"Combat Focus" jewel? Why 50% less dmg?

When Ele Hit or Wild Strike pick an element, they deal zero damage of any other element, right? So... what's the point of removing X element from their selection, and also having it deal 50% less damage of an element it can't even choose?


My assumption is outdated text, and these Prismatic gems didn't always have the stipulation of only dealing the chosen damage type. But perhaps there's something I don't know, instead?

Damage conversion - its sort of explained here: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Elemental_Hit

The less damage is there because in the case of lightning or cold, you can still convert the unused damage type to a used one. It's particularly strong with Elemental Hit because of the way the gem actually works. It adds damage of ALL elemental damage types, but it just chooses and applies only one type per attack. That unused damage type (and any other sources/mods you have for it) is still there though, waiting to be converted.

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Example: If the player allocates the keystone Avatar of Fire, 50% of all lightning damage and 50% of all cold damage are converted to fire. This includes the flat damage inherently present on the gem. When Elemental Hit chooses fire, it will then deal significantly more damage than if the player did not have Avatar of Fire.

So, in their example...

Sure, with Avatar of Fire, it will deal 50% of its Cold and Lightning damage as even more Fire damage when it chooses Fire. However, it will still be unable to deal ANY damage at all when it chooses Cold or Lightning, as per Avatar of Fire's stipulation, correct?

And if it wasn't Avatar of Fire, but some random other thing that converted 50%/50% with no downside, it would make Ele Hit deal 50% Less when it chooses Cold or Lightning, because it can only deal those chosen types and half of it was turned into Fire?


So, effectively, these Combat Focus jewels are giving the 50% Less clause because that nerfs the amount you would gain for ditching Cold selection, and then converting it?

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ShadyC wrote:

When Ele Hit or Wild Strike pick an element, they deal zero damage of any other element, right?

Elehit yes, Wild Strike no.

Transitioning my build a bit to include conversion now. I think I accomplished this mostly smoothly...

I lost two of my OCD thresholds though. No longer have 5k HP and no longer have 50k Armour. I can regain that HP by level 99 though (I know, lol), and the Armour can be regained with some gem finagling... But I have grown to love Portal on my main swap and not on alt weapon swap... So I'll have to make some decisions, lmao.




I geuss wep swap isn't bad as long as no auras are on my weapon slots. Again, more gem finagling required.