Stairway to Heaven

Status Tables for all Classes

Each character starts into his (or her) virtual life with class-specific starting values for status points and some constants. During development the straight starting values are less important, but the values based on level will still dominate the character.

Starting Values

class-specific status point assignment

	strbase	dexbase	vitbase	Lbase	L/lvl	L/vit	Abase	A/lvl	A/vit	enebase	Mbase	M/lvl	M/ene	AR	def
strbase: starting strength dexbase: starting dexterity vitbase: starting vitality				Lbase: starting life (hitpoints) L/lvl: life gained per level-up L/vit: life gained per given vitality point Abase: starting stamina A/lvl: stamina per level-up A/vit: stamina per given vitality point						enebase: starting energy Mbase: starting mana M/lvl: mana per level-up M/ene: mana per given energy point AR: Attack Rating def: defense
Amazon	20	25	20	50	2	3	84	1	1	15	15	1,5	1,5	95	6
Assassin	20	20	20	50	2	3	95	1,25	1,25	25	25	1,5	1,75	80	5
Barbarian	30	20	25	55	2	4	92	1	1	10	10	1	1	85	5
Druid	15	20	25	55	1,5	2	84	1	1	20	20	2	2	70	5
Necromancer	15	25	15	45	1,5	2	79	1	1	25	25	2	2	80	6
Paladin	25	20	25	55	2	3	89	1	1	15	15	1,5	1,5	85	5
Sorceress	10	25	10	40	1	2	74	1	1	35	35	2	2	75	6

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Class	ama	asn	bar	dru	nec	pal	sor
Class	ama	asn	bar	dru	nec	pal	sor
	ama: Amazon asn: Assassin bar: Barbarian dru: Druid nec: Necromancer pal: Paladin sor: Sorceress
starting strength	20	20	30	15	15	25	10
starting dexterity	25	20	20	20	25	20	25
starting vitality	20	20	25	25	15	25	10
starting life	50	50	55	55	45	55	40
life per level-up	2	2	2	1,5	1,5	2	1
life per vitality point	3	3	4	2	2	3	2
starting stamina	84	95	92	84	79	89	74
stamina per level-up	1	1,25	1	1	1	1	1
stamina per vitality point	1	1,25	1	1	1	1	1
starting energy	15	25	10	20	25	15	35
starting mana	15	25	10	20	25	15	35
mana per level-up	1,5	1,5	1	2	2	1,5	2
mana per energy point	1,5	1,75	1	2	2	1,5	2
starting AR	95	80	85	70	80	85	75
starting defense	6	5	5	5	6	5	6

see also:

• strength
• dexterity
• life
• stamina
• mana

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Hit Recovery

Loss of a certain value of maximum life or suffering a stunning attack causes Hit Recovery to an unit. This plays a special animation called obviously Get Hit animation with a given duration. The 'Faster Hit Recovery' item property will shorten that duration.
Shape-shifted forms like Undead Fetish caused by triggering delirium state or Vampire caused by wearing full Trang Oul set will use those forms' durations. Some threads indicate this is always the case, so a Paladin shifting to Werebear or a Barbarian shifting to Werewolf will be subject to wereform's tables, not table of own class anymore. See also this topic in Phrozen Keep for reference.

see also:

