Sympathy for the Devil

Minions & Pets

You may read the term 'Minion' in a variety of contexts describing some hierarchy of units. To avoid, or at least show the possibilities of, confusion, here are some more detailled descriptions.

Monster

All monster classes are listed in Atair's german d2wissen.
Browse to Monster section there. Note that the 1.10 section is restricted in browser compability.

Bosspacks

Minions of a Boss are the only units in the game which are described as 'Minion' in their life bar (well, and the monster class 'Minion' is just named so to annoy me). Those will gain +2 to the monster level their normal counterparts in a given map have assigned. AI is somewhat bound to the Boss, they'll follow Boss' targetting even while affected by AI bending curses and suchlike. To some extend they also inherit boss modifications like extra fast or freeze damage.
Their class is either similar to the Boss or an inferior class, if such is assigned to the Boss' class in MonStat.txt.
A superunique boss will get minions of a class defined in SuperUniques.txt.

In 1.09 and before boss' Minions always were the same class like the Boss itself, again with exception of Superuniques.

groupings

You may encounter some monster packs without an apparent boss, but with a 'higher' class' monster controlling some 'lower' class' monsters. This applies to Fallen Shamans with Fallens, Flayer Shamans with Flayers, Greater Mummies with Skeletons, Cantors with Zakarumites, Oblivion Knights with Dark Knights or Overseers with Minions (hmph, complain to Blizzard North about this one). First you meet the lower class alone, but in further maps they have a higher class assigned, which grants some tactical depth, since higher class monsters will stay in the background and heal, revive or incite their lower brethren.

Those packs don't stay tightly together, and the chief doesn't concentrate his activities to his own pack at all. Any lower class monster in range will profit by the chief.

Monster classes designed as 'chiefs' are never found without assigned minions, except of being generated as Champions.

A special case: a Fallen Shaman Boss may also revive nearby common Fallen Shamans, not just Fallens.

undead

Greater Mummies are classified as 'high undead' and able to revive any 'low undead' corpse in range, not just Skeletons. 'low undead' are almost every other undead's classes except Greater Mummies and Vampires. Yep, Oblivion Knights also are 'low undead'! Refer to MonStats.txt extraction for details.

spawner

Some monsters may hatch or spawn others. There is no further connection between spawnlings and monstermomma. This applies to Sand Maggots and Vile Mothers, and further to Putrid Defilers.
Blood Raven, Coldworm the Burrower and Nihlatak may also spawn other monsters.

cry help

Quite unnoticed by most players a bunch of monster classes has AI parameters assigned which allow them to call others in vicinity for help. Your common Fallen has this ability. The Overseers in Act5 may curse their enemies (=you) with 'Cry Help', which looks and works pretty much similar to Necromancer's Attract, if not with such strong effect.

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players

Some people call every unit subject to a player character his 'minion'. Since there's a variety of rules to different subordinated units this is bad language.
To call other players minions is bad manners.
To treat other players as minions is antisocial behaviour.
Subordinated units are technically not allowed to summon subordinated units of their own, neither activly nor passively via trigger events.

hirelings

Hirelings will be affected by various potions you feed them. They also share, or may be target to, healing effects. Since I've wrote a primer dedicated to them I won't elaborate further on this subtopic. English readers may as well refer to ThePlatypus' Mercenary Resource.

Pets

Player characters may summon a variety of creatures, further referred to as 'Pets'. They stay with the character and may be healed via healing spells, town healers or Wells in the wilderness.
As a rule of thumb Pets will grant full experience to the summoning character if they kill anything, and character's Magic Find as well as Gold Find properties will count here. Other item properties of character's equipment won't affect Pets. Assassin's stationary Traps also count as 'Pets' in this case.
Sorceress' Hydra spell is a kind of its own, it counts as Pet, but unlike to other pets Fire Mastery (skill and item property) as well as '-enemy fire resistance' granted by equipment will also affect Hydra. Due to sodding crossclass Charges and trigger events this applies to any other class able to summon Hydra as well.

converted monsters

Paladin and Assassin are able to convert monsters so those will fight at character's side for some time. A Necromancer may curse monsters so they fight each other. Monsters under those effects can't be healed and won't follow the player character.
Very similar behaviour show reanimate as: Returned skeletons.
Some glitch allows monsters to change side permanently. They stay where they are, though.

