Fire Penetration

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Burn (and any damage over time) cannot possibly be affected by penetration. The concept doesn't work - penetration is about how you process being hit by the damage, and DoT never hits anything, it's a constant thing. Penetration is fundamentally about taking X amount of damage as a thing, at a particular point in time. I can't have any interaction with DoT, which is a rate you're constantly taking damage at for a duration.

Secondary damage (IB explosion, EA explosion, DD, etc) are hits of damage, and can be (and are) affected by penetration.

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Zindax wrote:

So, would it be correct to assume that this gem will now augment burning damage as of 1.0.2?

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Previously, modifiers to damage dealt only applied to damage on hits unless they specifically said otherwise (for example, Increased Burning Damage).

As of 1.0.2, generic modifiers to damage dealt will now apply to damage over time that your character causes. Damage over time is not spell damage, nor attack damage, so modifiers specific to those types will not apply. Non-specific "increased damage" modifiers will apply to damage over time. Type-specific modifiers will apply as well. For example, "increased fire damage" modifiers will apply to fire damage over time.

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Burn (and any damage over time) cannot possibly be affected by penetration. The concept doesn't work - penetration is about how you process being hit by the damage, and DoT never hits anything, it's a constant thing. Penetration is fundamentally about taking X amount of damage as a thing, at a particular point in time. I can't have any interaction with DoT, which is a rate you're constantly taking damage at for a duration.

Secondary damage (IB explosion, EA explosion, DD, etc) are hits of damage, and can be (and are) affected by penetration.

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Vipermagi wrote:

Read more. At the end of that exact post, it's mentioned that on-Hit effects (such as... Penetration supports) still do not apply to Damage over Time. See also.

EDIT: Also, there's no contradiction there. The second post you quoted clearly states that the difference lies between Hits and Damage over Time - it's completely unrelated to Increased Damage/etc.

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Previously, modifiers to damage dealt only applied to damage on hits unless they specifically said otherwise (for example, Increased Burning Damage).

As of 1.0.2, generic modifiers to damage dealt will now apply to damage over time that your character causes. Damage over time is not spell damage, nor attack damage, so modifiers specific to those types will not apply. Non-specific "increased damage" modifiers will apply to damage over time. Type-specific modifiers will apply as well. For example, "increased fire damage" modifiers will apply to fire damage over time.

Modifiers based on how the damage is dealt will apply as appropriate - for example, increased area damage and increased projectile damage will both apply to the poison clouds from Poison Arrow, as it fills an area and is an effect of a projectile.

Viper Strike can be supported by Melee Splash, now that the damage penalty also applies.

Damage conversion does not apply to damage over time.

The changes in this patch apply to most damage over time in the game (i.e. both players and monsters).

One exception is that damage increases will not apply to damage over time that you cause on yourself. For example, having 100% increased damage won't make the chaos damage over time from Blood Rage more powerful.

Note: This is a functional change to Righteous Fire. Previously this skill did increase the burning damage on you by your increased burning damage modifiers. Increased burning damage will still affect the burning on enemies.

Magic, Rare and Unique monsters have a damage bonus built into their rarity - this will now also apply to any damage over time they cause.

On-hit effects do not apply to damage over time.