Damage

This article is about how damage is defined. For how damage is calculated, see Damage calculation.

"Damage" redirects here. For tactical role fulfilled by player characters, see Team roles#Damage.

Damage results from actions taken by attackers that subtract a portion of a target's health. This includes many attacks or skills (including spells).

Damage does not include :

• health degeneration,
• life stealing,
• sacrifice,
• Pure health loss caused by skills such as Infuse Health, Spoil Victor or Illusion of Weakness.

Properties

When an attacker attempts to damage a target, the following is factored in:

• The damage type, such as fire or blunt.
• The amount of damage done, which may vary due to the target's armor rating granting potential resistance or weakness to that specific damage type. In the case of a skill, this may also vary due to the skill user's level.
  • Skills dealing shadow damage, holy damage and damage without a specified type (skills with descriptions that state "<number> damage" or "+<number> damage"), ignore the target's armor and the skill deals exactly its stated amount of damage.
    • "+<number> damage" always comes in addition to regular, armor-respecting, damage, making this more difficult to see.
• The attacker's ability to inflict the damage (such as being blinded or affected by a hex with a chance of missing, when the target is kiting or out of line of sight)
• The target's ability to resist this damage (such as using effects that block attacks).
• Damage modifiers on both sides.
  • An attacker may have bonuses that augment the damage and the target may have bonuses that reduce the damage.
  • Frenzied Defense, Frenzy, and Primal Rage double all damage dealt to the user.
  • Except for prophecies, Bosses deal double damage.

The term damage source or damage packet refers to each minus number that pops up when you take or deal damage.

See also

• Damage calculation
• Area of effect (AoE)
  • Point blank area of effect (PBAoE)
• Damage over time
• Damage per second (DPS)
• Direct damage
• Pressure
• Spike

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