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Blood Lords are Demons.

Blood Lords are the most fearsome melee attackers in the game. They are found only in Act V, but these dual wielding, minotaur-like hulks have two fast attacks, high damage, elemental damage, and a terrifying ability to activate Frenzy with successful hits, greatly boosting their attack and foot speed. Boss packs with mods such as Extra Strong, Extra Fast, or Might/Fanaticism auras are extremely dangerous to most characters.

Blood Lords are among the most common monsters found in Act V, with all five types appearing in multiple areas as normal and Guest Monsters.

The initial concept art named these monsters Minotaur demons. Some suggest that they are the masters of the Goatmen clans, seeing that their different variations are that of the same as the goatmen clans (i.e. Moon Lords being the Moon Clan's leaders). They share the same name as the toughest class of spellcasting Vampire, the Blood Lord

Statistics

Speed rates a monster's movement speed. 1 is very slow, 10 is fast, with some very fast creatures rated at 10+.

• All values are listed by difficulty level: Normal / Nightmare / Hell.
• The TC/Rune drops listed are the highest Treasure Class/Rune Group a normal monster of that type can drop.
  • Champions and Bosses can sometimes drop from the next higher TC.
  • The max TC/Rune possible depends on which level a monster spawns in, and can vary slightly from the listed values (monsters that spawn in later levels can drop higher level items). See the item calculators to ascertain precisely what a monster from a given area can drop.

Offense

Most Blood Lords have a chance of adding bonus elemental damage to their attacks on NM/Hell difficulties.

Defenses

Death Lords can not be frozen or chilled.

• Regen Rate tells what % of a monster's hit points are recovered per second. Standard is 1.2/sec.
• Blocking values are assigned to every monster in the game, but the ability is seldom enabled, so most monsters can not block (Hence the blocking % given on most Diablo II monster pages, including Blizzard's, is inaccurate.) When enabled, blocking tells what % of successful, blockable attacks will not damage the monster. Monsters need not carry a shield to block.
• Drain Effectiveness tells what % of a character's mana and life steal apply to that monster. 100 is all, 0 is none.
• Chill Effectiveness tells what % of a character's cold length applies to the monster. 100 is all, 0 is no freeze/chill at all.

Resistances

• Resistances over 99% are listed as immunities and monsters will take no damage from that type of attack.
• Immunities can be "broken" by skills that lower resistance, if the value drops below 99%. See the Resistances page for more details.

Locations

• Monster variety in Act Five on Normal difficulty is static -- the same monsters are always in the same areas. (This was true of NM/Hell also, prior to v1.10.)
• Many Expansion monsters only appear as Guest Monsters in v1.10+.
• Monsters in areas marked "Boss Only" will only appear as random bosses or champions.
• Monsters in areas marked "No Boss" will never appear as random bosses or champions.