If crushing blow will work, and each echo can be 10 hits, thats potentially 10 crushing blows with 1 hit, which would be very nice. That could bring a T5 P8 herald down to 25% just from the 10 crushing blows (just 1hit). I put potentially and could in italics because that is assuming 100% hit and CB rate, which is now statistically impossible. But the crushing blow could be true if big.which would actually make Last Wish a really useful runeword for the price given the ignore target defense and the huge crushing blow %. Not to mention the might that now u can use a blessed aim merc instead if might merc

This post was edited by LeetThrust on Apr 11 2026 01:02pm

Do you really think pink/blue haired devs from blizzard know about hit delay?

i dont think they changed energy shield

Nope
Smite always hits, it still applies CB
ES not applying CB wasn't because it wasn't performing a hit check
it was because they disabled it, voluntarily, just like ctc% on hit/attack

People need to stop thinking that they will buff ES by re-enabling what is voluntarily disabled.
They want to nerf it, not buff it.

Yeah, i am by no means predicting that CB will happen. I'm simply saying it would be huge if true

Although I am one of the people pushing for ctc/cb/ow you are correct in the assertion both that they want to nerf and that they had to have changed how hit check wasn’t the issue, couldn’t have been as critical/ds still worked.

Blizzard isn’t looking at long term dedicated fan base, they are looking at copies to be sold. They need to placate the people who aren’t looking at “sticking around” but those who buy games/dlc/expansions and forget it. We are not the target audience.

Some people are running with the ctc/cb/ow speculation without thinking it thru, in order to be practical it would need to be like arrows/multi shot. With lower chances and only 1 blade proc