This makes Sacrifice more harmful to Paladins the more damage they do, but also makes their attacks independent from Mana pool (which is beneficial for builds that focus on Auras and therefore do not invest into Mana-increasing gear). The relative amount of harm inflicted to the Paladin himself, though, is at most 8% of the physical damage the Paladin inflicts, and decreases with skill investment, in exchange for the damage-boosting effect. But as points are invested in this skill, the amount of damage inflicted increases. Sacrifice may seem counter-productive, taking health from the Paladin to increase his attack effectiveness. This sacrifice is a symbol of faith that even the lowliest Paladin must submit before the Light, in order that he may prove himself worthy of victory. There is no point to having more than a 100% chance of DS/CS.At what price glory? By sanctifying his weapon with some of his own blood, a Paladin of Zakarum is able to increase his efficiency in combat by forfeiting a portion of his own physical essence.Barbarian Weapon Masteries and Amazon Critical Strike). Different types of Critical Strike do *not* stack (e.g.Sources of Deadly Strike stack except from a weapon which is not being used to inflict that particular blow (only applies to dual wield Assassin and Barbarians.They will modify your final Physical damage with Vengeance but have *no* effect on the Elemental damage caused by Vengeance.Skills that convert Physical damage to a different type ( magic, fire and cold arrow, Lightning Bolt, Fists of Fire, Berserk) do so after DS or CS are applied, so converted damage is doubled.Does not apply to Impale, Dragon Talon, Dragon Tail, Dragon Flight, Sacrifice, or Smite.

Critical Strike and Deadly Strike have the same mechanics and only one of them can trigger on any given attack (so a player can't get quadruple damage).

If the roll is successful, your character will deal double damage with that attack.

With each eligible melee or ranged attack, the game will roll for a deadly strike according to your percentage chance from items. Deadly Strike is a Diablo II combat mechanic that appears as a Chance on Hit mod on several Unique, Set or Rune Word items.

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