Cultist Bow Physical damage rolls don't affect final chaos damage

Currently, cultist bow base types have a hidden implicit that converts local physical damage into chaos damage. I think that if this implicit existed in PoE 1, local %physical damage modifiers would have affected the final chaos damage. However, now that damage conversion only cares about the final damage type, this bow is currently completely useless, as physical damage modifiers have no effect.

If this is intentional, as chaos damage was deemed too strong, I suggest that local physical damage modifiers are converted to apply to chaos damage at 80% of their current value. Or something to that effect. Having an item that has so many dead modifiers feels really, really bad.

Agreed. This needs to be changed. Bows can't roll Chaos damage by default so there's literally just no way to scale this bow outside of attack speed and non-chaos flat added damage with a 50% chance of getting mods that are literally just dead slots such as physical leech or increased physical.

Agreed.

can you roll addition flat physical on this bow?

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SaltNPeppr#7975 wrote:

can you roll addition flat physical on this bow?

Yes, the additional physical does not convert.