POE2 - Please Fix Poison Tooltips

I've been playing a Gas Arrow pathfinder in POE2 and was wondering why everything was so tanky. I tried to max my tooltip DPS, finding a bow with high tier lightning, fire, and cold damage (corrupted with a cold damage implicit too) and gloves with similar stats. Hovering over my tooltip, the game explained that not only is the initial shot impacted by elemental DPS, but the poison cloud is also impacted - it shows the calculation including elemental DPS specifically for the poison cloud. I had to seek out and read through Reddit to learn that poison cloud is not impacted by elemental damage and that elemental damage is a complete non-factor outside of the initial hit.

I can understand the DPS summary being wrong, but it's a pretty big oversight listing completely inaccurate information in the calculation for how the poison cloud itself works. I ended up sticking with a mediocre bow for 3 acts because the tooltip DPS was 1.5-2x significantly better bows

I'm loving the game but would have been much less frustrated with some bosses had poison damage been better explained. I hope that a developer sees this and reviews Gas Arrow and other poison tooltips in the game so that players can better understand how to scale poison damage without having to rely on outside sources. Thanks for reading!
Last bumped on Jan 20, 2025, 6:00:27 AM
I also suspect that poison dps calculations on tooltip (or maybe in game as well) is kinda wrong. Let me explain
I’m playing pconc and I have ~+150% magnitude and ~+20% faster ailments, and has a deadly ailments support
What should I have in result:
Hit damage * 0.2 (poison default magnitude) * 2.5 (150% increased magnitude) * 2 (pconc 100% more magnitude) * 1.75 (75% more magnitude from deadly ailments) *1.2 (faster ailments) = hit damage * 2.1
So my poison should do around dps 2x of base hit. While on tooltip I have around 1x
So I suspect that the tooltip does not include pconc 100% more effect
TLDR tooltips are way far from accurate

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