Fend

Attacks all adjacent targets.

Fend is a level 24 Amazon attack (Javelin and Spear tree, requires Impale; it unlocks nothing). One click is a sequence of javelin or spear thrusts, one at each enemy within melee range, up to twelve of them. The numbers that decide it are the damage, +260% at level 20, and the target cap of 12, which never moves.

The numbers

• Damage is calc2, ln34: Param3 is the baseline of 70 and Param4 adds 10 a level, so +70% at level 1, +110% at 5, +160% at 10, +210% at 15, +260% at 20, +360% at 30. The Basin's page writes it as 60 + 10 × slvl and its table matches. Each thrust carries 100% of weapon damage before that (SrcDam 128), and nothing is converted (calc4 0).
• Attack Rating is ToHit 40 plus LevToHit 10 a level: +80% at level 5, +130% at 10, +230% at 20, +330% at 30. The Basin's page writes it as 30 + 10 × slvl.
• Targets: calc1 is a constant 12, "# of max targets"; Param1 (1, "# of max targets per level") is in the row but calc1 does not read it, so the cap is 12 at every level. The column is left out above for that reason.
• Mana is a flat 5 (mana 5, lvlmana 0), also left out of the table.
• Param2 is 30, which the table comments as "% Anim frame rollback": the share of the attack animation that is rewound between thrusts of the sequence.

The damage and attack-rating lines read lvl, so +skills from items raise both in full.

How it works

Fend is a melee attack sequence: by the Basin's page, up to 12 targets within melee range are each attacked once, with a separate Chance to Hit roll per thrust, and each hit deals weapon damage with the bonus above under Dealing Physical Damage; Leech and the weapon's on-hit modifiers apply to every hit. The speed of the sequence follows the Amazon's attack rate, see Attack Speed; the Basin's page records that Diablo II: Resurrected patch 2.4 made it "100% faster" by reducing the rollback frames between the attacks, which is the Param2 above.

The Basin's page says that once the first thrust has been made, the sequence is not interrupted by blocking, casting, hit recovery, knockback or stun. It also records that in the 1.10–1.13 game Dodge and Avoid did interrupt it, stopping the sequence where the dodge happened and, when attacking continuously, making the next sequence miss; the same page says this was fixed in Diablo II: Resurrected.

Fend has no missile, no radius beyond melee reach and no element. One enemy in range means one thrust; the skill pays for itself when the Amazon is surrounded.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies: the row has no SymPerCalc column, the skilldesc row has no dsc3 line, and no skill reads Fend's points. Both lines read lvl, so a +skill from an item is worth exactly a hard point; it is the last skill of the spear side of the tree, so nothing is gated behind it.

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; each thrust is a separate hit and is cut on its own. The Basin's page says nothing more about this skill against players.

Build notes

• Level 20: +260% weapon damage and +230% attack rating on one thrust at each of up to 12 enemies, for 5 mana.
• Every level buys the same +10% damage and +10% attack rating with no cap and no curve; a +skill is worth a hard point.
• The flat 5 mana and the 12-target cap do not change with level: the skill is at its best against a crowd from level 1, and the points only raise the hit.
• Impale is the prerequisite, and the two share a weapon: the one for the single target that must die, the other for everything around it.