Fire Penetration Support does not work with Lightning Golem

Hi!

I have Fire Penetration Support linked with Lightning Golem, but golems spells or hits does not penetrate any resistances. If I use Fire Penetration Support with any of my own skills it works fine.

It shows on my golem, that Minions penetrate 36% fire resistance.

I have tested it in PvP.

Thank You for replay:)

Just a thought that a lightning golem maybe doesn't deal fire damage.

So it means that Fire Penetration works only temporary (like 1 hit = 1 use). It does not last for few seconds or something?

Btw, it worked with Ball Lightning...

Artestoz,

It's difficult to explain why your character works a certain way when we're unable to see it. Would you mind changing your privacy settings so that we can see your characters?

If you're using something to cause Ball Lightning to deal Fire Damage, then it will benefit from Fire Resistance. By default, Lightning Golem only deals Lightning Damage. For it to benefit from Fire Penetration Support, it would need to do some Fire Damage.

Fire Penetration Support doesn't apply a debuff or anything; it affects the hits of linked skills just like other Support gems do. You might be interested in using Flammability, possibly with Blasphemy. Another option is Scorching Ray, either using it yourself or having a totem use it.

Sarno,

Thank You for replay!

Now I understand the mechanism how Fire Penetration Support works. Now connected directly to Flame Golem:)

Just as a correction: it is no use of using Curse On Hit Support linked with Golem or any other minions, because Minions cannot apply curses this way. It is said under Curse On Hit Support description.

Thank You for Your time!

Okay. You might want to back up a few (dozen) steps here, Art.

Gathering from clues in this thread...you're using Flame Golems for damage, and you want to use a secondary skill and/or minion (Lightning Golem?) to reduce the fire resistance of enemies being attacked by your Fire Golems?

Or, to put it a bit more shortly: what are you trying to do?

If you're looking to weaken enemies for Flame Golems, there are much easier ways to do that. Elsewise yes - Fire Penetration goes on the Fire Golem, and if you're building a Flame Golemancer you probably don't want to be summoning Lightning Golems at all.

You should do some homework first, lacking some basic concept, fire penetration is a support gem, a support gem is for what? support a linked active gem, the effect is " hits from xxx skill penetrate xx% fire resistances" , what you did is looking at it like an active debuff gem, that's not how support gems work.