Corpse

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Corpse Experience Life After Each Kill Mana After Each Kill Extra Gold Better Chance of Magic Rest in Peace Reanimate Chance to Cast When You Die When You Kill an Enemy When You Level-up Corpses are required by a number of skills and modifiers: Skill Modifier Assassin Barbarian Druid Necromancer Paladin Death Sentry Find Potion Find Item Grim Ward Carrion Vine Summon Dire Wolf Solar Creeper Raise Skeleton Corpse Explosion Raise Skeletal Mage Poison Explosion Revive Redemption Slain Monsters Rest in Peace Reanimate as: Returned However, none of these can be used on the following, since no corpse can be selected: Coldworm the Burrower Hephasto the Armorer Korlic Madawc Shenk the Overseer [1] Talic The Countess [2] The Smith Hostile character, mercenary or pet Boss (excluding Putrid Defiler) Barricade Barricaded Door Barricaded Tower Catapult Evil Demon Hut Festering Appendage Fire Tower Flying Scimitar Lightning Spire Mummy Sarcophagus Prison Door Sand Maggot Egg Trapped Soul Window Additionally, Fetish Shaman does not leave a corpse (although supporting Fetish does), and Frozen Horrors shatter upon death without leaving corpses (as can any other monster that is chilled or frozen at time of death). However, the death explosions of Bone Fetishes, Suicide Minions and Fire Enchanted Unique monsters do not prevent a corpse from being generated and used. Some more specific restrictions apply: Find Potion and Grim Ward cannot be used on the following due to lack of flesh, or bones (they aren't flagged as soft in MonStats2.txt): Abyss Knight Blood Hawk Nest Bone Fetish Doom Knight Finger Mage Gargoyle Trap Oblivion Knight Skeleton Skeleton Archer Skeleton Mage Swarm Tentacle Beast tentacles Thorned Hulk Willowisp Wraith [3] Summoned Dire Wolf cannot eat the following: Blood Hawk Nest Gargoyle Trap Tentacle Beast Carrion Vine and Solar Creeper cannot consume Gargoyle Trap. Static units (all of which are listed among the above) cannot be used to summon Necroskeletons, Necromages or Revived, or reanimate as Returned. Monsters to which effects altering AI do not apply cannot be revived (although they can be reanimated as Returned): Minion of Destruction Oblivion Knight Putrid Defiler Suicide Minion Leaper also cannot be revived (although again, they can be reanimated as Returned). Otherwise, the only restrictions on corpse selection are other players and monsters that try to use them first: Fallen Shaman resurrects Fallen Flayer Shaman resurrects Fetishes and Blow Pipe Fetishes Greater Mummy resurrects low undead Nihlathak casts his own corpse explosion Reanimated Horde can resurrect itself Regurgitator eats and spits out corpses Consequently, even if corpses aren't used for their own sake, they can be used to prevent them being used against players and their allies: once a corpse has been used, it cannot be used again. Reference [Guide] A mathematical treatment of Magic find in Diablo II (Diabloii.net) Nefarius, MonStats2.txt File Guide (v 1.0) (Phrozen Keep)