Graywar the Slayer

Kind: Ghost Phoenix.
Home: Bloody Foothills.
Immune to: Fire.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Teleportation.
Skills: Melee physical attack, curses (-50% physical resistance) on striking, casts Rain of Bombs on striking, casts Bloodlust on death. Also teleports (himself) on attack and when attacked. Invisibility
Comment: The lost souls of all those Random Unique bosses attacked this once lovely canary at a time, overhelming and possessing him. Just look at the name, it’s obvious there’s a RU spirit roaming in there.
Minions: ~5 Ghost Phoenixes.
Strategy: I won’t say they aren’t dangerous. But that’s not because they’re a boss and his pack, but because they’re a pack of elites. The only extra danger would be the curse, but kill Graywar first and it’ll be done.

Shenk the Overseer

Kind: Fire Clan (priest edition).
Home: Bloody Foothills.
Immune to: Cold.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Strong, Magic Resistant.
Skills: Casts Pain Spirit, explodes minions’ corpses, has passive Bacchanalia and casts Dark Power on death.
Comment: –Search for “Shenk+wtf+quest+reward” finished: 3674 matches found.-
Lol now? [Y/N]
Minions: ~6 melee Fire Clans.
Strategy: The first time you kill him, do it on the platform, since some say it affects getting the quest reward or not (would make sense, if vanilla version was static).
Other than that, you should have no problem blasting him and his crowd. Even though you shouldn’t take a nap on the corpses. Kabooom, you know.

Blackash the Burning

Kind: Corruptor Archer.
Home: Friggin’ Highlands.
Immune to: Poison.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Magic Resistant.
Skills: Lightning/physical ranged attack, curses on striking, casts Cloudkill on striking.
Comment: Senseless titles strike again! Why else would a poison/lightning skeleton archer be called “the Burning?”
(Actually, it’s because it used to be Fire Enchanted back in ’08, but anyway :P)
Minions: ~12 Corruptor Archers.
Strategy: Yeah, sure. All that people who abuse him to farm exp chose him because of being the hardest boss ever. Really.

Gorefeast

Kind: Son of Lucion.
Home: Frigid Highlands, Arreat Plateu Entrance.
Immune to: Poison.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Fast, Spectral Hit.
Skills: Melee spectral attack, casts Cloudkill on striking.
Comment: Hates his father. Really, if only he hadn’t called him Gorefeast, he’d have an oskill named after him now. And everybody knows that rocks.
Minions: ~6 Extra Fast Sons of Lucion.
Strategy: Again, I’m not saying they’re easy, but their strength comes from being elites, not a boss pack.

Bloodskin Darkbow

Kind: Special Bow Vampiress.
Home: Arreat Plateau, next to Crystaline Passage’s entrance.
Immune to: Fire.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Fire Enchanted.
Skills: Casts Bloodstorm, uses Barrage, casts Static Trap on death..
Comment: Flavie got sick of being the only working NPC of the whole game. “Beware! Beyond lies mortal danger for the likes of you!”
Minions: ~8 Special (cast Bloodstorm and Barrage, leave Static Traps on death) Bow Vampiresses.
Strategy: She shouldn’t be too hard to beat, but however, just a note. They’ll cast Bloodstorms right on you, meaning you can perfectly take a nap on them without taking any damage.
Watch out if you have to move, though, the firelazor will shoot at you with it’s full win.

Coldkill Iceguard

Kind: Serafiend.
Home: Frozen River.
Immune to: Magic.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Fast, Teleportation.
Skills: Pounce, melee physical/lightning attack, casts Bone Prison on attack, Teleports on attack and when atttacked.
Comment: The same Pit Knights that stalked you into Lut Gholein- Now in a fancy black color!
Minions: ~6 Extra Fast Serafiends.
Strategy: They will insta-teleport on you and lock you in melee. While freaking out and running away would be feasible, there’s no need to, just smackazor them and pot as usual.

Lionskull the Bent

Kind: Silver Construct.
Home: Nihlathak’s Temple.
Immune to: Magic.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Mana Burn, Spectral Hit.
Skills: Melee spectral attack, casts Thunderslam on attack.
Comment: Pinda runs are OUT!
Minions: ~6 Silver Constructs.
Strategy: Again, this is one of the most farmed bosses. People wouldn’t farm him if they couldn’t wtfpwn him in miliseconds
If from some reason you happen to have trouble with him, you can always corner yourself, only letting three of them attack you at a time.

Nihlathak

Kind: Nihlathak.
Home: Halls of Vaught.
Immune to: Nothing.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Fast, Extra Strong. Not any extra modifiers.
Skills: Nihlathak does “losta strange stuff”:

Death Shards-> Uses a nearby corpse to shoot out a flurry of weapon damage spikes. They have no ND.

Blink-> Teleports and stuns on arrival.

Hunting Banshee-> Spirit that chases a random enemy and explodes releasing a frost nova, without ND.

Rathma’s Unchosen-> No kidding, that’s how the .txts call it. It actualy makes sense, since it’s a different skill.
It targets a monster close to him, turning it invulnerable to all damage (but Damage over Time) and adding 10-15K magic damage to his attacks. For 5 ridiculous seconds.

Call Rust Fury-> He spawns a Rust Fury to cast RU on and annihilate you.

Necrotic Shield-> Regenerates 1/16 life per second. :)

Comment: Possibly the less slain quest boss ever. Let’s face it, nobody cares about Anya (Drehya), her revenge and honor. Do your own dirty job, kthx.
Minions: None.
Strategy: Simple. Lure every monster away from him and kill them. Then come back and begin to smack him with AoE attacks so that whenever he spawns a new Rust Fury it dies pretty much instantly. Repeat until he dies.
Just one thing to watch out for, Death Shards:
That is a very powerful weapon attack, likely to hit you a lot even if you have good defense. The best way to stop it from crippling you is simply staying away from corpses or eating them before he does.
Stopping his regeneration is easy too, get a source of Open Wounds (only works with weapons) or poison and he won’t heal.

Brokenstorm

Kind: Black Ice Demon.
Home: Icy Cellar (Heroic Dungeon).
Immune to: Lightning.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Fast, Cold Enchanted.
Skills: Cast Mindy Flay, dies in miliseconds.
Comment: There’s a full of win creature of the darkness in every game.
Even pokemon had Misty.
Minions: ~5 Black Ice Demons.
Strategy: Yeah, sure. So you’re in a Heroic Dungeon, and you have problems with Mr. Elite SU boss and his Elite followers? Come on.

Talic

Kind: Talic.
Home: Arreat Summit.
Immune to: Nothing.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Strong, Spectral Hit. No extra modifiers.
Skills: Whirlwind, melee physical attack.
Comment: The only nephalem spirit with common sense. It’s whispered that in the dawn of time, some desig-...erm... demigods wanted to force him to dual wield, but he looked at them seriously and with a sharp “that sucks” turned their offer down.
Minions: None.
Strategy: Actually, the three spirits have seen better times and are not properly prepared for the change Sanctuary has experimented. You should have no problem with them.

Korlic

Kind: Korlic.
Home: Arreat Summit.
Immune to: Nothing.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Stone Skin. No extra modifiers.
Skills: Leap Attack. Il Mario Style!
Comment: The blood of the nephalem had already started to lose part of it’s incredible might when the three were born. Proof of this is the fact this one was fooled into believing that two handed weapons rock.
Minions: None.
Strategy: Omg, you can’t be serious. Their attacks are SLOW, meaning you can perfectly move and heal while they swing.
Perhaps you’ve been fooled by your life orb’s display all this time. You’ll see, life in D2 is binary! Yeah, either you have 1 (= alive, max HP) or 0 (=dead) HP. Anything that doesn’t headshoot you can be outhealed and therefore is laughable.

