Skeletal Guardian

Skeletal Guardians are the glass cannons of the skeleton families. They possess highly damaging elemental range attacks that are often used to support more tough skeletons against the party. As they have very little life, they will flee melee confrontations making them very annoying to melee party members. Players should be aware that they can spawn in high numbers which have a tendency to fire all at the same time and "nuke" a character with huge amounts of damage, usually killing them. For this reason it is advisable to snake towards groups of Skeletal Guardians rather than charging straight at them.

Abilities

• Elementally Enhanced

  Every individual is aligned to a specific element. Each element grants different abilities that are family dependent.

  • Cold

    Shoots three icy missiles in an arc centered toward the target. Each missile is offset by approximately 45 degrees (pi/4 radian). Missile impact does low chilling damage that slows party members. All created missiles can hit the same target if he is close enough at launch.

  • Fire

    Shoots a slow traveling molten blast that does little damage on impact but creates a molten pool on the ground for several seconds. The molten pool does moderate continuous damage to all party members who stand on it.

  • Lightning

    Shoots a fast traveling bolt of lightning that does high damage with a huge variance on impact. The attack cast point is considerably longer than with other elements, giving the appearance of charging up. Charging can be interrupted by causing monster to flinch.

  • Poison

    Shoots a poisonous burst that does moderate damage on impact. A Poison Nova is created on death that deals moderate damaged to all nearby party members.

Variants

Normal

• Blazing Guardian

  Always Fire Enhanced.

  • The Forgotten Ruins
• Shock Guardian

  Always Lightning Enhanced.

  • The Forgotten Ruins
• Noxious Guardian

  Always Poison Enhanced.

  • Eastern Channel
  • Western Channel
• Chilling Construct

  Always Cold Enhanced.

  • The Storm Halls
  • The Unknown Depths
• Smoldering Construct

  Always Fire Enhanced.

  • Desolate Sands
  • The Unknown Depths
• Charged Construct

  Always Lightning Enhanced.

  • Desolate Sands
  • The Storm Halls
• Toxic Construct

  Always Poison Enhanced.

  • The Storm Halls
  • The Unknown Depths

Champion

• Blazing Guardian
  • The Forgotten Ruins
• Shock Guardian
  • The Forgotten Ruins
• Noxious Guardian
  • Eastern Channel
• Chilling Construct
  • The Unknown Depths
• Smoldering Construct
  • The Unknown Depths
• Charged Construct
  • The Storm Halls
• Toxic Construct
  • The Storm Halls

Rare

• Noxious Guardian
  • Western Channel
• Smoldering Construct
  • The Unknown Depths
• Charged Construct
  • The Storm Halls
• Toxic Construct
  • The Storm Halls

Uniques

Image	Name	Affixes	Variant	Location	Notes
	Ghezrim The Bone Flayer	Electrified	Charged Construct	Stinging Winds	Part of Guardian Spirits.
	Mage Lord Misgen Guardian Lord of Blood	Missile Dampening Reflect Damage	Blazing Guardian	Vault of the Assassin	Part of the quest Blood and Sand. Spawn after picking up Zoltun Kulles Blood.