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‎Boss Modifiers

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← Older revision		Revision as of 20:03, 17 June 2012
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−	'''Bosses''' in the [[Diablo games]] come in various shapes and forms. From the randomly generated mini-bosses on a [[level]] to [[Superunique]] big [[quest boss]] like [[Diablo]], they are all bosses of some description.	+	#REDIRECT [[Bosses]]
−
−	~~See also:~~
−	*[[Monster\|Basic monster info]].
−	* [[Champion]]s.
−	* [[Bosses\|Bosses and SuperUniques]].
−	* [[Boss Modifiers]].
−
−
−	~~==Diablo III Bosses==~~
−
−	What's known about the Diablo 3 bosses comes almost entirely from player observations during the Blizzcon 2008 and 2009 demos. This information is subject to change, and may be biased, since it's known that Blizzard turned up the monster rates and item drop rates in the demos, in order to make them more fast paced, exciting, and new-player-friendly.
−
−	The organizational system of bosses in Diablo 3 is much as it was in Diablo 2. There are numerous [[Champion]]s and random bosses scattered around the game world, while [[SuperUnique]]s are rarer, and usually set in special, scripted locations or as part of larger encounters. Scripted events and special scenarios seem to be much more common in Diablo 3 than it they were in Diablo 2.
−
−	Scripted events such as the ones that led to battles against massive bosses in the WWI 2008 gameplay movie ([[Siegebreaker]] and [[Thousand Pounder]]) have not been included in the playable Blizzcon builds, aside from the dungeon ending in the battle with the [[Skeleton King]] in the 2008 Blizzcon demo. Players have seen more random bosses and champions, and these have been much as they were in Diablo 2.
−
−	~~That said, the developers are clearly holding back the good stuff and not letting fans see any of the bigger encounters at this early stage in the game's development.~~
−
−
−	~~===Bossmonsters per act===~~
−
−	~~Act I~~
−
−	~~[[Skeleton king]].~~
−	~~[[Araneae]].~~
−	~~[[The Warden]].~~
−	~~[[Butcher]].~~
−
−	~~Act II~~
−
−	~~[[Magda]].~~
−	~~[[Zoltun Kulle]].~~
−	~~[[Belial]].~~
−
−	~~Act III~~
−
−	~~[[Ghom]].~~
−	~~[[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]].~~
−	~~[[Cydaea]].~~
−	~~[[Azmodan]].~~
−
−	~~Act IV~~
−
−	~~[[Rakanoth]].~~
−	~~[[Diablo]].~~
−
−
−	~~===Boss Names===~~
−
−	~~The free-range boss monsters in Diablo 3 have randomly-assigned names that are fairly similar to the names they had in Diablo and Diablo 2. A few samples noted from Blizzcon 2009.~~
−
−	* '''Death Froth''' -- [[Sand Wasp]].
−	* '''Spirit Hawk''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
−	* '''Bile Feast''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
−	* '''Rust Raven''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
−	* '''Haze Fuse''' -- [[Tomb Viper]].
−	* '''Pit Thorn''' -- [[Tomb Viper]].
−
−	There will also be plenty of [[superunique]]s and other high level bosses with have fixed names, who will appear in the same place each game, whether they're part of the plot or just localized events. Only a few of these are known thus far, but you can read about [[Thousand Pounder]], [[Siegebreaker]], and the [[Skeleton King]] for more details.
−
−	~~===Lengthy Boss Battles===~~
−
−	One thing the developers have talked about is their goal to create larger, multi-stage, more impressive battles in Diablo 3. They aren't going to be happy with just one big boss players must spend lots of time spent whacking away at. They want the big fights to involve more variety and difficulty, and this was seen to some extent in the way that the Skeleton King kept resurrecting more skeletons during his battle, at the end of the 2008 Blizzcon demo.
−
−	~~This issue was discussed by [[Kevin Martens]] and [[Julian Love]] during an interview at Blizzcon 2009. [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/exclusive-blizzcon-interview-julian-love-and-kevin-martens/]~~
−
−	::'''''Diii.net: '''I’m curious to hear more about the big bosses in the game. The only one that’s been seen is the Siegebreaker, and Jay Wilson said that he wasn’t even an Act Boss. So what does an act boss look like? What will an encounter of that sort be like for players?
−	::'''Kevin: '''Players will know they’re up against a big boss when they have to change their gameplay style. You won’t be able to just charge in and keep using the same tactics you use against a group of Fallen. You have to be more careful against a big boss. A tank character can’t just stand and tank as he’s used to. New strategy will be required. We want to make bosses interesting and powerful. They should be a challenge and be varied in what they require of all classes and abilities, as well as from parties. We want to make bosses more interesting than in the previous Diablo games. We look forward to showing them off, but we can’t talk about any specifics yet.
−
−	~~::'''''Diii.net: '''When Siegebreaker dies in the WWI gameplay movie, he spawns about a thousand skeletons from his corpse. Is that the sort of thing we’ll see from big bosses? Multi-stage events?~~
−	::'''Kevin: '''Some may be multistage. Some don’t need to be that way. It depends on the boss, the stage, the player level, etc. We require different tactics to keep it interesting. We can’t pre-plan everything at this stage, since we don’t know what range of levels the players will be when they reach the boss. And we need to consider how to keep the boss fun through additional encounters. So the third or tenth time a player fights the boss, it’s still fun and exciting.
−	~~::'''Julian: '''We also want to use bosses to move the story forward. We have story-based elements to vary the bosses. For one thing, we gave the bosses different ways to kill players.~~
−
−	~~::'''''Diii.net: '''Like when Siegebreaker bites off the Barbarian’s head?~~
−	~~::'''Julian: '''That’s his way of killing players, but that’s not the only way a boss can finish off a player.~~
−
−
−	~~To assist players in these long, treacherous battles, boss monsters will periodically drop health globes during the fight. [http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1017305p1.html]~~
−
−	::'''Jay Wilson: '''...we deal with some of the harder monsters, like bosses and rares and champions ...they would drop health globes at percentages of their health. Rares in particular are almost guaranteed to drop about every 25%. The other thing we did, because we design everything for cooperative play, if you pick up a health globe and you have a friend nearby, you both get the benefit. So that's something we did to make sure the system didn't favor people who are running forward, melee classes, who used to pull up all the health potions. Now they're actually helping the people in the back.
−
−
−	~~==Boss Modifiers==~~
−
−	~~As in Diablo II, many bosses have special modifiers, giving them elemental attacks, teleportation, the ability to heal, the ability to duplicate themselves, and many others.~~
−
−	~~See the [[Boss Modifiers]] article for full details.~~
−
−	~~==Boss Images==~~
−
−	~~A few screenshots of bosses, each of which is detailed on their own wiki pages.~~
−
−
−	~~<gallery>~~
−	~~Image:Mon-siegebreaker1.jpg\|[[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]].~~
−	~~Image:Mon-thousand-pounder1.jpg\|[[Thousand Pounder]].~~
−	~~Image:Mon-skeleton-king1.jpg\|[[King Leoric]].~~
−	~~Image:Diablo_Archive_cover.jpg\|[[Diablo]], Lord of Terror.~~
−	~~</gallery>~~
−
−
−	~~{{Monster navbox\|boss}}~~
−
−	[[~~Category:~~Bosses]]
−	~~[[Category:Monsters~~]]

