Monsters that blow up on death?

Ive died a few times to these lately, they dont seem to be marked. When they die they explode and I die. Its like molten shell without the animation. Its not the caustic zombies either.

Anyone know what this is? They dont make the balls like bearers.

Volatile rares, they're the nemesis equivalent of bearers but they explode instantly with minimal graphics effects.

Volatile whateverblood? Those have the nemesis mod listed though.

Porcupine goliaths emit spikes on death. They're not too bad alone but deadly in groups.

Undying incinerators explode on low life, but apparently it takes a second or two and it's quite easy to finish them off before they blow up.

The skeletons raised by the stygian things found natively in belly of the beast explode after death, but there's a couple seconds delay.

Then there's a few types of suicide monsters, but you probably don't mean those.

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Vesuvius079 wrote:

Volatile rares, they're the nemesis equivalent of bearers but they explode instantly with minimal graphics effects.

These are so annoying. If you're melee, you may want to keep an Ancestral totem available, or maybe if you scale physical damage, perhaps Viper Strike.

This was a yellow rock guy on a low lvl map.

Shouldn't such a deadly monster have an aura or something? It dies before i can mouse over him.

Yep, im melee, mid cyclone and one shot. Its also a very poor mechanic, why does the monster do no damage when alive but can one shot you on death?

Yeah, sounds like a volatile somethingblood all right. They don't seem to do too much damage to me even on mid-level maps, but then again I'm running around with 11.3k ES so I can withstand pretty big elemental hits.

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Chadwixx wrote:

Shouldn't such a deadly monster have an aura or something? It dies before i can mouse over him.

If it is actually Volatile Xblood, then such monsters will appear Orange along with other Nemesis mod monsters. Hopefully there is no colour-blindness or monitor colouring issues going on here.

It was on the pennisula, map is yellow orangish.

Will keep a better eye out next time.