Grim Ward

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Amazon Assassin Barbarian Druid Necro Paladin Sorceress Barbarian Skill Levels Combat Skills Combat Masteries Warcries 1 2 Howl Find Potion 3 4 Taunt Shout 5 6 Find Item Battle Cry 7 8 Battle Orders Grim Ward 9 10 War Cry Battle Command Type Corpse cast and area effect debuff Tier 5 Required level 24 Required skills Find Item Requirements Corpse Left button No In town No Mana cost 4 Attack no mana No Weapon damage No Synergy skills Find Potion (D2R only) Level01 6 12 18 24 30 This skill allows the Barbarian to fashion a totem out of the carcass of his slain enemies. The resulting talisman serves as a grave warning to all of the minions of the Prime Evils. The mere sight of the Totem causes monsters to flee in terror. With additional training the warrior can increase the potency of the ward. Detail Stat Value Radius (Yards) (2+slvl) * 2/3 (LoD) (5+slvl) * 2/3 (D2R) Flee Distance (Yards) 6 2/3 Flee Duration (Seconds) 2.4 -% Movement speed (D2R only) Damage Resist -% (D2R only) 20 Damage Resist -% (D2R only) 5 * (Find Potion.blvl) Ward Duration (Seconds) 40 Next Delay (Frames) 6 Cast rate In D2R the DR works at 20% (1/5) against Immune to Physical monsters, yet at 100% against sundered monsters. Must be adjacent to corpse to raise a ward from it (although it does not need to be selected). In addition to the normal restrictions on corpse selection, the following cannot be used due to lack of flesh, or bones (they aren't flagged as soft in MonStats2.txt): Abyss Knight Blood Hawk Nest Bone Fetish Doom Knight Finger Mage Gargoyle Trap Oblivion Knight Skeleton Skeleton Archer Skeleton Mage Swarm Tentacle Beast tentacles Thorned Hulk Willowisp Wraith [1] Appearance of ward varies depending on size of corpse, but this does not have any meaningful effect. Ward summoned from small corpse. Ward summoned from medium corpse. Ward summoned from large corpse. Only causes normal and minion monsters to flee (with a few exceptions) for specified distance and duration. Overlay above fleeing target. Eligible targets like this Death Lord flee from the Barbarian, not the ward. Fleeing effects have their own hierarchy, so those higher on the following list cannot be overwritten by those lower: Grim Ward Terror Hit Causes Monster to Flee Howl [2] Monsters within radius may sometimes stand idle rather than fleeing, particularly in confined spaces. [3] Source Skill bonus +(1-3) Grim Ward (Barbarian Only) can spawn on ilvl >24 primal helms. Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder +4 Heart Carver Rondel 36 No Charges Level Charges Source Rlvl Ladder 13 30 Blackhand Key Grave Wand 41 No Charged suffix Minimum Ilvl for Skill Level Charges at Skill Level Source Rlvl Alvl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Own Not 39 54 69 84 99 67 75 82 90 97 Primal helm 24 30 30 61 98 22 25 Amulet 24 60 60 Levels 1-60 (LoD) Stat Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Radius (Yards) 2 2 2/3 3 1/3 4 4 2/3 5 1/3 6 6 2/3 7 1/3 8 Stat Level 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Radius (Yards) 8 2/3 9 1/3 10 10 2/3 11 1/3 12 12 2/3 13 1/3 14 14 2/3 Stat Level 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Radius (Yards) 15 1/3 16 16 2/3 17 1/3 18 18 2/3 19 1/3 20 20 2/3 21 1/3 Stat Level 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Radius (Yards) 22 22 2/3 23 1/3 24 24 2/3 25 1/3 26 26 2/3 27 1/3 28 Stat Level 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Radius (Yards) 28 2/3 29 1/3 30 30 2/3 31 1/3 32 32 2/3 33 1/3 34 34 2/3 Stat Level 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Radius (Yards) 35 1/3 36 36 2/3 37 1/3 38 38 2/3 39 1/3 40 40 2/3 41 1/3 Levels 1-60 (D2R) Stat Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Radius (Yards) 4 4 2/3 5 1/3 6 6 2/3 7 1/3 8 8 2/3 9 1/3 10 Stat Level 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Radius (Yards) 10 2/3 11 1/3 12 12 2/3 13 1/3 14 14 2/3 15 1/3 16 16 2/3 Stat Level 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Radius (Yards) 17 1/3 18 18 2/3 19 1/3 20 20 2/3 21 1/3 22 22 2/3 23 1/3 Stat Level 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Radius (Yards) 24 24 2/3 25 1/3 26 26 2/3 27 1/3 28 28 2/3 29 1/3 30 Stat Level 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Radius (Yards) 30 2/3 31 1/3 32 32 2/3 33 1/3 34 34 2/3 35 1/3 36 36 2/3 Stat Level 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Radius (Yards) 37 1/3 38 38 2/3 39 1/3 40 40 2/3 41 1/3 42 42 2/3 43 1/3 Reference Warcries (Arreat Summit) Barb Archer: Howl vs. Grim Ward (D2 Barbarian) Chance to Cast and curse tests (D2 Technical) LastCorpse, Bug/Feature: Grausiger Schutz in engen Räumen (PlanetDiablo.eu)