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| This property is found on various Unique items. Previously it was thought to mean that you will always hit normal monsters, as though you had infinite AR.( Actually 95% to/hit, which is the highest possible, since there's always a 5% chance of missing.) It has been discovered that what ITD really does is set the targets defence to 0. This is an important note because level differences between you and the targeted monster WILL affect your chance to hit. ITD does not work on bosses, champions, or other players, you need AR to hit those things.The Eth rune in weapons in v1.09 is bugged to provide ITD, which works on any target, including other players and boss monsters. (It's not actually identical to ITD, it instead gives the target negative defense, rather than reducing a portion of their defense, as it's supposed to.)

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| Numerous unique bows/xbows have 100% Piercing as a property, and you can find +33% piercing on the [http://www.diabloii.net/items/uniques/armor-belts-excep.shtml Razortail ]Unique Belt as well. Piercing is identical to the Amazon skill Pierce. This skill has no bonus to/hit or damage, but it makes your ranged attacks (other than throwing potions) pass through multiple targets. The various bows with 100% Piercing mean that every shot will pass through each target it hits, and keep going, possibly hitting more than one target, and dealing full damage each time, including skill damage, charms damage, etc. +Piercing % adds to your current Piercing.

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| A new modifier in the Expansion is "Absorption", a type of resistance that heals you. The absorb is usually a set number to a specific type of elemental damage, but can be a percentage as well. For example, if you had 5 Lightning absorb and were hit for 20 points of lightning damage, 5 would be absorbed and added to your hps, then you'd take 15 damage, so your net loss would be just 10. Basically you can subtract double your listed absorption from any attack of that type. 20 light absorb like on [http://www.diabloii.net/items/uniques/armor-belts-excep.shtml Tgods] will erase 40 light damage every LE bolt that hits you. Note that the absorption is added first, so if you are full hps already you don't get that benefit, but you do reduce the total damage by that amount. So if you were full hps and took 20 damage with 5 resist, you'd take 15 damage net. Absorption is calculated after any "reduces magical damage" and your resistance.It's most useful against lightning, since you tend to take lots of little lightning bolts (LE bosses) for small damage. Fire and Cold absorb help, but those tend to come in huge chunks of damage.

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| A modifier that is only found in the Expansion, "Demon Heal" is on a lot of Crafted items. It heals you the listed amount of hit points (usually 1-3) for every Demon (as opposed to normal/animal or undead) you kill. This works like the +mana per kill mods, and doesn't appear to work from kills by minions.

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| A % chance of dealing Double Damage. The damage is doubled after all other bonuses, including Str or Dex modifying weapon damage. Will never stack with Asn/Barb/Ama Critical Strike bonuses. It rolls for 2x damage for one, then the other if it fails. So having this increases double damage chances, but never allows 4x damage.

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| D2C: In Diablo II, Crushing Blow was enormously powerful, since it had the listed % chance of reducing a monster's current hit points by 50%. You could hit multiple times with this and kill quickly while doing very low damage. For example hitting for 1 damage on a 100 hps monster, but with Crushing Blow the monster's hps would be 100 > 49 > 24 > 12, in just 3 hits, rather than 97, if you had no Crushing. It only worked on normal monsters, not on bosses or other characters, and didn't work with ranged attacks at all. Expansion and v1.08+ D2:Crushing Blow works with all attacks and on all targets, but the reduction in hps is much less than it was in D2. The following lists the actual percent hps removed. This is from a monster's current hps, not it's maximum, so you'll notice big drops on full hps monsters and very little on ones that are low.<blockquote>Normal monster: 1/4 Melee, 1/8 Ranged Attack.<br> Other: 1/10 Melee, 1/20 Ranged Attack.</blockquote>"Other" includes all types of boss monsters as well as other players and their hirelings. This doesn't sound like much, but if Izzy has 100,000 hps, taking off 1/20th with your bow would be worth 5,000 hps.Crushing Blow is best used with a high percentage, and when hitting very fast and for low damage it makes a big difference.

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| A type of physical damage, it has a poison-like effect, causing "uncontrollable bleeding" and steady hit point drain. The damage will stack with poison so both can drain at once. It also stops healing for the duration.<br> Diablo II: The damage is very low, around 2 per second, and it lasts from 3-11 seconds and does from 7-21 damage, sliding scale based on level of the attacker.<br> Expansion: Much improved, the new formula is: <blockquote>(Attacker level * 9 + 40)/256 pts of damage per frame over 4 seconds</blockquote>There are 25 frames per second in the Diablo II engine. Examples of damage:<br> Clvl 10: 12.7 per sec over 4 seconds for a total of 50.8 damage.<br> Clvl 30: 30.3 per sec over 4 seconds for a total of 121.0 damage.<br> Clvl 50: 47.9 per sec over 4 seconds for a total of 191.4 damage.<br> Clvl 70: 65.4 per sec over 4 seconds for a total of 261.7 damage.<br> Clvl 90: 83.0 per sec over 4 seconds for a total of 332.0 damage.

Like poison, Open Wounds doesn't stack, but resets with each new application. It also prevents healing for the duration.

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| A modifier found on several Uniques and set items in the Expansion, this one adds a set amount to your Defense against ranged attacks that can be Avoid'ed (Amazon skill) or blocked. Works against things like arrows, quills, spears, and projectile elemental attacks from Abyss Knights. Does not work on damage over time spells like Firewall or Poison clouds.

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| Diablo II pre-v1.08: Found only on [http://www.diabloii.net/items/uniques/weapons_swords.shtml#culwens Culwen's Point] in Diablo II, it has no function.<br> Expansion: In addition to Culwen's Point, many Excep and Elite unique shields have this property. The benefits it grants are debatable, since the vast majority of blocking is not shown, but it does make your blocking animation shorter when that displays.

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| This property works like cold, turning the target blue and slowing them, but it deals no cold damage. The same item on the same character will not stack, however multiple items with slow on them will, or the same/multiple items on different characters will.

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