Will Void Manipulation support Righteous Fire?

...and will it make it easier to sustain at the cost of reducing damage?

On a similar note, has anyone tried CwDT Righteous Fire? I suspect that the answer to both questions will likely be the same.

I'm aware that damage *increases* don't affect the self-burn of RF, but the patch notes for 1.0.2 don't exclude the possibility that damage *decreases* can affect it, which is why I brought up CwDT (and, now that I'm looking around, Emberwake).

I know it's unlikely, but the game occasionally exhibits odd behavior when it comes to stuff like this, hence the question.

I'll assume that supporting RF isn't going to become any easier in the patch to come.

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Vipermagi wrote:

They're the exact same modifier, except one has a minus before it. Damage modifiers are Damage modifiers, whether they are Increased, Reduced, More or Less.

The same can be said with respect to IIQ and Maps, but that particular setup has unique behavior at -100% IIQ. Considering the way the 1.0.2 patch notes are worded, that creates a precedent for GGG to, instead of ignoring the damage altogether, go through normal damage calculation for each modifier and, if they are greater then zero, set them to zero.

The question is also compounded by the fact that there wasn't a way to reliably get a negative modifier to apply to the self-burn component of RF at the time of patch 1.0.2. Enfeeble maps may have been a thing (I did not play much back at that time), but we couldn't self-apply it with Ghudda gloves (patch 1.0.5), and we didn't have either Cast When Damage Taken or Emberwake to potentially reduce burning damage. The only modifiers that could apply within the new DoT rules were all increases or unreliable, meaning it was an exhaustive statement *at the time,* but is not an exhaustive statement anymore.

Give me some credit here. I'm completely aware of the basic game mechanics. This is an obscure interaction between mechanics, however, that is only recently becoming practical enough to attempt using.

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Vipermagi wrote:

It's well-known what does and does not work with RF...

If it isn't on the Wiki then it's clearly not well-known, and my question is warranted. Don't treat me like I'm an idiot for asking a question about a specific interaction in a game where specific interactions sometimes follow special rules that may or may not be obvious, especially when that game is as complex as Path of Exile. It may be easy to get by the standards of the 1337 g@merz around here, but that 20 next to my name didn't come about because of blind luck. I know quite a lot about this game, but this game is fucking Path of Exile.

In any case, I have my answer. Good day, sir.

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

If it isn't on the Wiki then it's clearly not well-known.

It is on wiki, 'damage over time' page.

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PoEWiki wrote:

Modifiers that increase damage over time will not affect the damage a character deals to himself with skills like Blood Rage or Righteous Fire, as that particular effect is considered a part of the buff and not a part of your damage output. However, modifiers that increase/reduce damage taken or damage taken from damage over time will affect it.

More interested in how rapid decay works with RF. Or if it does. There is no "duration" to RF, so no "downside"

I'd be willing to put a Crown of Thorns against anyone's Veil of the Night that there will be no interaction.