Stats

You gain one point to spend on base stats every time you level up.

* Melee Classes only

### Intelligence

One point of Intelligence grants 1 mana (=additional wand charge) and 2% increased damage

* Ranged Classes and Cleric Only

### Vigor

One point of Vigor grants 2 to all resistance ratings

## Additional Stats

### Speed

Speed increases your movement speed. this stat does have diminishing returns

### Armor

Armor reduces the damage you take. There is an Armor curve in the game. At certain levels you are expected to have certain Armor value. The damage dealt is then decided by how far you are from that number. Thus, If you are over the number a lot, it is not very helpful to buff your armor further, as there are diminishing returns at work.

* is found on items as a flat amount of Armor, Scaled by Character Level, Total Armor Increased by %, and Armor Increased % of that item

### Hit Points

Hit Points is the amount of damage your character can withstand before it is defeated.

* is found on items as a flat amount of Hit Points, Scaled by Character Level, and Gain Hit Points per second

### Resistance Ratings

Resistance ratings increase your chance to resist status effects, up to 100% against monsters of the same level as the player. Your resist chance is lowered against higher level monsters but stacking resist rating past the cap helps against that. Resistances do not reduce incoming damage. Rating required to get to cap is 2x monster level + difficulty debuff amount.

* is found on items as Fire Resistance Rating, Cold Resistance Rating, Lightning Resistance Rating, and Poison Resistance Rating

### Elemental Damage

Elemental damage refers to the element type dealt by Weapons and Ancient Skills. These damage types can be increased by items and class buffs.

* is found on items as Magic Damage %, Fire Damage %, Cold Damage %, Lightning Damage %, and Poison Damage %

### Critical Hit

Critical hit is the chance that a attack will deal more damage than a normal blow. Both your character and monsters can deal a critical hit. You can increase your characters chance to gain critical, increase the critical damage, and heal from a critical.

* is found on items as Critical Hit %, Critical Damage %, Heal by % of critical damage done
* is caped at 100%

### Armor Penetration

Armor penetration reduces the effective armor of the target.

* is found on items as Armor Penetration %
* is caped at 100%

### Attack Speed

Attack speed is the speed of your characters weapon attacks. each weapon type has it's own base attack rate that can be modified by exceptional affixes in addition to attack speed increases.

* is found on items as Attack speed increased by %

### Weapon Damage

Weapon damage is your basic attack damage.

* is found on items as Weapon minimum damage increased by and Weapon maximum damage increased by

### Monster Type Damage

Monster type damage is an increase to that given type of monster.

* is found on items as Increase damage to undead by % and Increase damage to demons by %

### Magic Find Rating

Magic Find Rating will increase your chances of rolling higher qualities on items found and crafted items. Magic find rating has diminishing returns but getting at least some magic find rating will go a long way.

* is found on items as Magic Find Rating

### Gold Find

Gold find increases the amount of gold monsters drop.

* is found on items as Gold Find %

### Experience Rate

Experience rate increases the amount of experience gain from killing monsters.

* is found on items as Experience Percent %