How to Deal a Crushing Blow to other Player in Diablo 2 While Dueling (Part Ii)
50% chance of Crushing Blow
A 50% chance of dealing Crushing Blow is massive.
Crushing Blow is a modifier that only pops up on Unique, Runewords or Set items. With a thriving Crushing Blow on your target, you will sell out their Life by a clear %, which is considered by the weapon you are using, and either the target is someone else player, a normal monster or one of the stronger monsters in Diablo 2, ie. Champion, Uniques, Bosses).
If you also equip your character with Steelrend (Unique Gauntlets- 10%), and Goreriders (Unique Boots -15%) and you already have a 75% chance of Crushing Blow, which means that you will trigger Crushing Blow on about a third of your attacks.
+(0.5 per Character Level) 0.5-49.5% Deadly assault (Based on Character Level)
If you equip your character with a Death Runeword weapon just as you've hit the minimum level of 55, you immediately have a Deadly assault capability of 27.5%.
Deadly assault in Diablo 2 gives your character an X% chance of dealing double damage. The damage is doubled after all other bonuses are taken into notice (except for the important assault bonus which also deals double damage). If you are fortunate adequate to have a melee character have both important assault and Deadly Strike, the game rolls for one of the two first (either Deadly assault or important Strike). If the roll for that fails, then the game rolls for the other bonus. If the first roll succeeds, then no second roll is needed.
The capability to do double damage is very leading to a lot of players, either it be for PvM or PvP.
Summary:
The Death Runeword is often compared to the Grief Runeword in terms of damage output. In comparison, Grief consistently pips Death on damage output, but then it is also slightly more expensive. Plus, the Crushing Blow on Death is an keen mod for characters going after a Crushing Blow setup (both Runewords generate the Deadly assault mod on their weapons). Players do agree however that the Death Runeword is still a very, very good weapon Runeword in both PvM and PvP.
Special Note:
To receive the 385% Enhanced Damage maximum for this Runeword on a one-handed weapon (which has a max at 170% for normal), you must use a first-rate one-handed weapon. However, if a two-handed weapon is used the max can be increased to 400% Enhanced Damage (max set at 185% for normal) when a first-rate two-handed weapon is used.