pet survey

Class	Pet	aligned	threat	mobility	gives exp		inherits
					actively	via thorns 1	MF/GF 2	MaeK LaeK 2	+x elemental skill damage 3	-x enemy elemental resistance 3
1 Thorns aura, Iron Maiden, Iron Golem, Spirit of Barbs 2 omit thorn effects 3 elemental mastery and Facet stuff 4 doesn't share Thorns aura follows player in map: only reluctantly, lure them
Amazon	Decoy	yes	14	stationary	no	yes	no	no	no	no
	Valkyrie		11	folllows player anywhere	yes		yes
Assassin	Shadow Warrior	yes	11	follows player anywhere	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
	Shadow Master		11
	Mind Blasted	yes	monster dependent	follows player in map	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
	Blade Sentinel	yes	none	stationary	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
	Charged Bolt Sentry
	Wake of Fire
	Lightning Sentry
	Wake of Inferno
	Death Sentry
Druid	Raven	yes	none	follows player anywhere	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
	Spirit Wolf		10			yes
	Dire Wolf		10
	Grizzly		11
	Oak Sage	yes	8	follows player anywhere	no	yes	no	no	no	no
	Heart of Wolverine		8
	Spirit of Barbs		8
	Poison Creeper	yes	none	follows player anywhere	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
	Carrion Vine		none		no
	Solar Creeper		none		no
Necromancer	Skeleton Warrior	yes	10	follows player anywhere	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
	Skeleton Mage		10
	Revive		monster dependent	follows player anywhere, tends to hang around a lot
	Clay Golem	yes	11	follows player anywhere	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
	Blood Golem		11
	Iron Golem		11	follows player anywhere, tends to go poof a lot		yes 4
	Fire Golem		11	follows player anywhere		yes
	Bone Wall	yes	1	stationary	no	no	no	no	no	no
	Bone Prison	yes	1
	Confused	no	monster dependent	stays at enemy	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
	Attracted
Paladin	Conversioned	yes	monster dependent	follows player in map	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
Sorceress	Hydra	yes	none	stationary	yes	no	yes	no	yes	yes
-	Rogue	yes	10	follows player anywhere	yes	yes	yes, additively to own	no	no	no
	Town Guard		11
	Iron Wolf		11
	Act5 Barbarian		11
-	reanimated as: Returned	yes	10	follows player in map	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no

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TitanSeal created new skill desriptions with great detail, though they're available in german only. Differences to my elderly findings may be judged in TitanSeal's favor.

see also:

• skillbeschreibungen
• plus the deeplinks in initial posting

Amazon

The Amazon is able to call two aligned units to her side.
Decoy is stationary, Valkyrie is mobile.

Decoy

• mana cost: 19,75 - 0,75 * sLvl_Decoy;
  beyond sLvl25 it's 1
• resistances to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: 4 * sLvl_Decoy %
• resistance limit: 85%
  no difficulty penalty
• duration: 5s + 5s * sLvl_Decoy
  or until death
• life: (1 + 0,1 * sLvl_Decoy) * (life_Amazon * 0,5)
• Synergy: none

Othin once did a very detailled Basin posting called
Mirror, Mirror ....

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Valkyrie

^* Valkyrie's equipment

sLvl	* item	quality
mag: magical rare: rare quality
1	Full Plate Mail	mag
1	Spear	mag
2	Gauntlets	mag
4	Greaves	mag
5	Plated Belt	mag
7	Chaos Armor	rar
8	Lance	rar
10	War Gauntlets	mag
11	War Boots	mag
12	War Belt	mag
13	Amulet	mag
14	Circlet	mag
16	Sacred Armor	rar
17	Warpike	rar
19	Crusader Gauntlets	rar
21	Myrmidon Boots	rar
23	Colossus Girdle	rar
25	Amulet	rar
27	Tiara	rar

Her equipment is defined in MonEquip.txt.
Better stuff will replace equipment depending on sLvl.

• Cast Delay: 150 Frames (6s)
• mana cost: 25 + sLvl
• skills, inherit native sLvl of Amazon
  (omit item boni):
  • Dodge
  • Avoid
  • Evade
  • Critical Strike
• base Chance to do a critical: 5%,
  additively to skill
• life: 440
• % life bonus: 20 * sLvl
• life: 440 * (1 + (20*(slvl-1) + 20*sLvl_Decoy) / 100)
• life regeneration factor: 12
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 141 _ 152 _ 164
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• defense bonus: 10 * sLvl %
  (affects total equipment)
• Attack Rating: 40 * slvl + 40 * slvl_Pene
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• strength: 25 * sLvl
• dexterity: 12 * sLvl
• resistance to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: (sLvl + sLvl_Decoy) * 2
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: 2 * sLvl %
• resistance limit: 85%
  no difficulty penalty
• velocity: 11 yd/s
• AI Delay: 6 Frames
• iLvl of equipped items ^*: 25 + 3 * slvl

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Strafe

Since 1.10 Pets don't increase maximum arrows shot in one salve. This is caused by a MonStats.txt entry and itherefore includes other, even hostile, player's Pets.

In 1.09 any unit in range granted a bonus arrow. The mechanism was buggy, it seemed that damage of all arrows summed up to just a single arrow's damage.

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Assassin

An Assassin may summon two different helpers. Shadow Warrior will only use skills of character's hotbuttons, Shadow Master will use skills independently from Assassin herself. Both Shadows exclude each other.
Calculation of Shadow's used skill's level includes Assassin's skill level of that skill (while Shadow uses this skill) and sLvl of Shadow herself (while summoned).

