Most properties of the items get transferred to the iron golem except (i) mana steal and (ii) chance to find magic items.Ĥ. In a similar way, Bloodtree Stump and Fleshrender can't be used to make iron golem because they are clubs - nonmetal.ģ. Ribcracker staff also has crushing blow, but I don't think you can make a rustbucket out of a staff because it's not metal.Ģ. Notice that many runewords are very costly, so you may wish to use them on yourself or your merc rather than make a rustbucket.ġ. Guillaume's Face (Set Winged Helm) - better give to your merc rather than make rustbucket Immortal King's Stone Crusher (Set Ogre Maul)ģ. Bul Katho's Sacred Charge (Set Colossus Blade)Ģ. Heaven's Light (Unique Mighty Sceptor) (precious item, keep for trade rather than rustbucket).ġ. Astreon's Iron Ward (Unique Caudaceous)Ģ0. Fleshripper (Unique Fanged Knife) (better use yourself rather than rustbucket)ġ9. Executioner's Justice (Unique Glorious Axe)ġ7. Stonecrusher (Unique Legendary Mallet)ġ5. You want to do that when you cannot have crushing blow on your merc OR on yourself, but still need it for faster boss killing.ġ. This is a list items which have crushing blow (uniques, sets and runewords) to make your iron golem with. T-Hawk suggested the initial crushing blow calculator back in Classic Diablo II.List of Crushing Blow items for making Iron Golem So please be patient, especially if you have a slow computer.Įquivalent damage (including the average damage) On my slow 233 MHz Pentium, a 100000 life target takes about 20 seconds. How fast will it compute depends on the life of the target, Note that this computation is performed on your machine. Where v is the average damage, c is the chance of crushing blow, This page computes an estimation of the mean number of hits to kill a monster.įor the calculation, I will use maxHP as the monster's life.įrom the calculation, it should not be hard to see that crushing blow is most effective in an 8 player game, and crushing blow can be more effective than doubling the damage of your weapon (especially when your linear damage is low).īasically, this calculator solves the difference equation:Ī(x) = A(x-v)*(1-c) + A((x-v)*fraction)*c That fraction is given by the following table : That fraction varies depending on monster type and whether it is a missile attack. Crushing Blow does damage that is a fraction of the current life of the victim.

Diablo 2 items with crushing blow