Vengeance

Fire, lightning and cold damage are added to each successful attack.

Vengeance is a level 18 Paladin Combat skill that requires Zeal and opens Conversion. It is a single melee attack that adds three elemental copies of a share of your weapon's physical damage: one fire, one cold, one lightning. The number that decides it is the share, +70% of weapon damage in each element at level 1 and +184% at level 20, three times over.

The numbers

All three elemental lines are the same ln12: Param1 70 as the baseline and Param2 +6 a level, so +184% each at level 20 and +244% at level 30. The cold length is ELen 30 frames plus 15 frames a level (ELevLen1–3 are all 15), divided by 25: 1.2 seconds at level 1, 12.6 at level 20. The attack-rating bonus is ToHit 20 plus LevToHit 10 a level, +210% at level 20. Mana is 4 at level 1 and +0.25 a level, 8.75 at level 20. Every line reads lvl, so +skills from gear count.

How it works

Vengeance is a melee attack with a hit check (Chance to Hit); on a hit it deals the weapon's physical damage as usual (Dealing Physical Damage) and then adds the three elemental parts, each reduced by the target's resistance to that element (Resistances and Immunities). The cold part chills the target for the cold length (Chill and Freeze). The Basin's page is precise about what the percentages are taken from:

• The elemental damage is a percentage of the weapon's physical damage only, taken before off-weapon +% damage and before Critical Strike or Deadly Strike. What counts, in order: the weapon's base damage, the ethereal bonus, the weapon's own Enhanced Damage (including the per-character-level kind), and + Minimum and + Maximum Damage (including the per-level kind).
• Damage + is applied after, so it is not multiplied.
• +% elemental skill damage from items (Fire Skill Damage and its siblings) and the Fire and Lightning Mastery skills apply after Vengeance's percentage, so they multiply the result.

Auras do not raise the elemental parts: Might, Concentration and Fanaticism are off-weapon damage and Vengeance's share is taken before them. They still raise the physical hit.

Synergies and +skills

Four skills feed Vengeance, all read as hard points (blvl):

• Resist Fire: +10% fire damage a point (Param8).
• Resist Cold: +10% cold damage a point (Param8).
• Resist Lightning: +10% lightning damage a point (Param8).
• Salvation: +2% to all three a point (Param7).

Twenty hard points in one Resist aura add +200% to its element, more than Vengeance's own twenty levels (+114% above the base). Twenty in Salvation add +40% to each of the three, +120% in all. Vengeance feeds nothing.

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 each elemental part are cut alike. The Basin's page adds nothing else about players.

Build notes

• Level 20 reads +184% in each of three elements, a 12.6-second chill and +210% attack rating for 8.75 mana a swing.
• The elemental parts scale with the weapon's own damage and its Enhanced Damage, not with auras or off-weapon +% damage; a high-damage weapon is the multiplier.
• A hard point in a Resist aura is +10% to one element, and the aura's resistance is a side benefit; a hard point in Vengeance past 20 is +6% to all three.
• Three elements means one immunity stops only one of the three elemental parts; see Resistances and Immunities.