Mechanical Questions Thread

I can't seem to find any mention of this: but did wands get buffed with the 2.6 "all one handed weapons had their base damage increased" thing?

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TheBrenticus wrote:

Thanks! I assume you are completely confident this is 100% correct?

Sure, the wiki page on Conversion has all the citations well documented, and the increased/more thing has been a well known fact for a long time, wiki cites Malice's old thread for that part.

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loadinggood wrote:

Hi. Didn't find in google.

Blade flurry skill gem
Dual wielding: The skill alternates between the main hand and the offhand for each hit

If im using for example mace + sword "Avg. Damage" tooltip will count both. But gem itself will be using only sword. Am i correct?

+ BF attack speed depends at both weapons ATS. Is BF depend by mace ATS?

Yeah, Blade flurry will only use the sword and mace attack speed and dps will not have any kind of effect. If you're dual wielding like that, it's exactly the same as using just the sword with all the dual wielding bonuses.

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raics wrote:

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loadinggood wrote:

Hi. Didn't find in google.

Blade flurry skill gem
Dual wielding: The skill alternates between the main hand and the offhand for each hit

If im using for example mace + sword "Avg. Damage" tooltip will count both. But gem itself will be using only sword. Am i correct?

+ BF attack speed depends at both weapons ATS. Is BF depend by mace ATS?

Yeah, Blade flurry will only use the sword and mace attack speed and dps will not have any kind of effect. If you're dual wielding like that, it's exactly the same as using just the sword with all the dual wielding bonuses.

Tnx. Just... tooltip is really weird

How does Juggetnaugts "30% increased damage" with notable "Unyielding" work? Is it essentially a "more multiplier", similar to shock, seeing as it doesn't mention melee or attack damage in the wording, or does it get added to all the other increases you have.

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iMbaQ wrote:

How does Juggetnaugts "30% increased damage" with notable "Unyielding" work? Is it essentially a "more multiplier", similar to shock, seeing as it doesn't mention melee or attack damage in the wording, or does it get added to all the other increases you have.

Increased Damage always stacks additively. Not mentioning melee or attack damage simply allows it to apply to any of your damage. It's not a more multiplier.

Hi, I'm having trouble finding detailed info about the aoe changes in 2.6.

For circular aoe skills it seems obvious that increased aoe translates to radius via sqrt, i.e. the first 21% increased aoe -> 10% increased radius: sqrt(1.21) = 1.1

The same should go for cone shaped skills such as Ground Slam.

How about other skills such as the initial wave of sunder or glacial cascade? How are they affected?

Thanks for the quick answer. The thread you linked confirms my thoughts posted above.

Regarding Sunder:
The wiki says this: "Area of Effect: Increases to area of effect will increase both the area of the wave and that of the shockwave created."
Citing this response from Mark:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/47g1fh/skill_reveal_sunder/d0cntma/

Is that statement not current?

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Xeledon2132 wrote:

Is that statement not current?

Saw that one too, hard to say because we don't have many AoE stripe effects, they're usually wide projectiles like Freeze pulse. I'll just test it a bit later.