Mechanical Questions Thread
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I would love to have a confirmation of the interaction between Winter Burial and Impact (hopefully before 3.1 hits but I understand it's not likely).
My question concretely is whether the '50% less Splash damage' of the Impact node also reduces the Splash damage from Winter Burial. This would mean that taking that ascendancy node actually halves your AoE damage, which I would find pretty stupid. I understand the wording seems to imply that and I'm probably in denial. But from what I've found it seems that people are not completely sure, so I'll wait for confirmation before I go cry in the corner. |
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I intend to do a Mine build as a reroll for the 3.1 (Lightning tendrils being my starter).
I've a few questions related to Freeze Mine that the wiki page of the skill doesn't answer. And the tooltip of the skill being unclear to me too.
Thanks in advance. Edit : Just saw the last answer was in August 2017, RIP. I'll try to get these info somewhere else i guess. Edit² @Vipermaji (below) : Okayyy thanks. It makes more sense now indeed. RIP Freeze Mine then. It'll probably be Fire Nova Mine again, or something else (but meh 5l only). Last edited by Harest#1598 on Dec 7, 2017, 11:51:57 AM
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" 1. Always Freezes simply means it has 100% Chance to Freeze - but Freeze is still Freeze. 2. "As though" means the Freeze Duration is calculated based on your Damage with a 200-390% More Multiplier, but your true Damage is not actually increased. |
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I would like some clarification on the following line in the patch notes:
Fixed a bug where enemies hit by Sunder's linear component also unintentionally got hit by the area of effect that hit created. In a single target situation, was the target always being hit by the secondary component, thus making this bugfix a huge nerf at 29% less damage done? Or was it just happening in specific circumstances? | |
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Hey there, since dark pact now has the " minion " tag I'd like to know about the interactions.
1. Is it increased by minion damage 2. If not, would it be increased if I'd be wearing " the scourge" 1.1 If I play dark pact in a Totem, will it 1. Get the damage modifier of consuming the life of the totem ( because it is consuming something) 2. Will it be affected by " minion modifiers" because totems usually arent affected by those. and again, if not. Would it work if I#d be wearing "the scourge" Thank you in advance! |
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Skill gem tags generally don't have implicit effects other than "this gem is affected by '+X to level of socketed <tag> gems' modifiers". Specifically Dark Pact has the Minion tag, but does not deal Minion Damage. Thus modifiers to Minion Damage will not affect it. But it would be affected by, for example, the Reanimator's prefix on a helmet. (+1 to level of socketed minion gems).
The penultimate mod of The Scourge simply gives you an additional "+X% increased Damage" whenever you have +X% increased Minion Damage. Since this increased damage is untyped, it should affect Dark Pact. On the other hand, the last mod gives you Increased Minion Damage, which does not affect DP, as per above. (But it contributes to the +X% untyped damage increase from the previous mod. What I'm saying is, it won't double dip.) As far as totems go, here is the wiki: " All damage modifiers that would apply to DP if you were to cast it also apply when a totem casts it, as usual for totems. In addition to that, all applicable totem damage modifiers will apply too. Last edited by Abdiel_Kavash#5296 on Dec 7, 2017, 6:54:59 PM
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" GGG has confirmed that the problem was, in fact, that they were summoning two or three totems at the same time, and all of them except for the first one popped instantly because each TV could only have a single totem out. So ... basically, assume that they now work better, but more or less as they did before. (They waste less of their mana, not that you really notice, and they resummon totems less while they are hitting things.) For the Wickerman, we don't know. You can probably assume they perform similarly to an equal level spectre with unrighteous fire though. Last edited by SlippyCheeze#7036 on Dec 7, 2017, 6:59:17 PM
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" Most likely just in specific circumstances, I've been testing something recently and it was doing similar actual dps as other physical skills when set to the same tooltip dps, if the enemy was also getting hit by the AoE it would be 40% faster. Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs.
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" Do monsters even have/use mana? I always thought they either didn't have it or had so much of it that running out would never be an issue. Is that not the case? |
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" Yeah, they use Mana! Not a whole lot of monsters actually care, but it exists. Spark mages are a pretty obvious example of this, they start of with a couple quick Spark casts, but then run out of Mana and resort to using the single Lightning orb Spell. Frenzy Apelords also limit their Frenzy generation due to Mana starvation, they use the shout more often with Blood Magic and/or legit Mana Regen. Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Dec 7, 2017, 9:54:29 PM
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