Rat wizard

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Rat wizard was supossed to appear in base game during its development in 2013 - 2014 but beast was quickly removed and we would not know of all of this if not of leaked materials.

Informations from leaked materials
''Ghost of the wizard surrounded by the rats. Similar to “Morowa dziewica”.''
 * Role in the group: Individual


 * Preferred behavior: careful - performs melee attacks only when the opponent is near, uses ranged attacks from a greater distance.
 * Special attacks and actions:
 * Fast attacks - when in close range, he attacks with fast paced strikes, dealing medium damage.
 * Rats summon - he growls and spawns rats swarm that chases his opponents, when it’s near the target it deals damage - the rats are climbing on the opponent and bite him (rats VFX is also played on the target). Player can use Quen to protect himself from the rats. Player can use Igni or a bomb to destroy rats. Rat wizard can spawn up to 3 rat swarms.
 * The flies breath - Rat wizard can also breath flies swarm from his lungs. The flies is a projectile attack.

Defence

 * Shield of rats - Rat wizard can spawn rats that cloak him (he growls to do it). He gains armor this way. Player can disable the shield casting several Igni spells or using bombs (each hit with a spell decreases the number of rats protecting the monster)