[Guide] - The Ren'gol Bestiary

[Jirikjurasek]

With new expansion comes new system, which StS implement even before, but not with huge impact - Mobs with skills

In seasons before, there were only few mobs with skills (frost giants and spiders in Nordr; wolfs, mages and giants in shuyal and planar tombs; shamans and green orcs in tindrin) and to be honest, most common runs tactics count with parking/avoid these "strong mobs with skill which can kill us".

This new system is based on theory: "All mobs have some skills"

For succesfull and profitable runs we have to know our enemy, hope this article will help.

There are screenshots with my character and mob because of comparison of enemy size and for real look of enemy in zones.

MOBS

Grunt and Armored Grunt

Grunt and Armored Grunt can hit harder via red zone.
Can be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


Crossbowman

Crossbowman has two skills: short red zone which get you dmg and push you a bit. Second is bomb , explosion will stun you for 2,5s.
Can be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


Shaman

Shaman can heal others. Difference from previous version (located in Tindrin areas) is, that his heal is instant and shaman canīt heal himself.
Cast heal every 3s.
Shaman has normal ranged attack (small blue ball) which has about 20% chance to stun for 2s.
Purple circle casted by Shaman is cleansing things like snare effects, debuffs, dots, and the like.
Canīt be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt



Heavy Armored Grunt

Heavy Armored Grund has two skills: Red zone (shown on image) which get dmg and stun; second skill is similar to warriors Axe Throw which pulls you close to the H.A.Grunt (this skill has long ra nge, so running through group of Heavy Armored Grunt is quite dangerous).
Also casts an armor buff that affects all mobs in its area of effect, making the entire mob group harder to kill. Shield buff disappear when Heavy Armored Grunt is killed. Shield decreased dmg taken by 40%.
Canīt be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


Black Wolf

Black Wolf has very low HP and apply dmg reduction debuff on you.
Can be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


Green Boar

Green Pigs will push you and stun. They have very low HP as well as Black Wolves.
Can be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


Ogre Brute

Ogre Brute is that big guy with even bigger wooden hammer and with insane amount of HP. His speciality is to become stronger when you kill some other mob in his range.
And its not all. His skills are: Long red zone attack with strong dmg and stun for 6s. Immediately after Long red zone there will be Falling stones attack around him (3 stones at the same time) which makes massive dmg and stun for 2s.
If you avoid Long red zone via run behind him, be careful on Falling stones.
Canīt be stunned/freezed by skills like Fireball/Ice Bolt


BOSSES

Shaman Pakuna



Normal attack: Ranged (small green orb)
Skills:

Magma pools	predict via circle red zone. Magma pool get damage, reduce armor and damage by 10% (reduce armor doesnīt work, only icon is shown), last 20s
Invulnerability	Shaman Pakuna cast invulnerability on herself (pink fog under the boss), last 8s
Shadow Explosion	Damage spell
Strength	Increase shamanīs damage by 25% (red fog under the boss)
Wolf	summon wolf
Green fog	I have no idea what this skill does (green fog under the boss)

Thumper



Normal attack: Melee with chance to bleed
Skills:

Wide Circle Red Zone	get damage and reduce your damage (damage reduction doesnt work, only icon is shown)
Straight red zone	get damage and push you back
Short Conic Red Zone	massive damage and damage reduction (damage reduction doesnt work, only icon is shown)
Falling Stones	get damage and stun for 1s
Slow Pools	slow down your movement

You can see there are lots of mobs who can stun you (and all stun are area of effect!). Combination of pulls and stuns could be deadly even for high geared team. We will see in elites.

In clearly theoretical level, ideal combination of party should be:
Rogues - fast killing Shamans and Ogre Brutes
Mages - for crowd control
Warrior - for taunting and aiming red zones to proper directions and areas to secure that rogues and mages will not be pulled and stuned



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Thanks for Elite Runners guild and Safiras for support and informations.

Link to Avikk Precise and concise guide to Rage of Ren'gol