Both Shadows get some equipment, which is controlled in MonEquip.txt. Armor and headdress are dummies, which will be replaced with similar base items the Assassin wears. Shadow Warrior only gets Magicals, Master may get Rares, too. Both Shadows get two claw weapons. Better stuff will replace equipment depending on sLvl.

Shadow Warrior - SW

^* Shadow Warrior's equipment

sLvl	* item	quality
# same like Assassin mag: magical
1	Armor #	mag
1	Helm #	mag
1	Cestus	mag
1	Blade Talon	mag

Only the skills assigned to left and right mouse button may be used by the Shadow Warrior. She can't summon another Shadow by herself, though.

• Cast Delay: 150 Frames (6s)
• mana cost: 27 + 0,5 * sLvl
• base chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• base life: 376
• % life bonus: 15 * sLvl
• life regeneration factor: 3
• base defense: 196
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• defense bonus: 12 * sLvl %
  (affects total equipment)
• Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 163 _ 243 _ 323
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• % bonus to Attack Rating: 40 * sLvl
• used skills: [sLvl_asn / 2] + [sLvl / 3]
• strength: 10 * sLvl
• dexterity: 10 * sLvl
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: 4,75 * sLvl %
• resistance limit: 75%
  no difficulty penalty
• resistance to physical: 40%
• velocity: 11 yd/s
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• iLvl equipped items ^*: 18 + 2 * slvl

To compare IAS with effective IAS (EIAS) refer to table in Appendix.

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Shadow Master

^** Shadow Master's equipment

sLvl	** item	quality
# same like Assassin sup: superior mag: magical rar: rare
1	Armor #	sup
1	Helm #	sup
1	Suwayyah, War Fist or Scissors Suwayyah	sup
1	Hand Scythe, Greater Talons or Scissors Suwayyah	sup
5	Bramble Mitts, Vambraces or Ogre Gauntlets	sup
6	Armor #	mag
6	Helm #	mag
6	Suwayyah, War Fist or Scissors Suwayyah	mag
6	Hand Scythe, Greater Talons or Scissors Suwayyah	mag
6	Bramble Mitts, Vambraces or Ogre Gauntlets	mag
9	Ring (right)	mag
11	Armor #	rar
11	Helm #	rar
11	Ring (right)	rar
11	Bramble Mitts, Vambraces or Ogre Gauntlets	rar
11	Suwayyah, War Fist or Scissors Suwayyah	rar
11	Hand Scythe, Greater Talons or Scissors Suwayyah	rar
13	Ring (left)	rar
17	Amulet	rar

The Shadow Master may usealmost all Assassin skills, omitting summoning other Shadows. The probability of skill usage considers Assassin's native investment in skills and skill groups. Further individual situation and global parameters are involved. This was new to 1.10 to prevent repeated casting of Cloak of Sahdows by the Shadow Master. Refer also this topic in Lurker Lounge.

• Cast Delay: 150 Frames (6s)
• mana cost: 35 + 0,5 * sLvl
• base chance of doing a critical hit: 5%
• base life: 376
• % life bonus: 15 * sLvl
• life regeneration factor: 2
• base defense: 196
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• defense bonus: 12 * sLvl %
  (affects total equipment)
• Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 163 _ 243 _ 323
  (omit equipment and dexterity)
• % bonus to Attack Rating: 40 * sLvl
• used skills: [sLvl_asn / 2] + [sLvl / 3]
• strength: 10 * sLvl
• dexterity: 10 * sLvl
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: 0,75 * ((110*sLvl) / (sLvl+6)) + 5 %
• resistance limit: none
• resistance to physical: 40%
• velocity: 11 yd/s
• not leechable
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• iLvl equipped items ^**: 24 + 3 * slvl

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Mind Blast

Usage of this skill will damage enemies, knock them back, and change their mind to fight on Sin's side instead of Evil's.
The Assassin gets experience, if a Mind Blasted kills an enemy.

• mana cost: 15
• duration: 6s to 10s

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Traps

Stationary Assassin traps count technically as minions. This applies especially to the sentry-class traps. So item properties Mana after each Kill and Life after each Kill won't work for the Trapsin. Also -x enemy elemental resistance and +x elemental skill damage are of no use to her.
Speed of Laying Traps is attack speed, not casting speed.

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Barbarian

Barbarians are not able to summon Pets natively.
Move on, nothing to see here.

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Druid

Attack speed tables will only be of use in conjunction with a friendly Fanaticism aura.
In unmodified games there's no other way to enhance it.
Recent findings indicate another approach and other values regarding Wolves' and Grizzly's Defense and Attack Ratings, according to onderduiker's testings at the Basin.
A Druid is only allowed to summon one kind of animal, vine and spirit each. Ravens are the exception, they can be summoned additively.