• Hit Recovery

class-specific Hit Recovery table

Amazon / Rogue		Paladin 2ht / stf		Assassin / Barbarian / Paladin other weapons		Druid Werewolf		Druid Werebear		Druid human, 1hs		Necromancer human / Druid human, other weapons		Necromancer Vampire		Sorceress / Town Guard		Iron Wolf
%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa	%FHR	fpa
%FHR: percentage Faster Hit Recovery via items fpa: Frames per Animation Vampire: shape granted by full Trang Oul Set										2ht: two-handed thrusting weapons (spears) stf: two-handed staves, hammers, axes, also pole arms 1hs: one-handed swinging weapons (all but knives and javelins) the Act5 Barbarian hireling won't go into Hit Recovery!
0	11	0	13	0	9	0	7	0	13	0	14	0	13	0	15	0	15	0	17
6	10	3	12	7	8	9	6	5	12	3	13	5	12	2	14	5	14	5	16
13	9	7	11	15	7	20	5	10	11	7	12	10	11	6	13	9	13	8	15
20	8	13	10	27	6	42	4	16	10	13	11	16	10	10	12	14	12	13	14
32	7	20	9	48	5	86	3	24	9	19	10	26	9	16	11	20	11	18	13
52	6	32	8	86	4	280	2	37	8	29	9	39	8	24	10	30	10	24	12
86	5	48	7	200	3			54	7	42	8	56	7	34	9	42	9	32	11
174	4	75	6	4680	2			86	6	63	7	86	6	48	8	60	8	46	10
600	3	120	5					152	5	99	6	152	5	72	7	86	7	63	9
		280	4					360	4	174	5	377	4	117	6	142	6	86	8
										456	4			208	5	280	5	133	7
																1480	4	232	6
																		600	5

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% Hit Recovery, sorted by frame count

fpa	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
fpa	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
%FHR: percentage Faster Hit Recovery via items fpa: Frames per Animation Vampire: shape granted by full Trang Oul Set									2ht: two-handed thrusting weapons (spears) stf: two-handed staves, hammers, axes, also pole arms 1hs: one-handed swinging weapons (all but knives and javelins)
Amazon							0	6	13	20	32	53	86	174	600
Assassin									0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4680
Barbarian									0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4680
Druid Werewolf											0	9	20	42	86	280
Druid Werebear					0	5	10	16	24	37	54	86	152	360
Druid human, 1hs				0	3	7	13	19	29	42	63	99	174	456
Druid human, other weapons					0	5	10	16	26	39	56	86	152	377
Necromancer					0	5	10	16	26	39	56	86	152	377
Necromancer Vampire			0	2	6	10	16	24	34	48	72	117	218
Paladin 2ht / stf					0	3	7	13	20	32	48	75	120	280
Paladin other weapons									0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4680
Sorceress			0	5	9	14	20	30	42	60	86	142	280	1480
Rogue							0	6	13	20	32	53	86	174	600
Town Guard			0	5	9	14	20	30	42	60	86	142	280	1480
Iron Wolf	0	5	8	13	18	24	32	46	63	86	133	232	600

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blocking with a shield

A character wearing a shield is able to block physical attacks which already have broken his defense. This ability depends on character class, character level, kind of shield and in dexterity invested status points. Some items as well as Paladin's Holy Shield skill will increase the chance for successful blocking.
An Amazon may still dodge attacks after a failed blocking check due to her Evasive skills.
Assassin's Claw Block needs dual-wielding claws. Its duration is two frames, and you can't equip any item which will increase blocking rate by such an amount to shorten this to one frame.
A Necromancer in Vampire shape uses Hit Recovery animation for blocking, since Vampire shape lacks blocking animation. Hop to Hit Recovery table for comparison.
An Iron Wolf can't block, despite wearing a shield.

see also:

• Block
• Defense

class-specific Block Rate

Paladin HS active		Amazon / Assassin / Paladin without HS		Amazon 1hs		Barbarian		Sorceress / Druid Werewolf		Necromancer / Druid human		Druid Werebear
%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa	%FBR	fpa
%FBR: percentage Faster Block Rate via items fpa: Frames per Animation HS: Holy Shield 1hs: one-handed swinging weapons (all but knives and javelins) for Vampire shape see FHR table
0	2	0	5	0	17	0	7	0	9	0	11	0	12
86	1	13	4	4	16	9	6	7	8	6	10	5	11
		32	3	6	15	20	5	15	7	13	9	10	10
		86	2	11	14	42	4	27	6	20	8	16	9
		600	1	15	13	86	3	48	5	32	7	27	8
				23	12	280	2	86	4	52	6	40	7
				29	11			200	3	86	5	65	6
				40	10			4680	2	174	4	109	5
				56	9					600	3	223	4
				80	8
				120	7
				200	6
				480	5