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 [[Araneae]].
 [[The Warden]].
-[[The Butcher]].
+[[Butcher]].
 Act II

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 Act I
 [[Skeleton king]]
-[[Araneae]]
+[[Skeleton king]].
-[[The Warden]]
+[[Araneae]].
-[[The Butcher]]
+[[The Warden]].
 Act II
 [[Magda]]
-[[Zoltan Kulle]]
+[[Magda]].
-[[Belial]]
+[[Zoltun Kulle]].
 Act III
 [[Ghom]]
-[[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]]
+[[Ghom]].
-[[Cydaea]]
+[[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]].
-[[Azmodan]]
+[[Cydaea]].
 Act IV
 [[Rakanoth]]
-[[Diablo]]
+[[Rakanoth]].

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	That said, the developers are clearly holding back the good stuff and not letting fans see any of the bigger encounters at this early stage in the game's development.		That said, the developers are clearly holding back the good stuff and not letting fans see any of the bigger encounters at this early stage in the game's development.
		+
		+
		+	===Bossmonsters per act===
		+
		+	Act I
		+	[[Skeleton king]]
		+	[[Araneae]]
		+	[[The Warden]]
		+	[[The Butcher]]
		+
		+	Act II
		+	[[Magda]]
		+	[[Zoltan Kulle]]
		+	[[Belial]]
		+
		+	Act III
		+	[[Ghom]]
		+	[[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]]
		+	[[Cydaea]]
		+	[[Azmodan]]
		+
		+	Act IV
		+	[[Rakanoth]]
		+	[[Diablo]]

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-{{Monster navbox}}
+{{Monster navbox|boss}}
 [[Category:Bosses]]
 [[Category:Monsters]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 03:23, 29 September 2010
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	'''Bosses''' in the [[Diablo games]] come in various shapes and forms. From the randomly generated mini-bosses on a [[level]] to [[Superunique]] big [[quest boss]] like [[Diablo]], they are all bosses of some description.		'''Bosses''' in the [[Diablo games]] come in various shapes and forms. From the randomly generated mini-bosses on a [[level]] to [[Superunique]] big [[quest boss]] like [[Diablo]], they are all bosses of some description.

