Chaos Damage Skills dont do Chaos Damage???

Chaos damage seems lacking overall, currently trying an essence drain build, entered maps and the lack of damage is obvious. T1s are ok, just got a total of +7 to spells/chaos spells, almost every chaos node on tree, and yet it can feel lacking.

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cryax1#3407 wrote:

There is the 25% of phys as extra chaos gem and i think around another %10 on the tree which would scale from chaos nodes i think. But the cultist bow seems pointless as there are no local mods for that bow that scale it's chaos damage so your stuck with the base damage it has.

There is a chaos damage convert of 25% of overall skill damage to extra chaos. BUT also reduces all non chaos damage by 50%. In all my tests with and without chaos damage on bow you will loose damage instead of gaining it until you habe a ton of chaos damage multiplier but you can also just intrease physical without the penalty... and higher value at that...

This would only change if the chaos skill would naturally convert some physical to chaos damage so the overall chaos damage the skill does would be significantly higher than the other damage sources your skill has and you could equip other bows instead of cultist bow....