Monster

Walking, running, slithering or crawling. If it moves on Wraeclast, it's almost certainly dangerous.

Monsters are hostile creatures that reside in almost all areas, except for towns and hideouts. Slaying monsters is the primary source of gaining experience and a core aspect of Path of Exile.

Mechanics

Monsters have life and sometimes energy shield, just like player characters. These can be seen by the monster's life bar. Monsters also have armour, evasion and resistances. Their armour and evasion cannot be seen in the interface. The monster life bar interface indicates if a monster has positive or negative resistances to Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Chaos damage, but the exact resistance value will not be visible.

Monsters have a non-zero amount of mana but are not typically constrained by mana usage. Monster skills are used at a set rate (based on attack/cast rate or cooldown) or randomly according to their AI behaviour.

Monsters have at least one monster category, which is relevant for certain effects like Ravenous. Monster categories are not displayed unless the player has an effect that reveals it. A monster can have multiple category.

Monster attributes is affected by Monster Level.

Monster elemental damage conversion multiplier

Main article: Damage conversion

Monsters that deal physical damage converted to fire, cold, or lightning damage gain a more damage multiplier specific to the converted elemental damage only based on their monster level; this starts at 0% up to Level 20, then increases by 5% per level from Level 21, capping at 300% more at Level 80+. In other words, a monster in an area level 80+ area deals 4x times the base converted elemental damage, effectively negating the damage mitigation of elemental resistances when at the default max of 75% compared to 0 flat or percentage physical damage reduction.

This effect does not apply to base physical or chaos damage, physical damage or elemental damage converted to chaos damage, base elemental damage or elemental damage not converted from physical damage, or non-ailment damage over time.

This more damage multiplier does not apply enemy conversion caused by Shaper of Flames, Kaom's BindingKaom's Binding
Heavy BeltRequires Level 56+(25-35) to Strength+(30-40) to Strength
+(300-500) to Armour
Take no Burning Damage if you've stopped taking Burning Damage Recently
Nearby Enemies Convert 25% of their Physical Damage to FireFor centuries, he burned in an unending
nightmare of lava and flame... but he endured., or Pyroshock ClaspPyroshock Clasp
Leather BeltRequires Level 43+(25-40) to maximum Life+(30-40) to Dexterity
+(300-500) to Evasion Rating
(10-15)% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on Enemies
Enemies Ignited by you have (10-15)% of Physical Damage they deal converted to Fire
Enemies Shocked by you have (10-15)% of Physical Damage they deal converted to LightningTeach a man to burn, and you'll be warm for the rest of his life.. This also does not apply to character or ally sources of physical damage taken as elemental damage, which is not conversion.

Monster rarity

Monsters come in four rarities like many other systems in Path of Exile:

• Normal: Most common, and spawn in large packs.
• Magic: Have one or two monster modifiers. They spawn in smaller packs.
• Rare: Have up to four monster modifiers. They spawn alone or with a a pack of normal or magic monsters.
• Unique: Unique monsters have unique names and abilities and are typically tied to a specific location or mechanic. This includes bosses.

Monster rarity affects the monster's life, damage, internal item rarity and item quantity, experience granted on death, and number of flask charges granted on death.

Monsters of higher rarity drop items of higher item level (iLvl):

• Magic monsters drop items one ilLvl higher than the area level.
• Rare and Unique monsters drop items two iLvl higher.

Shared stats

The following stats are shared by monsters. Please take note that individual monsters may have different stats.

Base Stats

• 33.3% of Energy Shield Recharged per second
• Base Critical Strike Multiplier: 130
• Movement Speed is capped at 128
• Regenerate 1.7% of Mana per second

Charges

• +3 to Maximum Endurance Charges
• +3 to Maximum Frenzy Charges
• +3 to Maximum Power Charges
• 15% additional Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
• +15% to all Elemental Resistances per Endurance Charge
• 4% more Damage per Frenzy Charge
• 15% increased Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge
• 15% increased Cast Speed per Frenzy Charge
• 5% increased Movement Speed per Frenzy Charge
• 200% increased Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge

Maximums

• +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems
• +10% of Maximum Energy Shield to maximum Recovery per Energy Shield Leech
• +10% of Maximum Life to maximum Recovery per Life Leech
• +10% of Maximum Mana to maximum Recovery per Mana Leech
• +10% to Maximum total Energy Shield Recovery per second from Leech
• +20 to maximum Fortification
• +20% Maximum total Mana Recovery per second from Leech
• +20% to Maximum total Life Recovery per second from Leech
• +200 to maximum Mana
• +75% to maximum Chance to Block Attack Damage
• +75% to maximum Chance to Block Spell Damage
• 75% to maximum Physical Damage Reduction
• Can have up to 10 Azurite Stacks
• Can have up to 3 Traps placed at a time
• Can have up to 4 Viper Strike Orbs
• Can have up to 5 Remote Mines placed at a time
• Can have up to 5 Explosive Arrow Stacks
• Can have up to 8 Fire Beam Stacks
• Maximum 45 Eaten Souls

Bosses

• Bosses
• Map Bosses

There are certain categories of monsters that only spawn in specific locations or situations:

• Unique monsters
• Corrupted monsters
• Beyond Demon
• Rogue exile
• Tormented Spirit

Monster types

Monsters in Wraeclast are divided into types which generally have a common appearance, behaviour and abilities.

