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Sacrifice

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'''Details:''' Sacrifice boosts the [[Paladin]]'s damage and attack rating substantially, at a cost in blood. Each hit landed with this skill inflicts 8% of its damage on the Paladin.

* To offset the damage to self, life leech equipment can come in very handy.

** Due to penalties to life leech in higher [[Difficulty|difficulties]], at least 16% (Nightmare) and 24% (Hell) life leech is required to negate the HP loss.

** Life is reduced '''before''' life steal and [[Life Tap]] are applied. Thus using Sacrifice while at low HP can be fatal, even with sufficient life steal.

* It's possible to kill yourself with Sacrifice, leading to the amusing "Paladin was slain by Paladin." death message in game.

** The game will recognize this as [[PvP]], which nullifies experience loss in [[hell]] and [[nightmare]] difficulties.

* Damage overruns: the key difficulty in using this skill is that you only leech back life based on the monster's hit points, but you lose health based on the damage done.

** Example: if you have 10% life leech and do 500 damage to a monster with 100 hit points, you'll leech back 10 hit points, but lose 8% of 500 = 40.

** [[Physical]] [[resistances]] have the same effect: 100 damage to a monster with 50% physical resistance means you only leech life on that 50%, but lose Sacrifice on the full 100.

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