Str/Int Stack in POE 2 Corrupted cry vs Decaying hex

Currently there are 2 support gems that focus on stat stacking
Corrupted cry - 25% of strenght
Decaying hex - Initially 30% buffed to 60% in last patch.

On surface Decaying hex looks much batter, however Corrupting cry stacks to 10 times giving you woping 250% .. This is ridicilous scaling. To add up theres far batter support for phys and strenght stacking. You get life scaling on top of that. You have amazing supports to scale the damage Swift affliction , Brutality ...

Decaying hex on the other hand dose not stack, It cant be automated whit Blasphemy or spred whit Hex Bloom, Dont have good supports ... Im not even sure if anything works whit it.

I will love to see some love for Int stacking and making Decaying hex even close to competing whit Corrupted cry.

Same here! I have been looking into decaying hex but it doesn't look like there's anything promising there. I guess the only way to increase it's damage is %chaos damage and despair. I would love to know if there are other ways

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neto_conrado#7516 wrote:

Same here! I have been looking into decaying hex but it doesn't look like there's anything promising there. I guess the only way to increase it's damage is %chaos damage and despair. I would love to know if there are other ways

Are you sure that % Chaos damage scales decaying hex DoT? Last I checked, the skill sheet didn't reflect any changes in DoT damage except for intelligence increases.

I hope it scales it, if so, we may be able to cobble together a pseudo-bane build with Windscream boots, Whispers of Doom keystone and Gemling Legionnaire.

If not, then as it stands, I don't think you can stack enough Int for decaying hex to be worthwhile.

I have noticed that some items and skill gems that say % of X as damage, DO NOT SCALE with corresponding damage type increases unfortunately. Corpse weaver boots say 35% of corpse health as damage over time as poison, and I have tried everything to increase it, but damage does not exceed 35% per second. Sad. Maybe OTHER things like decaying hex will be fixed l8r on, but in beta I guess they had to make it fixed, or corpseweaver would be extremely op.