Madawc

Kind: Madawc.
Home: Arreat Summit.
Immune to: Nothing.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Magic Resistant. No extra modifiers.
Skills: d0u8l3 7hr0wn4g3! Also curses on striking.
Comment: Some heretic barbarian cults have the theory of Madawc and Korlic actually being ridiculed spirits placed there to sway fools away from the righteous’ path. I seriously mean, Double Throw? O rly?
Minions: None.
Strategy: I see... so you want an strategy for Madawc, eh?
Well, first of all, ignore the other two spirits that can ocasionally hit you and deal damage. Now cast Dark Summoning...

Red Vex

Kind: Deathsister.
Home: Throne of Destruction.
Immune to: Poison.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Cursed, Mana Burn.
Skills: Casts Blood Star, curses on damaging (-50% physical resistance), casts lower resists on death (reduces all elemental resistances by ??%) and also casts Disco Inferno.
Comment: Oh, the good times. When a succubus could fly through the night sky, slaying left and right with Disco Inferno:
"BrotherLaz" wrote:


SUCCUBUS
Just to point out that there are more attacks than just Disco Inferno. Then again, there is now a Disco Fury.


Minions: ~7 Darksisters.
Strategy: I’ll supose you don’t just cheese them.
There willl be a lot of Dis from the Elite succubi in the room if you just wait there for Baal to summon them. Once you have slayed everything in the room, jump into a TP, get ready and give the death effects time to disappear. Once that’s done, jump back slay them fiercely, it shouldn’t actually be too hard, you know. Jump into another portal after you slay them all.

Blackstorm

Kind: Bane Monster
Home: Throne of Destruction.
Immune to: Lightning.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Fast, Mana Burn.
Skills: Casts Flash, casts Static Trap on death.
Comment: And so, from the remains of Stormbane, the Lord of Destruction spawned a new creature, this time upgradd to lprd!
Minions: ~4 Extra Fast Bane Monsters. Also spawns with a pack of cold skeleton casters, but those suck too much to do anything at all.
Strategy: Their cool looking Flash attack crashes against your lightning resistance, failing epically. Please, punch their respective faces in and laugh out loud.
Bur first, lure them away from the sight of Baal. Why? Because Static Trap will remain there when the LoD eats the corpses, ready to stun you for the next fight.

Dreadjudge

Kind: Bloodbrother
Home: Throne of Destruction.
Immune to: Fire.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Strong, Teleportation.
Skills: Casts Gamma Field, casts Unholy(?) Beam.
Comment: This, my friends, is the fate every single of those so called “Judgesins” met, when Lazkarum unleashed his wrath upon them.
F*ck! They’re GREEEEN now!!
Minions: ~9 Bloodbrothers.
Strategy: Drink pots and you won’t notice Gamma Field, nor their magic piercing beam

Sir Gorash

Kind: Obsidian Knight.
Home: Throne of Destruction.
Immune to: Magic.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Extra Strong, Cursed.
Skills: Melee spectral attack, casts Black Lotus Strike on attack, curses on damaging.
Comment: This perfectly shows the twisted wickedness of Hell: They swapped the titles of monsters, so that heroes get confused and supose that, obviously, the “Knight” version has to be worse than the “Lord” version, which they just pwnt.
Minions: ~11 Obsidian Knights.
Strategy: Well, watch out. Your maxed out poison res means nothing to them, and with a pot you’ll barely manage to make your HP not crush down.
You need a pretty good defense amount now, so that their multielemental hits don’t cripple too often.
Keep your TPs open.Use lolsummons (Daystars) to tank a tiny bit when they’re summoned (they might actually last more than a tiny bit, mainly because they won’t get insta-gibbed by BLS, so the minotaurs will actually have to kill them with weapon swings) and... well... pray yoo ov enef DMGZ.

