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Behold the enemy bestiary of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

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If there’s one thing that Diablo is known for, it’s that it has some bastard-tough enemies to deal with. Think your +5 Ring of badassitude is going to save you from a Demonic World Smasher Overlord? Ha, think again. Diablo 3 had plenty of those killers lurking around. And its expansion, Reaper of Souls is upping the kill-ante with some new creatures.

While Malthael is the prime villain in Reaper of Souls, he’ll be joined by various other minions. Over on the Blizzard Blog, his troops were described as “a macabre combination of ghastly lieutenants and baleful constructs.”

Little is known of these creatures, as most who have encountered them have perished. Fortunately, a Horadrim under the command of Tyrael by the name of Lorath Nahr has experienced the foul reapers of Westmarch first-hand and survived to tell the tale, documenting both their behavior and perceived origin.

Here’s what players can expect to be clicking their steel against.

Death Maiden

After Malthael’s disappearance, the Angiris Council appointed his most loyal servant, Urzael, to find him and bring him back to the High Heavens. Urzael, accompanied by the sect of maidens who were Malthael’s closest followers, set out to find their absent master. They never returned.

executioner

These monsters were once the most notorious and reviled criminals in Westmarch, drawn up from the deepest, darkest cells of the city’s prisons. Each was worse than the last: heartless murderers who had butchered countless men, women, and children. In death, Malthael birthed them in forms that matched their twisted, callous souls, creating perfect instruments of slaughter. The executioners have earned their name.

Exorcist

All know the reputation of the exorcists of Westmarch, those spiritual warriors specialized in removing demonic possession. By custom, they arrive in darkness, clad in cloaks as black as the night that conjured them. They work in secret, extracting the demons that dwell within their subjects. Now Malthael has turned them, and they roam the city in their inhuman forms, stripping the souls from all they encounter.

Ghastly Seraph

The seraph was on me before I knew it, the mass of its bloated flesh soundless as it floated above the ground. When I finally noticed it, I could not move: it was as though I was trapped in a waking nightmare. I looked down and saw tendrils of energy wrapped around my feet and realized it was not fear that held me, but the seraph’s magic.

Revenant Archer

As Malthael has imbued them with the ability to sense the living, revenant archers do not rely on their vision to find their targets. There is no place safe from their sightless gaze. They will find you through stone, wood, and even the ground itself. And once they have their quarry, they do not miss.

Revenant Shield guard

The revenant shield guards were once the personal guard of King Justinian IV. Appointed to the position for bravery and skill at arms, they accompanied the king at all times, resplendent in their ornate armor, wrought by the finest craftsmen in Westmarch. But most spectacular were their shields, which they unerringly employed in the protection of their king.

Revenant Soldier

I watched in horror as the guard was struck by the maiden’s magic. I heard the sound of his screams until his flesh had dissolved to nothing, and only his armor-clad skeleton remained, his jaw unhinged. Blue mist swirled around his bones, coalescing into new flesh. When at last I cut him down, the phantasmal flesh exploded, leaving only a pile of armor behind.

Shadow of Death

The shadow touched me, and darkness spread across my vision until all I could see was blackness. It gave way to a pale light that sapped my strength. It seemed so easy, but instead, I drew upon the last of my will and fought back. Color flooded back into my sight. The shadow was right before me, and I drove my spear through it.

Summoner of the Dead

When I first came face to face with a summoner of the dead, it was surrounded by reapers and brought forth more by the moment. I cut a path through them, but for each that I struck down, another appeared in its place. Their numbers seemed limitless; however, when I killed the summoner, the remaining reapers fell to ash.

War Beast

Malthael’s influence taints man and beast alike. Even the dogs of Westmarch, once tame and gentle, have been transformed into wild, savage creatures. They hunt in packs through the streets, tearing apart their prey with ravenous hunger. I saw them rip a soldier limb from limb. When his screams stopped, they came for me.

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There’ll be more info dropped at Blizzcon this weekend, and hopefully some hands on time with the game. Which I’m totally using my press card to abuse my way to the front of the line for.

Last Updated: November 6, 2013

57 Comments

  1. Just love the art work

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  2. ToshZA

    November 6, 2013 at 11:25

    This is going to be really cool. I wonder what facing that executioner will be like.

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    • SaintsRowNigri

      November 6, 2013 at 11:28

      clickclicklclickclicldrinkpotionclickclickclickawshitidied

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      • ToshZA

        November 6, 2013 at 11:30

        You use a mouse? Pffff. How’s that rubber banding treating the Master Race?

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        • CrasH

          November 6, 2013 at 11:35

          It’s sad cause as much as blizzard say its not so, the game was designed for console.

