Crushing Blow is a special magic property added to certain Set, Crafted or Unique Items, but not to Magic or Rare Items. When striking, a crushing blow will reduce an enemy's current life by a certain percentage as follows:

1. Open Wounds Diablo 2
2. Diablo 2 Crushing Blow
3. Diablo 2 Crushing Blow Items

Deadly Strike gives you an X% chance of dealing double Damage.The damage is doubled after all other bonuses, including Strength and Dexterity modifiers. Deadly Strike will not stack with the Assassin's, Barbarian's or Amazon's Critical Strike bonuses, although there are advantages to having both. Oct 24, 2008  Deadly strike is the last thing that's applied to your damage, meaning that all other damage modifiers are taken into account as well. Deadly Strike stack in all cases, there is only one chance to trigger a deadly strike blow per hit. There is no cap on how high the chance to trigger a deadly strike can get, but anything over 100% is a waste. Great post, learned a bunch. Looks like Open Wounds is the best (because of regen negation), followed by Crushing Blow, and Deadly Strike is.

• Because Crushing Blow items can stack, it is possible to get up to 100% chance for Crushing Blow.
• Physical resistance does apply to Crushing Blow damage, as long as the enemy has a positive physical resistance.
• Crushing Blow removes a portion of the enemy's current life, not its maximum life; so, for example, hitting Hell Diablo when he has 40,000 hit points left will remove 5,000 hit points (12.5% x 40,000), not 12.5% of his original total.
  • That being said, because Crushing Blow removes a % of the monster's current Life, it is equally useful in large Multiplayer games or when the /players x command is in effect, allowing you to down enemies within an efficient timeframe.
• Since 1.10, Crushing Blow is calculated before any other damage is applied.

Items Featuring Crushing BlowEdit

Crafted ItemsEdit

Open Wounds Diablo 2

• Blood Gloves — (5-10%)

SetsEdit

Complete SetEdit

• Cleglaw's Brace — (35%)

Individual PiecesEdit

• Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge — (35%)
• Immortal King's Stone Crusher — (35-40%)
• Guillaume's Face — (35%)

Unique ArmorsEdit

Diablo 2 Crushing Blow

• Giant Skull — (10%)
• Goblin Toe — (25%)
• Gore Rider — (15%)
• Rattlecage — (25%)
• Steelrend — (10%)
• Venom Grip — (5%)

Unique WeaponsEdit

• Astreon's Iron Ward — (33%)
• Bloodtree Stump — (50%)
• Bonesnap — (40%)
• Crushflange — (33%)
• Earth Shifter — (33%)
• Executioner's Justice — (25%)
• Fleshrender — (20%)
• Fleshripper — (25%)
• Heaven's Light — (33%) (Ladder-only)
• Hone Sundan — (45%)
• Humongous — (33%)
• Islestrike — (25%)
• Knell Striker — (25%)
• Ribcracker — (50%)
• Rixot's Keen — (25%)
• Steel Pillar — (25%)
• Stone Crusher — (40%)
• Stormlash — (33%)
• The Cranium Basher — (75%)
• The Gnasher — (20%)
• The Minotaur — (30%)
• Windhammer — (50%)

RunewordsEdit

WeaponsEdit

Diablo 2 Crushing Blow Items

• Beast — (20%)
• Black — (40%)
• Death — (50%) (Ladder-only)
• Destruction — (20%) (Ladder-only)
• Eternity — (20%)
• Infinity — (40%) (Ladder-only)
• Kingslayer — (33%)
• Last Wish — (60-70%) (Ladder-only)
• Obedience — (40%) (Ladder-only)
• Strength — (25%)
• Wrath — (20%) (Ladder-only)

ArmorEdit

• Duress — (15%)

• Crushing Blow