−	See also ~~basic~~ [[monster]] ~~info,~~ and ~~info on the new types of~~ [[~~Champion~~]] ~~monsters~~.	+	See also:
		+	*[[Monster\|Basic monster info]].
		+	* [[Champion]]s.
		+	* [[Bosses\|Bosses and SuperUniques]].
		+	* [[Boss Modifiers]].

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 ==Boss Modifiers==
-Most of the special, random modifiers found on bosses in Diablo 3 are reminiscent of {{iw|Monster_modifier#Unique_Monster_Bonuses those seen in Diablo 2}}, but there are some new ones mixed in. All of the bosses seen (on normal difficulty) in the Blizzcon 2008 and 2009 demos had at least one modifier, but quite a few had two. It's not known if the bosses with two mods were [[SuperUniques]] sporting their own innate mod + a random one, or if some bosses can just spawn with multiple modifiers on normal difficulty.
+As in Diablo II, many bosses have special modifiers, giving them elemental attacks, teleportation, the ability to heal, the ability to duplicate themselves, and many others.
 ==Boss Images==

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	'''Bosses''' in the [[Diablo games]] come in various shapes and forms. From the randomly generated mini-bosses on a [[level]] to [[Superunique]] big [[quest boss]] like [[Diablo]], they are all bosses of some description.		'''Bosses''' in the [[Diablo games]] come in various shapes and forms. From the randomly generated mini-bosses on a [[level]] to [[Superunique]] big [[quest boss]] like [[Diablo]], they are all bosses of some description.
		+
		+	See also basic [[monster]] info, and info on the new types of [[Champion]] monsters.

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 The free-range boss monsters in Diablo 3 have randomly-assigned names that are fairly similar to the names they had in Diablo and Diablo 2.  A few samples noted from Blizzcon 2009.
-* Death Froth -- [[Sand Wasp]].
+* '''Death Froth''' -- [[Sand Wasp]].
-* Spirit Hawk -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
+* '''Spirit Hawk''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
-* Bile Feast -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
+* '''Bile Feast''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
-* Rust Raven -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
+* '''Rust Raven''' -- [[Lacuni Warrior]].
-* Haze Fuse -- [[Tomb Viper]].
+* '''Haze Fuse''' -- [[Tomb Viper]].
-* Pit Thorn -- [[Tomb Viper]].
+* '''Pit Thorn''' -- [[Tomb Viper]].
 There will also be plenty of [[superunique]]s and other high level bosses with have fixed names, who will appear in the same place each game, whether they're part of the plot or just localized events.  Only a few of these are known thus far, but you can read about [[Thousand Pounder]], [[Siegebreaker]], and the [[Skeleton King]] for more details.
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 ::'''Jay Wilson: '''...we deal with some of the harder monsters, like bosses and rares and champions ...they would drop health globes at percentages of their health. Rares in particular are almost guaranteed to drop about every 25%. The other thing we did, because we design everything for cooperative play, if you pick up a health globe and you have a friend nearby, you both get the benefit. So that's something we did to make sure the system didn't favor people who are running forward, melee classes, who used to pull up all the health potions. Now they're actually helping the people in the back.
 ==Boss Modifiers==
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 Most of the special, random modifiers found on bosses in Diablo 3 are reminiscent of {{iw|Monster_modifier#Unique_Monster_Bonuses those seen in Diablo 2}}, but there are some new ones mixed in. All of the bosses seen (on normal difficulty) in the Blizzcon 2008 and 2009 demos had at least one modifier, but quite a few had two. It's not known if the bosses with two mods were [[SuperUniques]] sporting their own innate mod + a random one, or if some bosses can just spawn with multiple modifiers on normal difficulty.
-This list is a work in progress, and was compiled from play experience at Blizzcon 2009. The information in this section comes almost entirely from this boss report on Diii.net. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bosses-and-champions-in-diablo-3/]
+Most of the special, random modifiers found on bosses in Diablo 3 are reminiscent of {{iw|Monster_modifier#Unique_Monster_Bonuses those seen in Diablo 2}}, but there are some new ones mixed in. This should be considered a partial list, and was compiled from play experience at Blizzcon 2009. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bosses-and-champions-in-diablo-3/]
 ===Cold Aura===
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 A property that adds fire damage (and presumably fire resistance) to monsters, much as Fire Enchanted did in Diablo 2. This modifier was also seen on some normal monsters; Molten skeletons were seen, and they appeared to have fire damage added. From this sighting players are speculating that boss modifiers may regularly appear on normal monsters, adding to their abilities. Rather than Diablo 2's Burning Dead skeletons, Diablo 3 might just have regular skeletons with Molten or other boss properties.