Righteous Fire and Damage Conversion

Hello,

I have a question about self-inflicted damage from Righteous Fire.

Now I'm aware there has been some questions answered in https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/661547 but it doesn't cover mine, which is about the eyes of the greatwolf unique.

I am also aware that Consuming Dark + Infernal Mantle does not convert Righteous Fire's self-inflicted damage to chaos. Yet what I want to ask concerns a different mechanic (damage "taken" rather than "dealt")

I was wondering if you roll a "100% of fire damage taken converted to X (insert any other element here)" on the unique t4 talisman Eyes of the Greatwolf, would that conversion apply to burning damage taken from Righteous Fire?

Damage over time is never converted.

He's talking about "damage taken as" not "damage converted to." I think it's work but I'm not sure.

Although I don't see the advantage in taking it as cold.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

He's talking about "damage taken as" not "damage converted to." I think it's work but I'm not sure.

Although I don't see the advantage in taking it as cold.

It would make new builds possible. I saw a talisman with 100% fire damage taken as cold + 40% increased global defences. I thought it'd enable a very nice CI aegis aurora righteous fire build but this part has been puzzling me.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

He's talking about "damage taken as" not "damage converted to." I think it's work but I'm not sure.

Although I don't see the advantage in taking it as cold.

Does giving or taking matter? I don't know any instance of damage over time getting converted to something else. But I may not be aware of anything new doing this.

Aside from that...even if it were possible, you'd have to find a cold version of rise of the phoenix or I don't think you could ever get cold resist high enough.

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mark1030 wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

He's talking about "damage taken as" not "damage converted to." I think it's work but I'm not sure.

Although I don't see the advantage in taking it as cold.

Does giving or taking matter? I don't know any instance of damage over time getting converted to something else. But I may not be aware of anything new doing this.

Aside from that...even if it were possible, you'd have to find a cold version of rise of the phoenix or I don't think you could ever get cold resist high enough.

Aegis Aurora does something close to that, raises max. cold res. Saffel's frame might be another option. And if you go CI, you'd require less regen & max. resist compared to a life based RF'er, since RF burns for 70% of ES instead of 90%.

But that's another discussion.

I suppose the only way to get a definitive answer is to ask the owner of that talisman to test it out and see if RF actually does cold damage with that talisman equipped.

Unfortunately, no, damage over time can't be converted or shifted to another element. You can test that easily, start blood rage, equip lightning coil and you will see it doesn't slow down.

I think Mark mentioned it's an engine limitation of some sort, so it would most likely require copious amounts of coding to implement, if it was possible at all.