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That's not what I meant.
94 of phys added as elemental
Get all the physical damage in the world, you'll still be dealing 94% of that as elemental. Get a single weapon elemental passive, and that'll increase that same rate to more than 100% added as elemental.
Hence. You deal more elemental damage with your physical build.
Take into account that some enemies have capped resistances, you only deal 25% of your regular damage.
So 94% drops down to 23.5%, whereas armor will only drop a tiny bit since enemies have almost no armor. At least as far as we know.
So seeing how Atziri is now the ultimate enemy that is immune to curses, which is the best way to lower enemy resistance after penetration, physical is infinitely better than elemental.
A 20k DPS WoE build will deal at least 19k against Atziri, again considering what we know about enemy armor is correct, while an elemental build will be doing no more than 25% of their less than 10k DPS against her.
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Posted byNathariason Sep 16, 2014, 3:57:28 PM
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Take into account that some enemies have capped resistances, you only deal 25% of your regular damage.
So 94% drops down to 23.5%, whereas armor will only drop a tiny bit since enemies have almost no armor. At least as far as we know.
So seeing how Atziri is now the ultimate enemy that is immune to curses, which is the best way to lower enemy resistance after penetration, physical is infinitely better than elemental.
A 20k DPS WoE build will deal at least 19k against Atziri, again considering what we know about enemy armor is correct, while an elemental build will be doing no more than 25% of their less than 10k DPS against her.
Yeah, this isn't really a matter of what is better though, but on that note, it'd be nice if there were more ways to scale that physical damage through supports.
Atziri can be cursed, only she'll reflect that on you, which you can then dispel through flask. You're right about the resist vs armour clause though.
Also, Ele builds can get past 10k easily, and out of that 20k dps the WoE build has, only about half will be physical.
Last edited by lucksickle on Sep 16, 2014, 10:40:13 PM
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Posted bylucksickleon Sep 16, 2014, 10:39:01 PM
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Youre saying that like its GGGs fault players go ele damage instead of just pure phys. Dont want ele damage, dont use ele damage gems/gear.
Lol, that post.
"don't want ele damage, cut your arm off and deal less damage, you're not forced to use ele damage hue hue."
The reason elemental is so interesting is because you can do much more with it, between ailments, amplifying pure damage, mixing, etc. I can guarantee you spells would be boring as fuck too if the only thing you could support them with was stuff like "30% of fire damage added as cold" and so forth.
1/10, made me reply
So, you were complaining about every phys build having ele damage because of supports/gear and now youre saying something different? Lol, what? Phys is fine if you only want that. Melee phys on full life and inc melee phys and such are fine too.
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Posted byDeletedon Sep 17, 2014, 1:21:26 AM
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now youre saying something different?
Yeah, no. Try again.
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Posted bylucksickleon Sep 17, 2014, 1:32:20 AM
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