Enemy Variants

Variants provide enemy Majors and Elites with extra unique abilities, effects or tactics. Each of the 40 variants adds its own unique complexity, surprise, and difficulty to encounters. Players must remain versatile and adaptable when fighting variant enemies as they can greatly change strategic choices.  

Adamant

Has 50% reduced movement speed and 25% reduced attack speed, but 80% damage reduction. Attacks also cause Force damage.  

Aggressor

Charges headlong into battle with reckless abandon. Aggressors have 50% increased movement speed as well as 50% increased melee attack speed.  

Avenger

Surrounded by microdrones that return fire whenever the Avenger is attacked, up to once per second.  

Barbed

Covered in sharp, protruding spikes that inflict damage upon contact. Barbed enemies deal 25% of the damage taken if struck with a melee attack. They can also create destructible thorn barriers, hindering the movement and providing cover. These barriers can be destroyed with projectile damage as well as return damage to melee strikes.  

Berserker

Has dramatically increased size and health, and has high damage resistance against melee attacks. Can use a stomp attack to interrupt and deal Force damage to all enemies in a 20 meter radius.  

Caster

Imbues its attacks with Thermal, Ionic, or Entropic damage at random. These attacks apply heavy amounts of their corresponding statuses.  

Ceaseless

Passively replenishes health, making it difficult to defeat without a concentrated attack. Ceaseless enemy HP regenerates at 10% per second if they have not been struck in the past 5 seconds.  

Cursed

Possesses an otherworldly visage that causes mental damage. Deals 1% Interference damage every second within 5 meters, and can occasionally fire a channeled blast that deals 10% Interference damage on a successful hit.  

Desecrated

Corrupts the environment around them with an aura that deals a large amount of Toxic and Radioactive damage to its enemies every second within 10 meters.  

Divine

Able to create a 10 meter wide circle of restorative energy, healing itself and allies that are within range for 2% HP per second.  

Dread

Emits an aura of entropic energy. Dread enemies deal Entropic damage every second within 10 meters, and can occasionally fire a channeled blast that applies the Entropy status on a successful hit.  

Elysian

Can emit radiant shields that are invulnerable to all attacks for 10 seconds, providing complete protection to anything inside. This bubble can be cast every 30 seconds after the shield has dissipated.  

Enforcer

Has 25% increased attack speed. Additionally, attacks are imbued with Plasmic damage with increased status application.  

Explicator

Masters of strange universal forces, Explicators can conjure levitating orbs of Plasma that slowly seek out enemies. They move at 20% the speed of the Explicator towards the closest target. These orbs can be destroyed, as well as created every 15 seconds. The Plasma balls emit a 4 meter aura that deals a large amount of Plasmic damage with increased status application every half second.  

Exponent

Supports its allies with 40% increased movement speed. They can also erect destructible barricades every 10 seconds.  

Exterminator

Specialized in destroying defensive positions, Exterminators can deploy a swarm of powerful explosive drones that self-destruct when close to a target, dealing a large amount of Concussive and Thermal damage with increased status application.  

Gilded

Adorned in gold, Gilded enemies are only vulnerable to precision damage and Critical Strikes. Additionally, their melee attacks deal 50% increased damage.  

Graveborne

Upon death, Graveborne enemies will create an ethereal glowing orb where they were defeated. This creation does not attack, but it does have 10% of the original Graveborne’s HP. If the orb isn’t defeated within 15 seconds, the Graveborne is brought back to life with 25% of its original health.  

Harbinger

Channels dark energy to summon random Echoes (excluding Lightkeeprs). Harbingers can conjure an Echo once every 60 seconds and can have two active on the battlefield. When the Harbinger is defeated, so are all of their Echoes.  

Havoc

Utilizes volatile explosives and area-denial tactics. They sporadically throw Thermal grenades that ignite areas of the battlefield. They also can deploy concussive traps that momentarily disorients players making them vulnerable to attack.  

Illusionist

Uses holographic technology to create multiple decoys and illusions. These illusions deal 5% damage to the Illusionist and have 10% of the health. They can create an additional illusion every 15 seconds. They appear slightly translucent.  

Inquisitor

Specializes in immobilization, Inquisitor attacks disable jumping or any airborne movement on a successful hit for 8 seconds.  

Molten

Has 25% increased attack speed. Additionally, attacks are imbued with Thermal damage with increased status application.  

Moonlit

After being attacked, Moonlit enemies deploy a destructible obelisk that provides 50% damage reduction to all enemies within 15 meters. They can generate an obelisk once every 60 seconds but may only have two active at one time.  

Overlord

Commands a group of minions, buffing all allies within 20 meters with a 25% damage reduction.  

Plagued

Emits an aura that deals a Toxic damage to its enemies every second within 15 meters. Attacks are imbued with Toxic damage with increased status application.  

Ravenous

Possesses an insatiable hunger, allowing them to drain their enemies’ life force to replenish their own health. They tend to rush and attack at close range. Damage from Ravenous enemies replenishes its own health by 10% of all damage it deals.  

Ruffian

Occasionally throws proximity mines that only detonate if approached within 3 meters. These mines deal a large blast of Concussive damage with increased status application.  

Soulbound

Is surrounded by a spectral aura. Damage inflicted to Soulbound enemies within 20 meters inflict 5% of the same damage back.  

Stygian

Has 20% increased movement speed and attacks are imbued with Ionic damage with increased status application.  

Suppressor

Emits a 20 meter energy field to suppress player abilities. Any action aside from walking, running, or attacking is disabled within this field.  

Twilight

Able to manipulate the boundaries of light and shadow, becoming temporarily invisible for up to 10 seconds or until striking or attacked. Twilight enemies can cloak every 10 seconds.  

Umbral

Has intrinsic resistance to all elements except Ballistic. Additionally, attacks are imbued with Radioactive damage with increased status application.  

Unstoppable

Highly resilient and relentless in combat, they are immune to crowd control. Additionally, Unstoppable enemies gain 20% increased speed and increased damage output as its health decreases; 10% damage until 50% health or above, then 20% extra damage.  

Vindicator

Has 25% increased attack speed. Vindicator’s attacks apply large amounts of Ballistic Erosion.  

Vizier

Emits a 20 meter aura that protects its allies, disallowing any Critical damage and increasing damage reduction by 10%.  

Voidfire

Attacks from Voidfire enemies are imbued with Radioactive damage with increased status application. They can also channel a dark tendril that fires out from them, dealing a large amount of Interference damage.  

Warden

Equipped with a shield that projects a rotating barrier that circles the Warden. The shield covers 50% of their body and rotates completely every 10 seconds.  

Warbringer

Emits a 20 meter aura that inspires its allies, increasing damage by 30%.  

Warlord

Commands armies with great tactical prowess, they can call for support every 20 seconds after being attacked. Reinforcements of four minions will arrive in small groups to help defend the Warlord. A maximum of eight minions can be summoned at a time.