Fire Trap

Does Concentrated Effect increase the damage of the lingering ground AoE? I know it affects the size.

I'm sad that the trap is consumed but not placed if you get stunned while casting it. The mana should be consumed, but the trap doesn't leave your hand, so...

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Dreggon wrote:

I'm sad that the trap is consumed but not placed if you get stunned while casting it. The mana should be consumed, but the trap doesn't leave your hand, so...

You pay the cost upfront for an attempt to activate the skill, not for its successful activation. That's how all skills work as far as I know.

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Tarmalen wrote:

I would request that when zoning, if a character has a trap count greater than 0 then the trap count does not reset to 0. Highly frustrating zoning in and traps are sitting at 0 while I fend off a horde of mobs.

Either that or make sure all skills and spells have an 8 second "cooldown" when someone zones in.


The last part was a bit of sarcasm. Yet that is exactly what it feels like when one of your bread and butter skills needs to warm up before laying waste.

I am not advocating trap count set to 3 when leaving town but only when a player is out in the wilderness and the trap count has already charged up to 3 and he zones to another hostile area.

I suggested this too here: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/449875

It's very annoying to have the traps reset back to zero.

Anyone knows if Elemental Dominion increases the damage from the Initial Explosion of Fire Trap?

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Dominion

Edit: Added link to Elemental Dominion.

Higher end damage has been nerfed by around 40%! at level 20 and+, and we got 40 more burning damage in return!

http://imgur.com/0USP5te,E0CRM1M#0

NOOO WHY GGG WHY.

EDIT: Whoever uses traps too and agrees, please support my thread under Suggestions http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/519260 Thank You.

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I have been a Trapper since I began playing PoE, a Fire Trapper. It was fun and effective, but not so much to get a nerf.

Before the trap changes in Patch Version 0.11.5 I would have to use the Flammability Curse and 4 to 5, or sometimes all 6 Fire Traps to take down tough mobs and single-target bosses in Merciless.

I was at around 4,250+ damage per trap at the time. Now, Fire Traps are under-powered in that I don't have enough traps to use at once, and the damage is more lackluster, even after I've gotten all the Trap & Elemental/Fire Damage nodes.

Two balanced changes to make to Fire Traps:

1. Reduce the -20% penalty on initial blast damage by 5% (-15% instead)

2. Give players who use traps (by default) at least 1 additional trap we can use (4 traps total)

The above suggestion would apply to all traps, including but not limited to, Fire Traps.

Note: While there is a trap node that allows one additional trap to be placed on the ground, that is not the same as being able to use an additional trap.

Please, at least make these two small changes.

When you crit with fire trap, is the DoT increased by my crit multiplier too?

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Treble wrote:

When you crit with fire trap, is the DoT increased by my crit multiplier too?

the way you ask this, implies crit multiplier works on both fire damage AND burning damage.

answer is no.
fire damage of the skill is multplied by crit value, then the burning dmage modifier works on THAT number. it doesn't pass another crit damage modifier, resists do however.