Monster stats

Affixes are selected without duplicates. If the live catalog contains fewer affixes than the rolled count, the elite receives every available unique affix and leaves the remaining capacity unused.

Quicken Aura updates immediately as monsters cross its visible boundary. It accelerates ordinary movement and combat cooldown timers, not attack animations, telegraphs, recovery animations, dashes, or forced movement.

Vampiric applies Bleeding only when an elite attack lands. Each follow-up hit refreshes the Bleed window; avoiding the hit or clearing Bleeding prevents further healing ticks.

Blood Pact divides redirected damage evenly across every linked monster. A linked monster cannot absorb more than its remaining health, and any excess returns to the elite; redirected damage never starts another Blood Pact chain.

Gravewake replaces an eligible monster's first defeat with an immediate shade return. Shades carry no elite affixes, cannot rise again, and grant kill credit, experience, and loot only when finally destroyed.

Stormbound locks each warning to the hero's position when it appears; the strike does not follow later movement. Its electric patches persist independently, while defeating the carrier prevents new marks.

Burdening adds one Encumbrance stack whenever a carrier's attack lands, up to five. Every new hit restarts the recovery delay; after three damage-free seconds, one stack falls away every half-second.

Volatile makes nearby final monster defeats explode immediately. Overlapping Volatile radii do not multiply the blast, and defeating the carrier, separating its pack, or stepping away from a dying monster prevents the damage.

Displacer swaps the carrier's center position with the hero after every full cooldown spent actively pursuing them. The timer pauses while disengaged, and the swap deals no damage by itself.

Anticipation gains one randomly selected damage, movement, windup, or projectile-speed stack every 0.30 seconds while actively pursuing the hero, up to six stacks in each category. Starting a basic, normal-special, or elite-special attack consumes every ready stack: movement falls away immediately, while damage, shortened windup, and projectile speed are snapshotted for that attack.

Bosses enter at 1 level above the hero and use clearer, larger telegraphs than ordinary monsters. Watch the ground and the boss animation, leave the danger area before committing to another attack, and save a dodge charge for patterns that close escape routes.

Bosses still use the same core damage, mitigation, crowd-control, potion, and movement systems described elsewhere in the wiki.