Rare Monsters

Rare Monsters have yellow names and display their abilities.

Rare Monsters, known as Unique Monsters in Diablo II, are more powerful versions of regular monsters. They spawn with additional abilities that can make it harder to defeat them - to assist with the added challenge, they also drop larger Health Globes. Not all areas can spawn Rare Monsters, but when possible they can only be of the same type as the regular monsters for that area. For example, rare Carrion Bats cannot spawn in the Cemetery of the Forsaken because only Skeletons can spawn there. Rare Monsters will always spawn with minions that also share the same ability as their leader. Only the leader of the pack will drop the higher quality loot.

In higher difficulties, Rare Monsters will spawn more often and will have additional abilities stacked as well as abilities unique to higher difficulties.

Rare Monster Abilities

At least one of the following abilities will always appear on Rare Monsters:

• Arcane Enchanted
• Avenger
• Desecrator
• Electrified
• Extra Health
• Fast
• Fire Chains
• Frozen
• Health Link
• Horde
• Illusionist
• Invulnerable Minions (removed in 1.04)
• Jailer
• Knockback
• Missile Dampening
• Molten
• Mortar
• Nightmarish
• Plagued
• Reflect damage
• Shielding
• Teleporter
• Thorns (removed before release)
• Waller
• Vampiric
• Vortex

Monster Names

Names are generated for Rare Monsters and can sometimes be based on their abilities:

Generic
Prefix	Suffix
Alot Anarchis Anguish Balorr Bane Bloatgut Borgoz Deathrattle Dread EvilEye Ezreth Fade Fausto Felyron Gapewound Gilgamesh Grash Grax Grimok Grule Hatemonger Hex Infectus Insignius Kargra Legion Loathus Malice Malifant Mandrake Nizoon Pann Rhykker Scaros Scathach Sepsis Shakal Sin Siuzogg Solazius Sorrow Timok Torment Turrask Tyrant Uzay Wormwood Wrath Xalax Xiar Zarhym Zorr Zuul	, Crippler of Princes , Lord of Damnation , Mangler of Heroes , Nomad of the Wastelands , Patron of the Mad , Thrall of Fetlock , Torturer of Souls , Unspeakable Terror Brimstone Darkshade Devilkin Dreadfang Drekroot Filthpit Greedgallow Raythe Skullcrusher Toothgrind Torment Viletongue Wormboiler of the Darkness the Ancient the Betrayer the Blasphemous the Brute the Cursed the Damned the Destroyer the Disemboweled the Doomed the Empty the Fiend the Ghastly the Gorgon the Greedy the Hellion the Horror the Immortal the Maligned the Mangler the Murderer the Reckoner the Revenant the Savage the Shamed the Slayer the Terrible the Unforgiven the Violent

Fast Prefix Suffix Valafar Breakneck Kazfiel Hastus Swiftspite the Quickened , Dispatcher of Faith Siezefrenzy

Frozen Prefix Suffix Deumos Marax Chulock Shiverstark the Embalmed the Ice Lord Winterfang Soulfreeze