          And if you compare it to D2, I feel sorry for the console players to have to be given such a pathetic, cheapened shell of a game compared to what it should have been just so its possible to play it with a controller…

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          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 11:50

            I have to disagree here. Diablo 3 is fun on console. It really is. I played Diablo from about day 1 on a 486, so I’ve really been a fan from the word go. D3 is far better than D1 imho – and while nostalgia exists, the reality is that the series has evolved. I can’t speak for the PC version because from all reports its horribly tainted by the RMAH and the always online. Diablo 2 & its expansion (which, incidentally, is what made the game great – the original on its own was also shocking) were more true to its time. The world has evolved, gaming has grown, and so D3 had to do so as well. Its still a great game.

          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 11:55

            What control do you have over your hero, besides gear… and chosing what 5 skills you want to equip… So its extremely limiting on how you build your hero.
            thats what made D2 great and why any true fan hates 3

          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 11:59

            and the fact the story was sooooo predictable and flat…..

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:09

            Who plays an ARPG for the story? Really? And as I said, D3 is different. It had to evolve with the times. If it was exactly like D2, but with shiny new graphics, everyone would’ve hated it, and I’d have been bored to tears myself. To date, I’ve still not finished a nightmare playthrough on D2 – because it got old. D3 I’ve finished Hell and playing through inferno, and can’t wait to get a new character started.

            There’s plenty of loot to be had, and choosing which skills to use (elective mode) really does make a huge difference. If you’re too lazy to make a custom skill set, then that’s not my fault, or problem. Each character can have multiple builds as well, depending on the weapons you find and such. D2 had basically one viable build per class. D3 you can play any build you find fun, and works for your play style. That’s far superior than sticking with the ONLY viable build.

          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 12:12

            And yet, thats all i want… is D2 with new gfx so it can look nice on my 22 inch.
            And yes you dont play it for the story on the replay and that but its still nice having a story with depth…

            Else they should just have like POE… your dumped on an island… go kill stuff… last one survives…. wins… end

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:20

            So, your “superior” game has less story, worse graphics, and is based entirely on what skill runes you find as drops? Where’s the stats?

          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 12:33

            Well the GFX not bad at all, the skills does depend on drop and yes your limited to 8 that you can use at a time and you can add others to make combinations, but not this huge selection, and still the game felt more fluid to me than D3…. i don’t know, maybe i just lost all faith in blizzard and can never look at it the same as D3 is not a great game… i will say its okay but its not great.

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:36

            Diablo 2 (vanilla) was hugely disappointing. I mean hugely, it wasn’t great, wasn’t even that good. There was a lot missing. It felt incomplete. Diablo 3 does not suffer those same problems. Arguably then, by direct comparison, D3 is already a better game.

          • Mark Treloar

            November 6, 2013 at 12:04

            This is such a nonsense excuse. I would agree not having control of your attributes affects how you play and the fact that damage scales to weapons rather than points on a skill. the amount of skills available however is irrelevant since most people in D2 would not have used more than 6 skills at any time anyway.

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:11

            Plus, in D2, you could make a wrong choice in your skills and stats, meaning that at lvl 45 you realise you made a wrong choice in skill selection? Whoops, reroll lvl 1 and start again. Doing this 3 or 4 times will get frustrating. In D3 that isn’t a problem. It’s more fun, and less “purist” and “research” just to be able to play your own damn game.

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 6, 2013 at 12:22

            I just love you right now. When people tell me Skyrim is a dumbed down version of Oblivion, I always think how much I don’t miss them repair hammers…

          • Dan

            November 6, 2013 at 17:07

            lol lvl 45. Try releveling that lvl 90 paladin after they introduced synergy.

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 20:45

            Ouchies man, that’s painful.

          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 12:17

            That would mean that they just dulled it down cause its was going to console… doesn’t say alot of what they think of the mental capabilities of the average console player…

            And I have a console, pc, tablet, chess, chinese checkers and an aray of board games and cards before i get the poor console player hate speech and master race ftw comments…
            the game was a pc game, i bought the pc version so i could lan with all my pc friends and the game was released on pc 1st and it was crap.
            Finished inferno and never touched it again and none of my friends have either, and with in a month of buying the game, no one even mentioned it again.

        • SaintsRowNigri

          November 6, 2013 at 11:42

          No. Console gamer myself. But typing pushpushpushpushpushpushpush just seemed to tiring at the time…

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          • NostalgicMossel

            November 6, 2013 at 11:46

            Lies! I see you on steam alot!

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 6, 2013 at 12:18

            True that. But if you look closely you’ll ever only see me play one game: Skyrim!

          • NostalgicMossel

            November 6, 2013 at 12:25

            That’s also true. What a game!

  3. UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

    November 6, 2013 at 11:30

    Can’t wait for the Collectors pre-orders to go up! Many scare. Such Diablo. Wow

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    • NostalgicMossel

      November 6, 2013 at 11:40

      lol are you obsessed with that meme? Many laugh. Such meme. wow.

