Cherrubim's Maleficence

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RogueMage wrote:

Viper Strike was overhauled with Patch 1.2 to have 50% chance for each hit to proc a Chaos DoT charge. Since the charges stack without limit, the quicker you can proc charges, the higher the accumulated Chaos DoT rate will climb.

The magnitude of the hit matters, it's +12.5% of the hit's damage per second for a damage effectiveness of 2x total (Or around 1.55 after resistance that absolutely will be there) for basic Viper Strike. Attacking faster merely causes the DPS to more closely stick to the median.

Using Two Handed swords with it would be fine, aside from the fact that Daggers are grotesquely five million times more powerful than every other weapon in the game while non-mace two handed weapons have... drawbacks for scant gain.

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LimitedRooster wrote:

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RogueMage wrote:

Viper Strike was overhauled with Patch 1.2 to have 50% chance for each hit to proc a Chaos DoT charge. Since the charges stack without limit, the quicker you can proc charges, the higher the accumulated Chaos DoT rate will climb.

The magnitude of the hit matters, it's +12.5% of the hit's damage per second for a damage effectiveness of 2x total (Or around 1.55 after resistance that absolutely will be there) for basic Viper Strike. Attacking faster merely causes the DPS to more closely stick to the median.

Covered the hit damage conversion to Chaos in my earlier post. What you appear to miss is how VS Chaos charges can be stacked without limit, meaning there is likewise no limit on how high the total Chaos DoT dps can reach (aside from charge duration limits). Would be interesting to try this against level-7 Vagan...

There's a very real limit to the damage and it's basically just how much you can stack in the time frame before it expires, so.. DPS conversion per sec x secs for max DPS

In any case, I would ignore the chaos damage stat and focus on the fact that it gives increase life leech rate which can be very desirable.