Special Enemies
Hordes of minions, mini-bosses, and champions aren’t the only obstacles you’ll need to overcome during Onslaught. As you continue your survival, you’ll encounter special foes designed to keep you on your toes. Each special enemy has unique properties and acts as a force-multiplier for the hordes, so groups will need to quickly react to their appearance and dispatch members better suited to facing a single strong threat over a horde of weaker threats. For example, special enemies spawn with a “Chosen of Khotan” effect which heals the unit over 20 seconds. Rogues will want to purge this effect using Tainted Weapons.
Special Enemies are marked on the minimap with a Skull:
Ancient Kuthcheman Guardian
Bulwarks of Thugra Khotan’s armies, Ancient Kuthcheman Guardians are slow, lumbering monstrosities with high innate spell resistance and are immune to all crowd-control effects. Once their health reaches 50% or less, their spell resistance falls and their movement speed increases.
Ancient Kuthcheman Witch
Cruel and uncompromising spellcasters, Ancient Kuthcheman Witches command unholy powers that grant them sight beyond sight and an arsenal of debilitating curses with crippling effects in an area around their targets. Beware their spells:
- Curse of Lethargy: Reduces movement speed.
- Curse of Timidity: Reduces Ferocity.
- Curse of Exposure: Applies 1 stack of Spiritual Ruin, Physical Torment, or Elemental Wrack.
- Curse of Fumbling: Reduces Hit Rating.
- Curse of Frailty: Reduces healing received.
- Curse of Exhaustion: Drains Secondary Resource (Mana, Stamina, Energy).
Ancient Kuthcheman Witches may curse targets from extremely long ranges and without line of sight.
Mana Hungerer
An utter abomination driven by a primal, insatiable hunger for magick and sorcery, these beasts ignore standard threat rules and hunt the presence of Mage and Priest classes without prejudice. Mana Hungerers possess heightened health, evade chance, and spell resistance, and speed. Once a Mana Hungerer has locked on to its target, it will not deviate from its path unless it detects a more powerful source of sorcery, such as that from Spellweaving.
Concubine of Khotan
These sorceresses are gifted with the power of storm magic, allowing them to conjure devastating lightning bolts and thunderclouds where they see fit. Once on the battlefield, Concubines of Khotan take up a position and begin their long-range assault:
- Echoing Lightning: Casts a damaging spell on a single target, causing instant damage and echoing a mere moment later, dealing damage a second time and spreading to nearby players who will spread the echo further. Spread out!
- Roiling Storm: Conjures a stormcloud over a target area. Once the cloud forms, a bolt of lightning strikes the area below; any players caught in the blast will be stunned for 6 seconds.
Herald of Khotan
Thurga-Khotan’s own chosen guard, Heralds of Khotan act as force-multipliers for assaults upon the Ivory Dome. Clad in full plate armor and commanding waves of soldiers, Heralds embolden and empower nearby enemies with the Call of Khotan, an AoE buff that increases the damage, defenses, and size of all those affected. Heralds of Khotan may also cast various single-target buffs on their minions, such as:
- Khotan’s Hammer: Increases damage done
- Khotan’s Shield: Increases armor
- Khotan’s Resistance: Increases spell resistance
- Khotan’s Alacrity: Increases movement speed
Excavator of Souls
Vile Necromancers of Thurga-Khotan’s armies, these Excavators of Souls take positions around the Ivory Dome and begin weaving their dark magic. If they complete their spells, a wretched abomination of bone and rage emerges from the ground and begin their attack. The number of creatures summoned by Excavators increases as you complete more waves.