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Anyone Ever Figure Out Monster HPs?...

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So, has anyone ever figured out the HPs that the various Book I monsters have?

I think I figured out the HPs of the regular (red) salamanders a long time ago. But, more recently, I've figured out the following HPs, so far:

Fanged Salamander (red) - 9 HPs
Noximander (yellow) - 35 HPs
Fungal Slime - 25 HPs
Bloodsipper - 17 HPs(?)
Thug - 40 HPs

I've never tried to figure out HPs for Goblins, and I've never sat down and worked out Taurax HPs.

So, anyone work out the HPs of some of the other Book I monsters?...
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I believe over_cloud9 did some HP stuff in the EB I walkthrough.
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Unclever title wrote:I believe over_cloud9 did some HP stuff in the EB I walkthrough.
Huh. Cool.

I don't think all of the numbers are quite right (for example, I know that Salamanders are HP=9, not HP=10, because you can 'one-hit-kill' them when your melee MaxDamage stat gets up to MaxDamage=9), but they are definitely in the ballpark. That will be a useful resource.

(And, if I get some time later, I'll probably list that info in this thread...)
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I took some notes during my play throughs. Some are approximates of upper and lower damage from repeatedly killing them:

XP Monster HP

8 fanged salamanders 10-12 HP
45 noximander 35-6 HP, poison attack
25 bloodsipper 17 HP
35 fungal slime 26-35 HP - chance of elemental resistance
50 thug 40 HP, chance of drop RANDOM bag
55 goblin hacker 38 HP chance of drop RANDOM bag
60 goblin bombthug 20 HP?
60 hive drone 40 HP
80 goblin archers 43-48 HP chance of drop flight arrows
85 walking corpse 50 HP
90 skeletons 48-50 HP
110 raptor 93 HP

150 giant arachnid 70 HP
160 acid grubb 71 HP ??? - chance of elemental resistance
165 Barrea mercenary 90-91 HP
185 taurax 139-140 HP - chance of elemental resistance
190 poltergeist 60 HP drops ectoplasm
250 dimensional eye 83-91 HP

250 vault guard 54 HP
250 goblin warlord 80 HP ?
300 timberland giant 139-143 HP

400 spire guard about 300 HP
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You can find monsters' HP, along with other attributes, by searching inside the EXE file.
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King_ov_Death is correct - the values in the table below are correct, because they're straight from the source (most of Randomizer's values above were pretty close to the "correct" values).

SPOILERS ahoy!

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  HPs   Monster Class        XPs
  ---   -------------        ---
    9   Fanged Salamander      8
   15   Goblin Bombthug       60
   17   Bloodsipper           25
   25   Fungal Slime          35
   35   Noximander            45
   38   Goblin Hacker         55
   40   Thug                  50
   40   Hive Drone            60
   45   Goblin Archer         80

   50   Skeleton              90
   55   Walking Corpse        85
   60   Poltergeist          190
   70   Acid Grub            160
   70   Giant Arachnid       150
   75   Goblin Warlord       250
   80   Dimensional Eye      250
   90   Barrea Mercenary     165
   95   Raptor               110

  100   Hive Queen           500
  140   Taurax               185

  "Friendlies":
    5   Vault Master          15
   15   Shadowmirk Acolyte    75
   45   Gatekeeper           250
   50   Vault Guard          250
  120   Town Guard           125
  120   Azure Guard          150
  120   Darkford Guard       150
  120   Captain Morgan       400
  140   Timberland Giant     300
  300   Spire Guard          400  
I intentionally left out a couple of special "hostiles" from this list on purpose. I also left out the bulk of the NPCs (if you want those values, I'll leave it to you, dear reader, to find the way to figure them out...).

P.S. I included Captain Morgan just to show how much he's fallen on 'hard times' in Book II (where's he down to just 1 HP!!).
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