Diablo 4: All Terms You Need to Know

Diablo 4, being an ARPG, has a lot of terms that is used to describe different effects. Here we will discuss all the terms used in Diablo 4.

Diablo 4 is the latest installment in the Diablo franchise. The last Diablo game was released primarily for mobile, with the PC port being a last-minute addition. But it acted more like a spin-off to the series. The previous mainline Diablo game was released almost 11 years ago. So this new game targets to bring back the old players and tries to capture a new fanbase amongst the new players of the game.

Diablo 4 is an ARPG, much like the other Diablo games. That means it has a top-down view of the map, and you get to control your player from that view. All of the Diablo game’s mechanics make a return, with the world being an open world this time around.

There are a lot of terms that are used in Diablo 4 to describe different effects in the game. For a new player, it can become overwhelming to remember everything from the start. But as you play the game and get more familiar with it, you will get to understand and remember all the terms of the game. We have made a list of terms to aid you with that.

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All Diablo 4 Terms

Term	Term type	Effect
Maximum Life	General	The total amount of health points (HP) you and your enemies have.
Close	General	Targets within melee range.
Distant	General	Targets outside of melee range.
Healthy	General	You or an enemy have over 80% HP.
Injured	General	You or an enemy have below 35% HP.
Chill	Crowd Control	Reduces movement speed. Repeated application will cause a Frozen effect.
Frozen	Crowd Control	Prevents movement and attacks.
Daze	Crowd Control	Prevents attacks or skills, but the enemy can still move.
Fear	Crowd Control	Prevents attacks, skills, and movement and causes the target to run in a direction.
Slow	Crowd Control	Reduces movement speed.
Immobilize	Crowd Control	Prevents basic movement.
Knockback	Crowd Control	Prevents attacks or skills and pushes the target into distant range.
Knockdown	Crowd Control	Prevents attacks or skills for a short duration
Pulled	Crowd Control	Pulls target into close range of the caster.
Stun	Crowd Control	Prevents attacks, skills, and movement.
Tether	Crowd Control	Prevents movement.
Barrier	Defensive	A temporary amount of light blue Life.
Fortify	Defensive	A bright red layer of Life that takes 10% reduced damage.
Unstoppable	Defensive	Removes and prevents control-impairing effects.
Immune	Defensive	Gives you temporary invulnerability.
Stealthed	Defensive	Prevents you or enemies from being targeted.
Crowd Control (CC)	Defensive	Any movement-impairing effects.
Elemental resistances	Defensive	Reduces a specific elemental type of damage.
Vulnerable	Combat	Increases damage taken by 20%
Overpower	Combat	Bonus damage based on the sum of your current Life.
Lucky Hit	Combat	A chance for a skill to trigger a bonus Lucky Hit effect.
Critical Strike Chance	Combat	A chance for skills to deal 50% bonus damage.
Taunt	Combat	Forces enemies to attack only the caster.
Thorns	Combat	Damage is automatically dealt to an enemy when they’ve attacked you.
Damage over time (DoT)	Combat	A set amount of periodic damage.
Cooldown (CD)	Combat	The time it takes before you can recast a particular Skill
Buff	Combat	A positive gameplay effect
Debuff	Combat	A negative gameplay effect
Reroll	General	Randomly modifying an item’s specific Affix, stats, or effect, usually through Enchanting at the Occultist.
Respec	General	Removing Skill Points from existing Skills and reallocating them.
Area of Effect (AoE)	Combat	A Skill or effect that covers a large area
Damage per Second (DPS)	Combat	A measurement of how much damage a class, weapon, or skill can unleash over one second.
Item Power	General	A value on weapons and armor which determines how high their stats and effects can roll.
Stash	General	Refers to a player or character’s item stash.