Damage Avoidance

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Damage Avoidance is a defensive attribute associated with receiving glancing blows. A glancing blow reduces the damage of a hit rather than avoiding the hit entirely. The current chance, reduction, eligible attacks, and mitigation order remain under verification.

Historical behavior

Release 47 described a bug in which a glancing blow dealt roughly one-sixth normal damage before Damage Resistance, when it was intended to deal roughly one-third before armor on average.

That note is useful historical evidence for the 2017 order and intended average, but it does not establish that every current glancing blow always deals exactly one-third damage or that the same resolution order survives unchanged. The former page's boss-build recommendation has therefore been removed pending current testing.

Relationship to other defenses

Damage Avoidance should be distinguished from:

• Dodge, which concerns avoiding a hit;
• Damage Resistance, which mitigates damage that reaches its calculation;
• Maximum Damage Resistance, the recorded percentage ceiling associated with resistance;
• Glancing Blow Chance, an item statistic that modifies an existing chance rather than simply adding the displayed percentage. Catnip's 2026 notes give the example that +5% changes a 10% chance to 10.5%.

These similarly named statistics should not be combined mechanically without current evidence.

Recorded effects

The dynamic listing below collects effects recorded with Damage Avoidance. It is an index, not confirmation that every displayed value is current.

Items

The following items will have an effect on Damage Avoidance:

Items

Icon	Item	Item Effects
	Bear Surprise Bear Surprise	Health Per Second +4.5 for 4 hours	Focus Per Second +3 for 4 hours	Combat Health Per Second +1.5 for 4 hours	Combat Focus Per Second +0.8 for 4 hours	Strength +6 for 4 hours	Damage Avoidance +6 for 4 hours
	Belt of the Dedicated Belt of the Dedicated	Strength Increases	Damage Avoidance Increases	Aggro Boost Increases	Magic Fizzle Chance Increases
	Belt of the Dedicated, Common Belt of the Dedicated, Common	Strength +3	Damage Avoidance +3	Aggro Boost +10%	Magic Fizzle Chance +5%
	Belt of the Dedicated, Epic Belt of the Dedicated, Epic	Strength +	Damage Avoidance +	Aggro Boost +%	Magic Fizzle Chance +%
	Belt of the Dedicated, Legendary Belt of the Dedicated, Legendary	Strength +	Damage Avoidance +	Aggro Boost +%	Magic Fizzle Chance +%
	Belt of the Dedicated, Rare Belt of the Dedicated, Rare	Strength +	Damage Avoidance +	Aggro Boost +%	Magic Fizzle Chance +%
	Belt of the Dedicated, Uncommon Belt of the Dedicated, Uncommon	Strength +6	Damage Avoidance +6	Aggro Boost +15%	Magic Fizzle Chance +10%
	Bronze Enforced Bone Plate Bronze Enforced Bone Plate	Base Weapon Damage +1%	Damage Avoidance +0.1
	Edelmann Beer Edelmann Beer	Intoxication Level +0.2 for 5 minutes	Damage Avoidance +7 for 1 hour
	Grey Pine Crossbow Stock Grey Pine Crossbow Stock	Weapon Critical Chance +7.5%	Damage Avoidance +2
	Grey Pine Handle Grey Pine Handle	Weapon Critical Chance +3%	Damage Avoidance +0.5%
	Grey Pine Heartwood Grey Pine Heartwood	Basic Magic Reagent Use Chance -10%	Spell Critical Chance Bonus +5%	Damage Avoidance +1
	Grey Pine Long Bowstave Grey Pine Long Bowstave	Weapon Critical Chance +7.5%	Damage Avoidance +2
	Grey Pine Short Bowstave Grey Pine Short Bowstave	Weapon Critical Chance +3%	Damage Avoidance +1%
	Imbued Jewel of Avoidance Imbued Jewel of Avoidance	Damage Avoidance +10
	White Iron Dagger Blade White Iron Dagger Blade	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Great Axe Blade White Iron Great Axe Blade	Weapon Damage 1.6	Damage Avoidance 1%
	White Iron Halberd Blade White Iron Halberd Blade	Focus +4%	Damage Avoidance +1
	White Iron Hand Axe Blade White Iron Hand Axe Blade	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Heavy War Hammer Head White Iron Heavy War Hammer Head	Weapon Damage 1.6	Damage Avoidance 1%
	White Iron Longsword Blade White Iron Longsword Blade	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Mace Head White Iron Mace Head	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Shortsword Blade White Iron Shortsword Blade	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Spear Head White Iron Spear Head	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Trident Head White Iron Trident Head	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	White Iron Two-handed Axe Blade White Iron Two-handed Axe Blade	Focus +4%	Damage Avoidance +1
	White Iron Two-handed Hammer Head White Iron Two-handed Hammer Head	Focus +4%	Damage Avoidance +1
	White Iron Two-handed Mace Head White Iron Two-handed Mace Head	Focus +4%	Damage Avoidance +1
	White Iron Two-handed Sword Blade White Iron Two-handed Sword Blade	Focus +4%	Damage Avoidance +1
	White Iron War Hammer Head White Iron War Hammer Head	Focus +2.5%	Damage Avoidance +0.5
	Wolf Surprise Wolf Surprise	Health Per Second +4.5 for 4 hours	Focus Per Second +3 for 4 hours	Combat Health Per Second +1.5 for 4 hours	Combat Focus Per Second +0.8 for 4 hours	Dexterity +6 for 4 hours	Damage Avoidance +6 for 4 hours

See also

• Combat
• Damage types
• Damage Resistance
• Maximum Damage Resistance
• Dodge