Proximity Shield

Proximity Shield

An Undying Evangelist with proximity shield

A player steals the proximity shield aura from a slain enemy using Headhunter

Proximity Shield is a defensive monster ability, which prevents all damage originating from sources outside its radius.

Monsters inside a proximity shield take no damage from projectile or other ranged attacks unless they are fired from inside the shield. Minions, traps, totems and mines are a good way to get around proximity shields as they count as their own source of damage, allowing a player to damage the monsters without going inside the shield themselves. Proximity shield also does not protect against damage over time, even if the hit that applied it originated from outside the shield. An exception to this is damaging Ailments such as Ignite or Poison, since they deal damage based on the base damage of the hit that inflicts them, and if the hit deals no damage, then the ailment is ignored.

Players can gain the protection of Proximity Shield by raising a monster with this ability as a spectre, or convert the monster as allies temporarily by using Conversion TrapConversion TrapTrap, Spell, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-23) Mana
Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec
Can Store 3 Use(s)
Cast Time: 1.00 secRequires Level 4Throws a trap that, when triggered by an enemy, converts that enemy to your side for a short duration. Does not affect unique monsters or players.Traps do not Trigger at the end of their Duration
Trap lasts 4 seconds
Base duration is (5.30-10.00) seconds

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Base duration is (0.2-4) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. or Dominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 8 Mana
Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds
Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds
Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance
Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance
Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance
25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., or steal the monster mod by using item such as HeadhunterHeadhunter
Leather BeltRequires Level 40+(25-40) to maximum Life+(40-55) to Strength
+(40-55) to Dexterity
+(50-60) to maximum Life
(20-30)% increased Damage with Hits against Rare monsters
When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds"A man's soul rules from a cavern of bone, learns and
judges through flesh-born windows. The heart is meat.
The head is where the Man is."
- Lavianga, Advisor to Kaom or Inspired LearningInspired Learning
Crimson JewelRadius: SmallWith 4 Notables Allocated in Radius, When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain 1 of its Modifiers for 20 secondsIf you do not learn from a won battle
then you have already lost the war.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.. However, the mod Proximity Shield is a legacy mod that can only be found in itemized or captured beasts in the permanent leagues.

Proximity Shield is similar but not the same as archnemesis modifier Temporal Bubble (the prefix TemporalTemporal
Intrinsic). However, the archnemesis modifier is disabled to spawn in version 3.20.0 and replaced by Temporal Proximity Shield. The color of Temporal Bubble / Temporal Proximity Shield are white.

Monsters

• Undying Evangelists in The Upper Sceptre of God (uses monster skill: MonsterProximityShield)
• Docere Incarnatis, an Invasion boss
• Temple Guardian in Oriath Square, or Heretical Guardian in The Ruined Square, in Act 5
• Monsters with the Nemesis modifier (implicit or explicit) Proximity Shield
  • Tormented Temptress unique area boss in Whakawairua Tuahu (implicit)
  • Thornrunner vaal side area Hidden Patch boss (implicit)
• ...

Variants

Monster mod

Name	Generation Type		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Proximity Shield	Intrinsic	1	N/A	N/A
Proximity Shield	Nemesis	40	N/A	no_proximity_shield 0 rare_minion 0 rare 600
Proximity Shield	Intrinsic	1	N/A	N/A
Proximity Shield	Intrinsic	1	N/A	N/A
Proximity Shield	Intrinsic	1	N/A	N/A

Monster skills

The following monsters use skill version of Proximity Shield:

