stone golems and ruthless??

so im playing stone golems and i just noticed that the damage from the slam ability dosnt change if i put in ruthless, but the roll dps and the normal hit dps do change ?



The golem can use the following skills:

Granite Fist - Regular melee attack, 100% physical, supported by melee supports.

Rolling Stone - Attack skill similar to WhirlingBladesWhirling Blades, 100% physical, supported by melee supports.

Slab Slam - AoE melee attack approximately 20 units in radius, 100% physical, taunts enemies, supported by melee/AoE supports.


is this intended or a pob bug or somehting ?

Only the Ruthless blow (every 3rd hit) gets boosted. So this would impact "DPS" but you won't see a change in an actual hit unless that was a third hit.

i know that but for the normal attack and for the roll the dps from the skill is changing in pob, but not for the slam so i was wondering if it even works with the slam

Both the roll and slam have a cooldown (I want to say 6 seconds each) so maybe PoB just assumes that a ruthless strike will never be used by those with any consistency so its disregarded.


And for my quick check in PoB the roll nor slam dps change with ruthless but the other attack does.

ah ur right it didnt change for both i somehow remember it was only the slam.

Oddly enough, minion slam skills don't carry the "Slam" type/tag in their data.

It could be an oversight based on the fact that almost all minions predate the distinction between Slam/Strike/neither by a number of years. Could also be intentional to limit minions power, as it is possible to make Stone Golems and Zombies use only their slam attack. It was possible, at least, but it's been a while for me, so I'm not sure if that still works.

Their spinning attack is neither a slam nor a strike, so that's why it won't work there.

That just leaves their very basic melee attack, which does qualify as a Strike, for Ruthless to support.

RockGolemSlam
Attack, Area, Triggerable
Base Damage: 2059–3088
Critical Strike Chance: 5%
Attack Damage: 200%
Attack Damage: 200%
Attack Time: 1 Second
Cooldown Time: 4 Second
33% chance to Taunt on Hit
Deals 100% more Attack Damage
20% less Attack Speed
active skill area of effect radius +% final [200]
is area damage [1]