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Combat & Stats

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Combat & Stats

Combat uses Better Combat (directional attacks, proper weapon movesets — closer to Minecraft Dungeons than vanilla’s “click and pray”) plus a stamina-based dodge roll from Combat Roll (bind/spam it to i-frame out of attacks). See Core RPG & Combat Mods. The New Mechanics quest chapter is the in-game tutorial for all of this — it’s mostly reading, and it’s essential.

How combat actually plays

  • Each weapon has its own attack animation and timing (Better Combat) — no more uniform vanilla swing.
  • Combos: consecutive attacks chain into combos; you can hold the attack button to keep attacking.
  • Shields are overhauled (Shield Overhaul): bash while blocking to perform a shield bash that stuns the target for 1 second (bosses are immune to the stun).
  • Dodge roll (Combat Roll) costs stamina and gives i-frames — your main way to survive telegraphed hits. Movement Speed even scales your rolling.

The stat system

Gear and talents grant Diablo/WoW-style stats (“attributes”), not vanilla armor points. Other things scale off them (e.g. Haste defines how fast you attack).

Core stats (everyone uses these):

  • Physical Damage — increases melee swing/punch damage; the main melee stat, scales all physical weapons/abilities.
  • Armor & Toughness — Armor reduces incoming physical damage; Toughness reduces it more on big hits (the “anti one-shot” stat). Enemies and bosses have Armor too.
  • Health & Stamina — Health is your damage buffer; Stamina reduces how fast you lose Energy (hunger), fueling dodging/abilities.
  • Haste — attack/cast speed (also switch-weapon speed). Huge for almost every build, top priority for Rogues.
  • Movement Speed — how fast you move; also scales rolling.

Ranged & magic stats:

  • Ranged Damage — scales projectile weapons (bows/crossbows/guns). From talents, jewelry and the weapons themselves.
  • Draw Speed — draw rate for bows/crossbows, fire rate for guns.
  • Spell Critical Chance / Spell Critical Damage / Spell Haste — the caster’s crit and cast-speed stats (Spell Haste shortens casts).

Penetration & hybrid stats:

  • Lethality (physical) & Magic Penetration — the same stat, different names: they ignore a % of the target’s Armor / Magic Protection. Worked example: 16% Lethality vs an enemy with 100 Armor makes you hit as if they had 84 Armor.
  • Astral Power — the combination of Arcane + Fire + Frost; fuels the hybrid endgame elemental-mage path and artifacts like Supernova and Ekavar’s Singularity.
  • Physical-Magic (Hybrid) conversion — “Attack to X” adds spell power as a % of your Physical Damage; “X to Attack” adds Physical Damage as a % of a spell power. For Spellblade-style builds.

Where these numbers come from

Full mod list: Core RPG & Combat Mods.

Reading your stats

Your attributes show on the character/inventory screens and on gear tooltips. When comparing two items, compare the stats that matter for your build — a “better rarity” item with the wrong affixes can be a downgrade for you.

Common mistakes

  • Ignoring Toughness against bursty bosses. Armor alone won’t stop a one-shot; Toughness is the anti-one-shot stat.
  • Never binding/using the dodge roll. Rolling through attacks is often more valuable than more armor.
  • Stacking a stat your build doesn’t scale. e.g. Ranged Damage does nothing for a melee build; Spell Haste does nothing for a bow.
  • Forgetting penetration on tanky targets. Lethality/Magic Pen cut through high-armor enemies far better than raw damage.

Anticipated questions

Why do numbers feel so different from vanilla? The pack replaces vanilla armor points with a full attribute system (Zenith + Tierify + attribute mods). Gear grants stats like Physical Damage, Haste, Crit, etc.

What’s the difference between Armor and Toughness? Armor reduces all physical damage; Toughness scales harder against big hits — it’s your anti-one-shot stat.

What does Haste do? Speeds up attacks, casts and weapon-switching. It’s a top stat for almost every build and the #1 stat for Rogues.

Are Lethality and Magic Penetration different? Same mechanic, different names — each ignores a % of the target’s Armor / Magic Protection.

How do I dodge? Bind and use the Combat Roll — it costs stamina and gives brief invulnerability. Keep Stamina/Energy up.

How do I stun an enemy with a shield? Bash while blocking (Shield Overhaul) — 1-second stun on non-bosses.

What’s Astral Power? Arcane + Fire + Frost combined; the endgame hybrid-mage resource used by Astral builds and artifacts like Supernova.

Do I need crit on everything? No — Fire mages and some builds prioritize Crit Chance, Arcane leans Crit Damage, but Rogues want Haste and Tanks want Health/Armor first. Match crit to your build.

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