Most damage dealt in one blow.

[Clervis]

What do you think is the highest damage one could deal with one strike or spell?

I'm thinking a meteor sorc could drop a 50K meteor onto a group of about 20 cows maybe, with a Pally running Conviction to deal about 2 million damage.

Or maybe a Sorc running a Exploding Bolt/Pierce with a 5K Enchant could probably shoot through 10 cows hitting 9 each time with the Conviction Pally to deal about 1 million damage.

Or maybe a Javazon doing a 2k average LF pierce through 10 cows releasing 44 bolts w/ Conviction Pally could do 1.75 million.

But I guess the cake is really taken by a Necro w/ Poison Nova that could kill as many cows as are on the screen in a players 8 game. No idea how much life they have, (maybe 40K) and you could fit about 50 (maybe?) on screen. That would give you 2 million.

Any other ideas or better numbers/estimates?

[Pillz]

I believe it's theoretically possible to 1 hit hell Baal at P1 with a plague javelin.

Looking at it from a group perspective, it would probably be highest possible level LF combined with level 25 Conviction into a full screen of cows.

[AgentMarth]

Like said, Plague Javelin against a single target, although its a hell of a time to actually pull of.

LF with 100% Pierce, coupled with Conviction, and max'd out LR. The thing is the range of Conviction, you would need like 4-5 Paladins for one in each corner of the screen and one in the middle, then the whole screen covered in cows that wouldn't be killing the Paladins. Maybe all abbot's or something, or modded in SP to have insane life and regen. Frankly though, it would be improbable to do and impossible to calculate.

CE' deserves a good mention though, since it can hit hard and fast, but you need a high life monster to pull it off.

[Nimbostratus]

I'd bet a high level Corpse Explosion cast on a foul crow nest would do some wicked amounts of damage.

[lendial]

it depends how many cows you can "stack." the net damage would be lf multiplied by the numbers of cows in a single map. of course gathering all of them into one tight area is very difficult.

[mephiztophelez]

actually guys, it's Poison Javelin is the biggest damage dealer when combined with a venom proc.

I'd bet a high level Corpse Explosion cast on a foul crow nest would do some wicked amounts of damage.

a level 1 corpse explo and a level 50 corpse explo do the same damage. it's just the radius that increases.

[Nimbostratus]

a level 1 corpse explo and a level 50 corpse explo do the same damage. it's just the radius that increases.

Exactly. The OP was including the damage from hitting multiple monsters. Bigger radius = more monsters being hit = more overall damage.

[korialstraz]

actually guys, it's Poison Javelin is the biggest damage dealer when combined with a venom proc.


how much damage could that do? :shocked:

interested since that gave me a fun idea:rolleyes: :laugh:

[thegiantturtle]

how much damage could that do? :shocked:

interested since that gave me a fun idea:rolleyes: :laugh:http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4961421&postcount=11

[korialstraz]

that link was helpful but it ruined my idea. i was thinking that it might change the duration from whatever seconds it takes to run the whole poison course of plague javaline to 0,4 seconds. it was still very interesting read :laugh:

[Hellemyr]

What about the bow amas in the 1.09 i think it was, with guided arrows and pierce.

Coud you then get 100% pierce fire a guided arrow and hide and wait?

[crawlingdeadman]

that link was helpful but it ruined my idea. i was thinking that it might change the duration from whatever seconds it takes to run the whole poison course of plague javaline to 0,4 seconds. it was still very interesting read :laugh:

it doesnt quite work that way. venom and other sources of poison are to say the least wonky.

[jakotaco]

Most damage in one attack? most probably a high level Rabies in a stacked cow level...

[Smackin]

Most damage in one attack? most probably a high level Rabies in a stacked cow level...

High level rabies in cows is probably the strongest one hit killer. U hit once, lead the cow to rest, work done.

[BobCox]

I heard of a Tailor that killed 10 with 1 blow.

I was gonna point out SSog's post but someone beat me to it.

[Monopoly]

rabies is crappy pvm skill. i bet even the games best rabi cant take out cows in one blow :C

id say that a blizzer that have gather as many cows as posible. and got lucky as got a super with exstra fast, will do the trick. gather them around, make a blizz in the middle, they die, and the rest walks into it agen.

[CoolDarkDragon]

Rabies can be quite surprising with the right gear, not to mention a dual dream sorc can hit pretty nice numbers

[Clervis]

I suppose you could go old school and have a Bowazon with Multi and a bunch of poison charms along with pierce could probably take out a couple of screens of cows. I'm not sure what the ranged is, but I remember back in the day WF zons could shoot a multi that would go a couple of screens.

[CoolDarkDragon]

after doing some testing You can hit around 80k ish tops on a melee sorc (with right prebuffing job =D)

so after a zeal and conviction = some pretty messed up damage

[Doppel]

I think you can even do 100k with perfect light damage charms and the like.

