Massacre (Dragon Age II)

For the talent in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, see Massacre (Awakening).

Massacre
Type	Vanguard
Effect type	Passive
Requires	Level 12 Cleave 4 points in Vanguard
Description	The warrior culls the weak. In most cases, when an enemy falls below a certain health threshold, the next hit is fatal.

Massacre is a warrior talent from the Vanguard tree in Dragon Age II.

Information

• Effect: Deathblow vs. normal enemies below 20% health
• Effect: Deathblow vs. lieutenants below 10% health

Notes

• As enemy health scales to Hawke's level, Normal-ranked enemies can reach 1800+ on Normal difficulty by the time this ability becomes available. 20% of this is 360, which denotes the effective damage "value" of a deathblow, which would otherwise take several more basic hits or an activated talent to inflict normally. The value of this ability grows with the game's progression and difficulty setting (+30% health on Hard, +60% on Nightmare). Thus, even the "chance" for a deathblow is worth pursuing.
• Elites have roughly twice as much health as their Normal-ranked counterparts of the same enemy type and class, thus 10% of their health hits roughly the same mark and confers the same "value" of a deathblow.