Question about Innervate support gem and Heralds

@Vesuvius079 - That's true, and it probably isn't happening that often. I believed the tooltip on Herald of Thunder when it said that Innvervate was giving it a chance to shock, but according to 1337fun that isn't actually possible - still, it meant that for a while I thought I had 2 skills that should be giving me Onslaught.

@smithist - That culling strike idea is good, I'm going to try that. As for whether HoIce needs Added Lightning Damage - I don't know; again, I believed the tooltip that says it has a chance to shock, but maybe that's wrong. I'll add another link and see what happens with ALD.

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gusmonkey wrote:

@smithist - That culling strike idea is good, I'm going to try that. As for whether HoIce needs Added Lightning Damage - I don't know; again, I believed the tooltip that says it has a chance to shock, but maybe that's wrong. I'll add another link and see what happens with ALD.

Of course it has, if you take a node like elementalist in templar start every hit you do has a chance to freeze, shock or ignite. Those statuses will trigger, however their effect depends on the amount of related damage type you're doing, so if chance to shock procs and you do no lightning damage (or not enough lightning damage) nothing will happen.

Also, heralds won't add damage to one another, they add damage to attacks and spells, but they deal secondary damage.

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raics wrote:

...Those statuses will trigger, however their effect depends on the amount of related damage type you're doing, so if chance to shock procs and you do no lightning damage (or not enough lightning damage) nothing will happen.

I didn't understand this part - if chance to shock procs, then the target is shocked. Any further damage to that target is increased - that's all that shock does; it doesn't matter whether I do any more lightning damage or not. Is that not correct?

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gusmonkey wrote:

I didn't understand this part - if chance to shock procs, then the target is shocked. Any further damage to that target is increased - that's all that shock does; it doesn't matter whether I do any more lightning damage or not. Is that not correct?

No, shock duration depends on how much lightning damage you did in the hit that triggered shock, for instance, every time you crit all three status effects trigger automatically but you don't see anyone getting shocked on a pure physical crit build. If you did no lightning damage duration will be zero and if you did very little it may last too short to benefit from it with your next hit.

Ok, I need to be damaging enemies with lightning damage in order to extend the shock a useful amount of time. Answers another question I had about Ancestral Bond too. Thanks for the help