Issues with PoBuilding and Skeleton Mages info.

Tried to see the DPS numbers for skeletal mages on PoB 1.4.95 and some values showed up, and i am not sure if it is the program that is bugged or that is how Skeletal Mages work all along.

So i tried the usual setup of (20/20):
Summon Skeleton
Minion Damage
Pierce
Elemental Focus
Spell Echo
Controlled Destruction

and gives around: 60183 DPS
but when i remove CD it gives me: 60183 DPS as well. Projectile and Spell support gems worked just fine but CD doesnt for some reason?

Replaced CD for Added Fire Dmg, which is "Phy into Extra Fire" dmg and it shouldn't work since skeletal mages technically convert the normal phy attack dmg into spell dmg of 1 of 3 elements, and yet the dmgs is: 80089 DPS.

Switched AFD for Elemental Dmg with Attks, which also shouldn't work since Skeleton Mages throw spells at enemies and not attacks, but the dmg is: 78236.5 DPS.

And there are other oddities like Slower Projectiles not increasing the dmg, but Faster Projectiles does, with the only difference between those is the description on the gems where FasterP INCREASES dmg and SlowerP gives MORE dmg.

But what is weirder is that the table shows 10K phy dmg and i am not sure if this is after or before skeletal mage conversion. Unless they were doing phy + random element dmg all along.

So what is going on?

Hard to say without seeing your POB. I know I definitely see scaling spell damage for my Skelly build. Make sure you selected the Skeletal mages, it should list 3 of them for fire, cold and lightning so you'll only see that damage type, unless you are buffing them with flat damage elsewhere.

It only shows the elemental dmg coming from the flat bonuses from Anger and Wrath (its a 8 aura mancer too) and zero cold damage for some reason even if there should be some by virtue of using Skeletal Mages. I guess the table just shows all damage before mage conversion, to the point the gem Ruthless increases the DPS despite mages not using melee attacks.

This is the build if you need to see it directly: https://pastebin.com/qDiPTmHf

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Alcamaydatraz632 wrote:

This is the build if you need to see it directly: https://pastebin.com/qDiPTmHf

When you select Summon Skeleton as active skill, you are selecting the "summon skeleton caster" minion option underneath right? Because I tried and controlled destruction adds 34k dps to the fire projectile when I look at it in minion skills (fire, cold and lightning projectiles).

There we go. I assumed that by caster it means "me" and not the skeleton caster. And i can see the phantasm too.