Monster names	skill ids
<<HRB29>>	MonsterProximityShieldHarbinger
<<HRB29>>	MonsterProximityShieldHarbingerLarge
Beacon of Inevitability	BlightRelicProximityShieldLarge
Blighted Evangelist	Melee • BlightDelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield
Blighted Relic	BlightRelicProximityShield
Boss Daemon	NemesisDaemonProximityShield
Boss Daemon	PerandusDaemonProximityShield • PerandusRevive • PerandusSummonBackup • PerandusChestDeleteTarget
Daemon	AvatarProximityShield
Daemon	MonsterProximityShieldElder
Daemon	RepeatedPulseDegen • EssenceDaemonProximityShield
Daemon	InvasionBeastBossDaemonProximityShield
Daemon	PillarsOfVastiriProximityShield
Daemon	PillarsOfVastiriProximityShieldLarge
Daemon	TalismanT2ProjectileSpiral • TalismanT2DaemonProximityShield
Daemon	MonsterProximityShieldLarge
Daemon	UltimatumRelicProximityShield
Daemon	VaultBossProximityShield
Daemon	AncestralProximityShieldTrinket
Docere Incarnatis	MonsterProximityShieldInvasion • MonsterDelayedBlastInvasion • ExperimenterStormCallInvasion • ExperimenterVaalStormCallInvasion • MonsterEnfeeble
Fidelitas, Loyalty Undying	RapidSlam • AttackVortex • MeleeAtAnimationSpeedUnique • MaligaroDemonProximityShield
Guraq, Daylight's Blade	ExileTemplarVaalThrownWeapon • ExileTemplarThrownWeapon • ExileTemplarFlameTotem • Melee • MonsterProximityShield
Heretical Guardian	Melee • ReligiousTemplarCultistWeaponThrow • MonsterProximityShield
Heretical Guardian	Melee • ReligiousTemplarCultistWeaponThrow • MonsterProximityShield
Invisible	AncestralProximityShieldTotem
Jodin Dusk, Infected Advocate	Melee • MonsterProximityShieldLarge • BlightUndyingBossProjectile
Levioc, the Volcano	MonsterFirestormLegends • MonsterFlameRedLegends • MonsterRighteousFireLegends • MonsterProximityShieldLegends
Lightborne Elite	AvariusJudgeFireball • MonsterProximityShield
M'uneh	RapidSlam • AttackVortex • MeleeAtAnimationSpeedUnique • MaligaroDemonProximityShield
Nemesis Daemon	NemesisDaemonProximityShield
Orphaned Guardian	Melee • ReligiousTemplarCultistWeaponThrow • MonsterProximityShield
Saintly Evangelist	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Storm Guard	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • AncestralProximityShield
Storm Guard	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • AncestralProximityShield
Student of Brutality	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Student of Brutality	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Tempest Daemon	TempestDaemonProximityShield
Templar Conscript	Melee • LegionTemplarWeaponThrow • LegionMonsterProximityShield
Templar Conscript	Melee • LegionTemplarWeaponThrow • LegionMonsterProximityShield
Templar Conscript	Melee • LegionTemplarWeaponThrow • LegionMonsterProximityShield
Templar Conscript	Melee • LegionTemplarWeaponThrow • LegionMonsterProximityShield
Temple Guardian	Melee • ReligiousTemplarWeaponThrow • MonsterProximityShield
Temple Guardian	Melee • ReligiousTemplarWeaponThrow • MonsterProximityShield
Trap Daemon	NemesisDaemonProximityShield
Trap Daemon	PopupProximityShieldMachinarium
Undying Acolyte	WalkEmergeSynthesis • MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Undying Evangelist	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Undying Evangelist	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Undying Evangelist	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre
Undying Evangelist	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed • DelayedBlast • MonsterProximityShield • DelayedBlastSpectre

Skills that bypass proximity shield

As described in the intro section, there are some skills that can ignore/bypass proximity shield. Here are some examples:

• Dot Skills
  • Toxic Rain
  • Caustic Arrow
  • Flame Wall
  • Righteous Fire
  • Corrupting Fever
  • Blight
  • Scorching Ray
  • Vortex
  • Creeping Frost
  • Cold Snap
  • Soulrend
  • Bane
  • Essence Drain
  • Corrupting Cry Support
• Purifying Flame half works as the aoe shock wave hits if you shoot in to proximity shield
• Exsanguinate. It has a hit damage component and a dot applied on hit. The dot damage is not tied to the hit damage, so even though the hit does 0 damage the full dot is applied
• All Mines / Traps / Totem skills as long as they are placed inside the proximity shield
• Minions as long as they move into the proximity shield and attack or cast from inside

Version history

Version	Changes
3.18.0	Archnemesis modifiers have been rebalanced and added to the core game. Existing Magic and Rare monster modifiers have been replaced with Archnemesis modifiers. Bloodlines and Nemesis have been removed from the core game. This includes Proximity Shield. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
3.16.0b	Reduced the number of Monsters with Proximity Shield that can spawn in some Scourge encounters.
1.1.2	Undying Evangelists' Proximity Shields have a shorter duration, and they use it less often.
1.0.5	Added a buff icon for being under the effects of Proximity Shield.
1.0.4	Fixed an interaction between the HeadhunterHeadhunter Leather BeltRequires Level 40+(25-40) to maximum Life+(40-55) to Strength +(40-55) to Dexterity +(50-60) to maximum Life (20-30)% increased Damage with Hits against Rare monsters When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds"A man's soul rules from a cavern of bone, learns and judges through flesh-born windows. The heart is meat. The head is where the Man is." - Lavianga, Advisor to Kaom unique item and the Proximity Shield Nemesis mod, where the Proximity Shield did not expire.
1.0.3	Added a new buff icon for the Proximity Shield effect.
1.0.0	Added to the game (Nemesis mod version).