Mechanics thread

Didnt want to make a thread about this because I'm pretty sure I know the answer. Is the damage from ignite considered burn damage? In other words, does increased burn damage passives affect ignite damage?

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BRavich wrote:

Didnt want to make a thread about this because I'm pretty sure I know the answer. Is the damage from ignite considered burn damage? In other words, does increased burn damage passives affect ignite damage?

I am pretty sure to know the answer as well from what I can see in the passives tree. There's a node called "Burn Duration" and it gives "30% increased ignite duration". So burn and ignite appears to be used synonymously.

edit: burning duration deals 1/3 of the dealt fire damage for a duration of 4 seconds, dealing 1/3 of the damage each second :D

Reason I wanted to check is because searing touch has a whopping 70% increased burn damage, which seems pretty damn powerful if it applies to ignite.

Well, what else could it possibly apply to?^^
Yes, it's two words for the same.
You ignite something, then it burns.

It could apply to burn damage from fire trap, but I suppose that would be pretty limited.

So I may be a little late to the party on this one, or a lot late for my sake...but here's the question (totally embarrassed to have to ask this).

Say I have 50 base life.
I have a piece of gear that gives me +50 base life.
Making total life equal to 100.

I pick up a +8% life node on the passive skill tree.

1) Does this award 8 extra life based on total life, or only 4 life based on base life?

2) If I were to remove the gear piece after taking the node, assuming it adds the % to the total life, would 4 life be removed, that was awarded from the node at the time of wearing the piece of gear, or would it stay?

3) If I were to take another 8% node, how would this be added? Would it add itself to the now 104/108 life, or would it be a percentage of the 50/100 life?

Does this apply across the board for things like mana/armor/evasion/energy shield nodes?

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Vipermagi wrote:

Percentage-Life (and Mana, ES etc.) applies to all flat Life. When you reduce your Life amount, the gains from percentage-Life is recalculated, just like with every other percentage based bonus.

50 base, 50 from gear, 8% from passives would be 108. Add another 8% from passives, and you get +16%, or 116 total. Remove gear, and you're left with 58 (50+16%).

Thank you, I guess I was just thinking into it too much. Glad the calculations are a lot simpler.

So, I've been wondering, but when an elemental curse like Frostbite increases the chance for an cold attack to freeze, does this mean the freeze is also a crit? Or does it only give an x% chance to freeze without critting?

So, for crit chance purposes, is Critical Weakness curse better than elemental curses? Because the latter add a better % at any given level, it doesn't imply that the elemental proc will be a crit.