Mechanics thread

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soul4hdwn wrote:

also woah, added fire damage instead of converted damage to fire works off the base physical when applying fire damage. the physical boost does not come into play for added fire damage last i was explained by a dev. converted damage you apply both physical and fire in an additive sense yes.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Xapti (if I'm understanding his post right - I am quite tired right now) is on the right track. adding a percentage of physical damage as cold absolutely does not take final physical damage, take a percentage of that, and then apply all your cold/elemental increases tot hat - that would be turning additive increases to multiplicative ones, and would be completely broken.

Adds X% of physical damage as cold damage works just like all the other damage conversion skills int he game (added fire damage gem, AoF, cold to fire support, etc).

X% of your base physical damage is added as cold damage. That damage, since it was 'converted' from physical damage, is affected by both physical and cold/elemental damage increases.

Short example:
100 base physical damage
aura adds 20% of physical damage as cold
10% elemental damage increase
20% physical damage increase
15% cold damage increase

You get 100 physical damage increased by 20%, for 120 physical, and 20 cold damage (from physical) which is increased by 45% (10 + 20 + 15) for 29 cold damage.

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Malice wrote:

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Sockets appear randomly on most equipable items. Higher level items can appear with more sockets than lower level items of the same type.
The maximum amount of sockets that can appear on an item also varies by the type of item:

• Two handed weapons and body armour can have up to 6 sockets
• Wands, shields, and one handed weapons can have a maximum of 3 sockets
• Everything else can have a maximum of 4 sockets

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Fhedaykin wrote:

what for bows? are 6 socketed bows possible?