Combat Stats Explained

The detailed stats panel lists many combat numbers without saying what they do. Here is the plain-language meaning of each — see the Build tab to find your current value, and the Run tab to see what is actually landing.

Offense

• Crit Chance — odds a hit deals bonus damage; Crit Damage is the multiplier when it does.
• Pierce Chance — the bullet passes through an enemy and keeps going to the next. Against a boss the chance is halved before the cap (150% still gives 75%), and shots that always pierce get through a boss at least half the time.
• Armor Penetration — ignores that % of the target’s armor, restoring damage armor would block.
• Boss Damage Bonus — extra damage dealt only to bosses.
• Lifesteal — heals you for a % of the damage you deal.

Damage over time

• Bleed (Workshop) — each level adds 2% proc chance (15 levels = 30%; equipment and Sanctum add to the same stat, capped at 100%). It rolls on every landed melee hit and on landed non-cascade ranged critical hits. A proc deals 20% of the triggering hit’s damage per second for 3 seconds: 60% extra damage if the full bleed runs. Bleed ticks bypass armor; in Worlds 7+ they count as Power damage and can be reduced by the matching Ward. Bleeds do not stack — reapplying keeps the stronger DPS and refreshes the duration.
• Poison on Hit — a damage-over-time that bypasses armor entirely.
• AoE on Kill — a kill detonates for a % of the slain enemy’s max HP to nearby foes.

Defense

• Damage Reduction - flat % of incoming damage removed (capped).
• Armor - subtracts a flat amount from each hit, after the percentage reduction.
• Attack Evasion - chance to dodge a melee/contact hit entirely.
• Stun Dodge - chance to ignore a stun; Stun Reduction shortens the ones that land.
• Drain Resist / Poison Resist - weaken those effects, which ignore Damage Reduction and bypass your shield by default.
• HP Regen - passive health recovery per second.

Shield

• Shield — a buffer that soaks hits before your HP; breaks when depleted.
• Shield Regen — refills the shield gradually while it is up.
• Shield Respawn — rebuilds the shield after it has broken.
• Shield Reflect — returns a % of absorbed damage to the attacker.

How damage percentages multiply

Every category of percent damage - equipment, artifacts, runes, Awakening, leaf-scaled nodes - is its own multiplier, and the categories multiply each other. +50% from equipment and +30% from runes give ×1.50 × 1.30 = ×1.95, not the ×1.80 you would get by adding them. Inside a single category the percentages add up first: two +10% damage rolls on your gear make one equipment factor of ×1.20, not ×1.10 × 1.10. The more categories your build covers, the bigger the total. Max HP works exactly the same way; shield and regeneration still share one added-up bracket.

The full damage pipeline

• Base — your Workshop damage level; flat damage on equipment joins the base (ranged only), so every layer below scales it too.
• Passive tree — a standalone multiplier on the base.
• Equipment % — every percent damage roll on your gear, summed, then applied as one multiplier.
• Artifacts — the artifact damage bonus, its own multiplier.
• Runes — rune damage bonuses, their own multiplier (melee counts its rune damage here, once).
• Awakening — Awakening damage nodes, their own multiplier.
• Leaf-scaled damage — its own multiplier.
• Companion training DPS — multiplies the result.
• Temporary leaf upgrades — added on top, after all of those multipliers.
• Outer multipliers, in order: companion aura, Sanctum, Outnumbered (ranged only), banner, companion power slot.

Stat caps

• A stat at its cap stops responding — further bonuses to it, from any source, change nothing.
• Damage Reduction — 75% base cap. Awakening Defence nodes raise the cap itself, to 90% with the whole branch; the engine hard limit is 95%.
• Attack Evasion — 75%. Stun Dodge — 50%. Stun Recovery — 65%.
• Drain Resist and Poison Resist — 99% each. Poison Duration Reduction — 50%.
• Power Cooldown Reduction — 50%.
• Pierce Chance — 95%; a cap-raising jewelry cut can push it to at most 99%.
• Crit Chance, Bleed Chance, Armor Penetration and Counter Chance simply cap at 100%.
• Ritual of Anchoring (Sanctum) raises the drain resistance cap to 99.75%.

Common mix-ups

• Fire Rate (Workshop) speeds up ranged auto-fire only - melee swing speed is its own upgrade, Melee Speed. Percent fire-rate bonuses from passives, artifacts and Awakening apply to both; the Swiftness banner and the Haste rune are auto-fire only, the Momentum rune melee only.
• Fortress (legendary armor power) does two things: it cuts damage from enemy attacks and projectiles by its rolled percent, and it makes you fully immune to poison - boss poison included.
• Fortress does NOT reduce drain - vampire and wraith drain ignores Fortress and Damage Reduction, and by default your shield too; Drain Resist is the main counter, and Shield Overcharge, Drain Shield or Vampiric Ward redirect some of it into the shield.
• Poison (when you are not immune) also ignores Damage Reduction and, by default, your shield - Poison Resist weakens it, Poison Duration Reduction shortens it, and Shield Overcharge makes the shield absorb it first.