Mechanical Questions Thread

Hello all, my name is Streetwind, and I am confused.

I'd like to find out more about how PoE calculates DPS for attack skills. Reason being, my Duelist has Double Strike (+Chance to Bleed Support) at 370.9 DPS and Sweep (+Maim Support) at 402.5 DPS. All involved skill gems are at the cap to which I can currently level them. Which made me wonder: is an AoE skill really better against a single target than a single target attack skill? Or is the total damage potential of Double Strike simply not fully factured into the number the game calculates for you?

It doesn't help that Double Strike is really complex. It strikes twice, so it potentially rolls chance to bleed twice, and depending on whether the first roll hits the second strike might deal bonus damage or not... and so on.

I just can't figure out how to get from the numbers I can see ingame in the character sheet to the total DPS number that the game calculates. I tried to do it with a spreadsheet, but no success.

Could someone walk me through how this works? Here's a view of the readout: https://i.imgur.com/jWhVslI.png

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StreeTWinD wrote:

I just can't figure out how to get from the numbers I can see ingame in the character sheet to the total DPS number that the game calculates. I tried to do it with a spreadsheet, but no success.

You should use Path of Building, it's much more reliable for calculating your DpS.

should the ilvl 85 crusader mod "enemies killed explode, dealing 3% of their life as physical damage" work with mines?

and if it should, it does not work ingame

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rolfdafiftynine wrote:

at first I wish you all a happy new year!

Excuse my stupidity... I don't understand why I get low level mobs in maps only although I am using watchstones. For example if I do a T1 map with 2 Stones socketed it should become T8 = Level 75 Mobs, right? Still I got Level 68 only...
what am I doing wrong?

Socketing a watchstone means that you won't be able to find t1 jungle valley maps, and you will be able to find t4 jungle valley maps.
Your t1 jungle valley maps remain t1.

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bluewelkin wrote:

The option 'Modifiers to numbers of projectiles...' does not seem to work with winter orb projectile while it works with fireball. I want to know why, please.

Winter orb can't split

I have a query regarding close combat with consecrated path
Is the distance and damage for close combat calculated when the skill is initiated ie. before the teleport or when the skill hits the mob after teleport ?

I have a question about Totem life.

The wiki states about monsters stats that totem have life

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Level Life
4 96
6 126
9 172
12 231
15 298
19 411
23 550
28 768
33 1054
39 1499
43 1881
46 2221
49 2612
52 3066
55 3582
58 4183
61 4867
64 5653
66 6241
68 6888
70 7589
72 8362
74 9206
76 10126
78 11134
80 12234
82 13435
84 14746
86 16182
88 17745

For exemple Path Of Building say:

Gem Lv - Level Required - Base Life POB Wiki

20 70 5'227 7'589

21 72 5'844 8'362

What are the correct value, Could do you look at this and tell use the right number?

Ideally all level or from 20 to 30 ?

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ET Bonne Années!

What is the level of spiders raised by Araakali's Fang Raise Spiders?

In the 3.5 patch notes it is stated: "Raised Spiders are now Level 75, instead of the level of the area you are in" and nothing relevant that I can find in the later major patches

But, on the in-game description of the Raise Spiders skill it is:
"Minions have the same Level as the corpse"

What is true?

How does the syndicate encounter work?

I played like 30 hours in the past two days just to get a 3 star Hollick in transportation so I can +28 quality my weapon. but so far everything seems so random.

sometimes cards(or members) move for no reason to different divisions whenever I click their card on the ground.

I thought the next highest-ranking member will become the division captain when I run the hideout. However, I've seen members from different divisions become the hideout captain on the hideout I just ran.

my question is as follows. Is there a way to accurately, carefully, and intentionally make Hillock or any other members to become a 3-star hideout captain that does not rely on rng.

Thank you for your time in reading this post.

hi. i have a question about the new ,,Killed Enemies Explode, dealing 3% of their Life as Physical Damage,, mod on crusader chests.
does this work with minions like holy relics?
can someone try it out if they pop? because it sounds like a global mod.
would be really helpfull if someone could take the time for that =)


Thank you for your time in reading this post.

Quick clarification sought:

When a passive gives me "Enemies have -15% to Total Physical Damage Reduction against your hits", is that an absolute reduction, or a relative?

In other words: if an enemy normally has 60% reduction against my physical damage, does this passive turn that into 60-15=45% (absolute reduction) or 60*0.85=51% (relative reduction)?