Stats Glossary

This Stats Glossary explains every stat in Mistfall Hunter: the ones on the character screen, the hidden ones that only appear on gear and affixes, and the combat words the game uses in tooltips. Stats are grouped the way the character screen groups them.

Stats shown with a % add up as percentages; the others are flat numbers.
A few stats only appear for some classes; the Classes column says which.
Your stats come from your weapon, armor, affixes, talents, Soul Brands and drinks.

Basic

The core stats at the top of the character screen.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Attack	Number	All	Your base damage. Skills and attacks deal damage as a share of Attack, so raising it raises almost all your damage. Mostly comes from your weapon.
Defense	Number	All	Lowers the damage you take from hits. Mostly comes from armor. Enemy Defense Penetration ignores part of it.
Maximum Health	Number	All	How much damage you can take before you go down. Restored by Springhorn charges, healing skills and some consumables.

Energy

Everything about Energy, dodging and stagger.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Maximum Energy	Number	Mercenary, Sorcerer, Blackarrow, Shadowstrix, Withered Knight	The size of your Energy bar. Energy pays for dodging, blocking and many skills; when it runs out you cannot dodge or use those skills until it refills.
Energy Recovery Speed	Number	Mercenary, Sorcerer, Blackarrow, Shadowstrix, Withered Knight	How fast Energy refills, in points per second.
Skill Energy Cost Reduction	%	Mercenary, Sorcerer, Blackarrow, Shadowstrix, Withered Knight	Lowers the Energy that skills cost.
Max Dodge	Number	All	How many dodges you can store. Each dodge uses one charge.
Dodge Recovery Speed	Number	All	How fast spent dodge charges come back.
Dodge Energy Cost Reduction	%	All	Lowers the Energy that each dodge costs.
Max Stagger	Number	All	How much impact you can take before you are staggered (stunned for a moment). Higher means you are knocked around less.
Stagger Recovery Speed	Number	All	How fast your stagger bar drains back after taking impact.

Damage

Stats that raise the damage you deal.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Physical Damage	%	All	Raises all physical damage you deal: most weapon attacks, arrows and javelins.
Magic Damage	%	All	Raises all magic damage you deal: spells, runes and other magical skills.
Critical Damage	%	All	Extra damage on critical hits. Hits on a weak point, such as the head of a Gyldhunter or most monsters, are always critical hits and also deal more impact.
Defense Penetration	%	All	Ignores part of the target's Defense, so your hits lose less damage to armor.

Survival

Stats that lower the damage you take, and healing.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Physical Resistance	%	All	Lowers the physical damage you take.
Magic Resistance	%	All	Lowers the magic damage you take.
Critical Damage Resistance	%	All	Lowers the extra damage you take from critical hits, for example headshots.
Block Damage Reduction Rate	%	Mercenary, Withered Knight	How much of a hit's damage your block stops.
Healing Done	%	All	Raises the healing you do with skills and items.
Heat Resistance	%	All	Slows how fast Heat builds up in the Season 2 Wildfire Zones. See Wildfire Zones and Heat.

Speed

How fast you move, cast and act.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Movement Speed	%	All	How fast you walk and run.
Chanting Speed	%	Sorcerer, Seer	How fast you chant (cast) spells that need a chant.
Skill Cooldown Speed	%	All	How fast skill cooldowns run out.
Interaction Speed	%	All	How fast you open chests, search containers, revive allies and use other interactions.

Other

Stats that are not listed on the character screen but appear on gear, affixes and talents.

Stat	Shown as	Classes	What it does
Monster Damage Bonus	%	All	Extra damage against monsters only (PvE). Has no effect on other Gyldhunters.
Monster Damage Reduction	%	All	Less damage taken from monsters only (PvE).
Poise Reduction Rate	%	All	How much poise your hits remove from monsters. When a monster's poise breaks, it is staggered. Melee attacks reduce poise more than ranged ones.
Block Energy Cost Reduction	%	All	Lowers the Energy that blocking a hit costs.
Springhorn Healing	%	All	Raises how much each drink from your Springhorn heals.
Springhorn Charge	Number	All	How many drinks your Springhorn holds.

Other stats on gear and affixes

These stats appear on affixes, gems and some items, but not on the character screen.

Stat	What it does
Buff Duration	Makes the good effects you put on yourself and allies last longer.
Debuff Duration	Makes the bad effects you put on enemies last longer, such as slows, poison or bleeding.
Construct Duration	Makes things your skills summon or build last longer, such as sigils and other summoned objects.
Execution Damage	More damage with executions, the finishing attacks on staggered or downed targets.
Charging Speed	Charge-up attacks, like a drawn bow or a charged hammer swing, charge faster.
Dodge Distance	Each dodge carries you farther.
Effective Range	Ranged attacks keep their full damage over a longer distance.
Fall Damage Resistance	Less damage when you land from a high fall.
Shield Strength	Shields from skills absorb more damage before they break.
Healing	Raises healing received, on some affixes.
Amount of Gyldenblod dropped	Monsters and containers drop more Gyldenblod.
Gyldhunter Knockdown Cooldown Refund	Knocking down another Gyldhunter takes time off your skill cooldowns.
… per stack	Some affixes give a bonus each time a condition is met, up to a stack limit. The value shown is for one stack.

Combat terms

Term	Meaning
Weak point and critical hit	Hitting a weak point is a critical hit: it deals more damage (raised by Critical Damage) and more impact. The head is a weak point for Gyldhunters and most monsters.
Impact	How hard a hit knocks the target around. Enough impact staggers the target or knocks it back.
Stagger	A short stun from taking too much impact. Your Max Stagger and Stagger Recovery Speed decide how easily it happens.
Breakaway	When you take two impact hits in quick succession, the Breakaway icon lights up: press Dodge to break out of the stagger. See Breakaway.
Poise	A monster's resistance to stagger. Your hits wear it down (see Poise Reduction Rate); when it breaks, the monster is staggered.
Super Armor	While a skill grants super armor, hits do not stagger you. If two melee attackers with super armor hit each other, a Super Armor Clash interrupts both and both lose the same amount of Energy.
Energy	The resource for dodging, blocking and most skills. See Maximum Energy and Energy Recovery Speed. The Seer's character screen does not show Maximum Energy, Energy Recovery Speed or Skill Energy Cost Reduction.
Heat	A Season 2 meter that fills inside Wildfire Zones and burns you when full. Heat Resistance slows it.
Downed and execution	At zero health a Gyldhunter goes down instead of dying at once, and teammates can revive them. An execution finishes a downed or staggered target.
PvE and PvP	PvE means fighting monsters; PvP means fighting other Gyldhunters. Monster Damage Bonus and Monster Damage Reduction only work in PvE.