Path of Building Question

I have wast... er, I mean invested at least 10 hours into PoB making my own build for Crucible, from scratch, on my off day from work (lol). But honestly I don't usually use PoB... I usually just wing it. Which is why I have a question about how PoB works.

There is a box in the Configuration screen that says For Effective DPS.

And within that box there are three options that say Enemy was it by Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage?

For whatever reason when I check the boxes for Enemy Was Hit by Fire/Lightning, I get 10 million DPS on my character. But if I check Enemy was Hit by Cold damage my character gets 7 million DPS.

I do not have Elemental Equilibrium. In fact... I have unequipped all items and removed all passive nodes AND gem links from character so that only the active skill is equipped. And it still gains damage in a similiar way on the much smaller scale and I have no idea why. No ascendancy passives... nothing is checked. The active skill is a cold skill... so it's saying if I hit with my actual damage type I lose damage, but if I hit with a different damage type... I can it? Or what exactly do those boxes mean?

Hard to say without knowing the skill you use and seeing the pob.

Would be helpful if you share the code:
[import/export build] top left, [generate], [share]
this will give you a link you can post here, so we can have a look

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sham_pain wrote:

Hard to say without knowing the skill you use and seeing the pob.

Would be helpful if you share the code:
[import/export build] top left, [generate], [share]
this will give you a link you can post here, so we can have a look

Oh thanks for the help. I figured it out now. I unallocated the EE passive, but there was a check box still active in the menu even after I unequipped everything else. Oh well. Good news is I discovered 4 million more DPS because of this misunderstanding.

Ah okay, but beware that with EE, if you always deal cold damage with every hit, you will not gain the the -25% resistance from exposure to cold, which seems to be your main damage. If you hit the enemy with only fire or lightning damage or both, the enemy will have -25% cold res, but effectively only for your next hit with cold damage, because then the cold damage will remove the cold exposure.

Imo EE is only good for skills like Elemental Hit which alternates randomly which type of elemental damage you do with every hit

Create a brand new build and see if those checkboxes are still there. It could be there as soon as you added an elemental skill, perhaps?

Besides EE, the other reason I know that will surely spawn those checkboxes is if you have equipped Malachai's Artifice ring.