Type	Category	Found
Abomination	Demon, Undead	Act 4
Ape	Animal	Act 2 (outdoors)
Bandit	Humanoid	Act 2, Act 6, Act 7 (outdoors)
Beast	Animal	Act 2, Act 7
Blackguard	Humanoid	Act 2, Act 3, Act 6
Cannibal	Humanoid	Act 1
Carrion	Animal	Act 3, Act 8
Chimeral	Animal	Act 3 (indoors), Act 8 (outdoors)
Construct	Construct	Act 2, Act 7
Devourer	Animal	Act 2, Act 7
Experimenter	Humanoid	Act 3
Goatman	Animal	Act 1, Act 6 (outdoors)
Goliath	Animal	Act 3, Act 8
Ghost	Humanoid, Undead	Act 1, Act 5, Act 6, Act 10
Hellion	Animal	Act 1 (outdoors)
Maw	Animal	Act 3 (indoors)
Miscreation	Demon	Act 3 (indoors)
Necromancer	Undead	Act 1-3 (indoors), Act 7
Plummeting Ursa	Animal	Act 2
Rhoa	Animal	Act 1
Retch	Animal	Act 1, Act 3 (Outdoors)
Ribbon	Construct	Act 3, Act 8
Rock elemental	Construct	Act 2, Act 4, Act 9
Sand Spitter	Animal	Act 1
Shield Crab	Animal	Act 1
Sea witch	Animal	Act 1 (Indoors), Act 6
Skeleton	Undead	Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4, Act 5, Act 6, Act 7, Act 9, Act 10
Snake	Animal	Act 2, Act 7
Spider	Animal	Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 7
Statue	Construct	Act 3, Act 5, Act 8, Act 10
Totem	Construct	Act 2, Act 4, Act 6, Act 7
Undying	Humanoid	Act 3
Voidbearer	Demon	Act 3
Watcher	Animal	Act 1, Act 4, Act 6, Act 9
Water elemental	Construct	Act 1, Act 3, Act 8
Zombie	Undead	All acts

Bestiary

Main article: the Bestiary

Beasts are the capturable wildlife of Wraeclast. They can be hunted down with the help of Einhar Frey. The hunting and collecting progress is kept in the Bestiary.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.27.0c	Fixed a bug where effects from the player that converted monster Physical Damage to an element were also increasing the amount of damage from that element based on the percentage of Physical Damage converted and the monster's level. This would have affected Elementalist's Shaper of Flames Passive, Pyroshock Clasp Unique Belt, and Kaom's Binding Unique Belt.
3.27.0	Refactored how monsters with Physical damage converted to Elemental damage scale with Monster Modifiers and Map Modifiers that grant Physical Damage gained as extra Element. In general these Modifiers will have far less effect on high level monsters that converted most/all of their Physical Damage to a specific Element.
3.11.0f	Fixed a bug where various objects (including enemies) could be invisible.
3.11.0	Due to a number of changes making it much easier to reliably stun tough enemies, many bosses are now immune to stun while stunned and for a short time after the stun ends. The base distance an enemy is knocked back by knockback effects is now based on the enemy's size. Smaller enemies are knocked farther back than large enemies. Monsters which deal extra Chaos damage (many of whom are encountered in a Breach) now say so beneath their nameplate. Note that this does not change the balance of these monsters. Fixed a bug where some non-monsters (such as Nemesis mod Lightning Clones) could get Delirium modifiers. Fixed a bug which caused the area of effect of Lightning Whip used by several monsters to get way too big. Fixed a number of cases where monster skills could potentially hit players that were not in line of sight.
1.2.0	Monster elemental resistances have been reworked. Many of the more common monsters types no longer have resistances in Normal difficulty. Some more challenging monster types will have resistances and Unique monsters will have a large amount of an appropriate resistance. All main questline, Map and corrupted area bosses have elemental and chaos resistance, though at a lower value.
0.9.3	Monsters now have three blood effects depending on the size of the damage relative to their maximum life. Monster descriptions now show their resistances and have been tidied up to only show properties that are special about that monster. Default drop rate per monster is reduced to 16%. Modified the set of monsters that flee due to being ignited so that it is only humanoids, monkeys and Sea Witches. Monsters are now not resistant to elemental damage if the value would fall at less than 15%.
0.8.7	Improved synchronisation of monsters in combat. Some monsters (currently Monkeys) now flee when other monsters of that type are slain. Many monster types now flee when set on fire. Fixed a bug that would cause monsters to get out of sync when an action completed early on the client but not the server, or vice versa.
0.8.6	Fixed a bug with monsters dropping the wrong quantity of items. Reduced drop rate of equipment such that 18% of monsters drop items rather than 23%. Non-equipment drop rates are unchanged..
0.8.4	Irrelevant monster mods won't occur on casters any more.
0.8.3	Completely rebalanced monster evasion values - they now evade a lot less. Partially rebalanced monster damage reduction and energy shield values. Moved more mods to the level 1 pool so that early rares aren't so uber.
0.8.2	Fixed a problem generating certain types of monsters. Reduced damage dealt by bow-wielding monsters substantially.
0.8.1	Fixed a bug that resulted in most monster movement speeds being slightly wrong. Inappropriate monster mods should not spawn on the wrong monster types now. 30% additional penalty to ranged monster accuracy. Halved monster energy shield recovery delay time.
0.8.0	Made monsters twice as easy in lower difficulties. Harder in higher difficulties. Changed how monsters get accuracy and critical strike rating to be flatter. Rare monsters are now limited to four mods.
0.7.2	Magic monsters now drop at least one item.
0.7.1	Fixed monster energy shield regeneration. Most monster mods are now substantially more dangerous. Doubled monster energy shields.
0.6.12	Added sounds to all monsters that had no sounds.
0.6.11	Added monster mana regeneration.
0.6.0	Complete rebalance of monsters.
0.5.5	Modified magic/rare monster chances per level.
0.5.3	Set up chance of monster packs being magic. Improved monster AI/attack behaviour.
0.5.2	Improved various monster animations. Adjusted monster sizes/attack distances/speeds.
0.5.1	Dramatically improved rewards for killing rare and magic monsters.