low defense but good resistances you might prefer ranging them and trying to avoid the rocks (fairly easy).

Tomb Snake

Immune to: Poison.
Skills: Charge, which ignores avoidance, and physical melee attack.
Comment: They used to be guardian ethereal spirits of ancient evils... One day they realized that being physical and defiling the tombs would be much more fun.
Strategy: Charge is bad, for it will hit you and KB you, leaving you vulnerable other charges. Getting charge locked by a whole pack of snakes is worse, getting charge locked by the whole pack as other mobs attack you is horrible. Be creative and avoid it, I’ve said. (A way can be, for example, fighting next to walls so that Charge won’t KB you, which will stop them from locking you)

Fallen Warrior

Immune to: Magic.
Skills: Concentration aura: rises damage, attack rating and attack speed; also melee physical attack and chance to deal crushing blow.
Comment: Carry big swords and like cutting people by the half with them; it’s like their hobby, you know.
Strategy: The aura buff is pretty much laughable... but well, it might actually be better to get rid of these undead before actually attacking other mobs, mostly because their own damage isn’t so laughable.

Fire Tower

Immune to: Fire.
Skills: Apocalypse.
Comment: The undeniable proof of magic requiring a superior intellect and a powerful spirit, is that even inanimate objects can cast it.
Strategy: You’re kidding, aren’t you?

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