Stinging Steel
Singing Steel is a rune effect in Strafe, a Hatred-spending Demon Hunter skill.
This rune effect changes the skill to throw out knives rather than fire arrows. The knives do an extra 100% damage on Critical Hits. (Like many tool tips, this is quite unclear. It's assumed this one means that the Critical Hit adds 100% damage onto the Demon Hunter's critical hit bonus damage. This is 100% by default, but can be raised by equipment and other skills.
For example, if your Demon Hunter had 122% damage with a Critical Hit, this skill would take that up to 222%.
Skill Rune Effects[edit | edit source]
The following is a very quick summary. See the Strafe rune effects page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.
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<skill subcat="Bow skill" class="DemonHunter">Strafe</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Stinging Steel">Strafe</skill>
Media[edit | edit source]
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Development[edit | edit source]
Prior to the skill revision in February 2012, this rune effect was enabled by the Alabaster Rune, granting the following effect with a level 7 runestone:
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Stinging Steel |
[e] Throw out knives rather than arrows that do an extra 400% more weapon damage on successful critical hits. |
| Classes of the Diablo games |
Skills - Active skills - Skill runes - Passives - Resource - Movement ability [e] Barbarian Demon Hunter Monk Necromancer Witch Doctor Wizard Followers Other Classes Fan-made |
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| Demon Hunter skill categories: Primary Secondary Defensive Hunting Devices Archery |
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Strafe |
Multishot |
Cluster Arrow |
Rain of Vengeance |
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