Vaal Flame Guardian

Vaal Flame Guardian
Vaal Flame Guardian
Level(s)	25-84
Location(s)	Desolate Isle Disused Furnace Reclaimed Barracks Sealed Basement
Resistance(s)	Resists fire damage (20%/45%/75%)
Modifier(s)	50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (Act versions) Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage (map versions) Construct
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

• Fire damage
  • Despite it only has default melee attack, since the monster has the mod 50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (Hidden)MonsterElementalSkeletonFire
    Intrinsic
    50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage (Hidden) (or Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage (Hidden)MonsterPhysicalAddedAsFireSkeletonMaps
    Intrinsic
    Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage (Hidden) for map variant), making the monster effectively dealing 50% fire and 50% physical damages.
• Resists fire damage
  • Comparing to normal skeleton, such as its namesake Flame Guardian, Vaal Flame Guardian has even more resistance to fire damage
• Armour
  • The monster belongs to internal use monster types ConstructMeleeFire or ConstructMeleeFireMaps, which grant a parameter armour_multiplier = 1.0, that grant this monster some Armour as defence. It has no evasion or ES related parameters, however.

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	monster type id	skill ids	health multiplier	attack speed	damage multiplier	critical strike chance
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireSword	ConstructMeleeFire	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed	1.3	1.32	1.61	5.0
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireMaul	ConstructMeleeFire	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed	1.3	1.32	1.61	5.0
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireMaulMaps	ConstructMeleeFireMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed	1.3	1.32	1.28	5.0
Vaal Flame Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightFireSwordMaps	ConstructMeleeFireMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed	1.3	1.32	1.28	5.0

Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Now also spawns in 3 of the 8 new vaal side areas. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
1.1.0	Introduced to the game. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]

See also

• Vaal Frost Guardian cold version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Bone Warden lightning version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Fallen elemental hit version
• Vaal Gargantuan wild strike version
• Vaal Arsonist fire spell version

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