You might wonder if your gear can be improved in Diablo 4. It is possible to experiment with different builds or completely revamp your current build to maximize damage potential. You can use Diablo 4 damage calculators to optimize your characters regardless of the situation.
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How to Optimize Your Build Using Diablo 4 Damage Calculators
The D4UT damage calculator discussed here calculates damage from your weapon, passive, additive, and critical strikes, along with bonuses from critical strikes, to determine your damage average. From your character’s stat screen, aspects, and equipped gear, you can obtain stats. Different options can be toggled to exclude certain items if you’re testing specific damage types or feel excluding them will skew the result too much.
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There are seven main categories where you can find these options:
Average Weapon Damage
Skill Scaling
Main Attribute
Vulnerable Damage
Aspect and Passive % Damage
Additive Damage
Critical Strike
You can calculate your character’s maximum damage potential by choosing your class and entering the damage values in their respective boxes. The page calculates your multipliers based on your main stats, vulnerable, and aspect bonuses. In real-time, all values can be adjusted.
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Additionally, the calculator allows you to check out character-specific bonuses, such as Druid’s Werewolf damage and Necromancer’s Blood Orb buff.
With all this information in mind, you can test various builds focused on stats like vulnerable, critical strike or elemental damage to see which inflicts the most damage based on your main stats. You can also see if it’s worth sacrificing a bit of your main attribute to gain more damage elsewhere or vice versa. That way, you don’t have to run into battle and crunch all the numbers yourself!