Vaal Flame Guardian

Vaal Flame Guardian
Vaal Flame Guardian
Location(s)	Desolate Isle Disused Furnace Reclaimed Barracks Sealed Basement
Modifier(s)	50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (Act versions) Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage (map versions)
Skill(s)	Default melee attack

Vaal Flame Guardian is a fire melee vaal construct that can be found in vaal side areas.

Despite it is a skeleton warrior, according to the in-game lore, vaal construct are not the undead that can be raised by a necromancer, as it is an animated armor that contains a skeleton inside.

Unlike similar fire melee skeleton, such as Flame Guardian, Vaal Flame Guardian has one more internal use monster tag "construct", while Flame Guardian only has "skeleton" and "undead" tags only.

Note that some Vaal-themed areas are also able to find Flame Guardian.

Abilities

Despite it only has default melee attack, since the monster has the mod 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage (or Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage for map variant), making the monster effectively dealing 50% fire and 50% physical damages.

Areas

• Desolate Isle
• Disused Furnace
• Reclaimed Barracks
• Sealed Basement

Variants

On top of sword variants, the monsters also have maul wielding variants:

Monster names	internal id	skill ids
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireSword	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireMaul	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireMaulMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireSwordMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed

Version history

Version	Changes
Unknown	Introduced to the game.

See also

• Vaal Frost Guardian cold version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Bone Warden lightning version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Arsonist spell version

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