Claw Viper (Guest)

This is a page for Nightmare/Hell difficulty exclusive Guest variations of Claw Vipers.

Serpent Magus Charge

All Guest Claw Vipers use their own AI called "ClawViperEx"(pansion) which is the same as the normal Claw Vipers but with an addition of a special ranged attack.

Guest Salamanders are the only Claw Viper type in the whole game that don't change colors upon charge. On the other hand the Guest Serpent Magi are the only Claw Vipers that become red upon charge, all other change their color to blue.

• Claw Vipers (clawviper6) can spawn in:
  1. Crystalline Passage,
  2. Frozen River.
• Pit Vipers (clawviper7) can spawn in:
  1. Glacial Trail,
  2. Icy Cellar.
• Salamanders (clawviper8) can spawn in:
  1. Pit of Acheron,
  2. Infernal Pit.
• Tomb Vipers (clawviper9) can spawn in:
  1. Halls of Vaught (no Uniques).
• Serpent Magi (clawviper10) can spawn in:
  • The Worldstone Keep Level 2,
  • Throne of Destruction.

Statistics

• Claw Vipers and Pit Vipers have the ability to shoot Bone Spears that deal both Physical and Magical damage. They also deal Poison damage with melee (50%) and Magical damage with tail.
• Salamanders have the ability to shoot "Fire Fumes" that kill 1500+ HP hirelings in 1-2 seconds, also they deal Fire damage with their melee (50%), tail and charge (100%),
• Tomb Vipers have the ability to shoot a Poison missile, they also deal Poison damage with their melee attack (50%), tail and charge (100%),
• Serpent Magi have the ability to shoot Bone Spears, also they deal Magical damage with their melee, tail and charge with 100% chance.

Claw Viper

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Animal	Animal	Animal
Act(s) found in	—	5	5
Monster Level	32	61	82
Experience
Health points
Damage 1
Attack Rating 1
Damage 2
Attack Rating 2
Defense
% to Block	20	20	20
Damage Resist	0	0	25
Magic Resist	0	0	25
Fire Resist	0	0	25
Cold Resist	50	75	90
Lightning Resist	50	75	90
Poison Resist	50	75	90
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	50
Immunities	—	—	—
Chill Effectiveness	50	45	40
Walk/Run Speed	6	10
Group/Minion Size	2-3	—

Pit Viper

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Animal	Animal	Animal
Act(s) found in	—	5	5
Monster Level	35	61	83
Experience
Health points
Damage 1
Attack Rating 1
Damage 2
Attack Rating 2
Defense
% to Block	20	20	20
Damage Resist	25	50	70
Magic Resist	0	0	0
Fire Resist	50	50	70
Cold Resist	0	0	145
Lightning Resist	0	0	25
Poison Resist	0	50	110
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	50
Immunities	—	—	Cold, Poison
Chill Effectiveness	50	45	40
Walk/Run Speed	6	10
Group/Minion Size	2-3	—

Salamander

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Animal	Animal	Animal
Act(s) found in	—	5	5
Monster Level	38	61	77
Experience
Health points
Damage 1
Attack Rating 1
Damage 2
Attack Rating 2
Defense
% to Block	20	20	20
Damage Resist	0	0	25
Magic Resist	0	0	0
Fire Resist	75	100	115
Cold Resist	60	75	0
Lightning Resist	0	0	25
Poison Resist	0	0	50
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	50
Immunities	—	Fire	Fire
Chill Effectiveness	50	45	40
Walk/Run Speed	8	12
Group/Minion Size	2-3	—

Tomb Viper

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Animal	Animal	Animal
Act(s) found in	—	5	5
Monster Level	40	62	81
Experience
Health points
Damage 1
Attack Rating 1
Damage 2
Attack Rating 2
Defense
% to Block	20	20	20
Damage Resist	0	0	25
Magic Resist	0	0	0
Fire Resist	0	0	33
Cold Resist	0	0	0
Lightning Resist	60	80	100
Poison Resist	75	100	110
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	50
Immunities	—	Poison	Lightning, Poison
Chill Effectiveness	50	45	40
Walk/Run Speed	8	12
Group/Minion Size	2-3	—

Serpent Magus

Property	Normal	Nightmare	Hell
Type	Animal	Animal	Animal
Act(s) found in	—	5	5
Monster Level	41	63	85
Experience
Health points
Damage 1
Attack Rating 1
Damage 2
Attack Rating 2
Defense
% to Block	20	20	20
Damage Resist	0	0	25
Magic Resist	40	60	70
Fire Resist	20	0	33
Cold Resist	20	0	0
Lightning Resist	20	0	25
Poison Resist	20	0	115
Drain Effectiveness	100	75	50
Immunities	—	—	Poison
Chill Effectiveness	50	45	40
Walk/Run Speed	9	14
Group/Minion Size	2-3	—

Tomb Viper Strategies

(As of Diablo II: Resurrected Patch 2.3 they deal only poison damage with their missiles, which makes them a much lesser threat.)

This scourge of players primary attack is a poison missile similar to a Plague Javelin, only capable of much more damage. Due to a bug, a percentage of their charge damage is included in the secondary cloud of poison as physical damage; the AoE cloud. This means that one could avoid the initial poison from the spear but still get damage of the cloud should his character run into it. The cloud isn't visible however, but will stay about five seconds after the initial spear's cloud vanishes. If the player does not move in this time, the second cloud will not affect them. Getting knocked back will also not trigger the second cloud.

Physical damage can be mitigated by equipping items with integer physical damage reduction. Other way of countering their attack (for melee characters) is by moving close enough to the creatures so that they will melee instead of using their missile attack. Casting Dim Vision on them will work as well as they won't attack something until they're aware of it. Another tactic, working on all guest monsters is to Save and Exit the game and try again, hopefully being able to avoid having them spawn again.