Sacred 2:Tainted

Damage Types: Physical Poison Weakest Against: Fire Ice Region: Tyr Lysia

Damage Types: Physical Poison Weakest Against: Fire Ice Region: The Swamp Nearby: Ruins of Khatuz

Battle Notes

• Racial Type: Demon
• Tainted have physical-to-poison damage conversion on their attacks.
• Tainted have some damage mitigation against physical and poison damage, but have a hidden sensitivity to fire damage.
• Normal Tainted can be found only in underground areas of Tyr Lysia and Artamark, anywhere rats can be found. Elite Tainted may also (rarely) be found there, but are much more common in the northern parts of The Swamp.

Special Abilities:

• Poison Skin (normals only) - an aura similar in appearance to the Assassin's Venom, this buff causes pulses of poison damage to any opponents within melee range.
• Poison Hard Hit (elites only) - a melee hard hit attack with boosted damage and attack rating. It also causes extra poison damage with a +35% Chance for Poison. You can see a green venom spray around the claws when they use it.
• Poison Nova (elites only) - similar to the Necromancer spell of the same name, causes flat poison damage as well as poison damage over time (duration 10 seconds).

See Also:

• The Diablo 2 Fallen Creatures Thread
• Original Appearance of this enemy in Diablo 2.
• Trolls (Sacred 1) - Tainted are based on the "Poisonous Troll" enemy model from Sacred 1.