Overview
This guide will give you information about Toxeus the Murderer skills, stats and abilities.
Introduction
Toxeus the Murderer is the skeleton you will encounter in secret passage. He has lightning aura surrounding him which is purely cosmetic effect, though it resembles the type of damage he does mostly. He comes out from the satyr named Arthur after you kill him. He is strong, and vicious, without proper skills and equipment you are likely going to die a lot.
Basic Stats and Resistances
- Level 40/56/78 (Normal/Epic/Legendary]
- Life – 6660
- Energy – 1666
- Strength – 419
- Intellegence – 379
- Dexterity – 599
- Life regeneration rate – +5.00
- Mana regeneration rate – +11.00
!Note that values like life and energy are scaled with difficulty and amount of players on server.
- Physical damage resistance – 15%
- Fire damage resistance – 45%
- Cold damage resistance – 45%
- Lightning damage resistance – 45%
- Poison damage resistance – 100% (Immune)
- Piercing damage resistance – 60%
- Bleeding damage resistance – 0% (Immune)
- Vitality damage resistance – 100% (Immune)
- Energy leech resistance – 0%
- Stun Resistance – 75%
- Skill disruption protection – 0%
- Sleep resistance – 90%
- Reduced entrapment duration – 60%
- Reduced freeze duration – 80%
- Petrify resistance – 100%
!note – those are natural resistances. The resistances granted by skills can be seen in the next section.
Active and Passive skills.
Toxeus possess mostly skills from Dream and Stealth masteries, though some of them may be upgraded version of those skills, there are also some exclusive skills for the undead and the monsters.
Type: Active
Level – 12
Energy cost – 144
Attack Radius – 8 meters
Cooldown time – 5 seconds
Physical damage – 225
Vitality damage – 164
Electrical burn damage – 796 over 4 seconds
1.5 seconds of stun.
Type: Passive
Level – 6
+23% physical damage
+35% electrical burn damage
+35% vitality damage
Type: Passive – Modifier
Level – 6
+12% total speed
15% chance to avoid projectiles
28% slow resistance
Type: Active
Level – 8
Cooldown time – 16 seconds
Energy cost – 50
+137% total damage
Type: Modifier
Level – 8
Energy cost – 24
Attack Radius – 360 arc
6 targets maximum
Physical damage – 229
Energy leech – 405 over 3 seconds
4.5 seconds of stun
Type: Active
Level – 16
Cooldown time – 5 seconds
Energy cost – 94
Physical damage – 305
Slowed – 60% over 4 seconds
Type: Modifier
Level – 12
Energy cost – 25
Physical damage – 165
Reduced armor – 323 over 5 seconds
Type: Modifier
Level – 16
Energy cost – 108
Electrical burn damage – 767.2 over 4 seconds
Damage against Demons – +50%
Type: Passive
Level – 12
Cooldown time – 30 seconds
5% chance of activating
Duration – 15 seconds
Damage absorbed – 51
Damage absorption – 26%
Damage retaliation – 88
Type: Active
Level – 16
Active energy cost – 1
Poison damage – 655 over 5 seconds
Slowed – 33% over 5 seconds
Type: Active
Level – 6
Cooldown time – 12 seconds
Energy cost – 59
Physical damage – +350%
Piercing damage – +300%
Type: Active
Level – 12
Attack Radius – 10.4 meters
Cooldown time – 15 seconds
Energy cost – 86
85% chance to fumble attacks for over 8 seconds
85% chance to confuse for 3-8 seconds
Type: Active
Level – 1
Attack Radius – 360 arc
No cooldown time
Energy cost – 19
Number of projectiles – 10
Piercing damage – 190
Bleeding damage – 48 over 3 seconds
Poison damage – 280 over 8 seconds
Slowed – 15% for 8 seconds
Type: Passive
Level – 142/238/396
Armor – 142/238/396
Type: Passive
Level – 1
Physical damage – +100%
Piercing damage – +100%
Shield recovery time – -50%
Energy absorption from enemy spells – 50%
Chance to dodge attacks – 15%
Chance to dodge projectiles – 33%
Resistance to health reduction in percent – 20%
Energy leech resistance – 50%
Mana burn resistance – 60%
Reduced fear duration – 75%
Reduced confusion duration – 150%
Reduced mind control duration – 150%
33% chance to reflect 100% damage
Type: Active attack skill
Level – 1
170 arc of attack
3 targets maximum
Physical damage – 60
Piercing damage- 75
Physical damage – +100%
Piercing damage – +50%
Reduction to enemy’s health – 15%
Attack damage converted to health – 150%
3.0% chance of 100% energy drain (50% of energy drain causes damage)
Type: Passive
Level – 1
Bleeding resistance – 1000%
Vitality damage resistance – 50%
Life leech resistance – 1000%
Reduced fear duration – 1000%
Reduced confusion duration – 50%
Sleep resistance – 1000%
Description and Behavior
After he has spawned, he will turn on his Envenom Weapon buff and commence attacking with Phantom Strike. If you stay in his attack range he will continue attacking with Distortion Wave and Distort Reality, which both hurt greatly specially if you have low lightning resistance. Lucky for you, he has yellow items, low offensive and defensive abilities, only 599 both,so he is likely to miss with his Attack Skill, but if you have low defensive ability, 2.5x of his melee damage will recover his health, so I strongly suggest to use some warrior build or at least stay out of reach. He is completely immune to attacks that would hurt living creatures such as poison, life empairment and bleeding attacks, though he has zero protection against skill disruption, so if you utilize skills like spell breaker or upgraded shield charge, you can prevent him from spamming his Bladestorm which will slow you down greatly due to it’s own 15% total speed reduction+33% from Envenom Weapon skill. Also if you use spell breaker, he won’t turn on his Envenom Weapon skill again unless you die.
Basic tips
- Get yourself better loot (obviously) there are many weapons and armor to recommend against him. Basically anything is good as long as it gives lightning, poison and piercing damage resistances.
- !!!Avoid using strong attacks (Lethal Strike for example) 1/3 of your attacks might by fully reflected back upon you, if you still wish to use those attacks, better get yourself some armor that will be able to protect against that type of damage.
- Raise your offensive and defensive abilities, if you have like 1600 offensive ability almost every hit with melee will be critical hit, defensive ability on the other hand will prevent him from bolstering his own life.
Conclusion
I don’t know what else to say. I’ll gladly fill in this guide with more useful info on Toxeus the Murderer posted in comments. Hope this guide helps anyone who farms the secret passage.