Blocking is only possible while engaged in melee combat, or while walking. The character can do nothing else during the blocking animation. More commonly called "fast block", this modifier helps characters block more frequently.Ī character goes into block animation if its opponent succeeds in the hit check and the character succeeds in a blocking check. In DiabloII, animation speeds are measured in "frames," as explained above. There are on-line IAS calculators available. Breakpoints for IAS depend on too many variables (item, skill, character, equipment) to be put in simple tables. Given below are tables for FBR, FCR and FHR. Modifiers that use the "breakpoint system" are: See the calculations category for many more useful pages of stats and figures.3D games do not have this issue, since movements can be shown at any speed - the refresh rate of your monitor, 3D card, and the game engine permitting. This display issue can not be avoided in a frame-based, 2D game. The game will only display the weapon at the top, halfway down, hitting, halfway back up and at rest.
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For instance, if a character's basic attack with a given weapon requires 12 frames for the full animation (showing the arm swinging, the weapon descending, the hit landing, and then the weapon being lifted back to the ready pose), and your character has that attack down to 5 frames, thanks to a lot of IAS and a boost from Fanaticism, 7 of the 12 frames of animation will not be shown. This can result in very fast movements looking choppy. Increased speeds are displayed by dropping frames of animation. You must get to 48%, and then anything above that will cause no change until you meet or exceed the next breakpoint. If a breakpoint requires 48% Faster Hit Recovery, you will not get it with 46% or 47%. Values must meet or exceed numbers to achieve that breakpoint. Other skills (such as Fanaticism) modify the overall speed of all attacks. Many attack skills have their own speeds and breakpoints. Speeds for all of these properties vary greatly between the different characters and items. Players call the amounts of improvement necessary to cause a change "breakpoints." If a normal attack with a given weapon takes 10 frames, some amount of faster attack bonus will drop it down to 9 frames, but until that amount is reached, no improvement will occur. As a result of this, improvements to attack rate, casting speed, hit recovery, and blocking rate are measured by the number of frames required to display the motion. Since Diablo II runs with 2D graphics, at 25 frames per second, events can only occur at discrete numbers of frames.