that stacking DR over 50% negates your opponents crushing blow. any facts on this?

is that a complicated response for a " no " ?

Missed to add the other part within the link.


As for your original question, the answer is "No" because it does not negative it but rather reduce it, unless you get over 99% damage reduction.

i tried to do this like 15 years ago and its totally pointless. if you have 50% dr and that is your max cap and you got amp damage you will still be -50% physical so the shear amount of dr gear is impractical if you want to stack dr to reduce crushing blow or amp damage.

your countermeasure are:
max 50% dr cap
max block
very high defense 20-30k
life in the 10-12k range


crushing blow does not do a lot of damage in pvp, if you focus on the very highest amount of critical strike + deadly strike the this setup is more ideal at killing players. with my setup i have around 32% critical strike from sword mastery then 71% deadly strike. if one does not prop then the other will, you cannot double double critical strike + deadly strike its either one or the other, but you can have that + crushing blow + open wounds at the same time.

in pvp:
deadly strike > crushing blow

there is a bug in d2 where + damage reduced is uncapped but having so much safety gear is pointless.