Iron Maiden

Curses a group of enemies, causing them to damage themselves when damaging others.

This only works on melee monsters.

When casted on melee monsters, any damage to you or your Minions will be reflected back to them only more so. Monsters will kill themselves by attacking you and your Minions. As more points are placed in

Iron Maiden, the damage monsters receive back increases. Sometimes a monster will kill themselves by attacking in only one hit.

Iron Maiden makes Skeletons and Skeletal Mages very useful, even at high levels. For this spell to work, all you need is something for the monsters to hit. Skeletons, Skeletal Mages, your Golem, Revived

Attract the monsters, they hit them, and are killed due to the damage received back with the

Iron Maiden curse.

Remember

Iron Maiden will not work against ranged attackers. Switch to

Amplify Damage against spell casters and any non-melee attacking monster.

Iron Maiden only affects physical damage dealt. The damage returned is also purely Physical (not, for example, magic). Physical Resistance is fully effective against it.

Iron Maiden makes quick work of

Hephasto the Armorer and

The Smith.

Iron Maiden works against the Flayer's blowgun darts.

Iron Maiden becomes less effective on Nightmare and Hell Difficulty.