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Spiked Skeen

Spiked Skeen is a magic creature in Broken World.

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Template name: skeen_stats_ds2x

Spiked Skeens are far stronger and more clever than their mundane cousins. Groups of them will jump down on their prey in organized ambushes, or simultaneously burst from their subterranean holes.

The start of the game’s own Bestiary text.

Game
Broken World (new Act 4 map)
Type
Magic
Habitat
Desert
Act
Act 4 (Broken World)
Rank
Weak

Drops

Weak monster drop table. Chance per kill, before Magic Find:

Drops
DropChanceItem level vs. creature level
Gold14%
Health potion4.0%-10 to 0
Mana potion2.4%-10 to 0
Item5.0%-6 to 0
Rare item0.45%-5 to +1
Unique item0.15%-40 to +2
Set item0.15%-50 to +2

Confidence: Medium Read from the drop table named in the creature’s template. Fixed rewards of story bosses, quest items and what a placed monster carries are not read here. Not tested in game.

Details

Level and strength

Worked out from the creature’s template, per difficulty
MercenaryVeteranElite
Level406995
Life1,4623,9537,217
Damage120 to 199287 to 479498 to 830
Defense136248364
Experience93612,218138,620

Confidence: Medium Worked out from the formulas in the creature’s template, for the levels the template gives. Not compared with the game’s own Bestiary screen; spawn spots may change a monster’s level.

Weaknesses and resistances

Resistances (negative = weakness), percent of damage
MercenaryVeteranElite
Fire+110%+125%+150%
Ice-25%-5%-1%

Confidence: Medium As written in the template. A negative number means it takes more damage of that kind. Values of 100% and more are shown as given; the effect of going past 100% has not been tested.

What it can drop: Broken World

6 different items can drop (the best are shown) Confidence: computed from data, not measured

Potions, reagents and spells it can drop (best first)
ConsumablesMercenaryVeteranElite
Colossal Health Potion-2.0%2.0%
Colossal Mana Potion-2.0%2.0%
Large Health Potion1.0%--
Super Health Potion1.0%--
Large Mana Potion1.0%--
Super Mana Potion1.0%--

The chance is for one kill of this creature (level 40 / 69 / 95 in Mercenary / Veteran / Elite) with magic find at 0: the chance that its drop table rolls an item of this kind, times this item’s share of the items that can come out at that level. Items with the same name are added up. Creatures of the same kind that the Bestiary lists under other names share the same drop table at their own level. Computed from the game’s drop tables, not measured. A source rolls the entries of its drop table; an entry asks the game’s item table for one item of the right class inside a level window; every matching item is equally likely (the game picks a random row, there is no rarity weight). Chance is per kill or per opening, with magic find at 0.

Where it is found

Places the map files put it in (the numbers can be 100 or more)
PlacePlacedSpawnedRandom encounters
The Kelvaran Waste933
The Morden Highlands4

Confidence: Medium From the game’s map files. How many random encounters you meet is a roll the data does not fix.

Does it count for the Bestiary?

Can be completed

Enough of them exist, or a scene or conversation gives the credit.

Broken World book
No. 10
Kills needed
1 kill

93 placed, 1 needed.

Confidence: High the audit of the data files, confirmed by the in-game kill test

In-game kill test: unlocked after 1 kills (agrees with the data audit)

Natural spawn census: seen in 0 of 4 runs. A lower bound; a run only loads the areas near the party.

Kill counts are kept separately for Mercenary, Veteran and Elite. See how the Bestiary works.