Elemental focus change im confused by it

Elemental Focus Support can now support skills which inflict elemental ailments.


i play Vortex and i use EF on it
works just fine

what is this changing exactly?

Cold dot is not an elemental ailment. this change is pretty much about some random skill that only inflicts elemental ailment that i can not think of.

something like focus skill that shocks nearby enemy or occultist passives that freeze nearby enemy but in from of active skill and can be supported by support skill gems.

but yeah, with this change, that kind of skill becomes pretty much useless if you support it with Elemental Focus.

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Ozxell wrote:

Cold dot is not an elemental ailment. this change is pretty much about some random skill that only inflicts elemental ailment that i can not think of.

something like focus skill that shocks nearby enemy or occultist passives that freeze nearby enemy but in from of active skill and can be supported by support skill gems.

but yeah, with this change, that kind of skill becomes pretty much useless if you support it with Elemental Focus.

focus skills and ascendancy are not supported by elemental focus
Vortex creates a Chilling area so it does apply an ailment which i assumed was negated by the EF

im not understanding what this does ive used EF on light spells as well to get more raw dmg and get my shock elsewhere

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RitualMurder wrote:

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Ozxell wrote:

Cold dot is not an elemental ailment. this change is pretty much about some random skill that only inflicts elemental ailment that i can not think of.

something like focus skill that shocks nearby enemy or occultist passives that freeze nearby enemy but in from of active skill and can be supported by support skill gems.

but yeah, with this change, that kind of skill becomes pretty much useless if you support it with Elemental Focus.

focus skills and ascendancy are not supported by elemental focus
Vortex creates a Chilling area so it does apply an ailment which i assumed was negated by the EF

im not understanding what this does ive used EF on light spells as well to get more raw dmg and get my shock elsewhere

i recommend you to read my post again.

in short, it's have nothing to do with you, you're fine.

I am actually kinda baffled.

Of course it worked with vortex because it has a on-Hit effect along the DoT, even if it's used mostly for the DoT. using eleFocus there meant that the hit won't have a chance to freeze if crit, and both the Chilling Area and the hit won't be able to chill (unless Chilling Area counts as a Chilled Ground, which would apply that Chill effect at a fixed value regardless of eleFocus)

And so far it has always worked with Righteous Fire, which applies a fire DoT on both player and nearby enemies. Or Scorching Ray, which is a totem that deals only fire DoT

So... what gives?
There are few other skills I can think about that only delivers their damage as an elemental ailment (Herald of Ash), or that works with elemental ailment in general (Skitterbots).
Maybe now it could help builds with Infernal Legion? If a Righteous Fire supported by a Totem can have Swift Affliction on it because it gets a "Duration" modifier, perhaps the same applies to a non-fire minion supported by Infernal Legion?