A character's base resistance varies with each difficulty: For Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, the penalty was increased: Having a negative resistance value increases the amount of damage a character or creature receives. With the former you need to do some calculations. Anything with a resistance of above 100% in any of the elemental damage types becomes immune to it. This order of operations produces an interesting phenomenon in block-heavy builds: toughness hyperscaling. Blunt weapons always have at least +50% Damage to Undead. Reduces the duration of poison, rounded down the nearest frame, but not under 1 frame. slow, debuffs). Increases the total character defense after most modifiers (after the items' defense has been calculated). Adds # maximum fire, lightning, cold or magic damage to the attack. It makes the area around you lighter or darker. Say you are a monk with just 25% Armor from Paragon, then from Stone Gauntlets you get +250% Armor. Druid Morph, So Stone Gauntlets will almost triple your toughness, handily beating Lefebvre's Soliloquy or a similar item. Skill knockback can have a different chance and different effects on different targets. See concept: poison damage. (which only happens when choosing between Int or Str augments) In general case you need to see which option provides bigger relative increase to your (Armor + 3500) or (All Res + 350) respectively. In these cases you could say that damage reduction stacks additively, but it's better to just think of it as a single source of damage reduction with magnitude dependent on number of stacks. The only difference is that it is capped between -100% and 50% for players, but having it higher helps against Crushing Blow 100% making you immune to it. The Paladin's Conviction Aura and Necromancer's Lower Resist Curse can also lower resistances by a set amount. Cancelled by any other faster r/w? For example, let's say you are a Witch Doctor with 2,000 All Resistance and 9,000 Armor, choosing between +516 Armor or +130 All Resistance on a Shoulder piece. Diablo 2 Resurrected Natural Resistance is a Barbarian Magic Skill and requires level 30 to use. Some bosses have 100% Chance to Avoid Damage and can only be killed by sources of burn damage. Check if true? Is it affected by Enhanced Weapon Damage +%? Still it works exactly the same and stacks multiplicatively with other debuffs and DR buffs. Lets say your starting toughness is 100%. Adds # maximum physical damage to the attack before Enhanced Weapon Damage +% from items and skills. Another, more simple way to think of damage reduction, is to treat each source of it as a toughness multiplier. A powerful but reckless attack that increases damage and attack rating but decreases defense rating. Life gained/drained per frame is #/256. The Barbarian has the passive skill Natural Resistance to increase his own resistances permanently. Note that some enemies have resistances stacked well over 100%, but they are very rare, and are usually found in uberquests, mostly as bosses. Is it affected by Enhanced Weapon Damage +%? Same as above, but for Demons, except that Blunt weapons don't do extra damage to Demons. Adding yet another 50% DR item, will increase the toughness to 400%, but now block reduces the damage of an attack to 0, and our effective toughness is infinite. the damage you take will not be changed, you will just receive mana. Whenever you take damage from anything except damage over time (poison or life drain), including spells. Slows any enemy you hit, and is carried by WDM missiles. The toughness obviously becomes 200%(2x increase) and the same attack now hits us for 50k.

Then you just have to multiply all these values together and you get your total toughness multiplier, which instantly gives you an idea of how tanky a build is. It refers to attacks/skills (melee and missile) whose damage depends on the damage of the equipped weapon (even if the damage is converted to another element). This is short for all the 5 modifiers below all at once. When two weapons are equipped attacks two targets if possible, or one target twice. Decreases the time it takes to do the blocking.

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Block Amount is subtracted from the attack's damage after all the (percentile-based) damage reductions are applied (Coven's Criterion being sole exception). Reducing damage taken by 50% is the same as doubling your toughness. # is a number from the files, a majority of weapons usually have 51 or 76 some less impressive weapon item types have 25, and more impressive 102. Battle Command adds a +1 to all of the Barbarian's skills, and does the same for all characters and minions in his party. Resurrected, Converted and Charmed monsters, max res, immunity, level, what stats does it inherit. It can come in many shapes and sizes: it can be general catch-all DR, it can be only Physical or Non-Physical, it can only work vs melee or ranged attacks, or only vs elite enemies.

As you stack more and more damage reduction, your effective toughness rises faster than it would in a no-block build, and eventually reaches infinity. If it is high enough, it can completely prevent any physical damage.

