Elites and veterans

What an elite is

Against an ordinary monster of its kind, an elite has four times the health, hits 25% harder and is 35% bigger. It pays four times the experience and gold.

The affixes

• Shielded

  Carries a shield that soaks 6 hits, whatever their size, and grows back after 8 s if left alone. Fast weapons break it quickly.

• Hasted

  Moves 40% faster, attacks more often and winds up quicker. Slows and freezes help.

• Volatile

  Bursts in a marked circle a moment after it dies. Kill it from range or dash out.

• Vampiric

  Heals itself whenever it hurts a Warden. Do not get hit.

• Frostbound

  A slowing aura round it, about 5 m across each way. Ranged weapons keep clear of it.

• Stormcharged

  Every few seconds a marked bolt falls on the nearest Warden. Keep moving.

• Warding

  Monsters near it take less damage; it does not protect itself. Kill it first.

• Brood

  When it dies, 2 young of the land's first monster climb out where it fell. Kill it where they are simple to sweep up.

• Tremor

  Every few seconds it stamps. A marked circle appears round it, then the ground there shakes. Fight it from the edge of its circle.

When elites come

The harder the difficulty, the more affixes an elite carries and the more elites a wave brings.

Veterans

On the hardest difficulties a monster can come as a veteran, a darker version of itself with 25% more health that is 15% bigger. Each one is shown on the page of the monster it comes from.