Monster Modifiers¶

Creatures with stars wear modifiers that change how they fight: faster, armoured, elemental, exploding on death and more. Their names show over the health bar, like "Swift Armored Greydwarf the Splitting".

Rarity¶

A creature's stars set its rarity, shown by the colour of its name and its glow. Each star brings modifiers; how many is a server setting.

Stars and modifiers also raise the quantity and rarity of what a creature drops.

Modifiers (26)¶

The description is the game's own. The values are the server defaults (hover a value for what it means): servers can change each of them, or scale them all with the Modifier strength setting.

	Name	Description	Values
	Swift	Moves half again as fast.	Movement speed: 1.40×
	Furious	Strikes a third more often.	Attack speed: 1.18×
	Armored	Takes a third less physical damage, and moves slower for it.	Physical damage taken: 0.70× Movement speed: 0.85×
	Warded	Carries a rune ward over its health.	Ward share: 0.40
	Hardy	Knits itself back together while nobody strikes it.	Healing per second: 0.020
	Burning	Part of its blow is fire, and fire hurts it half as much.	Elemental share: 0.22 Damage taken from its element: 0.50×
	Chilling	Part of its blow is frost, and frost hurts it half as much.	Elemental share: 0.22 Damage taken from its element: 0.50×
	Shocking	Part of its blow is lightning, and lightning hurts it half as much.	Elemental share: 0.22 Damage taken from its element: 0.50×
	Venomous	Part of its blow is poison, and poison hurts it half as much.	Elemental share: 0.22 Damage taken from its element: 0.50×
	Greedy	Drinks a fifth of the harm it deals.	Life drawn: 0.20
	Keen	Sees twice as far and calls its neighbours.	Sight range: 2.00×
	Steadfast	Staggers three times slower.	Stagger taken: 0.34×
	Piercing	Ignores half of armour and resistance.	Armour ignored: 22 Resistance ignored: 0.12
	Unbreakable Not on bosses	No single blow takes more than a fifth of its maximum health.	Largest single blow: 0.20
	Headsman	Finishes what is already wounded.	Wounded below: 0.35 Finishing blow: 1.30×
	Blast	Bursts where it fell. The ground shows where.	Fuse: 1.5 s Reach: 4.0 m Force: 0.60×
	Rotten	Leaves a poison pool behind it.	Pool lifetime: 20 s Pool reach: 3.0 m Pool damage: 0.18×
	Reeking	Carries a cloud of poison with it.	Cloud reach: 3.0 m Cloud damage: 0.12×
	Blink	Steps behind you out of nowhere.	Between steps: 7.0 s Closest step: 4.0 m Farthest step: 25.0 m Gathering: 0.50 s
	Mirror Not on bosses	During its rune barrier, reflects 15% of ranged hit damage without preventing the hit.	Between barriers: 10.0 s Barrier lasts: 2.0 s Reflected: 0.08
	Runecarver	Carves a rune under your feet. Step off it.	Between runes: 6.0 s Rune delay: 1.5 s Rune reach: 3.0 m Rune casting range: 20.0 m Rune damage: 0.60×
	Bound Not on bosses	Shares its wounds with a neighbour through a rune thread.	Thread reach: 8.0 m Shared wounds: 0.50
	Heir	Its rune outlives it and passes to a neighbour.	—
	Leader	Its pack is faster near it, and lost without it.	Pack reach: 10.0 m Pack speed: 1.20× Fear after its death: 3.0 s
	Splitting Not on bosses	Falls apart into two lesser halves.	Halves: 2 Health of a half: 0.50
	Charger	Rushes at you twice as fast until it swings.	Between rushes: 8.0 s Rush speed: 2.00× Rush from: 6.0 m Longest rush: 5.0 s

How modifiers are picked¶

• Every modifier is equally likely, and a creature never wears the same one twice.
• A creature wears at most one element: Burning, Chilling, Shocking, Venomous.
• Blink never rolls on creatures indoors (dungeons and other interiors).
• Summoned bosses never roll these by default: Bound, Mirror, Splitting, Unbreakable.

Data from Path of Valheiman 5.1.0, extracted 2026-10-19.