Fire Trap (Chaos Proliferation)

Hi Folks,

Does anyone know if burn damage can be converted to chaos and proliferated? For example, fire trap to ignite + 100% conversation to chaos and then proliferated with gem to spread the chaos?

Perhaps, I am missing something but I think this is a possibility?

Thanks,
AB


damage over time cannot be converted

only elemental status ailments (freeze, chill, shock, ignite) can proliferate, burning ground is not
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What about crit from fire trap or lets say any other fire spell ?
hits will be converted, but crits with chaos damage cause no status ailments
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Last edited by Ludvator#6587 on Feb 2, 2016, 2:26:48 PM
Burn damage can not be converted, but you can achieve something similar using consuming dark + infernal mantle to convert fire to chaos dmg. Since using consuming dark your chaos dmg will poison enemies, then you can couple that with Bino's to spread poison. For spread can also use abyssal cry. I am using build poison firestorm trap which kind of does similar thing:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1541692
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Raye wrote:
I think this would be a much more effective solution if you want to go chaos prolif.

Bear trap does more direct damage which can be converted. Southbound gloves are a must to make sure the poison kills the monsters, or else Bino's won't work (Bino says when you kill, so traps normally won't trigger it, but DoT bypasses southbound and is bugged as to always attribute the player for the kill).
Since poison is based on phys and chaos you don't need to convert the damage either, even though that means you can't really go 100% chaos/DoT scaling since it would be kind of ineffective.
However, the great thing is that Vulnerability scales both the phys hit and the following DoT, so that should counter that you can't scale the hit and DoT together.


I've been thinking about different ways to spread the poison mechanic. It seems that bino's atm is the only way to do it.

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