Devastating Combo

Monk skill · Fists line · tier 4

Beta 0.7.2

The whole sequence, from the first step to the last turn.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 9 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Devastating Combo scales with Attack. Its value at each rank is 30.8 + 8.8 × rank:

Rank12345678910
Value39.648.457.26674.883.692.4101.2110118.8

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Fists skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

  1. 1
    Rank 5 in Flurry of Blows or Stunning Blow Tier 2 or tier 3 of the Fists line.
  2. 2
    Hero level 22 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
  3. 3
    One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Devastating Combo opens Thousand Fists.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Fists skills makes Devastating Combo 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Devastating Combo has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Fists line

SkillTierTypeCooldownScales with
Iron Palm1Direct damage6 sAttack
Flurry of Blows2Direct damage6 sAttack
Stunning Blow3Control12 sChill
Devastating Combo4Area damage9 sAttack
Thousand Fists5Ultimate16 sAttack

Other Monk skills

Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.