[BobCox]

Back in the Day - I saw Pals using skills hack and the Negative stats SOJ's to glitch HF or HS and just walking through cow level with everything for screens around going Moo and falling over dead.
Long ago and different rules but it's the most I've ever Actually Seen done in Realms games

[yetidiah]

rabies is crappy pvm skill. i bet even the games best rabi cant take out cows in one blow :C

id say that a blizzer that have gather as many cows as posible. and got lucky as got a super with exstra fast, will do the trick. gather them around, make a blizz in the middle, they die, and the rest walks into it agen.

cows have 15k hitpoints and 33% poison res in hell, a good rabies druid can hit 60K and -75% poison res. yes they can be killed in one hit.

[Galabab]

What about a necro with lvl ~40 corpse excplosion (should be several screens wide splash damage) with phoenix shield and infi merc for extra fire damage casting one CE on a champion cow in the middle of a screen full of 8player game's cows?

CE does 100-80% hp damage. So all cows should be dead in one blow if champion has more HP. Nothing can beat that?

[helvete]

What about a necro with lvl ~40 corpse excplosion (should be several screens wide splash damage) with phoenix shield and infi merc for extra fire damage casting one CE on a champion cow in the middle of a screen full of 8player game's cows?

CE does 100-80% hp damage. So all cows should be dead in one blow if champion has more HP. Nothing can beat that?

CE is based off of players1 HP in 1.10 and later. So it's basically no chance. I have no expirience with rabies, but atm it seems like Lightning Fury with 100%pierce, Plague Javelin with pierce, and rabies are the best candidates. Poison Explosion at high levels also deal insane damage, but the area is too limited to hit extreme amounts of monsters. It also seems the cow level is by far the easiest place to do insane damage, since no other place in the game can have as many monsters. Cows are also easily "herdable" if one has a little FRW.

[Clervis]

How about this:

A bowazon firing Kuko with piercing Multi with a high enchant and an inventory full of fire damage charms can hit around 7K fire damage. Now she shoots her multi and each time it hits it splash everyone around with the fire damage. If you pack your cows tightly you could easily hit 8 cows (including the one hit with arrow twice) for every single arrow that hits every single cow. Those numbers should get pretty ridiculous. Especially considering the range on Multi is pretty drastic. With a Fire Facet Armor, Helm, and Conviction Merc you could get their resists down to about -90.

Let's say you hit 50 cows:
That's 7,000*8*50*1.9=5,320,000

Unless I'm wrong and only one arrow will be explosive, this seems to be up there in the running.

[EDIT] Just discovered the sad truth. Seems Explosive Arrow won't work with multi, strafe, or any kind of frozen arrow. But man would it be cool if it did.

[Eilo Rytyj]

Unless I'm wrong
Yep. Exploding Arrows mod only works with normal attack. Nice try though.


I think you can even do 100k with perfect light damage charms and the like.

Yeah but that would be pointless because, as in the link to SSoG's post, the maximum possible damage roll from any source in a single hit is 87040. Basically if the attack rolls on a number higher than that, it will all do a roll-over back to zero and start again. So if you have a 100k max damage attack with such a Sorc and you hit for 90k, you'll actually only do around 3k.

Poison is different, you can have values of 87k+ and it still work normally because 87040 is the cap on damage in any given frame of damage. Poison like that will likely only do maybe 3k damage per second which is only 120 damage per frame, nowhere near the cap.

[Clervis]

Yeah but that would be pointless because, as in the link to SSoG's post, the maximum possible damage roll from any source in a single hit is 87040. Basically if the attack rolls on a number higher than that, it will all do a roll-over back to zero and start again. So if you have a 100k max damage attack with such a Sorc and you hit for 90k, you'll actually only do around 3k.

Poison is different, you can have values of 87k+ and it still work normally because 87040 is the cap on damage in any given frame of damage. Poison like that will likely only do maybe 3k damage per second which is only 120 damage per frame, nowhere near the cap.

It seems I edited my post just seconds before you responded. But that's really interesting that they have that kind of a cap. I know Chargadins with Amplify Damage can go over that, so they might want to even scale back their damage if that's going to become an issue.

But as for my example, it would work more like LF, right? None of that damage would be more than about 14K at any given impact.

[Doppel]

Yeah but that would be pointless because, as in the link to SSoG's post, the maximum possible damage roll from any source in a single hit is 87040. Basically if the attack rolls on a number higher than that, it will all do a roll-over back to zero and start again. So if you have a 100k max damage attack with such a Sorc and you hit for 90k, you'll actually only do around 3k.

Just figured the same thing, if it wasn't for the lying stat screen then that would be one of the highest damage dealing blows in the game though. (damage dealing over a certain amount of time, like poison, kinda defeats the purpous cause its not like any sorc can't continuesly spam for example frozen orb)