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      • UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

        November 6, 2013 at 11:42

        Many obsessed. Much laughs. Such hilarity. Wow

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      • UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

        November 6, 2013 at 11:43

        Also I read through a whole tumblr of it… I am kind of stuck like this now. I even think like this now… Much think. Lots intelligence. So meme

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        • NostalgicMossel

          November 6, 2013 at 11:44

          *Lost intelligence
          There I fixed it for you! 😉

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        • NostalgicMossel

          November 6, 2013 at 11:45

          We made a meme of our friend with those captions and posted it on faceook! Was hilarious!

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 6, 2013 at 11:47

            faceook? A typo inadvertently reveals the truth trollol!

          • NostalgicMossel

            November 6, 2013 at 11:50

            lol, yeah…erm faceook, dont you know it?! gawsh! All the cool kids are using it.

          • UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

            November 6, 2013 at 12:03

            Much troll. Such grammar. So Facebook. Many truth. Wow

  4. CrasH

    November 6, 2013 at 11:31

    Going to give it a miss, bought the D3 collectors and wont make that mistake again… (P2W RMAH, failed drop rate and items, pointless enrage timers, and 0 skill build tree)

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    • kluch

      November 6, 2013 at 11:43

      Yep, rather stick to Path Of Exile. F2P, no p2w AH, awesome skill tree

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      • CrasH

        November 6, 2013 at 11:48

        Actually been playing it and enjoyed it much more then i did D3 and more than torchlight2 which i also enjoyed more than D3.

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        • ToshZA

          November 6, 2013 at 11:58

          Torchlight was shallow, Torchlight 2 was better, but got old very fast. I’m enjoying D3 more than either of those. I’ve spent more time, good, enjoyable time, with one character there than finishing the game twice each with 2 characters on Torchlight 2.

          I won’t speak for PoE, because I haven’t played it. Nor do I have a desire to do so. Don’t ask. I just think 2 ARPG’s is plenty – and I still have Van Helsing to download and play.

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          • CrasH

            November 6, 2013 at 12:04

            Van Helsing actually had a very good way to do a skill build (reminded me of titan quest) and the game and story was was good with some mini games in to and some funny commentary, but sadly has no replayability but was good for a solo-player as a game.

          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:21

            I got it for R75 on steam special. I think I’ll get more than my money’s worth. 😛

      • Johan du Preez

        November 6, 2013 at 11:49

        Yeh I agree Blizzard will never see my money again after D3. I will stick to Torchlite and path of exile myself.

        Blizzard is a hollow shell of its former self after Blizzard North closed down.

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        • ToshZA

          November 6, 2013 at 20:51

          And Blizzard are trying to buy themselves out from Vivendi. I think Blizzard are sick of their shit too. Stick around, Blizz are coming back. As an example, just look at the f2p Hearthstone, its a load of fun, very simple, but deep, fluid and smooth. Its great. Its Blizzard as we know them.

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          • Johan du Preez

            November 7, 2013 at 08:38

            Yeh but the damage is done and oh Bobby is still there, they gutted Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo they have nothing left other than some WoW developers. The core that made Blizzard great is gone there’s only CD Project Red and ID Software left seeming Bioware was gutted by EA as well.

            Oh and Chris Roberts keeping our space flight sim dreams alive 🙂

          • ToshZA

            November 7, 2013 at 09:08

            Starcraft isn’t gutted? Arguably, its the one franchise that people haven’t hated on. Its still the same old Starcraft.

            Warcraft needs a new entry now. Warcraft 3 wasn’t shit, it spawned an entire genre of gaming. That’s epic. You can thank Blizzard for that. Not directly, but you know, if they hadn’t allowed modding, MOBA’s wouldn’t exist.

            Blizzard milked WoW, but it was revolutionary when it came out, and for 3 years thereafter as well. Diablo 3 is great fun, but they messed up with the PC version. They want to make better games, their core hasn’t changed. Vivendi are riding their bottoms to get more moola. I still believe Blizz is the same old Blizz who’ve had a corporate riding their asses.

    • Gerhard Davids

      November 6, 2013 at 12:07

      I’m surprised by this. You can often tell the true Diablo players from the rif-raf by what you just did. Lauding Diablo 2 for it’s greatness and then saying you’ll give D3 xpac a miss.

      Anyone that played D2 vanilla knew what an absolute train wreck it was. LoD made the game a legend, not vanilla. I hope the same for D3.

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      • ToshZA

        November 6, 2013 at 12:23

        Exactly. People tend to forget that the expansion is what made D2 such a great game. Before that it was disappointing. I mentioned this below as well. Diablo 3 on console is different to D2, yes. But its still fun. I don’t see where all the hate is coming from in regards to that. The RMAH and Rubber banding etc that people experience seems to be the only complaints, so the console version is the definitive one anyways.