Raven

• mana cost: 6
• count: maximum 5, beyond sLvl4
• minimum damage: 2 + (sLvl - 1)
• maximum damage: 4 + (sLvl - 1)
• attack count: 12 + sLvl
• skill: Blind enemies
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity walk/run: 10 / 20 yd/s

Druid's Ravens are able to hack enemy's eyes, vulgo blind an enemy. The applied formula to calculate the chance is similar to item property Hit Blinds Target, but with modified atLvl.

CtB = 30 + ((Bonus * 4) + atLvl - dfLvl) * 5 % sLvl_DV = [(CtB - Roll) / 5] + 1, maximum 20 with atLvl = cLvl_Druid + sLvl_Raven - 2

CtB: Chance to Blind Bonus: blinding bonus, here 1 atLvl: Attacker Level dfLvl: Defender Level sLvl_DV: Dim Vision Level (to define effect's duration) Roll: random figure from {0, ..., 99} [ ]: Floor Function

Ravens' Chance to Hit is also determined with the above atLvl. Similar to almost any creature a Raven has a chance of 5% to do a critical hit.
Ravens can't be damaged, but a Raven will disappear after some attacks. Attack count is dependent on skill level.

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Spirit Wolf

• mana cost: 15
• count: maximum 5, beyond sLvl4
• base life: 60 to 82
• life regeneration factor: 4
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: (sLvl -1) * 5 %, with 85% maximum in a given difficulty
• base defense Def_sLvl1: 67
• % defense increase: sLvl * 7
• base Attack Rating: 75
• synergies to animals (including themselves)
  • % defense increase: 50 + (sLvl - 1) * 10
  • % attack rating increase: 50 + (sLvl - 1) * 25
• skill:
  • Teleport
• threat: 10
• melee range: 2
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity walk/run: 5 / 10 yd/s

During attacks wolves' Chance to Hit/getHit is determined by cLvl as atLvl and dfLvl. Similar to almost any creature a Wolf has a chance of 5% to do a critical hit.
There's no individual leech penalty in any difficulty (the global penalty is in effect, though).
The extra assigned Teleport skill will port the wolves to their master; nevertheless this is behaviour of most Minions.
Base damage is read entirely from Skills.txt, this is modified by Grizzly's synergy and the usual aura stuff. Dire Wolves will give a synergy to life. The native defense increase and the synergy increase are additive.

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Dire Wolf (Fenris)

• mana cost: 20
• count: maximum 3, beyond sLvl2
• base life: 98 to 130
• life regeneration factor: 4
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: (sLvl -1) * 5 %, with 85% maximum in a given difficulty
• base defense: 116
• % defense increase: sLvl * 4
• base Attack Rating: 150
• synergy to all animals (including themselves)
  • % life increase: 50 + (sLvl - 1) * 25
• skills:
  • 25% to activate Feral Rage,
    causes 100% enhanced damage for 20s duration (additively to other percentage boni)
  • Teleport
• threat: 10
• melee range: 2
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity walk/run: 5 / 10 yd/s

During attacks wolves' Chance to Hit/getHit is determined by cLvl as atLvl and dfLvl. Similar to almost any creature a Wolf has a chance of 5% to do a critical hit.
There's no individual leech penalty in any difficulty (the global penalty is in effect, though).
The extra assigned Teleport skill will port the wolves to their master, too; nevertheless this is behaviour of most Minions.
Base damage is read entirely from Skills.txt, this is modified by Grizzly's synergy and the usual aura stuff. Spirit Wolves will give a synergy to attack rating and defense, the latter will be additive with their native enhancement.

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Grizzly

• mana cost: 40
• base life: 550 to 750
• life regeneration factor: 5
• resistance bonus to
  Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison: (sLvl -1) * 5 %, with 85% maximum in a given difficulty
• base defense: 245
• base Attack Rating: 300
• synergy to other animals (including themselves)
  • % damage enhancement: 25 + (sLvl - 1) * 10
• skill: BearSmite
  
  • Stun duration: 15 + (sLvl-1) * 5 Frames, maximum 250 (thus 10s)
  • % damage bonus: 15 + (sLvl-1) * 15 sLvl most probably 1 all the time
• threat: 10
• melee range: 3
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity walk/run: 5 / 9 yd/s

During attacks Grizzly's Chance to Hit/getHit is determined by cLvl as atLvl and dfLvl. Similar to almost any creature the bear has a chance of 5% to do a critical hit.
There's no individual leech penalty in any difficulty (the global penalty is in effect, though).
Base damage is read entirely from Skills.txt, this is modified by his synergy and the usual aura stuff. Spirit Wolves will give a synergy to defense and attack rating; Dire Wolves will give a synergy to life.

