Melee Splash Jewel

A jewel with the 'Brute's' affix "melee attacks deal splash damage". Melee splash jewel

What is Splash Damage?

Splash damage adds damage in a cone-shaped area around the targeted enemy. If the initial target is missed, a separate chance-to-hit is then calculated for each monster within the cone. By increasing the area of effect (AoE) of melee attacks, this item goes some way to balancing the clear speed between caster and melee builds.

Frequently Asked Questions

Melee Splash damage is the same as your Normal Attack tooltip damage. To see your melee splash damage, switch to Normal Attack and open your character sheet. This number isn't affected by skill-based damage modifiers. Here's an example of what affects the damage:

a Normal Attack using Might aura adds to Melee Splash damage; however, changing Normal Attack to Sacrifice and attacking won't apply additional Melee Splash damage. 

• Bonuses to attack rating from the triggering attack skills such as Sacrifice or Concentrate don't apply to splash. It has the same attack rating as Normal Attack skill just like damage.
• Chance to hit enemies by splash damage is calculated for each monster individually, according to the standard formula.
• On-Striking and On-Kill CTCs can trigger from splash damage.
• Despite Whirlwind now being able to trigger CTC stats, melee splash has been specifically disabled on Whirlwind.
• Melee Splash is considered 'ranged' damage and is therefore affected by ranged penalties & bonuses, e.g.: Crushing Blow, Life on Ranged Hit, etc.
• The splash has 2 frames of Next Hit Delay.