        Also, from next year, the RMAH is gone on PC’s as well. The game will need to be re-evaluated when that & the expansion happens. D2 was proof that an expansion could turn everything around.

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        • Gerhard Davids

          November 6, 2013 at 12:28

          Indeed, I own both versions. I enjoy console and actually enjoy PC (with hate for certain things). Waiting for pre-order so I can start a kumbaya camp up in this bitch thread.

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          • ToshZA

            November 6, 2013 at 12:29

            hahaha, yeah I think I’ll get this on pre-order as well. I bought D3 on day 1 for console, and don’t feel I’ve wasted a cent.

        • Johan du Preez

          November 7, 2013 at 08:48

          I Oh where to start lets see, random generated maps are gone so doing the same level 200 times get tired quick. You are forced to use 5 skills out of 10 or so skill pool making every one chose the same build cause there is only 1 effective one.

          Single player latency issues to say the least, rubberbanding casting spells that shows the animation but no damage because the netcode is so bad that the monster isnt there according to the game although graphically you see it hit him. This is in single player …

          Real Money Auction House I dont have to say much about as everyone knows this destroyed it. Great its going away it doesn’t change anything everyone already have all the items they want.

          The only people still playing the pc version is mostly farmers trying to sell to the ever dwindling player base. Once RMA goes there will only be the brave and the stupid left 🙂

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          • ToshZA

            November 7, 2013 at 09:17

            “The RMAH and Rubber banding etc that people experience seems to be the only complaints”

            That’s what I said. You’re repeating what I said. Take those 2 away, and really you have a fun game. That’s my point. That’s why I’m loving the console version. Random levels are still there. 6 skills available, and no there are many effective combinations, with your 3 passives as well. I’ve changed my entire build around 3 times on 1 character because an epic weapon dropped for me. You can’t do that in D2. No, you’d have to stash it, and reroll a new character. Diablo 3 is much better. Its more fun, less grind.

            And do yourself a favour, get it on console if the RMAH & Rubber banding are your only issues (which is the same as everyone else, that’s their only issues).

          • Johan du Preez

            November 7, 2013 at 09:29

            You seem to miss where I point out the skill tree issue and the random dungeon issue. These problems are much worse than the RMA or rubber banding because it effects replay ability.

            Thats why you could spend over 600 hours in diablo 2 because you will always get a different level. Thats quite a core part of Diablo and Diablo 2.

            Compare the skill system to D2 and you will notice its short comings.

          • ToshZA

            November 7, 2013 at 09:36

            Actually, in my experience, Diablo 2 had the SAME dungeons and events EVERY playthrough. The layout was different, but they were always there. In Diablo 3, its always different. You get different events, different dungeons, and the randomisation of each is still exactly like D2. Have you even played D2? D2 was more samey every playthrough than D3. And it was far more boring too.

          • Gerhard Davids

            November 8, 2013 at 09:57

            have this : https://mega.co.nz/#!isR1iTrY!XL_piAD8sr_ORK-LBOa5c14-uEpwFAPIku_-mnDePO8 Its a video of the new features. Very official looking. Blizz did some take down on the last two locations it was hosted so grab it quick.

          • ToshZA

            November 8, 2013 at 10:36

            Still up. Watched. Love it.

          • Gerhard Davids

            November 7, 2013 at 11:29

            Stand by skill tree issues? Let me see. In D2 skill trees didnt even show synergy till very late, respecs didn’t exist until very very late so respec meant re-roll. You had to use hotkeys to get actionbar switches where now I can set up a decent action bar.

            As for random dungeons, don’t fool yourself. The fluff was random but I knew north-east(pretty much the whole act III) for this and south for that. The story locations were always easy to find. D3 pallet pieces are just larger and more distinct. D2 pallet pieces were quite generic and could make you feel more lost than you were.

            Rubber banding is much better these days.

            Also you are comparing the maturity of a game that has been patched and expanded for over 10 years to a fairly new one. They have already made great strides to improve the game.

            Also you could use Hitler, but Stalin would be more effective. See what I did there? Prolly not.

      • CrasH

        November 6, 2013 at 12:27

        I loved D2 before even playing LoD, and yes LoD made a great game turn into an amazing game and many people felt the same that i know.

        If D2 was not great, you would never have even considered getting LoD, and thats the point i am saying that D3 is not so there is no point to me to get the xpac.

        Pretty sure that many, many others will get it and love it, but for me, they took the game into the wrong direction.

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      • Johan du Preez

        November 7, 2013 at 08:41

        Yeh D2 only really started to shine with the last patch when they introduced the synergy’s.

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  5. Gareth L

    November 6, 2013 at 13:53

    Is any part of this game going to not be black and light blue?

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  6. Johan du Preez

    November 7, 2013 at 08:59

    Reminds me of return of the lich king in WoW

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