If an item provides you with a 10% Damage taken Goes to Mana modifier, and you receive 40 damage, you will gain 10% * 40 = 4 mana. monster flee), Griswold, Radament and Nihlathak gain a random unique bonus in Terror and one more in Destruction, % Life/Mana/Stamina stolen per Hit (% of applied physical damage), % CtC when you Kill an Enemy (poison only, more than 1 frame), 1/2 melee or ranged attack on any Champion, Unique, Super Unique, Boss or Evil, 50% for Players, Hirelings, Champions, (Super) Uniques & Bosses. Chance to avoid any damage, except from burn attacks. There is no direct source of burn damage from items or character skills and minions, but the Assur's Bane quest ring provides the oskill Purify which deals burn damage. Slows an enemy you hit in melee, and is not carried by WDM missiles. The first one is your damage reduction against a particular element; the second is most your other damage reductions lumped together. The latter always provides you a toughness multiplier of 2. Cannot reduce defense under 0, and the actual defense stays the same, this is only used to calculate the chance to hit. However, all the calculations and estimations stay exactly the same. Final damage or attack rating is always rounded down. Decreases the time it takes to recover once you're put in hit recovery. Click/Tap to view other Class Guides below. It is possible to stack Block Chance all the way to 100%, the in-game tooltip claiming that it's capped at 75% is wrong. Is it affected by Enhanced Weapon Damage +%? Here we can see that these two options are almost equal, with All Resistance being a tiny bit better. 100% on melee hit: Deals 100% normal attack damage in a radius of 5 yards. If you go with Armor, your respective stat (Armor + 3,500) will increase from 12,500 to 12,500 + 516 * 1.25 = 13,145 (25% from paragon), that is 5.2% increase. That doesn't change regardless of what other damage reduction you may have. There are 4 types of elemental resistances a player can acquire. Same as above, but for all 4 elements (fire, cold, lightning and poison) at the same time. This is useful to prevent monsters from using corpses or to prevent reanimates because of lag or them attracting unwanted attention.

Therefore, a character can never become completely immune to elemental attacks with resistances alone. Does it increase elemental damage? having uninteruptable attack helps to deliver an attack without being interrupted thus maybe killing some attackers to ease the lock. Equipping Yang's Recurve or activating Laws of Valor Unstoppable Force will always double your toughness, regardless of all other DR or RCR that you may have. Remember that -% to Enemy [Element] Resistance only from items cannot pierce enemy element immunity. We consider Demonhorn's Edge as one of the Best Armor to use with the Natural Resistance Skill. 75% chance for small targets, 50% for medium (players included), 25% for large.

In most cases you can just follow a simple rule of always choosing All Resistance on Strength and Dexterity classes, and Armor on Intelligence classes. Warns of impending danger and improves the defense rating of you and your party. or the target is frozen. The above rule about multiplicative stacking of damage reduction is only broken by effects that provide a stacking damage reduction buff, such as Zoey's Secret, Binding of the Lost and Aegis of Valor (4) Bonus. If we instead look at these builds' damage reduction values we'll get 83.2% for Rat and 97.9% for Grim Scythe. Negative resistances are capped at -100. knockback: having something behind you (wall/unpassable terrain, other players/monsters, map objects like barrels/chests/urn, etc.). Same as above, but this reduces/heals by a percentage of the damage instead, and has a cap at 40%. 100% makes you immune to curses. Note that a melee skill still always hits with a normal melee attack (some rare skills modify it) if it creates missiles. It is only applied if the life has changed, either due to damage taken or regenerated. Melee and ranged WDM on hit chance to push targets back and put them in hit recovery. Adds # minimum physical damage to the attack before Enhanced Weapon Damage +% from items and skills. Some skills call Faster Run/Walk as Velocity.

This confusion might arise with some skill that only list the modifiers for the missiles created with the attack and don't list any modifiers for the original melee attack - eg. This modifier works in a similar way as Enhanced Weapon Damage +% (they're additive), but is applied only when an Undead is hit.

Often you have to choose between flat bonus to Armor or All Resistance: choosing primary affix on gear, Diamonds vs Rubies in armor, Strength vs Intelligence augments. Does not move back if there is something blocking the path (wall, other monster, barrel, etc.) This modifier works in a similar way as Enhanced Weapon Damage +% (they're additive), but the % damage increase scales with Strength, as Strength * #/256. The knockback distance is almost always the same, but sometimes, rarely, it can be shorter or even none. There's only 5 sources of flat armor: After that you can gain different percentile Armor Bonuses from skills, passives, and items. These 5 resistances are capped between -100% and 75% (100% for monsters). Below is a list of the best builds that use the Barbarian Skill Natural Resistance in D2R. Instead of boosting your Armor or Resistances, many items and effects just outroght provide some Damage Reduction. Spells are not WDM because their damage does not depend on the equipped weapon damage (they do not trigger a chance to hit roll).

Duration can vary from item to item, but generally, the higher the damage, the longer the chill (most items have about 1-2 sec chill, but some have up to 8 sec). For more information, see Damage Reduction. increases physical spell damage AND magical spell damage, ie. minion regeneration/heal is 1/256 of the player? See ABOVE for more information about chill and freeze. When you attack an enemy in melee and hit. It's the chance to double your physical damage from melee and missile sources (not spells).

