Death Blow

Death Blow is a Barbarian skill from the Weapon Mastery skill tree. Its features are:

Death Blow Attempt a killing strike, dealing 120% damage to enemies in front of you. If this kills an enemy, the Cooldown is reset. Requires any complete Arsenal weapon Damage: Physical Cooldown: 15 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Tags: Weapon Mastery

Upgrades

Enhanced Death Blow Death Blow deals 150% increased damage to Bosses. Requires point in Death Blow.	Fighter's Death Blow If Death Blow damages at least one enemy, gain 20 Fury. Requires point in Enhanced Death Blow.
	Warrior's Death Blow If Death Blow damages at least one enemy, gain Berserking for 3 seconds. Requires point in Enhanced Death Blow.

Other Skills that work with Death Blow

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Death Blow can exploit
• Exploit a condition Death Blow creates

Basic Tree
Combat Bash After Critically Striking 4 times with Bash using a Two-Handed weapon your next Core or Weapon Mastery Skill will Overpower. Requires point in Enhanced Bash. Skill
Weapon Mastery Tree
Expose Vulnerability Dealing Direct Damage with a Weapon Mastery skill causes your next Core Skill to make enemies Vulnerable for 1 / 2 / 3 seconds. Requires point in No Mercy or Slaying Strike. Passive

Items that work with Death Blow

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Death Blow
• Create a condition Death Blow can exploit
• Exploit a condition Death Blow creates

Legendary Aspects

Weapon Master's Aspect

Utility

Your Weapon Mastery skills have an additional Charge. Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Weapon Mastery skill has up to a 37% - 55% chance to Stun (CC) them for 2 seconds. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

N/A

Extraction

Barbarian

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any found Legendary item at the Occultist.

Unique Items

Overkill The malformed snake creatures that live in the swamps are not content with simply killing their prey. They seem to take a malicious pleasure from inflicting as much suffering as possible before death. Type: Two-Handed Mace Class: Barbarian Description: Death Blow creates a shockwave, dealing 24 - 38% of its Base damage to enemies. Enemies who die to this effect also reset Death Blow’s Cooldown.

+ % Overpower Damage Affixes: + % Overpower Damage + % Physical Damage + % Damage to Injured enemies + % Ranks in Death Blow

Changes to Death Blow

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

• Enhanced Death Blow - Damage bonus to Bosses increased from 100% to 150%.