% exposure vs % Increased damage

How do they compare? Is it a 1:1 scale?
I tried tinkering around in PoB but I can't seem to find how to check if exposure influences calcs or not.
Last bumped on Oct 6, 2022, 7:18:06 PM
exposure is simply one of debuffs affecting enemy's elemental resistance. And you probably know that enemy resistance and your damage increases are different levels of multiplication.
Is there a wiki page or a website where I can find the exact numbers and calcs?
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Resistance_penetration

If you do 100 damage, and a mob has 50% resists, you do 50 damage.
If you apply 10% exposure, they have 40% resists, you do 60 damage.
So exposure added 60/50 or 20% more damage.

If you the mob had 0 resists, you do 100 damage.
If you apply 10% exposure, they have -10% resists, you do 110 damage.
This is 10% more damage.

So exposure and penetration both work to increase damage, but are particularly useful vs high resist mobs and bosses.
OP: With the exception of more multipliers and perhaps crit chance until you reach 100%, the more of something you get, the less effective each new increment is. There are far more ways to get a lot of %increased damage than there are of getting higher exposure.

Note that multiple sources of exposure do not stack. Only the strongest one will apply.
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Last edited by DoubleU#7266 on Oct 6, 2022, 7:18:18 PM

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