08-22-2003, 03:23 AM
There's nothing really surprising about the strengths of crushing blow. Even without the bug, crushing blow is already an easy way to decimate bosses or any other single entities and you can do it with much much cheaper gear than what you have used.
For example, using 'black' runeword (thul-io-nef), goblin toes and a pair of blood gloves, you can already get a decent 75% crushing blow... low level'ed and not all too hard to attain. At a higher level, you can have guillaume's face, gore riders, Bers etc.
For a long time, crushing blow builds utilizing CB and a fast attack skill have always been very strong. In 1.10 at lower player counts, CB is given a huge boost by that above-mentioned bug although this is balanced out at higher player counts since the % damage done by CB decreases with increasing player count.
For example, using 'black' runeword (thul-io-nef), goblin toes and a pair of blood gloves, you can already get a decent 75% crushing blow... low level'ed and not all too hard to attain. At a higher level, you can have guillaume's face, gore riders, Bers etc.
For a long time, crushing blow builds utilizing CB and a fast attack skill have always been very strong. In 1.10 at lower player counts, CB is given a huge boost by that above-mentioned bug although this is balanced out at higher player counts since the % damage done by CB decreases with increasing player count.