Melinoe

From left to right: Melinoe Spear Runner, Blood Witch, Blade Fighter

Melinoe is a female demon monster encountered in later Act IV.

General

Melinoe first appear in the Tower of Judgment and are later encountered in various places across Elysium battlefields as well as inside the Palace of Hades.

They move somewhat fast and can be dangerous in numbers, but otherwise are fairly weak. They react quickly to the hero, sometimes alerting nearby friendly monsters. Melinoe generally have a higher-than-usual Dexterity, resulting in a slightly increased Offensive and Defensive abilities.

Default resistances (in Normal difficulty):

• -15% cold resistance
• -15% poison resistance

Types

• Spear Runner / Elite Spear Runner. Basic melee fighter, wields a spear.
• Blood Acolyte / Blood Adept. Caster and the only ranged variant. They have two types of attacks: a projectile attack called Blood Burst, which deals Bleeding Damage over 2.0 seconds, and an area attack called Blood Boil, which causes Bleeding, Vitality and Life Leech damage.
• Blood Witch.
• Blade Maiden / Blade Dancer (Champion). Bright blue melee fighter dual-wielding Swords. Uses various skills of Warfare Mastery: Onslaught (with modifiers), Dual Wield (with modifiers) and initially War Wind to close distance and attack nearby pets.

Heroes

Blade Mistress Anysia (melee fighter dual-wielding swords and throwing knives, uses Dual Wield with synergies as well as Take Down to close distance)

Blood Mistress Endeis the Unholy (Caster wielding a staff)

Hekaline the Outcast (melee fighter wielding a spear. Uses a variant of Flurry of Knives and deals extra Bleeding Damage)

Special

• Blood Queen Leucothea. A Melinoe commander found in Argolis, in the battlefields in Elysium. Leucothea is a caster and needs to be killed in order to complete the quest A Noisy Diversion given by Menestheus. She guards a Majestic Chest.
• Melinoe appear as main attackers during the Act IV mission The Achaean Pass, where the player needs to defend a standard from three waves of monsters. The third and final wave also has Blade Dancers in it.

Special Items

Common

• Acolyte Girdle
• Acolyte Leggings
• Acolyte Visor
• Acolyte Armbands

Infrequent

• Khthonion Razor
• Khthonion Spike
• Bloodborn Leggings