Mechanics thread

Hi,

If I am a phys dmg dealer and I pick up "Static Blows", if I am lvl60 doing maps, will my level 1 wrath proc Shock with my phys dmg ?

Or do I have to pass some minimum damage threshold ?

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Static Blows would only increase it by 30% (Wrath adds 1-9 Lightning damage, so SB adds 0-3); that still wouldn't deal much Lightning damage. Unlikely to be enough.

Oh, I am talking about Static Blows at the very top left on the skill tree,

It has a "10% chance to shock enemies on hit with lightning damage"

I had a quick question and a couple suggestions..
First the question... if i have a weapon that says 20 -30 phys damage then has some mods below it like.. 30 percent phys damage increase etc... are those mods already figured into the weapons 20 - 30 damage or are those numbers pre- modifier..



Now the suggestions.. would make life easier to have new inv items have a border until viewed and also have mag rare unique items have a diff color background from one another in inventory.. Also a comparison tooltip on ground would help and have the tooltips show the increase decrease that the new item imposes.


Thanks

weapons with blue text, already have thier mods calculated into the weapon.

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miraclechipmunk wrote:

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Static Blows would only increase it by 30% (Wrath adds 1-9 Lightning damage, so SB adds 0-3); that still wouldn't deal much Lightning damage. Unlikely to be enough.

Oh, I am talking about Static Blows at the very top left on the skill tree,

It has a "10% chance to shock enemies on hit with lightning damage"

The duration of Shock depends on the amount of damage relative to the max HP of enemies. If the duration is not long enough, the game doesn't bother applying it. Therefore, you'll need more than 1-9 damage to shock high level mobs.

Quick question on the passive "Reduced Mana Cost of skills".

Does this passive reduce the mana cost multipliers of support gmes? I have a feeling it doesn't, but it doesn't hurt to hope.

mixed answer.
support gems are multipliers to the link skill's cost.
reduced mana cost is a reduction multiplier also with the support gem of reduced cost also separate.

Ok, a bit of a strange question...I've read somewhere that for the purposes of calculating experience penalty (or something similar), the game takes that a player can not be above certain lvl (I think it was 63), meaning lvl 80 player would be percieved as lvl 63 for this purpose. But I can't remember what this was nor where I've seen it.

Does anyone know more about this? Was this maybe connected with the lvl of dropped maps?

i thought shock was triggered only if light damage was dealt in the attack? why would it matter how much is in the damage?