Mana Burn
Mana Burn makes a unique monster's hits drain your mana instead of only your life, and heals the monster by what it takes. It is dangerous for casters that rely on their mana pool.
What Mana Burn does
- Adds mana damage equal to its monster level × 66% to 100%, taken from your mana.
- The unique heals by the mana it drains while it is below full life.
- Against a character without mana it does nothing; critical hits don't double it.
- +20% magic resistance.
- Its minions drain mana too in Nightmare and Hell (monster level × 33% to 50%).
- Patch 2.4 fixed melee hits draining 256 times too much, which used to empty a character's mana in one blow.
Fighting a Mana Burn monster
- Keep
mana potions in your belt and kill it from range when you can. - Characters that don't need mana to attack can mostly ignore it.
Which monsters get it
Every modifier a unique monster rolls is drawn from the same pool, so each roll has the chance below of being Mana Burn. See how special monsters get their modifiers.
| Normal | Nightmare | Hell |
|---|---|---|
| 8.3% | 7.7% | 7.7% |
- Its minions drain mana in Nightmare and Hell, but don't get the magic resistance.
