Mechanics thread

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BRavich wrote:

Will converted elemental damage dealt with facebreaker count as weapon elemental damage?

Weapon elemental damage requires a weapon.

Because of this:

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Vipermagi wrote:

Are you looking at the Attack Speed for Frenzy?

The Skill Frenzy gains bonus Damage and Attack Speed based on how many Frenzy Charges you have. That's what the Skill description says. It does not make Frenzy Charges more powerful; your other skills do not gain the additional Damage and IAS.

Frenzy Charges are Frenzy Charges. They aren't (anc can't possibly be) any different to any other frenzy charge.
One of your frenzy gems has higher quality, and as a result, gains more bonus to attack speed and damage for each charge you have.

Your default attack is not that frenzy skill, does not have it's quality bonus, so does not benefit from it.

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0nin wrote:

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Vipermagi wrote:

When you Block Viper Strike, it still Hits and applies a Charge. :) It just stops the melee damage. Puncture will deal zero damage and presumably not apply a DoT (a zero DPS DoT would be silly).

Blocked Puncture does in fact apply a 0 damage DoT.

Not anymore - a few patches ago we changed how on-hit effects apply for blocking and cases of no damage.
Dealing 0 damage won't prevent anything from happening - an Ancestral Bond user still gets life gain on hit, and will get flat damage reflection (not % reflection, since it would be a percentage of 0), but blocking will now prevent the attacker's on-hit effects (but not the defender's on-being-hit ones, such as reflection).
As a result, Spiked shields no longer prevent their own effect, among other things.

Conversion on the skill is locked in and always happens at the full amount. Other conversion is scaled down to fit the remaining % of damage.
So you convert full 40% to cold, and each of the other 50% effects is scaled down to 30%.

Never mind, misread the question and assumed we were talking about conversion on the same damage.

The Ice Shot skill is converting 40% to cold from the skill, and 50% to whatever from the quiver. 10% remains physical.
The Lightning Arrow skill is converting 50% to lightning, and 50% to whatever from the quiver. No damage remains physical.

One of these being on a totem is completely irrelevant.

These are separate skills. You are never dealing damage that is ice shot damage and lightning arrow damage, so there is never any possible case where both skill conversions are applying together. If you use Lightning arrow, you are not using ice shot, and vis versa.

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Mammii wrote:

I don't believe quantity affects chests anymore, i went running with 180% quantity and there were chests spawning 0 items still, and not just one or 2, but at least 50% of the chests. Not sure how this can be the case

Edit: also if you run the unique vaults map, with 180% quantity, with 6 players in game, some chests Still dont drop items... srsly why did GGG make this terrible change

We didn't -that's not a change. Those stats have never applied to chests.

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When I look at the tooltip, it shows the base damage of my explosions

The answer is in fact in your own post. It's not possible to show the total damage of the explosion because that depends on unknown (and unknowable) factors, so it shows the base damage per target, to which the increases apply.

The skill cannot possibly know in advance how many charges will be present in the explosion. It would need that to show the total damage of the explosion, factoring in all modifiers. Since this is clearly impossible, it instead shows the base damage.

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chrisstian5 wrote:

Another question, does the reflected cold damage cause you to have the chilled effect on you if the duration is greater than 300ms?

No. Reflected damage cannot (currently) apply any on-hit effects.

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moozooh wrote:

It's definitely not directly multiplying the amount of items dropped by enemies. Otherwise every mob would drop at least 2 items with 100% IIQ

That would only be the true if with 0% IIQ, every mod dropped at least one item, which is not the case.