Inpulsa's Broken Heart comprehension

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Inpulsa's Broken Heart body armour

When i read description to this body armour i cant traslate and understand this phrase: -"(25-40)% increased Effect of Shock"

What does it mean?

1. Increasing damage?
2. Increasing duration of shock?
3. In general off topic question - Can i shock unique boss?
4. all together?

Thanks

By default, the effect of shock makes it so that a monster will take 10% to 50% more damage when shocked depending on the amount of lightning damage dealt. Now, let's assume you hit a monster hard enough to apply shock to the tune of 20% and Inpulsa increases that effect by 40% then the monster will take 28% more damage while being shocked (20 + 40% = 28).

Any hit that does not deal at least 1% of the monster maximum life as lightning damage will be discarded and cannot apply shock regardless your chance to shock (even if it is a critical strike which has an inherent 100% chance to shock). Therefore it is extremely hard to shock endgame bosses with insane health pools. For example, The Shaper has well over 18 mio HP so in order to apply shock he must take more than 180,000 lightning damage from a single hit, not to be confused with DPS.

Execption to this rule is the Elementalist with Beacon of Ruin which overrides the 1% threshold and the base shock effect value is 20% more damage taken.

Other means to apply shock are Vaal Lightning Trap and Vessel of Vinktar.

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Any hit that does not deal at least 1% of the monster maximum life as lightning damage will be discarded and cannot apply shock regardless your chance to shock

Thats wrong. You dont have to deal atleast 1% of the enemys max hp in one hit to shock, you have to deal enough damage in one hit to atleast get an shock with 1% effect. You get the maximum shock (50%) if you deal 10% of the enemys max hp, so for a 1% shock you need to deal 10%/50 = 0.2% of the enemys max hp in one hit.

You're right, I stand corrected... my bad.

The minimum effect of shock that can be applied is 1% of course, not 10%. Whether 1% shock is worth your while though is not for me to decide.

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Hits below the minimum threshold of 1% effect are discarded, effectively requiring a hit of 0.2% enemy maximum life. As an example, The Shaper has approximately 20 000 000 life. Minimally shocking The Shaper requires a single hit of 40 000 lightning damage.

But as I said, the Elementalist is predestined for Inpulsa as the damage threshold simply does not apply (Beacon of Ruin) and any hit with just 1 lightning damage can apply shock to the tune of 20% more damage taken and the effect will then be boosted by Inpulsa to up to 28%... not to mention all the other goodies from this beautiful body armour. Still heaps of fun... even after the nerf. ;)

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tomay wrote:

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Goldarm5 wrote:

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Thank you all for detailed reply

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tomay wrote:

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Hits below the minimum threshold of 1% effect are discarded, effectively requiring a hit of 0.2% enemy maximum life. As an example, The Shaper has approximately 20 000 000 life. Minimally shocking The Shaper requires a single hit of 40 000 lightning damage.

About the DPS

It is said that "Minimally shocking The Shaper requires a single hit of 40 000 lightning damage"

It is meand damage on one hit or DPS?

Thanks

A Single Hit is not a Damage per Second. It's a single hit, so 40k Damage with ONE hit, either you shoot your spell once in 5s or 25 times a second.

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Alyaa wrote:

A Single Hit is not a Damage per Second. It's a single hit, so 40k Damage with ONE hit, either you shoot your spell once in 5s or 25 times a second.

Thank you for your reply

" either you shoot your spell once in 5s" - you meant 5 seconds - it may be damage over time? You mean if i have skill that has damage over time then i should meassure off it during 5 secons?

It's a little difficalt for my first character - i have storm call damage 3218 points and 10.8 times a secont - 34750 DPS - how can i find out whether is my DPS sufficient to SHOCK monsters if i kill them during 1-2 seconds (excluding bosses).

I don't know the amount of the monster's life to calculate it (mobs)

Thanks

Damage over time doesn't hit.
I should have written 5 second but, you get it.

For Storm Call, you deal 3k2 damage ... so not enough to Shock Shaper.
For other monster, well ... if you deal 3k Damage on a Rare monster, you may be able to Shock them, depends on their life.
Exception is Critical Strike with Lightning Damage ALWAYS Shock.

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Alyaa wrote:

Damage over time doesn't hit.
I should have written 5 second but, you get it.

For Storm Call, you deal 3k2 damage ... so not enough to Shock Shaper.
For other monster, well ... if you deal 3k Damage on a Rare monster, you may be able to Shock them, depends on their life.
Exception is Critical Strike with Lightning Damage ALWAYS Shock.

Thank you for your helpful reply

I have elemental overload and have 1 critical strice during 8 second like elem. overload demands - and get about 4200 damage

How you said: - "Exception is Critical Strike with Lightning Damage ALWAYS Shock"

can my critical strike once during 8 seconds be considered as a lightning critical strike?

If multiply 10.8 on 4200 damage - get 45k DPS - in this case can i shock The shaper or i should have single 40k hit?

Thanks