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Oak Sage

• mana cost: 14 + sLvl
• base life: 56 to 64
• % life bonus (no aura): (sLvl - 1) * 30
• life regeneration factor: 3
• resistance to physical in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 0 _ 100 _ 0 %
• resistance to Magic: 25 %
• resistance to Fire: 25 %
• resistance to Lightning: 25 %
• resistance to Cold: 25 %
• resistance to Poison in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 170 _ 200 _ 200 %
• base defense: 49
• skill: life enhancing aura
  • sLvl_Oak = sLvl_Aura
  • % life bonus: 30 + (sLvl - 1) * 5
  • aura radius in yards: 20 + (sLvl - 1) * 2/3
• threat: 8
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6 yd/s

During foeish attacks cLvl will count as dfLvl of the Totem.
Totems are non-leechable in all difficulties.

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Heart of Wolverine - HoW

• mana cost: 19 + sLvl
• base life: 128 to 144
• % life bonus: (sLvl - 1) * 25
• life regeneration factor: 3
• resistance to physical in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 0 _ 100 _ 0 %
• resistance to Magic: 25 %
• resistance to Fire: 25 %
• resistance to Lightning: 25 %
• resistance to Cold: 25 %
• resistance to Poison in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 170 _ 200 _ 200 %
• base defense: 123
• skill: damage and AR enhancing aura:
  • sLvl_HoW = sLvl_Aura
  • % Attack Rating bonus: 25 + (sLvl - 1) * 7
  • % damage bonus: 20 + (slvl - 1) * 7
  • aura radius in yard: 20 + (sLvl - 1) * 2/3
• threat: 8
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6 yd/s

During foeish attacks cLvl will count as dfLvl of the Totem.
Totems are non-leechable in all difficulties.

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Spirit of Barbs - SoB

• mana cost: 24 + sLvl
• base life: 200 to 226
• % life bonus: (sLvl - 1) * 25
• life regeneration factor: 3
• resistance to physical in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 0 _ 100 _ 0 %
• resistance to Magic: 25 %
• resistance to Fire: 25 %
• resistance to Lightning: 25 %
• resistance to Cold: 25 %
• resistance to Poison in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 170 _ 200 _ 200 %
• base defense: 196
• skill: damage reflecting aura
  • sLvl_SoB = sLvl_Aura
  • % reflected damage: 50 + (sLvl - 1) * 10
  • aura radius in yard: 20 + (sLvl - 1) * 2/3
• threat: 8
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6 yd/s

As always, thorns damage will only work if SoB is bullied in melee with physical damage.
During foeish attacks cLvl will count as dfLvl of the Totem.
Totems are non-leechable in all difficulties.

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Poison Creeper

• mana cost: 8
• base life: 42 to 58
• % life bonus: (sLvl - 1) * 25
• life regeneration factor: 3
• base defense: 25
• skill: poisons enemies with toxicated ground
  • sLvl_PC = sLvl_VineAttack
  • vines count: 3 + (sLvl - 1) * 1, maximum 12
  • toxicated ground (Subtiles?): 3 + (sLvl - 1) * 1, maximum 24
  • Delay toxication (?): 35 Frames
  • minimum distance (?): 2 Yards
  • Hit Delay of toxicated ground: 15 Frames
  • duration of toxication on ground: 100 + (sLvl - 1) * 25 Frames
• threat: -
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 7 yd/s

During attacks calculation of vine level is cLvl * 3/4 + sLvl.
Vines are non-leechable in all difficulties. They aren't resistant to any kind of damage.

Poison Creeper, also often called by its technical name Plague Poppy, will attack enemies directly and poison the ground. The latter works technically quite similar to Assassin's Shock Web.
The toxic ground will poison any enemy moving over it. Those who stay at one place won't suffer further damage, moving will switch of collision checking routine and thus lead to further poisoning. Even when the vine itself dies the ground stays toxic, duration and area diameter grow with sLvl.
One vine may poison a spot multiple times. This even works on water (Act3 Bayous) or on air (Act2 Arcane Sanctuary), but the plaiting doesn't last there and does almost no damage.
If the Creeper has done a direct attack it will move sideways, thus causing the attacked enemy to follow it over toxic ground. Collision detection check prevents an enemy from being damaged by one mat multiple times, but this check is switched of if multiple enemies move on the same mat. Then all enemies will be repeatedly damaged by one mat as long as it lasts or they move over it, whichever occurs first.

see also:

• Finalized Poison Creeper, by Alram
• Poison Creeper, by Alram

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Carrion Vine

• mana cost: 10
• base life: 80 to 110
• % life bonus: (sLvl - 1) * 25]
• life regeneration factor: 3
• base defense: 92
• skill: decomposes corpses and restores Druid's life throughout
  • sLvl_CV = sLvl_VineAttack = sLvl_CorpseCycler
  • search radius (?) in yard: 3,33
  • Life gained as percentage of druid's maximum hitpoints: { 9 * [110*sLvl / ( sLvl + 6 )] / 100 } + 3
    minimum 3%, maximum 12%
• threat: -
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 7 yd/s

During attacks calculation of vine level is cLvl * 3/4 + sLvl.
Vines are non-leechable in all difficulties. They aren't resistant to any kind of damage.

