Elemental Equilibrium

I've got two questions regarding this passive.

1. It says temporarily, does anyone know roughly how long it is? 1 - 2 seconds?

2. Once it's applied does it not re-apply until the duration wears off? For instance, if I hit a target with fire and then blast away with cold will the first cold hit then change the effect or not? (This seems like it would make it really hard to use since you'd have to weave your spells constantly.)

Thanks for any insight!

Bump, does no one know?

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Elemental_Equilibrium

5 seconds

The effect doesn't stack and lasts 5 seconds or until replaced with a new one.

So, I'm guessing the -50% resist disappear as soon as you hit the enemy with a different element ONCE or wait 5 seconds.


So, Ice (+25%) -> Fire (-50%) -> Fire (+25%)

Again, I'm not sure about this. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

Doh, don't know why I blanked and didn't think of looking at the Wiki. Thanks for that.

Was hoping it wouldn't be overwritten until the effect ended, I think I can still make use of it though. With a flame totem (or even a spell totem I imagine) unloading you should be able to get a constant effect.

No, I don't think it works like that. Whatever hits first puts on the debuff, and then the mob holds its new resistances for 5 sec. Then it'll reapply upon wear off with whatever element hits it first once again. I may be wrong here, but even if I am - the effect is the same. I thought I'd be clever and run a spork totem witch, along with cold. It's not working out so well... The intended effect works -the spork makes everything take additional cold damage. Once and a while ill catch the cold hitting first, but that's rare - they almost always get triggered by lightning. So, I also cast conductivity. This effectively makes mobs take flat lightning damage, and +50% damage with all other elements. It does do quite a bit of damage, with the added benefit of freezing things solid. However, that said - it's just too many points buffing both cold and lightning damage on he passive skill tree. Something else suffers. In my case, mana regen and survivability. I'm not giving up all hope yet, but I'm starting to think about rerolling and sticking to one element along with an appropriate curse.