Damage over time mechanic change clarification?

Here are my guesses:

1) When Chris said "Modifiers based on how the damage is dealt will apply as appropriate", what he actually meant was "hey, we made poison arrow's cloud projectile dmg for balance reasons, so it now gets reduced by LMP/GMP". He didn't actually mean that DoT modifiers will be based on how the damage is dealt.

For example:
Burning will not be increased by weapon dmg, spell dmg, area dmg (unless it's burning ground/RF/etc), projectile dmg, or anything else that depends on the source of the burning.

Poison arrow won't be affected by attack dmg (point blank), weapon dmg (Quill Rain) or bow dmg (Chin sol) modifiers.

Viper strike won't be affected by attack dmg (crown of eyes) or melee dmg (melee dmg on full life gem) modifiers.

2) Assuming 1 is true, there aren't many things that will increase Viper Strikes dmg (just 'damage' modifiers, and 'chaos dmg' modifiers). Viper strike can't have been properly balanced, because of dual redbeaks. Either it will be OP with dual redbeaks, or it will be useless without dual redbeaks.

If 1 is not true, then Poison arrow can't have been properly balanced, because of the same thing with trap + chin sol + point blank + conc effect.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Gravethought wrote:

Will dots be able to penetrate resistance?

No, that's an on-hit effect and can't apply to something that's applied continuously as DoT.

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Gravethought wrote:

Will they be able to get damage conversions (Infernal mantle)?

No.

Fix these two. Seriously. Penetration shouldn't be an on-hit effect, it should be a damage modifier.