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Solar Creeper

• mana cost: 13 + sLvl
• base life: 138 to 192
• % life bonus: (sLvl - 1) * 20
• life regeneration factor: 3
• base defense: 165
• skill: decomposes corpses and restores Druid's mana throughout
  • sLvl_SC = sLvl_VineAttack = sLvl_VineCycler
  • vines count: 3 + (sLvl - 1) * 1, maximum 12
  • Mana gained as percentage of druid's maximum mana: { 7 * [110*sLvl / ( sLvl + 6 )] / 100 } + 1
    minimum 1%, maximum 8%
• threat: -
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 7 yd/s

During attacks calculation of vine level is cLvl * 3/4 + sLvl.
Vines are non-leechable in all difficulties. They aren't resistant to any kind of damage.

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Necromancer

Only one Golem can be summoned at a time, regardless of summon meanings. So it doesn't matter if the ability to summon a Golem is native or granted via Charges. Golem Mastery will enhance life, Attack Rating and velocity of all Golems. They lack GetHit mode, so they aren't subject to Hit Recovery or Knockback.
Omit Revives all Necromancer's summoned Pets benefit from Summon Resist. This doesn't apply to Attracted or Confused enemies.

Clay Golem - CG

Gumby will slow down enemies on contact. It is the only Golem which doesn't just get more life from Golem Mastery but also from his own sLvl.

• mana cost: 12 + 3 * sLvl
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: {65 _ 140 _ 240} + sLvl * 35
• life regeneration factor: 3
• resistance to physical: 25%
• resistance to Lightning: 20%
• resistance to Cold: 50%
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 20 _ 21 _ 22
• base Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 40 _ 66 _ 92
• synergy to all Golems
  bonus to Attack Rating: 20 * sLvl
• Attack Rating bonus via Mastery 25 + 25 * (sLvl_GM - 1)
• base punching damage: 2 bis 11
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 5,3 yd/s
• velocity increase via Mastery: {40 * [110 * sLvl_GM / (sLvl_GM + 6)] / 100}
• not leechable
• skill: slows enemies down on strike and when hit
• Golems are no subject to HitRecovery.

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Blood Golem - BG

The Blood Golem doesn't leech life, it steals it from the enemy. His punching damage is irrelevant, it just has to hit an enemy. But the stealing ability doesn't reduce enemy's life. 70% of stolen life flow to the Golem, 30% to the character. A surplus flows to the one in need. If the Blood Golem suffers damage the summoner will suffer 10% of that, but can't die by this means. With 1.13 the Necromancer doesn't share damage with his Blood Golem anymore.
25% of a consumed healing potion's effect will flow to the Blood Golem.
It dosn't profit from thorny effects anymore since 1.10.

• mana cost: 21 + 4 * sLvl
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 201 _ 338 _ 637
• life regeneration factor: 3
• skill: steals from actual enemy life on sLvl1 86%
• synergy to all Golems
  % life bonus: 5 * sLvl
• resistance to Poison: 20%
• resistance to Magic: 20%
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 90 _ 98 _ 106
• base Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 60 _ 104 _ 148
• Attack Rating bonus via Mastery 25 + 25 * (sLvl_GM - 1)
• base punching damage: 9 bis 41
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6 yd/s
• velocity increase via Mastery: {40 * [110 * sLvl_GM / (sLvl_GM + 6)] / 100}
• only leechable Golem
• Golems are no subject to HitRecovery.

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Iron Golem - IG

An Iron Golem may only be summoned from an identified, metallic item on the ground. Item's ability of being metallic is controlled in bitfield columns of Weapons.txt and Armor.txt.
It has an inherent thorny effect which won't stack with a friendly Thorn aura.
If it is summoned from an one-handed weapon, damage from weapon will be added to native punching damage. If it's summoned from a two-handed weapon, native punching damage is negated.
The Iron Golem may become immune to one or more elements, but it is not shown on its life bar, if immunity is caused by different meanings (like the item it is made from and an additional aura).
An native Iron Golem will be resummoned in a new game, if it survived the last one. Necromancer's equipment while joining the new game will affect Iron Golem's profit from Mastery and Summon Resist as well as from own sLvl, keep that one in mind if you want to summon IG with specialized gear.
An Iron Golem summoned via sodding Metal Grid Charges won't be resummoned in a new game, it is lost!

