Searing Bond

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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trenan wrote:

I still cannot take this as accurate

It is.

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trenan wrote:

since Searing Bond operates differently than an actual DoT.

No, it doesn't

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trenan wrote:

Searing Bond is not a DoT, it is Burn Damage.

Burning damage by definition in PoE is damage over time (DoT).
DoT cannot currently be affected by any modifiers to "damage". Only increased burning damage - which is implicitly applying only to DoT damage because that's what burning is - can apply to any damage over time effect in the current system. Other restrictions, such as "elemental" or "totem" make no difference to that - they apply to damage, which is on-hit, and not to DoT.

The refactor of DoT to allow it to benefit from regular damage modifiers will likely be in 1.0.2

Thanks for the clarification.

while I understand from the code perspective it is considered a DoT, it still behaves like direct burn damage in game, which is where some of the uncertainty of how it is affected comes into play.

I look forward to the rework as it will improve this build drastically.

I know searing bond does not work with fire penetration but do enemies take more damage when their resistances have already been decreased by elemental Equilibrium.

Ex. Having a spork totem to proc EE and then searing bond hits everything else.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

The refactor of DoT to allow it to benefit from regular damage modifiers will likely be in 1.0.2

I dont think this is a good idea.
Why should I take burning dmg nodes if it scales with fire dmg too?

In my opinion most "increased" dmg-modifiers already are the same especially because of the "convert into" and "add dmg as"...

for example it doesnt matter at all for my fireball build whether I take spell dmg, fire dmg, elemental dmg, increased aoe dmg or projectile dmg...
Imho you should get a small bonus if you take matching "increased dmg" e.g. fire dmg nodes with fireball. (maybe even a small penalty if you take e.g. projectile dmg with a elemental spell like fireball)


For searing bond, it would make sense if it profits from "Totem dmg" nodes but not from fire/elemental dmg nodes (because it isnt fire dmg but burning dmg).
It would increase the numbers of builds and diversity...

Sorry if this has been answered - does the DoT from searing bond come from an Ignite debuff? If so can it be proliferated?

so does searing bond now scale with fire / elemental and burning damage?
(with that new DoT mechanic?)

Yes, also fire pen and flammability curse seem to work. Atleast, what I can tell by just looking at it. The dmg is actually pretty decent now.