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Spike Fiends are Animals.

These small creatures are basically thorny turrets; they move slowly and largely at random, but they relentlessly fire quills from their backs, inflicting a constant, needling damage to the players or minions nearest them. Spike Fiends are seldom more dangerous than annoying, but a boss pack with Might, Fanaticism, Extra Strong, or other nasty modifier combinations can be nasty.

• Special, more powerful versions of Spike Fiends may be encountered in Act Five on Nightmare and Hell difficulties. See their stats here.

Statistics

• All table values are sorted by difficulty level: Normal / Nightmare / Hell.

Offense

Quill rats attack by firing spines from their backs, like projectile porcupines. Higher level Quill Rats are more accurate and fire more rapidly.

• Quill Rats have a chance to deal Poison damage in Nightmare and Hell.
• Spike Fiends and Thorn Beasts have a chance to deal Cold damage in Nightmare and Hell.
• Razor Spines have a chance to deal Fire damage in Nightmare and Hell.
• Jungle Urchins have a chance to deal Lightning damage in Nightmare and Hell.

Defenses

All types of Spike Fiends deal damage back to characters striking them from melee range.

• 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

No types of Quill Rats are immune on any difficult level. Some bosses may be, with added resistance from Monster Modifiers.

• 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#Immunities Resistances#Immunities|Resistances] page for more details.