• mana cost: 35
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 306 _ 595 _ 980
• life regeneration factor: 3
• resistance to Lightning: 50%
• resistance to Poison: 100%
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 111 _ 120 _ 129
• base Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 80 _ 138 _ 197
• Attack Rating bonus via Mastery 25 + 25 * (sLvl_GM - 1)
• synergy to all Golems
  defense bonus: 35 * sLvl
• base punching damage: 7 bis 49
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• skill: % thorns damage 135 + 15 * (sLvl - 1)
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6 yd/s
• velocity increase via Mastery: {40 * [110 * sLvl_GM / (sLvl_GM + 6)] / 100}
• not leechable
• Golems are no subject to HitRecovery.

attack speed

EIAS	frames
-20	20
-19	19
-15	18
-10	17
-5	16
0	15
8	14
15	13
24	12
34	11
46	10
61	9

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Fire Golem - FG

When a Fire Golem dies it does a little explosion with half fire damage and half physical damage.
The small damage dealt depends on Fire Golem's base life, thus varies in difficulties respectively. It is approximately 100 fire plus 100 physical in Normal.

• mana cost: 40 + 10 * sLvl
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 313 _ 613 _ 1013
• life regeneration factor: 3
• aura level Holy Fire: sLvl + 7
  limited to sLvl30
• resistance to Fire: 100%
• absorbs Fire damage (which is pretty useless due to its 100% resistance to Fire)
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 161 _ 174 _ 188
• base Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 120 _ 209 _ 198
• Attack Rating bonus via Mastery 25 + 25 * (sLvl_GM - 1)
• base punching damage: 10 bis 71
• skill: additional Fire damage to punches, HFi aura
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• synergy to all Golems
  % punching damge bonus: 6 * sLvl
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 6,6 yd/s
• velocity increase via Mastery: {40 * [110 * sLvl_GM / (sLvl_GM + 6)] / 100}
• not leechable
• Golems are no subject to HitRecovery.

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Raise Skeleton - RS

There's a chance of 5% to summon a Skeleton equipped with a Kite Shield. There's rumour this ones can block with that one, other than those Skeletons spawning with a Buckler type of shield.

• mana cost: 5 + sLvl
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 21 _ 30 _ 42
• straight life bonus via SM: sLvl * 8
• life bonus via RS itself, if sLvl_RS>3: 50 * (sLvl - 3)
• life regeneration factor: 4
• count at sLvl1 to sLvl3: sLvl
• count beyond sLvl3: [2 + sLvl/3]
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 5 _ 5 _ 6
• defense bonus: 15 * sLvl + 15 * sLvl_SM
• base Attack Rating in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 3 _ 4 _ 6
• bonus to Attack Rating: 15 * sLvl + 15 * sLvl_SM
  additively in Normal with cLvl>6: 45 + (cLvl - 6) * 11
  in Nightmare: 108 + (cLvl - 1) * 18
  in Hell: 216 + (cLvl - 1) * 38
• base damage: 1 to 2
• straight damage bonus via SM: 2 * sLvl_SM
• % damage bonus beyond sLvl3: sLvl * 7
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 8,7 / 10 yd/s
• not leechable

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Raise Skeletal Mage - RSM

Which kind of elemental damage an individual Skeleton Mage will deliver is random, but it will only deliver one kind of it, Poison, Cold, Fire or Lightning.
In technical terms the Mages throw their missiles, thus will benefit from a friendly Fanaticism aura, which increases throwing frequency.

• mana cost: 7 + sLvl
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 21 _ 30 _ 42
• straight life bonus via SM: sLvl * 8
• life bonus via RS itself, if RS>3: 50 * (sLvl - 3)
• life regeneration factor: 4
• count at sLvl1 to sLvl3: sLvl
• count beyond sLvl3: [2 + sLvl/3]
• base defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 5 _ 5 _ 6
• defense bonus: 10 * sLvl + 10 * sLvl_SM
• missile level: (sLvl / 2 - 1) + sLvl_SM
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• velocity: 8 bzw 9,3 yd/s
• not leechable

Skeletal Mages' missile damage

missile level	Poison	Cold	Fire	Lightning
cold duration is x seconds poison duration is 10+10x seconds To calculate poison damage per second multiplicate given value with 25/256 (extra precision). Missiles fly for 30 frames duration (1.2s) with 9.3 yards per second velocity, thus range is 11.2 yards.
1	6	1 to 4	2 to 6	1 to 7
1 < x ≤ 8	6 + x	(1 to 4) + x	(2 to 6) + 2*x	(1 to 7) + (1 to 3)*x
8 < x ≤ 16	13 + 2*(x-8)	(8 to 11) + 2*(x-8)	(16 to 20) + 3*(x-8)	(8 to 28) + (1 to 5)*(x-8)
16 < x ≤ 22	29 + 4*(x-16)	(24 to 27) + 3*(x-16)	(40 to 44) + 5*(x-16)	(16 to 68) + (1 to 8)*(x-16)
22 < x ≤ 28	53 + 6*(x-22)	(42 to 45) + 4*(x-22)	(70 to 74) + 7*(x-22)	(22 to 116) + (1 to 11)*(x-22)
28 < x	89 + 8*(x-28)	(66 to 69) + 5*(x-28)	(112 to 116) + 9*(x-28)	(28 to 182) + (1 to 14)*(x-28)

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Revive

From a monster's corpse the same monster is revived to fight on Necromancer's side. Some special abilities get lost, especially healing and reviving spells.
Some corpses can't be revived, this applies to Leapers, Flayer Shamans, Oblivion Knights, Tentacles and Minions of Destruction, further all stationary objects, and of course all those which doesn't leave a corpse. And you can't revive Champions, Bosses and suchlike.
Base abilities of Revived stay the same, this includes some boss minion modifications.
Summon Resist doesn't work for Revives.

