Elemental damage takes as Physical

Dear GGG,

As you guys know currently there are a lot of ways of mitigating elemental damage to other types of elemental damage taken, would it be possible to have a way to convert your elemental damage taken to be physical damage?

(by elemental damage in mean only one type of element (fire, cold or lightning) as all elemental damage taken as Phys would be way to strong of a defense mechanic.)

Perhaps in the form of a Unique item like chest piece the Rat cage: https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rat_Cage . Or in the form of passive nodes in the skill tree or a unique jewel/passive node like the Divine Flesh (from Glorious Vanity) with a downside to it.

would the ability to convert the element(al) damage taken to physical be to overpowered or do you think if it's scaled or balanced enough it would be interesting to build in.

Kind regards,
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According to the wiki
Damage conversion only flows in one direction between types, possibly skipping types, but never going in reverse: Physical → Lightning → Cold → Fire → Chaos.

I assume the internal logic is same for damage taken as.

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thiendaoxuan wrote:

According to the wiki
Damage conversion only flows in one direction between types, possibly skipping types, but never going in reverse: Physical → Lightning → Cold → Fire → Chaos.

I assume the internal logic is same for damage taken as.

this is true and the reason for it is to prevent infinite chains

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I assume the internal logic is same for damage taken as.

no.
He even linked existing example rat cage.

The difference in taking damage AS is that it is done in single step, so converion direction does not matter at all, you can even have:
50% of fire damage taken as cold with 50% of cold damage taken as fire at the same time. It doesnt loop because it is done just single time, in a single step.


Not sure why would you want to take elemental as phys since usually the way around it offers way higher mitigation, well maybe with smaller quantities it's better.. Well anyways, variety is good i suppose.

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Andrius319 wrote:

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I assume the internal logic is same for damage taken as.

no.
He even linked existing example rat cage.

Oh I see, my bad.

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Andrius319 wrote:

Not sure why would you want to take elemental as phys since usually the way around it offers way higher mitigation, well maybe with smaller quantities it's better.. Well anyways, variety is good i suppose.

I'd expect some sort of attempt to use the minus res , or res is 0 type of items that are in the game while cheesing the downside of converting dmg taken.

@OP Damage taken as has even own page :) https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Damage_taken_as

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thiendaoxuan wrote:

According to the wiki
Damage conversion only flows in one direction between types, possibly skipping types, but never going in reverse: Physical → Lightning → Cold → Fire → Chaos.

I assume the internal logic is same for damage taken as.

No

Damage taken as and damage conversation are two things

Damage taken taken as can be any order but only change the type once