Deaths Oath DoT

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On what basis do you say that? Thorns and Dying Breath are completely different mechanics from raw degen damage like Death's Oath gives. Dying Breath doesn't say "Turns on an aura that gives 18% damage to nearby allies", which is why it can't be scaled. Death's Oath doesn't _need_ to be an aura, it's just degen damage that *looks* like an aura.

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raics wrote:

Thorns are known to be unscalable, and I tested Dying Breath once. If DB effect isn't an aura it still has a radius and should be scaled by generic AoE increases, but it doesn't, nothing affects it because you aren't the one using the skill. So, even if it was an aura it wouldn't make any difference because aura passives are very specific about that, they say 'auras you cast...'.

So, I'm fairly sure the chaos degen from Death's Oath is also an item effect, you aren't doing it so your passives don't affect it. Bino's area heal/poison is another good example, that one seems to be some kind of a proliferation effect, and proliferation doesn't do any damage by itself so it depends on your damage, however, item provides the radius of that proliferation and it can't be scaled in any way.