• mana cost: 45
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: from original monster
• % life bonus: 5 * sLvl_SM + 200
• life regeneration factor: from original monster
• duration: maximum 180s or until death/poof
• count: sLvl
• base damage: from original monster
• damage bonus via SM: 10 * sLvl_SM %
• chance to do a critical hit: 5%
• AI Delay: from original monster
• velocity: from original monster
• velocity bonus: 50% (via SM)
• leech drain from original monster

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Necromancer's Boney Walls are stationary, passive allies. Both skills use the same unit from MonStats.txt, several of which build either a row or a circle. The Prison needs an enemy target to be cast upon.

Bone Wall - BW

• mana cost: 17
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 19 _ 147 _ 431
• defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 35 _ 174 _ 334
• duration: maximum 24s or until death
• % life bonus: 25 * (sLvl - 1) + (bLvl_BA + bLvl_BP) * 10
• appeal effect: about 40yd, unconfirmed
• not leechable

Bone Prison - BP

• mana cost: 28 - sLvl, minimum 1
• base life in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 19 _ 147 _ 431
• defense in
  Normal_Nightmare_Hell: 35 _ 174 _ 334
• duration: maximum 24s or until death
• % life bonus: 25 * (sLvl - 1) + (bLvl_BA + bLvl_BW) * 8
• appeal effect: about 40yd, unconfirmed
• not leechable

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Curses which bend enemy's Artifical Intelligence cannot be applied to all monsters, and they don't work on hostile players. Refer also to german general and AI-bending curse descriptions.

Confuse

• mana cost: 13
• duration: (2 * sLvl + 10s)
  duration penalty Nightmare: * 0,5
  duration penalty Hell: * 0,25
• range: 0,6 * sLvl + 4yd
• appeal effect: about 40yd, unconfirmed

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Attract

• mana cost: 17
• duration: (3,6 * sLvl + 12s)
  duration penalty Nightmare: * 0,5
  duration penalty Hell: * 0,25
• range: 6yd
• appeal effect: about 40yd, unconfirmed

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Paladin

Conversion

Using his ability to convert enemies a Paladin may sometimes see as last resort to fight evil successfully. If those Converted kill their former friends the Paladin will gain experience.
When Conversion has faded the ex-Converted will be easily defeated as long as character's level is below monster level.
Refer also to converted monsters above.

• mana cost: 4
• duration: 16s

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Sorceress

This class can summon a special kind of minion.
It is a special case's special case, actually.

Hydra

Though Hydra counts as a Pet in many aspects it will profit from Fire Mastery and, respectively, '+x fire skill damage' plus '-x enemy fire resistance' item properties worn by the Sorceress.
But, like with other Pets, MaeK and LaeK properties are of no use here.
Similar to Necromancer's Skeleton Mages Hydra's attacks are technically thrown, but it won't benefit from a friendly Fanaticism aura to enhance shooting frequency, because Hydra can't be affected by aurae.

• Cast Delay: 2s
• mana cost: 20+
• AI Delay: 15 Frames
• duration: 10s

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Appendix

eIAS und Item_IAS compared

EIAS	IAS	EIAS	IAS	EIAS	IAS	EIAS	IAS	EIAS	IAS
1	2	21	26	41	63	61	125	81	250
2	3	22	27	42	65	62	129	82	259
3	4	23	29	43	68	63	133	83	270
4	5	24	30	44	70	64	138	84	280
5	6	25	32	45	72	65	142	85	292
6	7	26	34	46	75	66	147	86	304
7	8	27	35	47	78	67	152	87	317
8	9	28	37	48	80	68	157	88	330
9	10	29	39	49	83	69	163	89	345
10	11	30	40	50	86	70	168	90	360
11	13	31	42	51	89	71	174	91	377
12	14	32	44	52	92	72	180	92	395
13	15	33	46	53	95	73	187	93	414
14	16	34	48	54	99	74	194	94	434
15	18	35	50	55	102	75	200	95	456
16	19	36	52	56	105	76	208	96	480
17	20	37	54	57	109	77	215	97	507
18	22	38	56	58	113	78	223	98	535
19	23	39	58	59	117	79	232	99	566
20	24	40	60	60	120	80	240	100	600

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