Vaal Frost Guardian

Vaal Frost Guardian
Vaal Frost Guardian
Level(s)	12-83
Location(s)	The Temple of Decay Level 1 The Temple of Decay Level 2 Strange Sinkhole
Resistance(s)	Resists cold damage only
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 Frost Guardian is a cold melee vaal construct.

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 cold melee skeleton, such as Frost Guardian and Bleak Aspirant, Vaal Frost Guardian has one more internal use monster tag "construct", while Frost Guardian only has "skeleton" and "undead" tags only.

Note that some Vaal-themed areas are also able to find Frost 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 version), making the monster effectively dealing 50% cold and 50% physical damages.

Areas

• The Temple of Decay Level 1
• The Temple of Decay Level 2
• Strange Sinkhole

Variants

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

Monster names	internal id	skill ids
Vaal Frost Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightColdSword	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Frost Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightColdSword2	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Frost Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightColdMaul	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Frost Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightColdSwordMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed
Vaal Frost Guardian	Metadata/Monsters/Skeletons/SkeletonMeleeKnightColdMaulMaps	MeleeAtAnimationSpeed

Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Moved to The Temple of Decay Level 1 and Level 2 [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
Before 1.2.0	Introduced to the game. (the wiki article first appear after version 1.2.0 but the closest big patch that related to Vaal was Sacrifice of the Vaal (1.1.0))

See also

• Vaal Flame Guardian fire version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Bone Warden lightning version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Frostguard spell version

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