Shock + DoT interaction

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Aldonés wrote:

I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think damaging ailments benefit from the enemy having increased damage taken modifiers because the initial hit does, and the ailment’s damage is based off of that hit. Otherwise, that would allow the ailment to double dip which is generally a no-no. It’s the same with increased fire damage. The mod is only applied to the initial hit, but if you have a skill like RF that only applies burning damage, then it does benefit from the modifier.

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DER_PSYCHOPATH wrote:

There are various incorrect things about this.

Ailment damage has not depended on the actual damage of the hit since 3.0. Instead, ailments have separate damage rolls with the skill's base damage of the applicable damage types, and then apply their own modifiers. Some of these modifiers apply to both hits and ailments (e.g. fire or elemental damage for ignite and fire hits) and some only apply to damage over time.

Other than double-dipping, snapshotting does not exist either. The damage the enemy takes from an ongoing DoT debuff is updated every time either your or its stats change. An ignited enemy will take increased damage when it is shocked, even if that shock was inflicted after the ignite, and the ignite will become stronger if the character inflicting the ignite gains a modifier to its damage, such as the damage portion of Pendulum of Destruction.