Pala Auras and Grief mechanics

Hello,

I am confused by the output damage of different weapons and how fana and

Concentration aura works.

On first look I thought

Azurewrath is better then a Grief-

Phase Blade but when comparing them on the field, Grief is faster at killing despite showing less damage in the Character tab. Why is that?

Azurewrath got superior initial damage ~110 physical and 250-500 magic and 250-500 cold.
My Grief got +360 damage and currently 170% dmg to demons.

Can someone explain to me how the fana aura is working? Is it only buffing physical damage?
Is the

Concentration aura buffing the magic and cold damage of

Azurewrath?
What does ignoring targets defense mean? Is it that you hit every strike?

In simplest, general terms:
Don't believe the LCS (lying character screen). Especially when dealing with Grief.

Expanding on that, enhanced damage like what you get from fana or conc enhances only physical damage of your attacks. As such, your Azure only receives a buff to the 115ish average physical dmg it does, not to the magic or cold damage.
Grief on the other hand has that buff applied to the full base weapon damage and the flat dmg it provides, resulting in significantly higher damage output overall.

The same holds true for the dmg to demons on Grief. That, too only works with physical dmg.

Naturally, it wouldn't be a blizzard game if there wasn't random illogical exceptions to all of that as well which is why

Concentration also weirdly buffs your blessed hammers, despite them not being physical. But yeah, it doesn't buff other magic dmg.

And to your last question:
Ignore target defense means that the defense of your target is effectively 0. It does not mean you hit with every strike because your hit chance is determined via a formula comparing your attack rating and level against your targets defense and level (which then basically becomes lvl vs. lvl) and it is capped at 95% but it does typically result in hitting that 95

Cap against everything you meet once you're higher level.

Mind you, "everything" is a bit misleading there because ITD only works on trash. It doesn't apply to bosses and the like.

I understand. Thank you very much

Correct me if i am wrong but ignor target defese and minus defense doesnt work on act bosses and ubers? but does work on

Diablo Clone?

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Correct me if i am wrong but ignor target defese and minus defense doesnt work on act bosses and ubers? but does work on

Diablo Clone?

ITD doesn't work on bosses at all, and that includes the ubers and

Diablo Clone. -% target defense applies to every enemy, but only at half effectiveness against bosses.

Edit: I should point out that not all effects described as having "-% defense" are treated the same. For example,

Conviction's defense reduction is actually -% enhanced defense, although its tooltip doesn't reflect that.

Battle Cry and

Cloak of Shadows (CoS doesn't work on bosses) are similar. There are no penalties for these skills, and since almost all bosses lack enhanced defense, your hit chance will improve far more with these skills than with -% (base) defense on items.

Khegan wrote: 2 years ago

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Correct me if i am wrong but ignor target defese and minus defense doesnt work on act bosses and ubers? but does work on

Diablo Clone?

ITD doesn't work on bosses at all, and that includes the ubers and

Diablo Clone. -% target defense applies to every enemy, but only at half effectiveness against bosses.

there is a mechanic that doesnt work on ubers but does work on dclone and i cant remember what it is

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Khegan wrote: 2 years ago

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Correct me if i am wrong but ignor target defese and minus defense doesnt work on act bosses and ubers? but does work on

Diablo Clone?

ITD doesn't work on bosses at all, and that includes the ubers and

Diablo Clone. -% target defense applies to every enemy, but only at half effectiveness against bosses.

there is a mechanic that doesnt work on ubers but does work on dclone and i cant remember what it is

i believe it's prevent monster heal that you're thinking of.

prevent monster heal might be it

It is.