Monsters

There are four types of monsters. Normal, champions, rare, and bosses.

Normal Monsters

Normal monsters have black nameplates and have the default traits of the given monster type.

Champion Monsters

Champion monsters are easy to identify because they will always have traits displayed under their health bars. Depending on the difficulty they have one, two, or three champion traits on normal, nightmare, and hell difficulties, respectively. These traits are randomly assigned and can be assigned to any normal monster. Champions have enhanced health and reward higher levels of experience. They also guarantee at least two magical items.

Fire Enchanted

Casts conflagration
Casts fireball
Increased casting frequency
Increased fire resistance
All physical melee hits for additional fire damage
Explodes for fire damage on death

Cold Enchanted

Casts ice shard
Casts blizzard
Increased casting frequency
Increased cold resistance
All physical melee hits for additional cold damage
Explodes for cold damage on death

Lightning Enchanted

Casts energy bolt
Casts static field
Increased casting frequency
Increased lightning resistance
All physical melee hits for additional lightning damage
Explodes for lightning damage on death

Poison Enchanted

Casts poison cloud
Casts envenom
Increased casting frequency
Increased poison resistance
All physical melee hits for additional poison damage
Explodes for poison damage on death

Summoner

Summons two pets
Casts lava shield
Mob receives 3 random direct damage spells and a random DoT spell
Increased casting frequency

Vicious

Casts Iron Maiden
Increased strength and intelligence
Uses backstab
Uses shadow kick

Frenzied

Casts Flurry
Increased attack speed
Uses shadow kick

Juggernaut

Increased maximum health
Larger appearance
Casts Enrage

Tough

Casts Barrier
Increased physical defense
Casts Weaken

Chromatic

Casts Sanctuary
All resists are increased

Sprinter

Fast run speed
Always runs from battle to get help
Casts Heal
Casts Blind

Vampiric

Casts Drain
All physical attacks absorb health
Casts Yawn
Casts Heal

Lamprey

Casts Mind Drain
All physical attacks drain your mana
Casts Silence

Martyr

Explodes for physical damage on death and heals all allies
Casts Heal
Uses shadow kick

Phased

All damage given and taken is reduced by 25%
Casts Rune
Casts Lava Shield
Casts Silence

Dauntless

Stun, fear, silence duration time is reduced based on difficulty level
- Normal reduction 80%
- Nightmare reduction 66%
- Hell reduction 50%
Casts Resolution
Casts Fear
Casts Heal

Crippling Aura

Your heals half as effective
Uses shadow kick
Casts Weaken

Disruption Aura

Your cast time increases by 30%
Casts Confuse
Casts Mind Numb
Casts Silence

Conviction Aura

Reduces all of your resistances by 50%
Mob receives 3 random direct damage spells and a random DoT
Increased casting frequency
Casts Amplify Magic

Concussive Aura

Global cooldown times are increased 30%
Casts Confuse
Casts Blind

Ensnaring Aura

Run chance is reduced by 33%
Casts Thorn Shield
Casts Root

Zealous Aura

Reduces the attack speed of all monsters by half a second
Casts Blind
Casts Heal

Shredding Aura

Reduces your armor by 80%
Uses Backstab
Uses Shadow Kick

Rare Monsters

Rare monsters are slightly harder than normal mobs, but do not have traits like champions. Rare monsters have a large amount of hit points and have a much higher chance to drop unique loot. They are often found at the end of quests and they can randomly appear while in any zone.

Bosses

Bosses are the most powerful monsters in NeverGrind. Bosses have innate traits that make effects like fear and stun have a much shorter duration. They're also completely immune to some effects like charm. They drop anywhere from 3-6 items per kill. Revenant Viston has a -1 item drop penalty since his quest is so short. Bosses have the highest rare loot drop chance in the game. In particular, the first time you kill a boss on each difficulty there is a "first kill" loot bonus that sets the unique drop rates very high.

NeverGrind has the following bosses in the game: