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Oblivion Knights are Undead.

This class of monsters is one of the most dangerous in the game.

• Doom Knights are foot soldiers, but even they can hit for a wide variety of spectral damage.
• Abyss Knights have melee spectral damage, plus the ability to cast a protective Bone Armor, and five flavors of elemental projectile damage.
• Oblivion Knights are the most dangerous monsters in the game for melee characters, due to their ability to cast the Iron Maiden curse. They are dangerous ranged attackers with a variety of elemental projectiles, and can cast a number of the same curses as Necromancers: Decrepify, Iron Maiden, Lower Resist, Weaken, Life Tap, Amplify Damage.

All values are listed by difficulty level: Normal / Nightmare / Hell.

Statistics

• The TC/Rune drops listed are the highest Treasure Class/Rune Group a normal monster of that type can drop.
  • TC Champions and Bosses can sometimes drop from the next higher group.
  • The max TC/Rune possible may depend on which level a monster spawns in, and can be lower than the maximum. See the item calculators to ascertain precisely what a monster from a given area can drop.

Offense

• Doom Knights have a 60% chance to add random elemental damage to their melee attacks.
• Abyss Knights have a 40% chance to add random elemental damage to their melee attacks. Their ranged elemental attacks are calculated separately. (See below).
• Oblivion Knights can cast the following curses: Decrepify, Iron Maiden, Lower Resist, Weaken, Life Tap, and Amplify Damage.

Defenses

Doom Knights are one of the few non Act Bosses with the ability to block, but this ability is deactivated in their Guest Monster version.

• 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

• Guest Monsters are found only in Act Five, and only on Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels.
• 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.