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Diablo 4 has significantly more dept🍎h than its predecessor, featuring many more ways to augment your build and overall playstyle. Part of this added depth comes from new terms and keywords added by Blizzard in this installment, some of which are confusing on the surface.
While scaling your damage and attack speed is simple enough, figuring out how L🍬ucky Hits and Overpower damage work can intimidate newcomers. Thankfully, this guide will help cover these keywords for you. This glossary of sorts covers all important effects and terms in Diablo 4. Use the table of contents above to find a specific keyword you're interested in learning more about.
Armor
Armor reduces the damage your character receives from attacks. It can be ꧃obtained from all armor types for all five classes, scaling based on the armor's Item Power rating and additional armor modifiers you have through affixes or the Paragon Board.
Armor applies its full value against physical attacks and 50% of its total value against non-physical attacks—elemental resistance modifiers determine the remaining 50%. While Armor itself is a flat value, it reduces incoming damage by a percentage. This percentage can be found by hovering over your Armor tooltip on the character screen. Listed mitigation values are for PvE monsters equal to your character's level.
In PvP environments, Armor mitigates 65% of all incoming damage. Elemental resistances make up the re♏maining 35% of non-physical damage you receive. This is calculated after your inherit PvP damage reduction value.
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Barrier
Barrier is a second health bar that can be generated through certain skills and Legendary Aspects. It is the Sorcerer's main dꦇefensive mechanic. Sources of Barrier will protect the user's Life pool ꦆfor its listed duration, absorbing 100% of all incoming damage until the Barrier is broken. Overkill damage to the Barrier will affect your HP pool. The maximum value for your Barrier is equal to your maximum HP.
Common sources o𝓀f Barrier include the Protector Legendary Aspect, the Sorcerer's Ice Armor skill, and the Barbarian's Iron Skin skill.
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Control Impaired
Control Impaired refers to a target currently under the effects of Crowd Control, disabling the usage of skills, potions, or the evade input. Crowd Control (CC for short) refers to a st🦩atus ailment that limits the character's ability to move,🤡 attack, or otherwise perform actions.
Players can break out of CC effects by using any skill that grants Unstoppable or Immune. Elite monsters will become Unstoppable if they suffer from multiple CC effects in a short period. Bosses cannot be Control Impaired until their stagger meter breaks, showcased as a blue bar under their health bar. S🦩tagger is built up by inflicting CC effects on the boss.
When you break a boss' stagger meter, they are considered debuffed by every crowd control effect simultaneously. This lasts until their stagger𝄹 meter resets.
Common sources of CC include stuns, freeze, daze effects from💫 certain monster attacks, and fear.
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Critical Chance And Damage
Critical strikes inflict bonus damage to the target, dealing your skill's expected damage multiplied by your critical strike damage modifier (150% by default). All attacks in Diablo 4 have a baಌse critical strike chance of 5%, and other sources of critical chance are additive with one another. Critical damage modifiers are also additive with each other.
Common sources of critical modifiers include item affixes, one of your class' core attributes, Legendary Aspects, and skill tree pas🌞sives.
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Crackling Energy
Crackling Energy is a mechanic that's exclusive to the Sor♒cerer class.
Crackling Energy is an orb of energy that Sorcerers can pick up to imbue themselves with lightning, causing their body to release chain lightning when targets♕ approach. By default, picking up a Crac🎀kling Energy orb will grant three charges of the Crackling Energy buff.
While you have this buff, you will release chain lightning to nearby targets every 0.5 seconds, dealing roughly 10-15% weapon damage. Crackling Energy can chain between enemies three tim🔯es by default, and it has a targeting range of roughly two-thirds of your screen. Legendary Aspects and skill tree passives can augment Crackling Energy's damage, maximum chains🥃, or grant other boons when grabbed.
Common sources of Crackling Energy include lightning skill augments, the Static Discharge passive, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Spark Enchantment.
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Damage Reduction
As the name suggests, damage reduction effects reduce incoming damage after Armor and Resistance mitigation sources have been applied. Damage reduction (DR for short) sources are multiplicative, causing diminishing returns with heavy investment. Your current DR sources can be seen on your stats pa𝕴ge in the character menu.
Common sources of damage reduction ca൲n be found as item affixes and skill tree passives. Barbarians als🍒o have an intrinsic 10% damage reduction modifier against all damage types.
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Dexterity
Dexterity is one of four core attributes in Diablo 4, granting dodge chance to all classes. Certain classes also gain additional benefits for investing in Dexterity, such as added ♊critical chance or base damage. These bonuses can be found below:
- Barbarian: Grants critical chance and dodge chance.
- Druid: Grants critical chance and dodge chance.
- Necromancer: Grants critical chance and dodge chance.
- Rogue: Grants skill damage and dodge chance.
- Sorcerer: Grants critical chance and dodge chance.
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Elemental Resistance
Resistance modifiers reduce half of all incoming non-physical damage. For example, if an attack deals 100 Fire damage, 50 of that d𒆙amage would be mitigated by your Fire Resistance rating. The other half of that damage would then be mitigated by your Armor rating.
There are resistance modifiers for the following damage types: fire, cold, lightning, poison, and shadow. Resistances apply to both direct damage and damage-over-time (꧟DoT) sources.
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Fortify
Fortify is a second health pool that can be generated through certain abilities and passives. It is available to Necromancers, Druids, and Barbarians. Fortify grants 10% damage resisᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtance while active and evenly splits all in꧟coming damage between your Fortify and Life pools. Your Fortify pool slowly decays over time.
Unlike Barrier, Fortify counts as HP for the purposes💝 of calculating Overpower damage, making this a potent survivability and damage increase for Overpower builds. Fortify's maximum pool can be increased through certain class passives and items.
Common sources of Fortify include the Necromancer, Druid, and Barbarian's various skill augments. Certain Legendary Aspects can also g🥃rant Fortify under certain conditions.
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Healthy
A character is Healthy when their Life pool is greater than or equal to 80%. If your character is currently Healthy, a red c💧ircle will appe🦹ar on the outside of the Life globe on your HUD.
