PoE Defeat Sanctum Guards

Defeat Sanctum Guards

Each room contains several unique Sanctum Guards. All Guards must be killed before being able to complete the room.

Sanctum Guards
Guard type Identifying features Skills
Entombing Warden Coldsnap Bow Ice Snipe, Cold Rain of Arrows
Masked Combatant Gray hood Proximity Bomb, Smoke Mine, Mirror Image on Hit
Azure Assassin Arcane Lightning Helmet Decelerating Projectile into Lightning Vortex, Galvanic Arrow
Templar Marksman Dragon Hunter Bow, Heritage Helmet Dodge Roll, Flare Arrow, Blast Rain
Infernal Sentinel Dawnbreaker Slash, Fire Thrust, Projectile Cleave , Shield Charge
Obsidian Sentinel Kongor’s Undying Rage Consecrated Path, Summon Unholy Relic
Crimson Archmage Witchhunter’s Judgment, skull head Flameblast, Fireball, Fire Twister
Deathly Archmage Skull head Ice Spear Volley, Spike Wave, Ice Crash
Undying Archmage Mystic Staff, skull head Projectile Bolt, Vorana orbs, Storm Burst
Deadly Bladedancer Crypt Sword Sweep Cleave, Flicker Strike

Buy PoE Currency Cheap

Room Layouts

Each room other than the miniboss room contains several Guard unique monsters, as well as one of three tasks to complete the room:

  • Find the Exit (locate the exit door)
  • Defeat all the Guards (defeat every Unique Guard)
  • Defeat the Boss (minibosses based on map bosses)
Sanctum Layout
Room Goal Defeat all the Guards Defeat all the Guards
(Skull Arena)
Find the Exit Find the Exit
(Traps)
Defeat the Boss
(Miniboss)
Floor 1:
Sanctum Archives
Chambers of Inscription Templar Annals
1 central Skull, walls
Abandoned Library
Ice Traps
Holy Trials
Mana Rune Squares
Scriptorium
Crimson Archbishop
Floor 2:
Sanctum Vaults
Derelict Caverns Battlegrounds
1 central Skull, no walls
Decrepit Cellar
Ice Traps
Gauntlet
Rolling Exarch Boulders
Reliquary
Greater Wraith
Floor 3:
Sanctum Cathedral
Unholy Lair Infernum
2 Skulls, dividing wall
Halls of Worship
Ice Traps
Crucible
Mana Rune Squares and Skull
Sanctum Bellum
Aureate Guardian
Floor 4:
Sanctum Necropolis
Lost Catacombs Desecrated Crypt
1 Skull, 90 degree arc
Undercroft
Ice Traps and Skull
Entombment
Rolling Exarch Boulders or
Mana Rune Squares + Lasers
Mausoleum
Colossal Lithomancer

Note: most “Find the Exit” rooms have shortcuts that require movement skills.

Path of Exile Guides & Tips