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 ==Monster Type==
-Monsters in Diablo and Hellfire are divided into three types: Animals, Demons, and Undead. The type of a given monster is generally easy to tell in Diablo, though the lines are more blurred in Hellfire's bestiary. Generally speaking, Undead are skeletons and zombies, Animals are lower life forms like scavengers, bats, goatmen, etc, and Demons are the more advanced humanoid enemies like Knights and Mages. The monster type is listed on every individual monster page and every boss page, since it matters what they are. These different types are not just the answers to trivia questions either, a monster's type has a considerable effect on how much damage it takes from different types of melee weapons.
+Monsters in Diablo and Hellfire are divided into three types: Animals, Demons, and Undead. The type of a given monster is generally easy to tell in Diablo, though the lines are more blurred in Hellfire's bestiary. Generally speaking, Undead are skeletons and zombies, Animals are lower life forms like scavengers, bats, goatmen, etc, and Demons are the more advanced humanoid enemies like Knights and Mages. The monster type is listed on every individual monster page and every boss page, and these designations do matter. Here's a quick list of regular monsters and special boss monsters, divided by type.
+{| border="1"
+! Animals
+! Undead
+! colspan="2" | Demons
+|-
+| Fallen Ones
+| Skeletons
+| Balrogs
+| Knights
+|-
+| Horned Demons
+| Skeleton Archers
+| Familiars
+| Lightning Demons
+|-
+| Hell Spawns *
+| Skeleton Captains
+| Gargoyles
+| Mages
+|-
+| Scavengers
+| Zombies
+| Familiars **
+| Magma Demons
+|-
+| Spitting Terrors
+| The Skeleton King
+| Gargoyles
+| Overlords
+|-
+| Winged Fiends
+| Goat Men
+| Succubi
+|-
+| Goat Men Archers
+| Vipers
+|-
+| The Hidden
+| The Butcher
+|-
+| Diablo
+|}
+* * Hell Spawns are Animals in Hellfire. All other Succubi are Demons.
+* ** Familiars are Demons. All other Winged Fiends are all Animals.
+===Hellfire Monsters===
+{| border="1"
+! Animals
+! Undead
+! Demons
+|-
+| Arachnon
+| Arch Lich
+| Biclops
+|-
+| Devil Kin Brute
+| Bone Demons
+| Crypt Demon
+|-
+| Firebat
+| Gravedigger
+| Felltwin
+|-
+| Hellbat
+| Lich
+| Flesh Thing
+|-
+| Lashworm
+| The Shredded
+| Hellboar
+|-
+| Necromorb
+| Skullwings
+| Hork Spawn
+|-
+| Psychorb
+| align="center" | --
+| Reaper
+|-
+| Satyr Lord
+| align="center" | --
+| The Defiler
+|-
+| Spider Lord
+| align="center" | --
+| Hork Demon
+|-
+| Stinger
+| align="center" | --
+| Na-Krul
+|-
+| Tomb Rat
+| align="center" | --
+| align="center" | --
+|-
+| Torchant
+| align="center" | --
+| align="center" | --
+|-
+| Venomtail
+| align="center" | --
+| align="center" | --
+|}
+===Weapons and Damage Determination===
+One of the main factors when evaluating monster type is determining weapon damage bonuses and penalties. Swords do 150% damage to Animals and 50% to Undead, while clubs do 150% damage to Undead and 50% to Animals. Demons are 100% to both, and bows, axes, staves, and spells do 100% damage to all three types.
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 Monster type also determines if a monster will take damage from the spell [[D1_Spellbooks#Holy_Bolt|Holy Bolt]]. Only undead monsters (and Diablo) take damage from it; other monsters can not be touched at all by the spell.  Also, some weapons (mostly Uniques) have higher AC or deal bonus damage against one type of monster. For instance,[[D1_Unique_Axes#Bloodslayer|Bloodslayer]], the unique broad axe, deals 200% damage to Demons.
-To summarize: swords deal 50% bonus damage to Animals and have a 50% penalty against Undead. Blunts are just the opposite. Both deal 100% damage to Demons. In effect this favors swords, since there are no Undead found past the Catacombs (Dlvl 5-8) in Diablo. The Caves are about evenly divided between Animals and Demons, and then Hell is almost entirely Demons (with one or two Animals). Since swords do higher base damage to begin with, the fact that they have an additional bonus to Animals, and that there aren't any Undead later in the game (in Diablo) makes Swords a much better long term choice. Blunts are a better choice early on though, especially against large packs of undead, such as the Skeleton King's.
-This is not the case in Hellfire, since the monsters in the Hive and Crypt are (roughly) divided between the three monster types. However, since this means that the monster type bonuses even out, and since the bastard sword has the highest base melee damage of any one-handed weapon, swords are still king. (Assuming the modifiers on the weapons are roughly equivalent.)
-Since Axes, Bows, Staves, and all spells (save for Holy Bolt) deal 100% damage to everything, this distinction is largely irrelevant to Monks, Rogues, Barbarians, and Sorcerers.
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