Just found a Sever 1H sword in Torment. The "Enemies rest in pieces" affix makes the killing blow on any enemy do immense damage. For example, I only have about 350k base damage, and I landed a killing blow crit for 510 MILLION damage.
I know that people have said it works great if you have a life steal skill or item, but I play a monk, and no longer have any of my pre RoS life steal items.
My question is then, does this massive killing blow damage factor into area damage? For instance, if I stack area damage on items and in paragon points, will this final blow function more or less as a nuke? Or is it pretty much a useless effect without life steal?
It does not. However, there is one specific case where that HUGE burst of damage can be applied as Splash damage. I believe it's "Grim Reaper" rune of Marked for Death
I know that people have said it works great if you have a life steal skill or item, but I play a monk, and no longer have any of my pre RoS life steal items.
My question is then, does this massive killing blow damage factor into area damage? For instance, if I stack area damage on items and in paragon points, will this final blow function more or less as a nuke? Or is it pretty much a useless effect without life steal?