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[[Crushing Blow]] ("CB")is an item [[affix]] that is not found in Diablo 3. It was present in Diablo 2 and was one of the most sought item modifiers, since it subtracts a % of the monster's hit points each time it [[proc]]s, which can be incredibly powerful against enemies with very high hit points. Crushing Blow uses the strength of the target against it, dealing a % of the enemy's hit points as damage, either to the enemy or sometimes to other nearby enemies (as was formerly the case with the Monk's [[Exploding Palm]] skill). Crushing Blow is actually not very useful on lower difficulties, where attacks can deal much higher net damage. It's on higher difficulties where the Crushing Blow mechanic becomes strong, when targets have extremely high hit points.

==The Crushing Blow effect in Diablo III== While Crushing Blow does not exist has never been enabled in a live version of Diablo 3, there are a few have been skills and items that create have a similar effectCrushing Blow mechanism, dealing damage as a percentage of the target's life. * The most obvious is the Monk's [[Exploding Palm]], which causes the Monk skill, worked with a Crushing Blow effect during all of D3v and early RoS, until it was patched out in [[Patch 2.1]]. The skill caused targets to explode, dealing some up to 40% of their maximum hit points to all other targets nearby targets. This skill dealing billions of points of damage powered the first Greater Rift 100 completion, early in the Patch 2.1 PTR testing. * [[The Furnace]] is a two-handed made mace added to the game in Reaper of Souls, which can deal deals 6-8% of a target's hit points as fire, to just that the target. Blizzard questioned the exploitable nature of that item in Greater Rifts in June 2014.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/wyatt-cheng-on-fueling-the-furnace-in-greater-rifts], and removed the property from the item in a PTR patch in August 2014. * [[Rimeheart]], a sword, does not work like Crushing Blow, but was also nerfed in the same patch with The Furnace. Prior to that, it had a percent chance to instantly shatter and kill any non-[[Elite]] frozen target.