Ice Nova Strongbox dealing more damage than intended?

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I tanked hundreds of those throughout the league on t16 maps. This map and strongbox have no dangerous mods. Cold resistance is 80 percent. It felt potentionally buggy. If you are on it, please give some information of the damage type and range of these strongbox novas. No inforamtion about that anywhere.

Best regards.

Bl1zZ4rD

Hard to tell by screenshots, but I'm guessing the 44% CDR meant lower uptime for your Bone Offering and Steelskin.

Someone else would have to confirm, but if the 26% damage increase works on the strongbox, then that could high-roll 6k if you missed the block, suppress via flask, and Steelskin were down all at the same time. Unless it was a crit? I can't remember offhand if those can crit.

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Bl1zZ4rD wrote:

I tanked hundreds of those throughout the league on t16 maps.

It's statistics, past cannot be used to predict the future.
May have blocking a few and this is the one time you didn't block.
Chest level can affect the damage, the damage can also crit
So whether you blocked or not on previous attempts, the ice nova may not just have crit, until that one time it did and now you're here submitting a bug post.

Which is why, the majority of everyone else who isn't 90% cold res, convert 25% elemental to chaos and be chaos immune.... just run away after clicking a strongbox.

For some reason ice nova has an extra huge AOE.. i was looking for an answer to this myself, seems overpowered now.

Others might want to suspend their disbelief until they actually investigate it themselves.

bumping a languishing thread

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xUFOx wrote:

For some reason ice nova has an extra huge AOE.. i was looking for an answer to this myself, seems overpowered now.

Others might want to suspend their disbelief until they actually investigate it themselves.

bumping a languishing thread

Strongbox inherit AoE from the map mods. I'm running high explicit modifier atlas so my Strongboxes with AoE are larger than the screen. But without the AoE map mod they look normal size to me and easy to dodge out if I couldn't tank it.

And I have run a lot of strongboxes since I posted my other reply a month ago. If I managed to stack -max res, suppress, and aoe together.. I have to immediately double dash out or die. But I did it to myself rolling the modifiers that way and that high.