PvP Changes

This page lists player-vs-player changes relative to the vanilla game.

General Changes

New dueling arenas accessible via items which can be purchased from Anya
- Spectator mode can be toggled by typing .spec or .spectate within the safe zone of an arena
- After dying in these arenas, characters revive without needing to retrieve their corpse

Note: Hardcore characters revive in the same way - HC dueling can be done inside PvP arenas without risking characters, but character death is still permanent everywhere else

Slow, Knockback (from items), Flat Elemental Absorb, and Attackers Take Damage are disabled in PvP arenas
Life replenish is capped at +30 in PvP arenas
Stuns in PvP can no longer be reapplied to players who are already stunned, and attacks/hits/spells against stunned players will reduce the stun duration by 2 frames each
Regenerating charges (e.g. Blink on Enigma) regenerate 200% faster in PvP arenas
Maximum resistances are capped in PvP arenas based on the difficulty
- Normal - 75%
- Nightmare - 80%
- Hell - 85%

Skill Differences

Dragon Flight: doesn't auto-aim in PvP arenas
Mind Blast: stun lasts 1.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds (vanilla was 1.8 + 0.2 per level up to 10 seconds), doesn't name-lock in PvP arenas, has a cooldown in PvP arenas: 6 frames (Nightmare) or 5 frames (Hell)
Battle Cry: duration increased to 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds in PvP arenas
Whirlwind: doesn't have a dual-wield attack frame penalty in PvP arenas
Oak Sage: doesn't grant life replenish in PvP arenas
Bone Spear: only fires 1 projectile in PvP arenas
Holy Bolt: only fires 1 projectile in PvP arenas
Smite: stun lasts up to 2.5 seconds instead of up to 10 seconds
Charge: has a cooldown in PvP arenas: 4 frames (Nightmare) or 2 frames (Hell)
Fist of the Heavens: doesn't auto-aim in PvP arenas
Joust: doesn't auto-aim in PvP arenas
Teleport: doesn't have a 1-second damage debuff in Normal PvP arenas

Damage Multipliers

Skills deal 16%/12%/6% (1/6th, 1/8th, 1/16th) of their damage against other players and their minions in Normal/Nightmare/Hell difficulty. They deal 100% of those amounts except for the following skills which have other multipliers:

Skill	Norm/NM %	Hell %	Type
• Throw (basic attack)	60		physical
Amazon
• Jab	85	90
• Poison Javelin	140		poison
• Poison Javelin	60		physical
• Plague Javelin	135	60	poison
• Plague Javelin	60		physical
• Lightning Bolt	60		lightning
• Lightning Fury	60		physical
• Magic Arrow	175
• Guided Arrow	?	?
• Strafe	60		physical
• Ice Arrow	150		cold
• Freezing Arrow	150		cold
• Immolation Arrow	175		fire
• Decoy	70
Assassin
• Psychic Hammer	20	10
• Mind Blast	15	10
• Lightning Sentry	90	65
• Chain Lightning Sentry	90	65
• Blade Sentinel	125	80	physical
• Blade Fury	80		physical
• Blade Dance (Chaos)	90	85	physical
Barbarian
• Double Swing	200		physical
• Frenzy	200
• Double Throw	115		physical
• Berserk	125		physical
• Whirlwind	90	85	physical
• War Cry	135	115
Druid
• Firestorm	150
• Molten Boulder	90	80
• Volcano	80
• Arctic Blast	200
• Tornado	80
• Hurricane	150
• Rabies	200		poison
• Maul	200		physical
• Shock Wave	175
• Fire Claws	300		fire
• Raven	60
Necromancer
• Teeth	45	35
• Bone Spear	80	50
• Bone Spirit	80	45
• Poison Strike	150
• Desecrate	150	25
• Poison Nova	150
• Corpse Explosion	65	50
Paladin
• Holy Fire	125	50	aura only
• Holy Shock	50	50	aura only
• Holy Bolt	90	90
• Blessed Hammer	95	60
• Fist of the Heavens	55	15
• Holy Nova	70
• Sacrifice	150
• Zeal	85		physical
• Vengeance	175		fire/cold/lightning
• Smite	35		physical
• Joust	20	20
Sorceress
• Ice Bolt	115
• Ice Blast	150
• Glacial Spike	150
• Frost Nova	140	125
• Ice Barrage	140	125
• Blizzard	190	150
• Frozen Orb	120
• Telekinesis	10	10
• Charged Bolt	175	65
• Nova	125	130
• Lightning	200	180
• Chain Lightning	120
• Thunder Storm	120	35
• Inferno	115
• Blaze	130
• Combustion		85
• Lesser Hydra	25

Hell damage multipliers are colored gray if they're the same as the Normal/Nightmare multipliers
Damage types are colored gray if they're the same as the damage added by the skill itself