Mechanical Questions Thread

Does the explosion portion of Fireball also scale with projectile damage?

Any plans in 3.0 to allow us to know which tiers of affixes are on certain item?

With essences especially I got to the point where I'm really scared to purchase an expensive item fearing it may be essence crafted or a very high hybrid roll

Regarding the Elementalist node Mastermind of Discord - its worded a bit oddly, stating 'damage penetrates x resistance, if you've used y skill recently'.

Does that mean it leaves a status on the target making sure any following damage will penetrate whatever the source, similar to Elemental Equilibrium, or does it add penetration on hit to your attacks and spells similar to the Penetration support gems?

Why arent Dominating Blow enchants like other minion enchants?(even melee)

If we look at other Duration summoning skills enchants we got :

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Srs:

- Srs damage (25% & 40%)
- Srs duration
- Chance to spawn an additionnal Srs

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Animate Weapon:

- AW damage(25% & 40%)
- AW duration
- Chance to spawn an additional AW

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Summon skeleton:

- Summon skeleton damage(25% & 40%)
- Chance to spawn 1 additional skeleton
- Chance to spawn 2 additional skeleton

and then we got Dominating blow

- Dom blow player damage (24% & 34%)
- Dom blow Minion duration
- Dom Blow minion damage (20% & 30%)

1) Where are the Additional monster mods? or even Dominated monster has a chance to become 1 rarity higher

2)All other minion skills get 40% increased damage (minion) while dom blow gets 30% + having a 35% less damage on the gem

3) why are the damage mods 2 separate enchants? it only makes the skill weaker by watering down its power sources. Being a single mod would be way better, still shit but better.

4) The Enchant that buffs Player Dom blow damage is 24-36%, even the melee part of Dom Blow gets weaker enchants than other melee skill

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_helmet_enchantment_mods

I heard that when I link "animate weapon" skill with "spell totem support" then the animate weapons damage can be affected by the support "less damage" modifier AND modifiers to general damage, spell damage and totem damage. Is this true? Does totem does that for all skills?

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STiX360 wrote:

Could you please provide me with the life values at level 20 and 21 for the various totems?
I'm theory crafting a reverse knock-back, EE, reflect totems (War's Herald) build and am a bit stuck on the best approach.

this, so much this.

please answer this question, there is no information on the wiki and we have no idea how much is the life of the totems even when we have so many ways to increase it

Thanks in advance!

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Drusek wrote:

I heard that when I link "animate weapon" skill with "spell totem support" then the animate weapons damage can be affected by the support "less damage" modifier

Yes (the penalty is untyped)

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AND modifiers to general damage, spell damage and totem damage. Is this true? Does totem does that for all skills?

No (the Totem does not deal damage, it summons Minions. Hence, it follows the usual rules for Minions: Only 3 things can affect Minions:

1. Things that specifically say "Minions"
2. Applicable Support gems
3. Things that affect "allies"

Increased general damage on your character, spell damage, and totem damage are none of the above.)

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Vipermagi wrote:

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RIP_POE wrote:

Do the amulets "Voice Of The Storm" and "Choir Of The Storm" have a base critical strike chance or do they function like Herald of Thunder? If they do have a base critical strike chance, what is it and can it proc itself?

6% base Crit Chance. Can't proc itself due to the internal cooldown of 0.5 seconds.
You can see the Skill on your character sheet if you have one of these amulets equipped, by the way :) Got these values from Choir of the Storm.

I see, Thanks. I was trying to decide if I wanted to include it in my build so I hadn't had a chance to try it out yet. Thanks for the help!