Some effects instead of reducing damage that you take, redirect part of it somewhere else (Unity, Call of the Ancients Together As One).

higher defense (not spells), avoid, block (not spells), moving, hit recovery speed (check frames), do not run (running reduces defense to 0 and chance to block to 1/3). More than one proc can be triggered by the same event.

hit recovery caused by: high damage or a hit while having the stun swirlies above the head (but not being necessarily stunned). 25% on melee hit: Reduces target physical resistance by -25% for 2 seconds. Similar as above, but Faster Cast Rate on a weapon doesn't have any different power than on any other item. -75% to 125% every 2 sec. Items disappear when on ground for: Last updated 1 month ago on May 31, 2022 by RankedBoost.

Note that -% to Enemy Cold Resistance affects the duration of chill and freeze effects by reducing resistance to cold. Since RCR stacks multiplicatively, using exact same rules as DR, you can just consider every item or skill giving you RCR to be also a separate source of Damage Reduction. They provide huge amounts (50k) of Damage Reduced by # and Magic Damage Reduced by # for a short amount of time, making the player or a target ally practically invulnerable. Reduces a monster's defense on WDM melee and missile hit, and stays applied after it, stacking with further applications. The effective value for items is calculated as follows (rounded down, 150% cap): This value can now be compared/added to % Faster Run/Walk values from skills. When you hit a monster with an WDM attack (melee or missile), this modifier indicates the chance to reduce the target's current life by: This life reduction is done before the hit damage is applied. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies.

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Diablo Morph?, Adds # minimum and maximum physical damage to the attack before Enhanced Weapon Damage +% from items and skills.

If the target's life doesn't change (after a hit or by regeneration), it will not get Open Wounds, unless the target is a player character. See BELOW for a more information about hit recovery. RankedBoost is not affiliated with the game companies, publisher and its licensors. It is equivalent to increasing the Attack Rating by 100%/(100% - % Target Defense). Even if above example demonstrates a situation where this rule fails, you will never be more than half a percent off, and at higher Paragon this rule becomes absolute. That combined with massive Armor bonuses provided by Stand Alone and Stone Gauntlets produces an extremely durable build, capable of facetanking absolutely everything. The duration can be affected in the same way as chill is (see above), and monsters with 0 chill effectiveness cannot be frozen, as well. Poison that kills in more than 1 frame triggers it as well, even if it's from spells. Armor provides damage reduction against all damage types equal to: or in other words, Armor increases your toughness by a factor of: That number, 3,500, is technically equal to 50 times the level of the attacker, but in all practical situations that level will be 70, so we just leave is as 3,500, for simplicity's sake. Monsters shatter when they are killed while frozen, leaving no body behind. Works with WDM carrying and non-WDM sources (melee, missile and spells). Those attacks have a chance to hit roll. There is also a base starting Light Radius that is 13 for cLoD, but I'm not sure if it's different for MedianXL: Ultimative. Procs give a chance to use/cast a skill/spell when triggered by something. There's no Holy Resistance, however, because no monsters deal Holy damage. The 4 slows below are actually the same slow source, but triggered at different times, so they do not stack with each other. If a character has this modifier (can be applied only by players), bodies of monsters he/she killed cannot be reanimated or used in any other way (resurrect, corpse explosion, etc.). Adds Dexterity Damage Bonus: (#/256 per Dexterity)%. We updated our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy pages. Minions, Totems, Hirelings, Reanimates. See THIS PAGE for more information about body armor and shield slow.

Traprat Morph, Bleeding occurs even if life drain cannot be applied. Baal Morph?, Sends nearby monsters scrambling away in fear. fire, cold, lightning and poison (probably not magic, but I can't check) from -30% to +80% every 2 sec. When you get hit with a physical missile attack (not spell). Picking an item onto your cursor and dropping it again resets the timer. If Prevent Monster Heal is applied, Open Wounds cannot be applied unless the target takes damage or is a player. It has been heavily nerfed many times to balance the game. When you have multiple sources of damage reduction, they always stack multiplicatively, meaning if you have DR1 provided by say Armor and DR2 provided by some item, then you total damage reduction will be: Or, for the arbitrary number of DR sources: Lets say for example you have Aquila Cuirass providing you 50% damage reduction and use Vengeance Dark Heart, which also gives 50% DR. Reduces the physical damage by the specified amount. Cold Immunity and Cannot Be Frozen give immunity to it.

Base attack rating is: Adds # minimum and ## maximum physical damage to the attack damage after the weapon's % Enhanced Damage, but before Enhanced Weapon Damage +% from items and skills. Adds 15-45 Cold Damage, 4 sec. Bosses and some static units and monsters cannot be stunned.

