8. Monsters

• Skeletons
  
  • Will come in standard soldier form, as summoners, or as shield bearers.
  • Shield bearers are slow but tough, and will absorb damage until their shield breaks, protecting casters behind them.
  • Skeletons be summoned by necromancers anywhere, but will require less effort to summon in a graveyard than in the middle of a forest.
  • Necromancers can summon a horde of skeletons or one single uber-skeleton for the same cost.
  • Summoners will automatically replenish skeleton warriors for a necromancer, creating a self-sustaining army.
  • Ghouls
    • Standard ghost-like wraiths. Once killed, can turn into a Crawling Corpse, which holds down players until killed.

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• Berserker
  • Aggressive monster with a mace that charges up its attacks, becoming vulnerable if it misses.
• Scavenger
  • A two-legged monster that burrows underneath the ground, exploding upwards to attack the player. Similar in appearance to the Leapers of Diablo II.
• Dune Thresher
  • A burrowing monster similar in function to the Scavenger. Its long tail is visible above ground as it worms its way through the earth.
• Khazra (goat-men)
  • Similar to the goat-men in past games.
  • Moon Clan Charger variant wields a large axe.
• Dark Cultists
  • Weak magicians, they summon demon spawn to fight against you.
  • The Dark Vessel variant transforms into powerful entities on a timer. The player must kill them before they morph or face a tough battle.
• Grotesque
  • A fat zombie. When killed, dozens of blue eels swim free of its stomach and swarm the player.
• Beast
  
  • A large wooly beast with horns. Seems to have a charge and slam ability.
• Thousand Pounder
  • A mini-boss demon shown in the Forgotten Tombs dungeon. It wields two giant maces.
• Gnarled Walkers
  • Entities from another dimension that disguise themselves as massive trees, picking off men and animals when they come near.
  • Employ some kind of poison attack.
• Siegebreaker Assault Beast
  • A very large mini-boss resembling a dog creature with a human torso attached to it. Shown at the end of the recent gameplay demonstration.
  • Picked up a player and bit his head off in a scripted animation, finishing it off in one attack.
• The Skeleton King
  • A large boss in the Tristram church catacombs. The return of King Leoric from the original Diablo.
  • Challenges players to reach his throne, at which point he attacks along with several minions.

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