Mechanical Questions Thread

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ExiledSarin wrote:

Hello. I've got a few in-depth questions....that might seem silly since I've just started.

Channelling skills. If I understand it correctly, the cast time is actually time between separate instances of the spell that each apply damage and triggers. I've noticed that there are passives with specific modifier for channeling speed, so I assume that they cut down this time. Is it also affected by generic cast speed modifiers?

Little bit about damage modifiers. Do different modifiers stack additively or multiplicatively, e.g. having +100% cold damage, +100% elemental damage and +100% spell damage result in damage of cold spell being boosted to 400% or 800%?

And about travel spells. Lightning Warp, is the delay between cast and teleport fixed at moment of cast, or is it changed in the interval if user moves, like frostblinking in the opposite direction?
Leap Slam, can the flight time itself be modified in any way, and what kind of damage can be avoided while in flight? I noticed I can leap over labyrinth traps, but while I'm not really sure, I think that at least sometimes I was hit by other means while in flight.

AoE of non-circular spells, how exactly is it enhanced by modifiers? Say, Incinerate, will the cone be lengthened while maintaining the same width at terminal point, thus narrowing it over most of its length, lengthened while maintaining angle, or increased angle while maintaining or increasing range?
Edit: I mean both Incinerate's primary fire stream and the final shockwave.

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iao wrote:

If you have Inspiration Charges, does the Inspiration Support apply its elemental damage and critical strike chance multipliers to minion skills? The wording makes me unsure. I know minions cannot gain Inspiration Charges, but the wording makes it seem as though the mods scale with player Inspiration Charges regardless of what it supports.

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jeerinho wrote:

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ExiledSarin wrote:

Hello. I've got a few in-depth questions....that might seem silly since I've just started.

Channelling skills. If I understand it correctly, the cast time is actually time between separate instances of the spell that each apply damage and triggers. I've noticed that there are passives with specific modifier for channeling speed, so I assume that they cut down this time. Is it also affected by generic cast speed modifiers?

Little bit about damage modifiers. Do different modifiers stack additively or multiplicatively, e.g. having +100% cold damage, +100% elemental damage and +100% spell damage result in damage of cold spell being boosted to 400% or 800%?

And about travel spells. Lightning Warp, is the delay between cast and teleport fixed at moment of cast, or is it changed in the interval if user moves, like frostblinking in the opposite direction?
Leap Slam, can the flight time itself be modified in any way, and what kind of damage can be avoided while in flight? I noticed I can leap over labyrinth traps, but while I'm not really sure, I think that at least sometimes I was hit by other means while in flight.

AoE of non-circular spells, how exactly is it enhanced by modifiers? Say, Incinerate, will the cone be lengthened while maintaining the same width at terminal point, thus narrowing it over most of its length, lengthened while maintaining angle, or increased angle while maintaining or increasing range?
Edit: I mean both Incinerate's primary fire stream and the final shockwave.

Channeling speed is affected by generic cast/attacks speed modifiers.

"Increased/Reduced" damage modifiers stack additively. In that case, your cold spell is boosted by 400%. "More/Less" damage modifiers stack multiplicatively.

Lightning Warp delay is fixed at the moment of cast. You can reduce Leap Slam flight time by increasing your global attack speed. You can leap over traps but monsters can still hit you.

When Incinerate's AoE is increased, cone will be lengthened while maintaining the angle. This affects the final shockwave as well.

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ExiledSarin wrote:

Thank you. Mind a little follow up? The Cast while Channeling support runs its independent timer, or is it based on the recasts of channeling spell? To give an example...if you have lvl20 CwC, it has cooldown 0.35s, and Stormburst without any cast time modifiers, which means recasting in 0.25s intervals. Will the CwC trigger another spell every 0.35s, or will it end triggering every 0.5s as it'll have to wait for next instance after cooldown expires?

Edit: sorry, messed up the skill's CT and name in example.

And another edit with another question: the veiled modifier "Trigger a socketed spell when you use skill", does it have any cooldown, and does it apply only on skills you use yourself, or also triggered ones?