Power Strike

Adds lightning damage to attacks with javelin and spear class weapons.

Power Strike is a level 6 Amazon attack (Javelin and Spear tree, requires Jab; it unlocks Charged Strike). It is a single thrust with a javelin or spear that lands full weapon damage and a lightning charge on top. The numbers that decide it are the lightning's maximum, 646 at level 20 before synergies, and the three synergies that each add 14% a hard point.

The numbers

• Lightning Damage has a minimum fixed at 1 (EMin 1, every EMinLev column 0). The maximum is EMax 16 at level 1 and grows in the five brackets of the EMaxLev columns: +18 a level to level 8, +36 to 16, +54 to 22, +72 to 28, +90 past that: 88 at level 5, 214 at 10, 394 at 15, 646 at 20, 970 at 25, 1,366 at 30. The Basin's page writes the same brackets and the Basin's table matches to level 60.
• Attack Rating is ToHit 20 plus LevToHit 12 a level: +68% at level 5, +128% at 10, +248% at 20. The Basin's page records that in the 1.10–1.13 game this bonus was displayed but not applied, and that Diablo II: Resurrected fixed it.
• Mana is 2 at level 1 (mana 8 with manashift 6) and rises 0.25 a level (lvlmana 1): 6.75 at level 20.
• The thrust carries 100% of weapon damage (SrcDam 128), and nothing is converted: calc4 is 0. The row restricts it to the spear item type (itypea1 spea), javelins and spears.

The damage and attack-rating lines read lvl; the synergy reads blvl.

How it works

Power Strike is a melee attack with one Chance to Hit roll; a hit deals the weapon's physical damage under the rules of Dealing Physical Damage and the lightning under Dealing Elemental Damage, against the target's lightning resistance. The Basin's page lists it as a single-target melee attack with no missile and no radius, at the Amazon's attack rate (Attack Speed). The lightning is skill damage, so Lightning Skill Damage on items raises it and Lightning Damage on the weapon is added beside it; the physical part leeches as any hit does, see Leech.

The synergy raises the maximum only: by the Basin's page, synergy bonuses do not apply to the minimum lightning damage, which stays 1 at every level. The average of a Power Strike is about half its maximum.

The Basin's page lists +3 to Power Strike on The Impaler war spear and the skill as a charged suffix on spears and gloves.

Synergies and +skills

Three synergy lines, each +14% lightning damage per level: Lightning Bolt, Charged Strike and Lightning Strike (EDmgSymPerCalc, Param8 14, all read as hard points). The Basin's page records a fourth, Lightning Fury, in the 1.10–1.13 game at 10% each; the current row names only three. Power Strike's own hard points feed Lightning Bolt, Charged Strike, Lightning Strike and Lightning Fury in turn. +skills from items raise the lightning maximum and the attack rating, not the synergy terms.

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 physical and the lightning are each cut and the lightning then meets the other player's lightning resistance. The Basin's page says nothing more about this skill against players.

Build notes

• Level 20: 1–646 lightning plus full weapon damage, +248% attack rating, 6.75 mana a thrust.
• The three synergies are worth 42% a level combined, more than the bracket growth of 18–90 a level buys past 20; hard points in Charged Strike and Lightning Strike pay here as well as in their own skills.
• Because the minimum stays at 1, the hit swings from almost nothing to the full maximum; the weapon's own damage is the floor.
• Its hard points pay four ways: Lightning Bolt, Charged Strike, Lightning Strike and Lightning Fury all read them.