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[[Frozen]] is an upgrade over Diablo 2's Cold Enchanted. These monsters hit with added cold damage that can chill the target with a 50% movement debuff, but their most dangerous effect is the casting of little ice bombs. These appear scattered randomly around the area of the battle and rapidly expand in size. After a second or two they grow to their full size and explode in multiple short-radius [[Frost Nova]]s which will freeze and render characters motionless for a short time. Being hit by several of these at once seems to stack the frozen time, and can be very deadly.

While this property is not encountered until some distance through Normal difficulty, players get a an early preview of it when they first encounter [[Captain Daltyn]] below [[Adria's Shack]]. [[Izual]] is another Elite with Frozen as an inherent property, and he creates a larger number of orbs spread over a larger area during his battle.

[[Horde]] is a boss-only property that causes bosses more minions to spawn at the start of the battle. The number of additional minionsenemies seems to be semi-random, taking their support packs from 3 with up to 8 or so, with 3 more allowed on higher difficulty levelsappearing. In addition it can allow This property does not alter the boss to respawn minions during the battle' stats or behavior, a bit like [[Illusionist]]. This can be very scary to the player as and the solo boss is suddenly surrounded by 5 or 6 new minions. Fortunately, these respawned Horde aren't any different either; there are fairly low on hit points, and can be dispatched quickly, especially by [[AoE]] attacksjust more of them.

Their low hit points can also be used for Horde is most dangerous when the monster type is dangerous, or when the player's advantage as their deaths other Boss Modifiers are a good source of [[health orbs]], and attacks nasty ones. Modifiers that trigger on enemy deathsminions can cast along with the boss, such as [[CleaveFrozen]]: and [[RuptureArcane Enchanted]], [[Exploding Palm]], [[Frost Nova]]: [[Shatter]], and others can practicaly be spammed against become very numerous when paired with Horde, mid-battle.

That said, Horde can be very dangerous if they are confused with [[glass cannonIllusionist]] types, with big damage output but Horde just creates more minions at the start of the fight. It does not allow the boss to match their fragility. Beware hard hitting enemies such as [[Berserkers]]make more during the battle, and all the Horde minions are full power and hit points, with and their massive club attacks, as 2 or 3 of those strikes will insta-kill most characters on most difficulty levelsdamage is very real.

[[File:Screenshot430Illusionist-skeleton1.jpg|thumb|400px300px|Illusionist desert wasps look scaryA few zombies can result.]][[Illusionist_(Elite_modifierBoss_modifier)|Illusionist]] Bosses and Champions are able to create duplicates of themselvesduring the battle, much as {{iw|Baal Baal}} did adding 4-6 more enemies in Diablo II: Lord the blink of Destructionan eye. The clones Fortunately, these duplicates are identical harmless; unable to the original, though they shimmer deal any damage with their attacks and blessed with a silvery light (which makes it possible to spot the "real" one)very few hit points. They look scary, but have limited hit points are largely an illusion and their attacks deal no damagea distraction, though it can be hard or impossible to tell their attacks since they are indistinguishable from the real boss'other monsters. This property is akin to the Wizard's [[Mirror Image]] skill, in that both create a lot of visual flash and action, but no real damage.

Individual bosses are able The easiest way to produce numerous clones at tell the same time, potentially making their own minion packsIllusions from the real monsters is to kill them quickly; any sort of AoE attack will vanish them in very short order. The clones of boss minions Players can be very numerous, but will also die quite quickly. The biggest danger is when Illusionists discern the difference if monster health bars are ranged attackersdisplayed in game, since there's no way to discern their harmless attacks from Illusions have only a tiny percent of the real fireballs or green wasps from hit points of the real monstersthings.

The biggest danger is when Illusionists are ranged attackers, since there's no way to discern their harmless attacks from the real fireballs or green wasps from the real monsters. They can also be tough by physically blocking a character's path, and by making it hard to tell which is the real monster, and thus which attack needs to be dodged. * Monster Level Minimum: ?15

[[Shielding]] is a modifier that creates a transparent bubble around a boss or champion, rendering them temporarily immune to all forms of damage. Shielded monsters can still be affected by some debuffs to their movement speed, but while shielded they are immune to most [[CC ]] effects. The shields seem to appear and disappear at regular intervals, without a precisely set duration of on/off.

Shielding is identical in appearance to the protective bubble granted by [[Invulnerable Minions]], but unlike that effect, the Shield comes and goes, and only protects Champions or the Boss. Only one commonly-encountered [[Elite]] has shielding; [[Magda]], though the timer on hers seems to be based on the damage she takes, rather than a semi-random timer, as with regular monsters.

* Available to: Champions and bosses, but not boss and their minions.

===TeleportingTeleporter===

[[TeleportingFile:Teleporter-skeleton-summoner2.jpg|thumb|400px|A Skeletal Summoner teleports into range.]][[Teleporter]] allows bosses, or individual champions, to teleport directly on top of their target. This makes the ability especially dangerous to ranged attackers, who wish to maintain a distance from the enemy. It can also create amusing situations where monsters who prefer to attack from a distance teleport in close, then immediately walk back to get away, giving the hero free hits as they flee.

In earlier testing, this ability caused the monster Teleporter is similar to randomly relocate every few seconds[[Vortex]] in effect, and was most useful for ranged attackers but is less dangerous since they could bounce around with Teleporter the screen while continuing monsters come to pin cushion the player chasing after them. It's been changed to a "warp into melee proximity" effecthero, which can actually work against rather than dragging the interest of some ranged attacking monstershero into their midst, who will teleport in, then spend where [[Molten]] or [[Fire Chains]] or [[Arcane Enchanted]] or other such mods might be busy creating a few seconds walking away as they try to reestablish the minimum distance their AI tells them to maintain from enemieskilling ground.

==Possible ModifiersModifier Combinations==

By simply multiplying the The odds for different possible effects modifier combinations, courtesy of some unofficial fan calculations. Bear in mind that some modifiers are Boss or Champion only, and considering that the same one modifier can not spawn twice, fans arrived at on the following math for possible same monster varieties:.

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