Add Elemental damage and Mines/Trap

Want to try a Trap/Mine build. Something I found odd is that I have a rare weapon with +Add 3 to 5 damage property. It doesn't add to Fire Trap damage. Why is that? I equip a Lesser Poison and the skill description shows 2 to 4 Chaos damage (but no 3 to 5 Cold damage). Odd?

This makes increasing Trap's damage rather difficult?

It's not made clear in the wording, but added damage stats on a weapon that don't specify what they apply to apply directly to the weapon. They don't increase the damage of spells or other skills that don't use the weapon to hit.

If you find any items that state they add damage to spells (including weapons), that will work.

Oh. I was watching youtube clip on a guy running Storm Burst and the bursts came out in Nova style. This is the staff that made it happen! So interesting.


But I still don't know why my weapon's Add 3 to 5 Cold damage does not apply to my Fire Trap. I socket a Add Cold damage gem and it adds damage.

Or I need Add Elemental damage to Spell to increase Fire Trap's damage since it's considered a Spell?

It has to say increased SPELL DAMAGE! on the weapon.

Try this dagger
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Divinarius

I use it for Shaddow, works pretty good.

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chinesefoodverygood wrote:

Oh. I was watching youtube clip on a guy running Storm Burst and the bursts came out in Nova style. This is the staff that made it happen! So interesting.


But I still don't know why my weapon's Add 3 to 5 Cold damage does not apply to my Fire Trap. I socket a Add Cold damage gem and it adds damage.

It sounds like you read viperesque's signature but not the rest of their post.

The reason is because of the way weapon explicits work, some are local and some are global,
1: Adds # to # (damage) is a local explicit and thus only add damage to the weapon and any skill that uses the weapon.
2: Adds # to # (damage) to spells is a global explicit and applies to all spells.
As traps is a spell it does not use the weapons local damage for its damage source so the local explicit will not affect it while the second one will as it is a global explicit.

As for the chaos damage you get on your fire trap that comes from the Lesser poison gem you have linked to your fire trap.