Game Mechanics: Difference between revisions

Melee splash is an instant AoE, with no Next Hit Delay, that damages all enemies 360° around the target. The main target does not take splash damage.

Skill damage, Crushing blow, Open Wounds, and any other on hit effects will '''not''' be applied.

The base player melee splash radius is 3.33 yards but this can be extended by certain skills and items. The splash radius will increase every 20%, so there are breakpoints at 20%, 40%, etc.

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* '''Wolves:''' melee splash radius is 1.33 yards

There are a few gloves ([[The Hand of Broc]], [[Bloodfist]], and [[Steelrend]]) that have melee splash on them and they can be used to give ranged weapons, like bows and crossbows, melee splash.

Critical Strike and Deadly Strike have been rebalanced to improve itemization - they now each cap at 75% instead of 100% and multiply damage by 1.5 instead of 2.

Crushing Blow is a percentage chance to reduce the target's '''current''' life by a fraction. The fraction applied depends on the target and the type of attack. Crushing Blow also caps at 100% chance -- any extra will have no effect. This is all unchanged from vanilla, however there are a few things that have changed.

What '''will''' break immunities:

* Battle Cry (<span class="d2-gold">Physical</span>)

* Fire Mastery

Just like in vanilla, the effectiveness of -enemy resistances is reduced when they are applied to enemies who are immune. In vanilla it was reduced to 1/5, but in PD2 this is instead reduced by 1/2. Even after the immunity is broken, immunity breaking skills still only have 1/2 effectiveness.

It's worth stating again, even after the immunity is broken, immunity breaking skills '''still''' only work at 1/2 effectiveness. However this is not the case for -enemy resist on gear, Cold Mastery, and Fire Mastery. While these things are not able to break immunities on their own, they do work at 100% effectiveness after the immunity is broken.

Works identically to vanilla.

Everything works at 100% effectiveness

When taking the enemy below 0% resistance you also have to apply the 1/2 penalty. This also applies to gear and items with -enemy resistance.

* <span class="d2-white">0 - 2 - 15 = -17</span> &emsp;[final enemy cold resist]

Lets look at a high-level example of how the drop process works.

There are some TCs that '''start''' with NoDrop at 0. These are not affected by player count, since 0 is the lowest possible value.

The baseline drop rate in PD2 is roughly equivalent to vanilla's p5/5 (5 partied players in a game) for solo play, and scales up per player until it's slightly above the equivalent of vanilla's p8/8 when there is a full game of 8 players. This means that overall NoDrop for all TCs is significantly lower, and it becomes easier to reach a NoDrop of 0 with fewer players.

Rune TCs are also the same as in vanilla, so [https://discord.com/channels/701658302085595158/739761245074489355/829461448509358111 rune drop rates are the same]. Miniscule differences may exist in some cases due to new valuable items such as [[Larzuk's Puzzlebox]] being able to drop.

It's hard to directly compare the two since there are hundreds of TCs, and PD2 has even more than LoD (mostly because of maps). But we can compare a TC from LoD to a TC from PD2 and see how the NoDrop chance has changed.

* p8/8 = <span class="nmod">0%</span>

This is a common enough question that it probably makes sense just to show what the drop rates are.