cultist bow useless?

hello,

i'm playing a ranger build and i want to use the cultist bow for it's chaos damage, but all my favourite ranger skills start with "convert X% of physical damage into Y (elemental) damage".

since the cultist bow only has chaos damage and no physical damage (by default), does this mean my skills will fail when i use the cultist bow?

i really try to figure out what's going to happen when i combine certain gems and equipment, but the descriptions often leave a lot to the imagination, and there isn't a comprehensive enough wiki yet that i can visit for more information.

please either make the in-game descriptions more informative, or else provide more details in a wiki somewhere.

thanks.
-az

Also bows cannot roll chaos damage mods.

i cant say if its entirely useless as it might have some niche use cases like weapon swap to do chaos dmg on a non chaos build to trigger some mechanic for example, but for the current bow builds its basically useless, yes

Hi, it will only convert physical damage to elemental damage, so your chaos damage on the bow will still do chaos damage with the attack. You don't lose any damage it just changes a % of one damage type to another.


Use these sites:

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Conversion
https://poe2db.tw/us/


Other wiki's are crap (fextralife and fandom should be completely avoided!).

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Liondrawing#0797 wrote:

since the cultist bow only has chaos damage and no physical damage (by default), does this mean my skills will fail when i use the cultist bow?

GGG is really doing poor job with explaining how their game works.

(I have my doubts that both diablo 2 fan-boys that are getting interviewed have some missing knowledge about their own game... so maybe this is also a good reason for this what we are getting)

Allow me to explain about this damage thing:

Say you have 100 physical damage weapon.

Your skill reads: "convert 70% of physical to fire"

On attack, you deal:
30 physical
70 fire

Say you have 100 chaos damage weapon.

Your skills: "convert 70% of physical to fire"

On attack, you deal:
100 chaos.

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Technically, nothing changed.

But what the fk are you going to slot in the support gems?

In the elemental line, you have choices:

1. Elemental focus: 25% MORE elemental.
2. Fire infusion: 25% extra fire damage.
3. Primal armament: 25% MORE weapon elemental.

The damage ramps up quickly.

Depending if its AOE, you can concentrate it for 40% MORE.

And right now the physical mods, that are the base for this, ramp up to 1000 DPS easily.

This is 1000 base damage, that you start to multiply with INCREASE and MORE.

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TL;DR

Use physical bow or you are screwed so hard.

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raV#3445 wrote:

i cant say if its entirely useless as it might have some niche use cases like weapon swap to do chaos dmg on a non chaos build to trigger some mechanic for example, but for the current bow builds its basically useless, yes

You can roll highest tier COLD/FIRE/LIGHTNING on this bow, and it will still be complete shit.

Hands down.

The highest, the very highest bows, with maximum lightning/fire/cold cost about 30 divines.

This bow IS in fact entirely useless.

There is literally NOTHING going on for this item.