Hello forum,

I am looking into a bow oriented amazon build and have stumbled, of course, upon the Faith runeword.

It has both 300% bonus to AR and ignores target's defense (let's call it ITD for this post)... Which makes me wonder whether I have understood something wrong.

From what I've read so far, ITD lowers the target's defense to zero, which means the chance to hit is only dependent on the character level and the foe's level. Which renders AR basically obsolete.

So, uh... What have I missed?

My experience with it so far is that my necro (level 85) is equipped with Brand, which does have ITD; I do have trouble hitting final bosses in Hell however, so what is what? Do final bosses have special "protections" against ITD or do I completely misunderstand what ITD is all about?

ITD doesn’t work on bosses.

OK, that was not in the litterature I have read so far...

Can you be more specific as to which bosses? For instance, "normal" bosses such as Beetlebust, Pindleskin, Champions, act level bosses (which from what you tell me are an exception to ITD)?

Found quote on wiki regarding ITD



Please remember that some monsters have got chance to block as well.

Does not work on:

Act bosses
Boss monsters (pack bosses)
Champions


Ignore Target's Defense actually isn't exactly what it describes. It changes the formula, but does greatly increase the chance to hit, to the point where when you can use Faith, almost all monsters will have 95% chance to get hit.

"The chance to hit is calculated by following formula:

100 * AttackRating / (AttackRating + EnemyDefenseRating) * 2 * AttackerLevel / (AttackerLevel + EnemyLevel)

If we Ignore Target's Defense, it will simply change to:

200 * AttackerLevel / (AttackerLevel + EnemyLevel)

This means that if you still want to hit enemy with 95% chance, your level can be roughly 10% lower than the enemy level."

This I have seen... The animation on those "lowly" Flayed Ones do change when they block And I did expect that to happen, so no surprise there

Faith is therefore all the more appealing, but I then lose the ability to deal elemental damage compared to Brand... Ohwell, I'll see if I _can_ see what Faith gives...

Use Atma's Scarab + 100% Pierce + Ignore Target's Defense + Lvl 20 Strafe = Remove Physical Immunes = NN for elemental damage..................

Hold on. We are talking about a necromancer build here... How would you achieve level 20 Strafe to start with?

ignore target defense is pretty much useless