Skill damage and scaling

Every skill page has a Scaling by level table worked out with the game's own formulas: damage per hit, hits per cast, cooldown and the damage per second the character screen would show, for a new hero of that class with no gear, shrines or synergies.

What raises it

• Skill level: each card raises damage, and many skills add arrows, bolts or blows at set levels.
• Synergies: a skill gains a set percentage per level of the skills named under its Synergies, as in D2. They are listed on each skill page with the bonus per level.
• Attributes: Strength adds physical damage (not with a bow), Dexterity adds critical strike chance and bow and claw damage, Energy adds spell damage.
• Gear and shrines: +% Damage on items and the Combat Shrine (+200%) stack together; +skills from gear add levels above the card maximum.
• Cooldown: Faster Cast Rate shortens every cooldown; see Faster Cast Rate.

Hardest hitting at max level

	Name	Class	Kind	Element	Damage	Hits	Cooldown	DPS at max level
	Summon Grizzly	Druid	Evolution	Physical	3,969	1	1.2s	3,544
	Fury	Druid	Evolution	Physical	586	5	0.56s	2,093
	Widowmaker	Amazon	Evolution	Physical	91	4	0.8s	1,820
	Phoenix Strike	Assassin	Evolution	Fire	36	1	0.55s	1,726
	Blades of Ice	Assassin	Evolution	Cold	36	1	0.45s	1,644
	Shock Wave	Druid	Evolution	Physical	344–630	1	0.56s	1,495
	Strafe	Amazon	Evolution	Physical	94	12	0.8s	1,410
	Revive	Necromancer	Evolution	Physical	146	1	1.1s	1,363
	Bone Spirit	Necromancer	Evolution	Magic	125	8	0.75s	1,333
	Lightning Strike	Amazon	Evolution	Lightning	120	1	0.75s	1,333
	Claws of Thunder	Assassin	Evolution	Lightning	34	1	0.45s	1,323
	Meteor	Sorceress	Evolution	Fire	131	3	1.3s	1,209
	Blizzard	Sorceress	Evolution	Cold	87	24	1.8s	1,160
	Blade Shield	Assassin	Evolution	Physical	108–152	1	10s	1,158
	Freezing Arrow	Amazon	Evolution	Cold	15–90	6	1s	1,125
	Lightning Fury	Amazon	Evolution	Lightning	100	3	1.1s	1,091
	Lightning Bolt	Amazon	Skill	Lightning	24 → 94	1 → 3	1.6s → 1.04s	1,087
	Plague Javelin	Amazon	Evolution	Poison	40	3	1.3s	1,052
	Exploding Arrow	Amazon	Skill	Fire	4–20 → 4–83	2 → 6	1.6s → 0.96s	1,047
	Blade Fury	Assassin	Evolution	Physical	129	6	0.8s	969
	Raise Skeleton	Necromancer	Skill	Physical	20 → 118	1	2.2s → 1.43s	944
	Rusthandle	Paladin	Evolution	Fire	75	12	1s	900
	Teeth	Necromancer	Skill	Magic	14 → 25	4 → 21	1.36s → 0.59s	886
	Immolation Arrow	Amazon	Evolution	Fire	10–90	6	1.3s	854
	Cold Arrow	Amazon	Skill	Cold	24 → 140	1 → 4	1.1s → 0.66s	846

All 154 skills

Starting skills

Every skill learnable from level 1, the cards a run opens with.

	Name	Class	Element	Skill tree	Damage	Cooldown	DPS at max level
	Raise Skeleton	Necromancer	Physical	Summoning Spells	20 → 118	2.2s → 1.43s	944
	Teeth	Necromancer	Magic	Poison and Bone Spells	14 → 25	1.36s → 0.59s	886
	Fire Arrow	Amazon	Fire	Bow and Crossbow Skills	22 → 169	1.1s → 0.66s	766
	Magic Arrow	Amazon	Magic	Bow and Crossbow Skills	14 → 56	0.75s → 0.45s	496
	Charged Bolt	Sorceress	Lightning	Lightning Spells	11 → 13	1.36s → 0.59s	482
	Tiger Strike	Assassin	Physical	Martial Arts	12 → 47	0.7s → 0.45s	476
	Fire Bolt	Sorceress	Fire	Fire Spells	21 → 49	0.85s → 0.47s	413
	Psychic Hammer	Assassin	Magic	Shadow Disciplines	20 → 76	1.2s → 0.72s	316
	Raven	Druid	Physical	Summoning	20 → 88	1.8s → 1.17s	278
	Smite	Paladin	Physical	Combat Skills	47 → 130	0.48s	271
	Werewolf	Druid	Physical	Shape Shifting	28 → 112	0.56s → 0.44s	254
	Double Swing	Barbarian	Physical	Combat Skills	14 → 56	0.75s → 0.45s	248
	Jab	Amazon	Physical	Javelin and Spear Skills	9 → 37	0.8s → 0.48s	231
	Blessed Hammer	Paladin	Magic	Combat Skills	9 → 30	1s → 0.6s	199
	Bash	Barbarian	Physical	Combat Skills	40 → 166	1.4s → 0.84s	197
	Dragon Talon	Assassin	Physical	Martial Arts	14 → 112	0.9s → 2.4s	187
	Ice Bolt	Sorceress	Cold	Cold Spells	18 → 40	1.2s → 0.72s	166
	Fire Blast	Assassin	Fire	Traps	21 → 92	1s → 0.6s	153
	Sacrifice	Paladin	Physical	Combat Skills	70 → 127	1.6s → 0.96s	132
	Poison Creeper	Druid	Poison	Summoning	8 → 36	4s → 2.59s	108
	Firestorm	Druid	Fire	Elemental	4 → 15	1.5s → 0.9s	84
	Amplify Damage	Necromancer	Magic	Curses	—	5s → 3.01s	—
	Frozen Armor	Sorceress	Cold	Cold Spells	—	13s → 9.77s	—
	Howl	Barbarian	Physical	Warcries	—	10s → 6.98s	—