cold mastery

hello is it wise to convert 40% of physical damage to cold ?
i mean a monster can have ele or cold resistance so what is the benefits ?

If you're going to convert you want to convert as much as possible so you get to utilize penetration and curses for the element.
Converting just 40% is kinda.. eh

so you recommend not to convert ? because i had a feeling about this also ,
am using a 4 slots build now and am not sure if i will add penetration or other stuff

So with your frost blade duelist

- You have mostly elemental damage, so any physical damage nodes are doing almost nothing for your build.

- You are better off adding the 40% cold damage, and getting more elemental damage with attack skills on the tree

-Increased projectile damage is only helping on the projectile part of your attack. If you fight a boss, only the melee portion of the skill is hitting him, not the projectile. They hit targets behind him

- You will benefit from elemental damage with attacks on the tree, and damage with swords (but not Physical Damage with Swords)

This tree would double your single target dps.
https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/3.19.1/AAAABgQAPgviFHUbbyP2JC4wfDGwM5I94kMTQzFHfkjuSn1M_02STipW-luvXzllTWegdct313iuePl9dX7dfyuBrITZh3aK8I19jX6NuZAKkoCbLZzHo4qkwrCrt7a74702vqfEgsjMy_XTftRS3L3fb-Of5w_qYu4O74_9bv5F_roAAvt9C-Iz0xtv?accountName=Pr3scient&realm=pc&characterName=presscient

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trixxar wrote:

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rgr that. thank you very very very much for these vital and valuable data
i will start studying the tree at once . to make the mentioned changes .
i have been boosting the projectiles for clearing then i was going to work the other things out but i was going completely in other ways i was planning to add loads of physical damage so you saved me this time :p

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imanubcake wrote:

If you're going to convert you want to convert as much as possible so you get to utilize penetration and curses for the element.
Converting just 40% is kinda.. eh

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Frost_Blades

60% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage

60% + 40% = 100% so its not just 40% correct ?

"60% + 40% = 100% so its not just 40% correct ?"

Correct.


Physical could work if you end up with a high physical damage weapon.

Then you can convert 100%, and all the physical portion and +phys damage will help you.

But if you keep choosing weapons with high ele damage, then you want ele damage or just "damage with weapon" not physical.

High physical is usually harder to craft or find than a mix of high elemental damage, and more expensive. But is possible.

Good luck mate!

yes i will keep using ele damage weapons so bye bye to physical i am removing all physical damage from my tree but i have a very important question to you sir

in Two Hand Mastery are 2 very important skills :

40% increased Damage with Hits against Rare and Unique Enemies

Attacks with Two Handed Weapons deal 60% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments

now that a lot of damage and vs boss , but is this physical damage i should be avoiding ? or it will effect my upgraded ele damage as the sword dame dose ? thank you in advance

Nope, both are global damage so will work with elemental.

yes i understand now but had to make sure , physical damage is identified by physical damage not any other word , i have troubled you but you opened my eyes so one more question plz i have Oro's Sacrifice which i plan to use will it be better if i look for Replica Oro's Sacrifice coz of cold damage boosts ?

Hmm, just some re-routing of the tree and it should be ok, just keep avoiding phys and now avoid cold.

It will work fine with frost blades, because FB only converts phys to cold, so it will just do all fire FB damage.