Vaal Bone Warden

Vaal Bone Warden
Vaal Bone Warden
Level(s)	6-84
Location(s)	Clouded Ridge Cremated Archives Sacred Chambers
Resistance(s)	Lightning (20%/40%/75%)
Modifier(s)	50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage (Acts version) Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage (map version) Construct
Skill(s)	Default melee attack

Vaal Bone Wardens are melee monsters of type construct found in vaal side areas. They carry a variety of two handed weapons (swords or maces), all of which spark with lightning.

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.

Abilities

• Lightning Damage
  • The monster has different variants which has different ids. But all versions deal some portion of lightning damage by either have damage converted, or gain as extra damage. The portion would also further affected by vaal side area mod and map mod.
• Resists lightning damage
  • Comparing to normal skeleton, such as its namesake Bone Warden, Vaal Bone Warden has even more resistance to lightning damage
• Armour
  • The monster belongs to internal use monster types ConstructMeleeLightning or ConstructMeleeLightningMaps, 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

• Clouded Ridge
• Cremated Archives
• Sacred Chambers

Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Now a monster of Cremated Archives [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
Unknown	Now a monster of Clouded Ridge [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.] (The release date is not found in the patch notes. Assume to be the same patch that introduce Vaal side area, despite this wiki article was created more than a year after that patch)

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