3.8 chaos occultist profane bloom/herald of ash questions

Hey guys after watching mbXtreme occultist bane pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay3Q1ArSTA4 i have some questions for you.

Would an occultist soulrend with a ring or glove that have curse ennemies with lvl x despair on hit to proc profane bloom that proc herald of ash work?

with the dualwielding obliteration (unique wand) that can be switch to multimod chaos wand for bossing (i know that bow +lvl gems are optimal but i don't want to use them) ?

sorry for bad english and thanks for your answers.

Yes, while the primary damage for Soulrend is the damage over time portion of the skill, it does count as hitting enemies it passes through, so it will apply curses, that can then cause the enemy to explode from Profane Bloom.

If another enemy close enough to be affected by that explosion dies from it, the overkill damage from the explosion hit will be applied as a damage over time debuff with the relevant modifiers from Herald of Ash.

So in short, using this combination will generally increase your clear speed with Soulrend.

Alright thanks for the answer and do you think the "reaction" of explosion can go beyond ennemie that are cursed by the initial soulrend cast, like if the density is just fine will profane bloom/herald of ash reapply curse on hit and goes on and on until no mobs are close enough (let's say they do enough damage to kill any mobs) ?

I have accomplished chain explosions without Obliteration before, so yes, if the explosion kills an enemy, they will consider to be cursed, even if the curse does not apply to the hit damage that applies the curse, and have a chance to explode.

It is actually not that difficult to scale the damage of these explosions, as they do secondary chaos area damage, which means they do not benefit from spell or attack damage, but all generic increases to damage as well as specific ones to chaos or area damage. At 300% increased damage, they will deal as much damage as the full HP of the monster that died, which means that in normal or magic packs, they will onehit monsters in range of the explosion.

In most cases, several enemies will explode at once anyway, which means you do not strictly have to meet these 300%. A regular Soulrend build should have a sufficient amount of damage increases.

Enemies that are inside the range of the Herald of Ash debuff but outside the explosion radius of the Profane Bloom explosions will not be cursed, so they will only have a chance to explode on death if you also use Obliteration.

Thank for the help <3

Are you asking if you can link a curse to Herald of Ash? If you are then the answer is no because Herald of Ash doesn't hit. It would work with Herald of Ice or Thunder though.

Also, since I recently tested and incase others were curious; you can use Profane Bloom to proc Elemental Equilibrium, but to do that you can't use mods that does "adds damage to spells" or "adds damage to attacks", but the crafted mods that just add two flat elemental damages works, and there's a glove delve mod that should work, as well as a few uniques (synthesis unique rings and impresence amulets).

(just incase someone other than me is trying to do Cold DOT with the profane bloom Herald of Ash thing)