The Diablo 3 team is planning on many lots of attacks AoE, either full field magical blasts, or granting multi-target striking to melee and other physical skills. Especially if the target moves around a bit, making single-target attacks less effective.Įxpect a lot of AoE in D3 AoE attacks are usually less effective on single targets, especially ones with a lot of hit points like a boss, though some AoE spells are so powerful that they can work well against anything. The effect of an AoE varies from a damaging attack to a buff/ debuff cast on allies/enemies.ĪoE attacks are best used on multiple targets, especially when they're grouped by some expert crowd control. The area that is affected can vary greatly, from a few monsters up close from a Barbarian attacking with Cleave, or a dozen monsters being crushed under a destructible wall.
Some skills will need to be upgraded with points in a mastery skill (the Wizard's Tornado originally produces one tornado, but adding skill points to Epic Storms increases the amount of tornados allowed at once) or used in conjunction with Skill Runes (the Witch Doctor's Skull of Flame used with a multi-strike rune allows the skull to bounce along the ground and explode multiple times) to affect muliple targets. Many attacks in Diablo III will have the potential to affect more than one target.
