Game Mechanics

Attributes

All characters have access to 5 basic attributes that you can put stat points in. Every time you level up you gain 5 stat points, and the Lam esen's tome quest reward in act 3 gives you 5 additional stat points per difficulty. This totals up to 505 stat points at level 99 with all 3 stat quests completed.

Strength

• Strength allows you to equip higher tiers of weapons and armor.
• You gain 15% of your strength as % physical damage.
• You gain 15% of your strength as % faster hit recovery.
• You gain a bonus to your weapon damage % modifier for certain weapons, based on your strength.

Dexterity

• Dexterity allows you to equip higher tiers of weapons, such as bows and daggers.
• Dexterity increases your chance to block if you are using a shield.
• You gain 25% of your dexterity as % critical strike damage.
• You gain a bonus to your weapon damage % modifier for certain weapons, based on your dexterity.

Vitality

Vitality gives you additional life. The amount differs per class, and are as follows:

• Amazons gain 7 life per point in vitality.
• Assassins gain 7 life per point in vitality.
• Barbarians gain 8 life per point in vitality.
• Druids gain 6 life per point in vitality.
• Necromancers gain 6 life per point in vitality.
• Paladins gain 7 life per point in vitality.
• Sorceresses gain 6 life per point in vitality.

Energy

Energy gives you additional mana. The amount differs per class, and are as follows:

• Amazons gain 2 mana per point in energy.
• Assassins gain 2 mana per point in energy.
• Barbarians gain 1 mana per point in energy.
• Druids gain 3 mana per point in energy.
• Necromancers gain 3 mana per point in energy.
• Paladins gain 2 mana per point in energy.
• Sorceresses gain 3 mana per point in energy.

You also gain 15% of your energy as % elemental damage, and you gain a bonus to your weapon damage % modifier for certain weapons, based on your energy.

Combat

Damage

Damage Types

There are 2 main types of damage, elemental and physical. They have multiple different sub-types however.

• Elemental
  • Fire damage
  • Cold damage, which can chill enemies, slowing their movement speed and attack speed relative to their chill effectiveness.
  • Lightning damage
  • Magic damage
  • Poison damage, which is dealt as negative life regeneration over 2 seconds
• Physical
  • Bleed, which deals 75% of the physical damage that caused the bleed every second for 5 seconds

Damage Scaling

There are various different things that affect your damage, including:

• Damage increased by x%
• Physical damage %
• Added physical damage to weapon attacks
• Weapon damage %, which includes your bonus from Strength, Dexterity or Energy
• Added weapon damage
• Elemental damage %
• Added elemental damage (fire, cold, etc) to weapon attacks
• Execution Damage %, adding damage if an enemy is below 35% life
• Critical Damage %, all characters start at 50% increased damage from critical hits.
• Added skill damage
• Your weapon's base damage
• If the skill you are using is a weapon based skill or not
• Bleed chance

As an example, let us say that your base weapon damage is 5, and you have +10 added weapon damage. You have 20% physical damage and +30 physical damage. You are gaining 30% damage from your stat bonus, and have 50% weapon damage. As well, 20% elemental damage and +35 fire damage. You are using level 6 combustion, which adds 36 fire damage and does 100% of your weapon damage. Your chance to crit is 100%, and you deal base damage on a critical strike (50% added damage). You have 20% total damage increase, and 30% execution damage. You have 100% chance to bleed. The enemy we are attacking has zero resistances, no debuffs and is at 20% of their life.

First, we take the 5 base weapon damage and add the 10 added weapon damage to get 15 damage.

Then, we will add together your 30% stat bonus, 50% weapon damage and 20% physical damage, totaling 100%, and multiply our damage by 100%, giving us 30 damage.

Next, we will add the 30 added physical damage increased by our 20% physical damage, giving us 36, and resulting in 66 damage so far.

Next, we will add the 35 fire damage increased by our 20% elemental damage, giving us 42, resulting in 108 damage so far, 66 physical and 42 fire.

Next, we will add our 36 skill damage increased by our 20% elemental damage, giving us 43 damage, resulting in 151 damage so far, 66 physical and 85 fire.

Next, we will factor in our skill's weapon damage %, which is 100%, meaning there is no change. Still at 151 damage.

Lastly, we will factor in our 50% critical damage, 20% total damage and 30% execution damage, being 100%, doubling our damage to 302, 132 physical and 170 fire.

We will also deal 75% of our physical damage every second for 5 seconds after the initial hit, being 99.

So we will deal 302 damage to the monster instantly, 132 physical and 170 fire, and 99 physical damage each second for 5 seconds given these circumstances.