Killing Blow

Killing Blow
Transmutable
Tradeable
Max Rank Description
+120% Melee Damage On Heavy Attack +60% Heavy Attack Wind Up Speed
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Madurai
Rarity	Uncommon
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	620
Credits Required To Max	29,946
Base Capacity Cost	6
Trading Tax	4,000
Introduced	Vanilla (2012-10-25)
Drop Table Sources
Enemies Containers Lieutenant Lech Kril 22.92% Phorid 5.64% Councilor Vay Hek 4.42% Vay Hek Terra Frame 4.42% Arid Seeker 0.22% Drekar Seeker 0.22% Frontier Seeker 0.22% Kuva Seeker 0.22% Seeker 0.22% Tusk Seeker 0.22% Void Treasure Room Storage Container 0.43%
Vendor Sources

Killing Blow is a mod that increases the Heavy Attack damage of a melee weapon by 20% per rank, at a maximum of 120% at rank 5 while also increasing the Heavy Attack wind up speed.

This is additive of base damage mods, such as  Pressure Point.

Stats

Rank	Heavy Attack damage	Heavy Attack wind up speed	Cost
0	+20%	+10%	6
1	+40%	+20%	7
2	+60%	+30%	8
3	+80%	+40%	9
4	+100%	+50%	10
5	+120%	+60%	11

Notes

• Increases the damage of  Exodia Contagion's projectile if it is activated while sliding with a Heavy Attack input.
• This mod will greatly speed up the throwing animation of Glaives and increase the damage of their mid-air explosion, but will not affect the damage of the thrown weapon itself.
  • The damage of explosions caused by either  Volatile Rebound or  Volatile Quick Return is not affected by Killing Blow (needs further confirmation).

Tips

• While the mod does not increase a thrown melee weapon's damage upon impact, the greatly increased speed of the throwing animation grants such weapons a far higher overall DPS. The mod is therefore largely essential in maximizing the potential of thrown melee weapons.
  • Alternatively,  Amalgam Organ Shatter can be equipped to give an equivalent throwing animation speed increase, but boosts critical damage.

Trivia

• Unlike most mods, the picture shows an  Excalibur wearing the Pendragon helmet, his Immortal Skin, as well as a different color scheme. This is a rare instance of a mod depicting a non-default character loadout. The other examples are  Life Strike, Second Wind,  True Punishment,  Enduring Strike, Warrior's Grip,  Quickening and  Corrupt Charge, all of which were channeling mods, now converted into Heavy Attack mods.
• Prior to Update 26.0 (2019-10-31), this mod increased the Channeling damage of a melee weapon.
  • Channeling increased, at most, weapon's melee damage by +50%, Killing Blow increased Channeling's damage based on this value. Thus at max rank it increased Channeled melee damage to +110%.
  •  Furax Wraith had its channeling damage increased by +75%, thus at max rank it increased Furax Wraith's channeled melee damage to +176%.
  • The bonus from Killing Blow could be combined with  Corrupt Charge for +220% Channeling damage.
    • Note that Corrupt Charge came with a loss in channeling efficiency as well.
  • This mod did not increase the damage done by the mid-air explosion of thrown melee weapon such as the  Glaive or  Kestrel.

Gallery

Old appearance

Patch History

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Increases Heavy Attack damage and decreases the ‘wind-up’ time for Heavy Attacks (previously +120% Channeling Damage).

Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)

• Changed Killing Blow with the removal of Charge Attacks for Combos

Vanilla (2012-10-25)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

See also

•  Corrupt Charge, the Corrupted version.