Putrid Defiler

Putrid Defilers are monsters encountered in of Diablo II.

Lore
Putrid Defilers are vile, loathsome beasts. Not only can they viciously attack using their razor-sharp forelegs, they reproduce at will by silently hovering near an unwary demon and parasitically infecting it with Pain Worms.

Defilers were part of Baal's Army of Destruction, and struck fear into the army's own troops.

In-game
All Putrid Defilers variants are counted by the game as Act Bosses and so have their bonuses, also they use their own levels on Nightmare and Hell instead of Area Levels.

Putrid Defilers have the Impregnate (or Putrify) ability, which causes Pain Worms to spawn out of the affected monster after death.

Putrid Defilers (first variant) can be found in Halls of Pain (no Unique and Normal only), and infects with Torment Worms.

Development

 * As their random color generation is disabled in the files, their Uniques and Champions can't have random colors, but they would look like this if they did. (Click on the small image)
 * Putrid Defilers have an unused yellow-green color palette.
 * There is also an projectile graphic named "pdteleportmissile", suggesting that they were planned to teleport.
 * They have an unused animation, that shows them becoming darkened for a moment, might been the unused projectile spawn animation.
 * They have an unused sound titled "zap.wav", in it they can be heard laughing with an electric sound. Furthermore in the MonSounds.txt file they have this sound assigned to the Skill2 column, which means it was planned for them to have a lightning attack.