Scavenger

Scavengers are hound-like burrowing creatures who fight with ferocity and are quick to attack. A Scavenger is a beast-type monster.

These creatures often burrow in an open area and wait for a pray to pass within short distance, then the entire pack will burst out of the soil and attack their potential meal.

Subtypes

Act I

Burrowing Leaper

Scavenger

Act II

Reaper

Act III

Frostclaw Burrower

Burrowing Leaper

• Appears in Act I - Southern Highlands, Highlands Crossing, Fields of Misery, Lost Mine, and Scavenger's Den.
• Physical attack
• Burrows under ground only to reappear elsewhere
• Lunges from far away to launch attacks

Variants

Champion - Nightmarish Rare - Jailer

Frostclaw Burrower

• Appears in Act III - Caverns of Frost, Icefall Caves
• Physical attack
• Burrows under ground only to reappear elsewhere
• Lunges from far away to launch attacks

Reaper

• Appears in Act II - Cave of Burrowing Horror
• Physical attack
• Burrows under ground only to reappear elsewhere
• Lunges from far away to launch attacks

Scavenger

• Appears in Act I - Den of the Fallen, The Weeping Hollow, Sheltered Cottage and Fields of Misery.
• Physical attack
• Lunges from far away to launch attacks

Named

• Burrow Bile - Unique - Fields of Misery, (Act I)

Lore

Scavengers are ugly, pathetic creatures who survive off of carrion and corpses too diseased to attract any other carnivores. I did once meet a raggedy fellow who claimed that he had trained one of the beasts to bring him large rats to eat, but I'm sure the story is utter nonsense. -- Abd al-Hazir

Trivia

The famous Abd al-Hazir had an "extremely distressing episode" during his youth involving Scavengers. He never got around to tell anyone what this was before he disappeared shortly after writing his 42nd entry about Sanctuary in article series called Writings of Abd al-Hazir.

Development

This iteration of Scavengers was first sighted in the WWI 2008 gameplay movie

Diablo I Monster

The Diablo I Scavenger is a demonic version of the regular one described here. Corrupted by Diablo himself, this variant of the carrion race is even more aggressive, and can be driven mad with the scent of death.

Diablo II Monster

The Diablo II Leapers found in the Aranoch desert are apparently genetically related to the Scavengers, but not of the exact same race. They have evolved even stronger bone muscles for leap attacks, don't burrow and have evolved an extremely slow resting metabolism to minimize water use and storage, but are otherwise quite like the burrowers. They still attack in packs, but use leaping attacks rather than an surprise attack from below.

Gallery

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  Burrowing Leaper

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  Champion Burrowing Leaper

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  Loathus the Wretched (Rare)

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  Despair of the Darkness (Rare)

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  Uzay the Gorgon (Rare)

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  Burrow Bile Unique