Tentacle Beast

Tentacle Beasts are Animals.

Tentacle Beasts are a species of aquatic reptile that inhabit the waterways of the Kehjistan jungle. Travelers should be extremely wary of these creatures, especially when near pools of water, streams, or rivers. Bubbles rippling across the surface of a body of water are a telltale sign that a Tentacle Beast waits below. Fearsome to look upon, these reptiles are also extremely dangerous. They secret a poisonous saliva, which they spit from their mouths with incredible force, often knocking targets off their feet. Occasionally, groups of Tentacle Beasts work together, with one using the poisonous missiles to knock prey into the maw of another.

Found in the rivers and moats of Act Three, Tentacle beasts are snake like monsters with a head that bites and spits, and tails that deal melee damage when attackers approach too closely. The tails can be killed without slowing the head, but if the head is taken out the tails will vanish beneath the surface, never to return.

These monsters never drop any items, but they can be leeched from and are worth experience points.

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

Statistics

Tentacle Beasts are stationary and have no movement speed. They do not drop items of any kind and are never found in champion or boss forms.

Type	Level	Experience	Hit Points	Speed	Max TC/Rune
Water Watcher Head	18 / 51 / 80	213 / 9204 / 57720	90 / 708 / 1563	--	--
Water Watcher Tail	18 / 51 / 80	265 / 5310 / 33300	90 / 602 / 1329	--	--
River Stalker Head	20 / 50 / 80	261 / 8603 / 57720	102 / 696 / 1563	--	--
River Stalker Tail	20 / 50 / 80	321 / 4963 / 33300	102 / 592 / 1329	--	--
Stygian Watcher Head	22 / 52 / 84	312 / 9757 / 64786	112 / 720 / 1634	--	--
Stygian Watcher Tail	22 / 52 / 84	388 / 5629 / 37377	112 / 612 / 1389	--	--

Offense

The poison spit attack is a magical projectile and therefore always hits (barring blocking or avoid type skills). The damage is the same on all difficulty levels, which is surely a bug/oversight by the programmers.

Type	Poison Spit (Head)	Melee Attack (Tail)	Melee AR
Water Watcher Head	34-56 over 32s (1.7-1.8/sec)	--	--
Water Watcher Tail	9-18 / 30-51 / 63-109	162 / 907 / 2896
River Stalker Head	34-56 over 32s (1.7-1.8/sec)	--	--
River Stalker Tail	10-20 / 28-49 / 63-109	185 / 891 / 2896
Stygian Watcher Head	34-56 over 32s (1.7-1.8/sec)	--	--
Stygian Watcher Tail	11-22 / 30-51 / 65-112	207 / 923 / 3033

Defenses

• Regen Rate tells what % of a monster's hit points are recovered per second. Standard is 1.2/sec. Some monsters regen 50% or 100% faster.
• 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.

Type	Defense	Blocking	Regen Rate	Drain Effectiveness	Chill Effectiveness
Water Watcher Head	90 / 708 / 1563	24%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33
Water Watcher Tail	90 / 602 / 1329	24%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33
River Stalker Head	102 / 696 / 1563	27%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33
River Stalker Tail	102 / 592 / 1329	27%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33
Stygian Watcher Head	112 / 720 / 1634	29%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33
Stygian Watcher Tail	112 / 612 / 1389	29%	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 75	50 / 40 / 33

Resistances

The heads and tails have identical resistances for each type of Tentacle Beast.

• 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.

Type	Physical	Magic	Fire	Cold	Lightning	Poison
Water Watcher	0% / 0% / 15%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 100%
River Stalker	0% / 0% / 15%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 105%
Stygian Watcher	0% / 0% / 15%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 0%	0% / 0% / 110%