Sand Dwellers as formidable giants that possess great strength. Physically they possess high health and damage making them tough opponents to fight but what makes them dangerous is their Sand Shield ability that reflects all projectiles as well as dealing continuous area damage. Ranged characters with high damage must be especially careful as a few reflected critical hits could kill party members. Elite packs are a huge threat and can easily destroy unprepared parties and require considerable punishment to down. Killing them can be rewarding as they have enhanced drops to compensate for their toughness.
Abilities
- Ambush From Below
- Buries into the ground when left alone leaving nothing but hard to notice ground disturbances. Leaps out of the ground when approached. Always created in buried state. Buried state invisible and invulnerable. Elite variants still show visual auras when buried.
- Massive
- Creature is enormous in size. Ambush From Below can suffer from unbury delay of several seconds during which time the creature is vulnerable and unable to act.
- Sand Shield
- Temporarily enchants self with a magical shield made of sand. This shield not only deals continuous area damage to anything in melee range but also reflects all hostile projectile attacks that land hits on self. Reflected projectiles will not hurt monsters anymore and will instead hurt the party. Reflected projectiles with homing capability (e.g. Guided Arrow) can convert back to party and retarget if enough distance is traveled. Melee, channel and instant attacks are unhindered.
Variants
Normal
- Ancient Walker
- Sand Dweller
- Rock Giant
- Sand Behemoth
Champion
- Sand Dweller
- Rock Giant
- Sand Behemoth
Rare
- Sand Dweller
- Rock Giant
- Sand Behemoth
Uniques
| Image | Name | Affixes | Variant | Location | Notes |
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Ernutet Guardian of the Veiled Treasure |
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Sand Dweller |
Created as one of the outcomes of the Ancient Device.
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| Diablo III Bestiary | ||
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| Bosses | Skeleton King • The Butcher • Maghda • Zoltun Kulle • Belial • Ghom • Siegebreaker Assault Beast • Maiden of Lust • Azmodan • Rakanoth • Izual • Diablo | |
| Human | Dark Cultist • Dark Summoner • Dark Vessel | |
| Demon | Activated Vessel • Armored Destroyer • Dark Berserker • Hellion • Imp • The Fallen Ones • Treasure Goblin • Winged Molok • Vile Hellbat | |
| Undead | Crawling Torso • Dune Dervish • Ghoul • Grotesque • Risen • Skeletal Executioner • Skeletal Shieldman • Skeleton • Skeletal Archer • Tomb Guardian • Unburied • Walking Corpse • Wraith • Wretched Dead • Wretched Mother | |
| Beast | Beast • Carrion Bat • Carrion Nest • Dune Thresher • Lamprey • Scavenger • Goatman • Goatman Shaman • Desert Wasp • Quill Fiend • Wood Wraith | |
| Uncategorizable | Guardian Tower | |