crushing blow?
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Nimbostratus
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Re: crushing blow?
Crushing blow takes of a fraction off of the enemy's current health (not total!). The amount taken off is halved if you're using a ranged weapon. Crushing blow doesn't apply to spells.
vs normal monsters: 1/4
vs bosses: 1/8
vs players: 1/10
Crushing blow takes of a fraction off of the enemy's current health (not total!). The amount taken off is halved if you're using a ranged weapon. Crushing blow doesn't apply to spells.
vs normal monsters: 1/4
vs bosses: 1/8
vs players: 1/10
Re: crushing blow?
And it's also halved by the monsters' physical resistance i.e a monster with 50% physical resistance reduce the amount taken to half. A physical imune monsters is imune to crushing blow.
In the name of Zod
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Re: crushing blow?
Crushing Blow reduces a monsters health by a percentage rather than a hard number like that on a weapon.
More information than you asked for:
The base damage starts at 1/4 of a normal monsters health in normal. CB gives you a percentage chance to perform this per attack. If your 'total %' chance for CB comes from difference items then they are added together at the beginning of the calculation then your hard number damages are calculated next. This stops CB from being calculated twice per attack.
I believe smiters like CB because they always hit (100%) and their hits can carry the CB modifier. Most other physical attacking characters only get a max of 95% chance to hit so you will get a 5% boost to you CB effectiveness. I've no idea about the druids tornado, hurricane attacks.
Remember CB takes a % of monsters health not a flat number, so with CB alone you can't kill a monster. In hell CB will do nothing once a monsters health is 50% lower than its starting life.
Physical resistance plays a huge roll in calculating CB too, you need to make sure that the monsters physical resistance is a low as possible. A monster with 30% physical resistance will only have 70% of its current health effected by CB.
For some of the modifiers applied to Crushing Blow follow this link:
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/magic.shtml
Crushing Blow reduces a monsters health by a percentage rather than a hard number like that on a weapon.
More information than you asked for:
The base damage starts at 1/4 of a normal monsters health in normal. CB gives you a percentage chance to perform this per attack. If your 'total %' chance for CB comes from difference items then they are added together at the beginning of the calculation then your hard number damages are calculated next. This stops CB from being calculated twice per attack.
I believe smiters like CB because they always hit (100%) and their hits can carry the CB modifier. Most other physical attacking characters only get a max of 95% chance to hit so you will get a 5% boost to you CB effectiveness. I've no idea about the druids tornado, hurricane attacks.
Remember CB takes a % of monsters health not a flat number, so with CB alone you can't kill a monster. In hell CB will do nothing once a monsters health is 50% lower than its starting life.
Physical resistance plays a huge roll in calculating CB too, you need to make sure that the monsters physical resistance is a low as possible. A monster with 30% physical resistance will only have 70% of its current health effected by CB.
For some of the modifiers applied to Crushing Blow follow this link:
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/magic.shtml
In the name of Zod
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Re: crushing blow?
sorry, back button double post.
sorry, back button double post.
stephan
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Re: crushing blow?
This is false. Crushing blow is not the same as Static Field.
krischan
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Re: crushing blow?
The most important reason to use smite is that it bypasses blocking. While you can increase your ar or level to improve your chance to hit, there's nothing you can do to avoid your attacks being blocked, except for using attacks which always hit. CB will help a lot to kill hell Baal and Ãœbers and it's not capped at 50%, like static field.
CB deals only a fraction of a monster's remaining life and you cannot leech from CB damage, so dealing a certain amount of regular damage is still important, for gaining back life and dealing the last tiny bit of damage to kill the enemy.
CB only works together with melee and missile attacks which deal physical damage and not with spell-like skills like hurricane. I'm not sure if CB works together with berserk (barb skill which deals magical damage), that skill is somehow a special case, as the magical damage gets boosted by off-weapon %ed, in contrast to the elemental part of e.g. vengeance (paladin skill).
The most important reason to use smite is that it bypasses blocking. While you can increase your ar or level to improve your chance to hit, there's nothing you can do to avoid your attacks being blocked, except for using attacks which always hit. CB will help a lot to kill hell Baal and Ãœbers and it's not capped at 50%, like static field.
CB deals only a fraction of a monster's remaining life and you cannot leech from CB damage, so dealing a certain amount of regular damage is still important, for gaining back life and dealing the last tiny bit of damage to kill the enemy.
CB only works together with melee and missile attacks which deal physical damage and not with spell-like skills like hurricane. I'm not sure if CB works together with berserk (barb skill which deals magical damage), that skill is somehow a special case, as the magical damage gets boosted by off-weapon %ed, in contrast to the elemental part of e.g. vengeance (paladin skill).
In the name of Zod
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Re: crushing blow?
Crushing blow isn't a physical attack though which is why you can't leech with it, that's my understanding. I didn't know that smite ignores enemies blocking too. Ok :scratchchin:
Ooops ah yeah I got that mixed up. Sorry bout that guys and thanks for correcting me.
Crushing blow isn't a physical attack though which is why you can't leech with it, that's my understanding. I didn't know that smite ignores enemies blocking too. Ok :scratchchin:
stephan
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sirpoopsalot
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Re: crushing blow?
Warcry has the stun-effect though, and that's not to be overlooked.
I agree that from a pure-offense perspective WC is somewhat underpowered, but when you consider that it is possible to use WC as an effective offensive skill, in addition to its position as one of the best defensive skills in the game... I don't think it's underpowered at all. I think it's just a little more limited in "truly" effective uses than it could be.
Warcry has the stun-effect though, and that's not to be overlooked.
I agree that from a pure-offense perspective WC is somewhat underpowered, but when you consider that it is possible to use WC as an effective offensive skill, in addition to its position as one of the best defensive skills in the game... I don't think it's underpowered at all. I think it's just a little more limited in "truly" effective uses than it could be.