Damage Conversion and Status Ailments
"If you look at an actual gem, you'll see that that is not what added lightning damage's quality bonus says. It just says "Chance to Shock", nothing about specifically with lightning damage. All chance to [elemental status] stats used to specify "with X damage" as a reminder to people that you needed to deal damage of the correct element to be able to cause the ailment. That was specifically changed when these kind of mods were introduced because it was no longer (necessarily) true. When ALD said "with lightning damage" It was because it was impossible to shock without lightning damage. Voltaxic Rift made that no longer the case, and so it was changed to what the gem now says: "Chance to Shock" with no qualifier about damage type. |