Infernal Contraption

Kind: Construction.
Home: Throne of Destruction.
Immune to: Fire.
Preset Unique modifier/s: Magic Resistant, Fire Enchanted.
Skills: Call Random Hostile Monsters.
Comment: “Soo, I just have to sign here, right?” –Faust.
Minions: None.
Strategy: It summons monsters and has a pretty high HP. So you can either stay there killing the monsters or you can kill the thing that spawns them.

Baal Prime Evil: Lord of Destruction.

Kind: Baal.
Home: The Worldstone Chamber.
Immune to: Nothing.
Preset Unique modifier/s: None.
Skills: Baal doesn’t have a too impresive skillset, imho, but well:

Melee physical attack.
Rust Storm: Casts it on striking. It slows you down and dramatically cuts your defense down.

Thundergod: Adds stun effect to attacks. Periodically (every 10 seconds) spits weapon based stun novas.

Time Field: Slows you down as long as you stay in the effect field.
Comment: The deadly wounded demon fell on the ground, begging you to hold your fatal blow and listen to him.

“Why do you rise against me, mortal? Have the words of false angels and godsents really blinded you so much?...
It is a shame... together, we would’ve ruled this plane of existance, forever...”

“Trying to corrupt me, Baal? I don’t like cliches.”

“Liches are irrelevant here, why did you even mention them?”

“C-L-I-C-H-E-S.”

“Well, I’m the one who got stabbed in the ear, remember? *cough*
... Anyway... I don’t try to “corrupt” you, hero... I simply offer you a different path, for those suposed allies of yours will betray you when I am gone.
I know that the “Archangel” Tyrael, for example, has the plan of opening a portal for you, telling you that it’ll take you to a peaceful life...
But he will only keep you into it, caged with your memories of this grotesque war until any remain of sanity in your mind is gone.”

“...”

“And once you are just an empty shell, he’ll throw you in this world again, all alone and defenceless to die. That’s why you must help me! Together, we’ll be kings of this world for all the forthcoming millenia!”

“Sure, I’m not immortal, you know. Selling this world for about 30 years of so-so control? No, thanks”.

“Don’t be such a fool! I could grant you immortality right here and now! You just have to come to my side.”

“(... That’s interesting...)”

-Send Tyrael, Cain and all the others to hell and make a pact with Baal?-
[Yes/Yes]

Baal lets out a shout of joy as you take your decision. With a gesture, he creates the most obscenely powerful gear you had ever dreamed about, and explains you (while you leer at the fancy black, bad dude like, armor) that in order to grant you immortality, he has to kill you first (“just to refresh stats”, he says).
So you let him kill you.
And now you’re DEAD.

Good job. Really.

Minions: Nothing! But dozens of Visions of Destruction scattered all across the room, that is.
Strategy: Facing the truth, Baal won’t be as hard as you could expect him to be.

Right when you get into the Worldstone Chamber you’ll be surrounded by Visions of Destruction, yeah. But they actually have lousy HP, so if you have enough defense and pot fast enough you should be able of tanking them for the few seconds killing them will take.

Once that’s done, it’s pretty straight forward.

-Move slowly, so that only one Vision sees you at a time and get rid of them, then lure Baal to the already free side of the room and proceed to stab his eye with a fork repeatedly. He moves very fast even if he’s slowed AND will keep you perma-slowed, so you possibly won’t be able of ranging him too easily. Get extra def. to make up for the forced melee range.
Also resistances aren’t required for this fight, he doesn’t have even one elemental attack. So you really should go all out on defense rating, because his Rust Storm will take most of it away.

-Summoners don’t have a too hard enemy here, too. Their mobs will soon get rid of the first wave of Visions. Then moving slowly and perhaps summoning a lonely monster to lure them in tiny groups will do as well.
Then it’ll be only you, your army and Baal. I personally prefer Blinking once on him, with my full army ready and then letting them tank as I kill him myself.

*yawn*...And if you don’t mind, I’m off.
Night.

^^