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% Blocking Rate, sorted by frame count

fpa	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
fpa	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
%FBR: percentage Faster Block Rate via items fpa: Frames per Animation HS: Holy Shield 1hs: one-handed swinging weapons (all but knives and javelins) for Vampire shape see FHR table
Paladin HS activated																0	86
Paladin without HS													0	13	32	86	600
Assassin													0	13	32	86	600
Amazon													0	13	32	86	600
Amazon 1hs	0	4	6	11	15	23	29	40	56	80	120	200	480
Barbarian											0	9	20	42	86	280
Sorceress									0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4680
Druid Werewolf									0	7	15	27	48	86	200	4680
Druid Werebear						0	5	10	16	27	40	65	109	223
Druid human							0	6	13	20	32	52	86	174	600
Necromancer human							0	6	13	20	32	52	86	174	600

see also:

• Block

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Cast Rate

Casting speed, the duration needed to cast a spell, is class-dependent. It also differs when wearing certain weapons or using special animations (sequences). The Action Flag, which marks the animation frame releasing the spell, is set to quite different moments during the animation, and especially with Amazon class differs amazingly, but is always very late in the process when equipped with different weaponry. This is a reason why Amazons can be interrupted during casting quite easily.
Some Druids' and Sorceress' spells use sequence animation, so they have different casting speeds when using different spells.
Increasing the Casting Rate won't shorten the Delay of some spells, see Cast Delay paragraph on this page.
Necromancer's behaviour while transformed into a Trang Oul Vampire is covered at this topic over at the Phrozen Keep.
Assassin's Trap skills gain no profit by Casting Speed, this is a die-hard rumour.

see also:

• Casting Rate
• Do the Fast Cast Breakpoints are the same for all spells?
• casting speed and delays

class-specific Cast Rates

Amazon								Assassin		Barbarian		Druid						Necromancer				Paladin		Sorceress				Iron Wolf
bow		no weapon		xbw / 2hs		stf / 1ht / 2ht						Werebear		Werewolf		unverwandelt		human		Vampir				L + CL + Inf		other spells		all spells
%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF	%FC	fpaAF
fpa: Frames per Animation; AF: ActionFlag, the frame which actually starts a spell																		Vampire: shape granted by full Trang Oul Set
xbw: crossbow 2hs: two-handed swords stf: two-handed staves, hammers, axes, also pole arms 2ht: two-handed thrusting weapons (spears) 1ht: one-handed thrusting weapons (knives and javelins) 1hs: one-handed swinging weapons (all but knives and javelins)																							L + CL + Inf: Lightning, Chain Lightning and Inferno
0	1910	0	1911	0	1912	0	1913	0	169	0	139	0	169	0	168	0	1810	0	158	0	235	0	159	0	197	0	137	0	177
7	1810	7	1811	7	1812	7	1813	8	159	9	129	7	158	6	158	4	1710	9	148	6	225	9	149	7	187	9	127	8	167
14	179	13	1810	11	1811	10	1812	15	158	15	128	15	148	10	157	10	1610	18	137	11	215	15	148	15	177	20	116	15	157
22	169	14	1710	14	1711	14	1712	16	148	20	118	26	137	14	147	11	169	30	127	18	205	18	138	20	176	37	106	20	156
32	158	22	1610	22	1611	22	1612	27	138	37	108	40	127	26	137	19	159	48	116	24	194	30	128	23	166	63	95	26	146
48	148	29	169	26	1610	23	1611	39	137	39	107	63	116	37	136	30	148	75	106	35	184	39	127	35	156	105	85	39	136
68	137	32	159	32	1510	32	1511	42	127	63	97	99	106	40	126	46	138	125	95	48	174	48	117	52	146	200	74	58	126
99	127	48	149	48	149	42	1510	65	117	86	96	163	95	60	116	63	137			65	164	75	107	63	145			63	125
152	116	56	148	68	139	48	1410	86	116	105	86			95	105	68	127			86	154	86	106	78	135			86	115
		68	138	86	138	68	1310	102	106	200	76			157	95	99	117			120	143	125	96	117	125			138	105
		99	128	99	128	72	139	174	96							142	116			180	133			194	115			200	104
		113	127	152	118	99	129									163	106							200	114
		152	117	180	117	133	128
						152	118

