Cleave

Attack all enemies in an expanding arc.

Cleave is a Warlock melee attack (Eldritch Skills, level 6, requires Levitation Mastery, unlocks Psychic Ward). It needs a melee weapon (requiresweapon 1, item type mele) and swings at every enemy inside an arc in front of you; the arc widens with level. The numbers that decide it are the arc, 240 degrees at level 20, and the damage, +115% at the same level, before three +10%-a-point synergies.

The numbers

• Mana is 3 at every level (mana 3, lvlmana 0), so it is left out of the table.
• Cleave arc is calc5 × Param10 (12 degrees a slice): calc5 is (lvl >= 20) ? 20 : lvl + 10 slices of a circle of calc6 (30) slices. That is 132 degrees at level 1, 240 at level 10, 300 at level 15, 348 at level 19, then 240 from level 20 on, because the calc only caps the slice count once the level reaches 20.
• Damage is calc1: ln12, Param1 (20) plus Param2 (5) a level, +115% at level 20, plus Param9 (10) per hard point in each of three synergies. The row's calc2, flat damage, is 0.
• Attack speed is calc3, dm34, a diminishing curve from Param3 (10) toward Param4 (30): 13% at level 1, 23% at level 10, 26% at level 20. The row's own comment names the server function that reads it.
• Attack rating is ToHit (50) plus LevToHit (7) a level, +183% at level 20.
• Weapon damage is SrcDam 128 ÷ 128, 100%.

Arc, damage, attack speed and attack rating read lvl, so +skills count; the synergy term reads blvl.

How it works

Cleave is a weapon attack: each target in the arc is rolled for Chance to Hit with the attack rating above, and the hit deals the weapon's damage through Dealing Physical Damage with the damage percentage applied. The row's calc4 (0) means none of it is converted to an element, and calc7 (0) adds no range. The client-side calc (cltcalc1 = clc3) is the attack speed, applied by the start function the table names (WarStartCleave). The row has no casting delay column.

The arc is not monotonic: it peaks at 348 degrees at level 19 and drops to 240 at level 20, where the calc's cap takes over. Every level from 11 to 19 is wider than level 20 or any level above it.

Synergies and +skills

Three synergy lines, each +10% damage per hard point (Param9): Mirrored Blades, Hex: Purge and Eldritch Blast. Param10 (12) is, by the table's comment, the "Mirrored Blades Synergy for degrees arc increased", but the tooltip's arc calc uses it only as the degrees per slice. Cleave in turn gives a synergy to Psychic Ward, a skill outside this page's facts.

Against players

A player's hit on another player is cut to 17% of its value (difficultylevels.txt PlayerDamagePercentVSPlayer) before anything else, see Player versus Player. The table has no separate player value for Cleave.

Build notes

• The synergies outweigh the row: 20 hard points in the three synergies are +600% damage against the row's own +115% at level 20.
• Mana is 3 at every level, so attack speed (26% at level 20) and attack rating are the only costs of swinging it constantly.
• Soft level 19 is the widest arc (348 degrees); a build sitting at exactly 19 with items sees that, and at 20 or more sees 240.