Toxic Ancient

An Infested heavy melee unit, the Toxic Ancient stands out for the ability to cast a toxic aura around surrounding allies, granting them damage. Along with their toxic aura, these Ancients possess the ability to excrete a deadly toxic cloud around them, dealing heavy damage. Melee combat against this type of ancient is not recommended if your melee weapon has a short range (particularly Daggers and Gauntlets, and Longswords to a lesser degree).

Toxic Ancients can be identified by the bright green glow from their heads, as well as their black and green bodies.

Tactics

 * Deals poison damage in attacks as well as direct contact with the ancient, and gives all nearby enemies poison damage. Ancient and nearby enemies are resistant to poison and gas damage.
 * When in range, it will release a toxic breath attack that deals extremely high damage.
 * Emits an aura that adds damage to the attacks of nearby Infested and gives resistance to Toxin and Gas damage. The Toxin Ancient itself is immune to Toxin and Gas DoTs.
 * Toxic Ancients, like the other Ancients, will continue to pursue their targets if they have detected them then chased after, even if these targets have turned invisible (Shade's Ghost etc.).
 * If Sentinels are used in missions, be cautious, as the fumes created by the Toxic Ancients are much more likely to cause significant damage to them.
 * Oddly, Toxic Ancients are not immune to Toxic damage, and can be hurt by toxin-based attacks.
 * Physically touching a Toxic Ancient will inflict a DoT of poison as long as you are touching it, and has a chance to inflict a more deadly toxin Proc, which will leave you with an 8 second poison DoT that can easily kill players with low health.
 * Their longer range melee attacks do not inflict toxin or toxin procs.
 * They will occasionally deploy grappling hooks to reel in players into melee range, identical to that used by Grineer Scorpions.

Trivia

 * When in a idle state (not in alert), Toxic Ancients do not emit toxic fumes out of their bodies.
 * As of Update 11, Toxic Ancients do not leave poison clouds in places where they recently died.
 * The Toxic Ancients are the only Ancients whose name ends with the word "Ancient".
 * Sometimes, in Alert missions, players can see a targeted Infested depicted as the Toxic Ancient, amusingly targeted for being an Intelligence Officer or similar title.
 * As a leader, a Toxic Ancient goes by the name Venomous Ancient Elder.
 * This normally replaces Ancient Healers if ever the Void tilesets are currently ventured.
 * According to the Lotus, the Ancients are a plant-like lifeform.
 * The Pre-Update 9 color scheme of the Toxic Ancient is the current color scheme of the Toxic Crawler.

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