Overkill damage

The term overkill damage refers to the difference between damage dealt in one hit and target's life remaining before death. Overkill only occurs if two conditions are met: the hit kills an enemy and dealt more damage than the enemy's remaining life.

Mechanics

Damage

Overkill damage is calculated by subtracting the target's remaining health from the amount of damage done. For example, if a target has 20 life and a player deals a hit of 100 damage, the target dies and the overkill damage is 80. If overkill damage is not greater than 0, it is ignored.

The term does not apply to damage over time because a hit is required; damage over time can never overkill.

Interactions with culling strike

Overkill and culling can fundamentally never interact. If a hit doesn't kill a target itself but triggers culling strike or Headsman that kills, damage from them doesn't count towards overkill damage and it stay negative, and, accordingly, overkill effects will not trigger.

Related skills

The following skills utilize the overkill mechanic:

• Herald of AshHerald of AshSpell, AoE, Fire, Herald, Duration
  Level: (1-20)
  Reservation: 25% Mana
  Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
  Can Store 1 Use(s)
  Cast Time: Instant
  AoE Radius: 10Requires Level 16Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).Base duration is 4.00 seconds
  (0-38)% more Burning Damage
  Buff grants 15% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
  Buff grants (9-12)% more Spell Fire Damage
  Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base burning damage is an additional (0.25-5)% of Overkill DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Endless Hunger