A more simple version omits ActionFlags, but gives a better comparison.

% Casting Rate, sorted by frame count

	fpa	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7
	fpa	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7
fpa: Frames per Animation Vampire: shape granted by full Trang Oul Set L + CL + Inf: Lightning, Chain Lightning and Inferno
Amazon						0	7	14	22	32	48	68	99	152
Assassin									0	8	16	27	42	65	102	174
Barbarian												0	9	20	37	63	105	200
Druid	human						0	4	10	19	30	46	68	99	163
	Werewolf								0	6	14	26	40	60	95	157
	Werebear								0	7	15	26	40	63	99	163
Necromancer	human									0	9	18	30	48	75	125
	Vampire	0	6	11	18	24	35	48	65	86	120	180
Paladin										0	9	18	30	48	75	125
Sorceress	L + CL + Inf					0	7	15	23	35	52	78	117	194
	other											0	9	20	37	63	105	200
Iron Wolf								0	8	15	26	39	58	86	138

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Casting Delay

During the ages and patches blizzard nerfed more and more skills with a Casting Delay.
This should prevent a character from very quickly using very strong skills repeatedly. Unfortunately the mechanism is a bit crude, once a Casting Delay is active every skill subject to that mechanism can't be used by the character.
Casting Rate itself is a completely other kind of peanut, it won't help much. The Casting animation will be accelerated, but the Delay stays the same, so you will gain some frames, but still suffer up to some seconds delay duration. At least you can use another skill earlier which is no subject to Casting Delay.
Barbarian and Necromancer are omitted in this list, they don't have native skills subject to Casting Delays.
Non-player units are no subject to Casting Delays in general.

skills subject to Casting Delays

Amazon		Assassin		Druid		Paladin		Sorceress
skill	CDs	skill	CDs	skill	CDs	skill	CDs	skill	CDs
CDs: Cast Delay in seconds
Poison Javelin	0,5	Dragon Flight	1	Firestorm	0,6	Fist of the Heavens	1	Fire Wall	1,4
Plague Javelin	4	Blade Sentinel	2	Molten Boulder	2			Meteor	1,2
Immolation Arrow	1	Shadow Warrior	6	Fissure	2			Hydra	2
Valkyrie	6	Shadow Master	6	Volcano	4			Blizzard	1,8
				Armageddon	6			Frozen Orb	1
				Hurricane	6
				Werewolf	1
				Werebear	1

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Attack Speed

Each class and each kind of weapon needs a table of its own here, this would bloat the page through the roof. Use indiablo's well-known weapon speed calculator (old version), at your own risk. Some special cases aren't covered correctly with that one, but I'm still not aware of anything better. Take especially hireling's attack speed with a pinch of salt.
The newer version by TitanSeal is only available in german.

A Barbarian using Whirlwind profits only by IAS on his weapon, not on other gear.
Serial attacks are composed of a starting part, a cycle of repeated frames and an ending part. So not all single attacks of a complete cycle have same duration, but commonly it's close enough to think so.

see also: attack speed

further readings:

• Amazon Zeal Attack Speed
• Attack Speed and Fanatism/Decrepify
• complete tables by RTB
• Zeal attack speed tables in Basin Wiki

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