First, there's no magical Armor to All Resist ratio! Block Amount only comes from your Shield and only depends on its level and Ancient status. For example, the Paladin Vessel of Judgement spell creates missiles that do physical damage, but it does not depend on the damage of the equipped weapon, so it is not a WDM skill and does not have a chance to hit roll.On the other hand, Barbarian's Stormblast melee skill creates missiles that do 1/2 damage that a normal melee attack does (so it's a WDM skill).

5 minutes: Game room stays open for 5 minutes after you've been in it for at least 5 minutes (not sure if it works like that when there's too many people in the waiting line). You can often hear that you get optimal defense, when your Armor is equal to 10 times your All Resistance. If you use the normal attack, you don't have to hit the enemy. Walk Speed = Base_walk_speed * (1 + Total_Speed_Modifier/100%), Run Speed = Base_run_speed + Base_walk_speed * Total_Speed_Modifier/100%, Run Speed: Total_Speed_Modifier = 25% - 100% * Base_run_speed/Base_walk_speed, Additional random unique bonus is added in Terror and one more in Destruction, Chilled instead of frozen (with any chill modifiers), Immune to effects that alter AI behavior (eg. Resurrected, Converted and Charmed monsters Hive Adds % of Poison Spell Damage Items to Vitality, % Bonus Elemental Damage to Mark of the Wild, Only Allows the Use of Melee, Summoning and Buff/Debuff Skills, speed calculator, frames (all except faster run/walk are reliant on frame breakpoints), morphs, character differences, weapon differences for attacking/casting. There is no way to resist it after it has been applied and any subsequent hits just reset the duration the life drain does not stack and the amount of life drain stays the same as was from the first attack. Gives immunity to chill and freeze. Chance to hit a running player is 100%. Keep in mind that different characters have different base running/walking speed, so they benefit from this bonus in different amounts. Stun timer can be reset by applying stun again the last duration is applied. 20% slow on hit (10% for players, since slow is 1/2 effective on them) that usually accompanies items/skills with cold damage. The above example is oversimplified, because in reality there will be stronger and weaker attacks and your effective toughness will be high vs the latter but low vs the former.

There's 7 types of damage in Diablo III: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, and Poison. One exception to this exception is Roland's Legacy (6) Bonus, which gives a buff with 5 stacks, 15% DR on each, but they stack multiplicatively and only provide 55.6% DR instead of 75%.

Does not stack. Same as above, but the % increase is for each rune in the sockets of the equipped items (items on switch don't count).

Reduces the damage from [Element] (fire, cold, lightning or magic) and then heals by the same amount. It can also come from trying to freeze monsters that cannot be frozen.

All these bonuses are added together and then your total Armor is equal to: There's a lot of different effects that provide Armor Bonus: While straight damage reduction always affects your toughness in the same predictable way, it's a bit different with Armor Bonuses. One of the most powerful modifiers in the game because it allows you, by superior maneuverability, to avoid getting hit or simply a slower enemy attack rate and movement speed (these are capped at minimum of 15% and 25%, respectively).

Champions, Unique and Super Unique monsters have only 10% chance to be stunned. Positive physical resistance (ie. When you get hit with a physical attack (melee and missile, not spells). using Enchanting Favor), these effects are functionally identical to DR and behave the same way. Slows an enemy that hits you with a missile attack (not spells). Reduces your total character defense to zero.

Increases Natural Resistances to elemental and poison damage.

It can be raised to 95% with +% Maximum [Element] Resist.

This adds defense after all the other item's defense modifiers are calculated. Similar as above, but this reduces magic, fire, cold and lightning damage at the same time, but separately for each element. It can be stacked above the cap to counter any negative effects to it, like -% to Enemy Poison Resistance (reduces it by subtraction) or -40% penalty in Terror and -100% penalty in Destruction difficulty. any kind of minions to tank hits, distract or kill enemies. In most cases, only magical or better items grant resistance, though Paladin Shields may spawn with innate resistances to all elements. Unlike natural monster regeneration, it cannot be prevented by Open Wounds or doing (poison) damage in that frame. This is actually a chance to avoid attacks (melee and ranged) and spells, not just damage meaning that the associated procs won't trigger if the avoid was successful. One exception to the multiplicative rule is the stacking DR buffs. Players with physical resistance over 50% still get the bonus over 50% and can get the immunity at 100% eg. Stormblast, again. Your total DR, in accordance with above formula will be: It may seem that there's some kind of diminishing returns here: your Aquila Cuirass provides you exactly 50% DR, while Vengeance only adds 25% on top of that. It is not applied if the monster is killed by reflected damage, attacker takes ([element]) damage or if the modifier is on the off-hand weapon but the monster was killed by the main-hand weapon. You have to re-equip the items with runes after entering a game or after dying to get the bonus.