Adder's Touch

I would like to know if this works with FP as well. say I'm making a freezing pulse witch using a dagger, would this proc the poison debuff? I was actually wanting to make a shadow crit/fireball build and was eying this passive. Any help on this would be awesome, thanks!

So it currently doesnt stack with viper strike, and viper srike, at level 20, does 500 damage per second per charge. That's 2000 damage per second total.


In order to get adder's touch to match up to that, you need to crit for 20,000 damage. That's physical damage, right?

You need to crit for 20000 damage. Adder's is based on total damage.

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Autocthon wrote:

You need to crit for 20000 damage. Adder's is based on total damage.

Which means adlers is pretty much usless xD, since if you crit that much you dont care for the extra 500 or even 2000 damage :(. Wish it had something different like, everytime you crit with dagger you do some kind of splash damage so it would be like extra aoe buff to criting daggers.

The DoT should probably be a bit stronger. Or it should scale with AS so it's a true DPS bonus on crit.

For instance if it dealt +10% of damage on crit per secodn for two seconds and "stacked" with itself each crit (like shock does) it would actually be pretty useful. Would equate to +10% damage.

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Autocthon wrote:

The DoT should probably be a bit stronger. Or it should scale with AS so it's a true DPS bonus on crit.

For instance if it dealt +10% of damage on crit per secodn for two seconds and "stacked" with itself each crit (like shock does) it would actually be pretty useful. Would equate to +10% damage.

And still it wouldnt be anywhere op or anything like that since you would still need to crit which in most of the cases kills monsters unless you have low crit damage and damage overall. They should really buff this notable passive if someone takes that node its for 66% crit multiplier not for the addlers touch so it should be renamed to critical smth and then there should be new node with boosted addlers touch that would actually do something usefull.

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BRavich wrote:

So it currently doesnt stack with viper strike

where did you get that info from? Earlier in this thread, Mark says that Viper Strike Stacks with Adder's Touch (from 1 year ago)

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BRavich wrote:

So it currently doesnt stack with viper strike, and viper srike, at level 20, does 500 damage per second per charge. That's 2000 damage per second total.


In order to get adder's touch to match up to that, you need to crit for 20,000 damage. That's physical damage, right?

Mark said it should stack with viper and he also stated that it is ALL damage, not only physical ;)
Though it shouldn't stack with PA...

I'm hoping you can clarify something for me, Mark.

You stated earlier that poison doesn't work like ignite, where each application of ignite remains in effect for its full duration, but only the one with the highest DPS can cause damage at any given moment; rather each application of poison simply overrides any existing one.

You also stated that the poison status effects from Adder's Touch and Poison Arrow are the "same thing", even though they can have different DPS, clearly.

So there are two points that I would like you to comment on:
1. Why doesn't poison work like ignite and always give you the best DPS possible?
2. If a monster is standing inside of a poison cloud from Poison Arrow, and is then poisoned by Adder's Touch, won't the poison cloud just instantly re-override the effect from Adder's Touch?