Too much Crushing Blow is BAD!?

[Speedwrath]

I've just been thinking about it:

If you had 100% Crushing Blow, ALL your hits would reduce the enemy's life by 25%. But that's 25% of the actual HP. That doesn't mean you'll kill them in 4 hits.

But does Crushing Blow also adds the damage that WOULD have been dealt, even if Crushing Blow failed?

For example, if I Smite for 100 damage, and I have Crushing Blow, and that Crushing Blow check succeded, will I take 25% of the enemy's health AND do 100 damage? Or will I just do 25% damage and that's it?

Because if this is the case, if someone had 100% Crushing Blow, he would never kill the target. After a certain point he would simply be doing 1 damage to the target.

Can someone clear this out for me please?

[Garrell2004]

I think you can only have 95% crushing blow...even though it says u have 100, the game will cap it off at 95%, like DR.

[Orphan]

Crushing blow maxes out at 100% chance, if I remember correctly.

Crushing blow is applied before your actual damage, and all it does is modifies the targets HP by a certain amount. Regardless, you still do your actual damage afterwards.

Edit: For the record, damaged reduced by % is capped at 50% :)

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I think you can only have 95% crushing blow...even though it says u have 100, the game will cap it off at 95%, like DR.

I think what you mean is chance to hit. :p

[k/t]

The consensus seems to be that, like so many other things in the game, CB is capped at 95%. Not that there's much difference between 95% and 100%.

I do believe this is the first time Zeno's paradoxes have been linked to D2. Who says computer games make people dumb?

[krischan]

If you are low on life or mana and you are attacking an enemy just to leech from it, too much CB is bad because you don't leech from CB damage, so if there is a limited supply of monsters, they might be dead before you have refueled fully.

[RTB]

The consensus seems to be that, like so many other things in the game, CB is capped at 95%. Not that there's much difference between 95% and 100%.
CB is not capped at 95%.

[stevan]

Is CB damage physical, or magic, or what? What i want to know will it damage physical imunes?

[NoNameLancealot]

too much crushing blow is very good...i killed all uber trist in 3 minutes with my smiter with 85 crushing blow....get as much as you can!

[RTB]

Is CB damage physical, or magic, or what? What i want to know will it damage physical imunes?
It's reduced by a positive physical resist, but can't be classified as physical dmg. CB can't damage PIs.