Penance Brand of Dissipation Question

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Just bought



and am wondering why the ingame tool doesnt change after clicking Ele Weakness.
Its still working, right?


What i dont understand about that skill is

1. Does Runebinder's You can have an additional Brand attached to an enemy
and the Brand Mastery You can cast 2 additional Brands refer to 3 more Brands of my main skill?
Or from a different like Storm Brand? I guess my own but not sure.

2. Is Swiftbrand Support the reason high Cast Speed is required?
Do i have to constantly press Penance Brand so the old Brand gets replaced?
If so i dont get the high Cast Speed because i sure cant click 3 times per second anyway.

3. I understand what Less attachement duration is.
But what is Less detached duration?
Something like a cooldown untill the next brand can be attached?

4. Increased AoE does not increase the Attachment Range, right?

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LoTharios#3338 wrote:

and am wondering why the ingame tool doesnt change after clicking Ele Weakness.

Damage gained as a random element doesn't occur until the skill is used and the random element is chosen, so it isn't reflected in the tooltip. The most notable occurance of this is Doomfletch, which used to grant damage as a random element and now grants damage of each element--but, to my understanding, the "damage gained as each element" still doesn't display that damage in the tooltip either.

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1. Does Runebinder's You can have an additional Brand attached to an enemy
and the Brand Mastery You can cast 2 additional Brands refer to 3 more Brands of my main skill?
Or from a different like Storm Brand? I guess my own but not sure.

By default, you can summon 3 total brands, and an enemy can have one brand attached. Both of these are regardless of type: if you have 3 Storm Brands and use Wintertide Brand, one Storm Brand will expire; while a Storm Brand is attached to an enemy, no other brand can attach to it until that Storm Brand detaches or expires.

Runebinder allows you to have 2 brands attached to each enemy.
The Brand Mastery allows you to summon 5 total brands, regardless of type.

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2. Is Swiftbrand Support the reason high Cast Speed is required?
Do i have to constantly press Penance Brand so the old Brand gets replaced?
If so i dont get the high Cast Speed because i sure cant click 3 times per second anyway.

Generally, you don't have to be constantly pressing it. In a bossing situation, with Runebinder and some source of extra Brands, you can place two Brands which attach immediately, and two more which will attach when the first two expire. At that point, you only have to replace the detached ones to maintain uptime on the Brands.

But, for the reason high cast speed is needed: the Activation Frequency of Brands is affected by Cast Speed.
Penance Brand of Dissipation especially wants more Activation Frequency, because it has ramp up: if you have two Penancy Brands attached, it takes ~10 activations to start doing its max damage. Even without Swiftbrand Support, it would normally only activate 6 times over its attached duration (0.75s activation rate, 5s attached duration).

More cast speed gets you up to max damage faster, and more max damage activations per brand.

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3. I understand what Less attachement duration is.
But what is Less detached duration?

Brands to not last forever, even if they do not attach to an enemy. If you cast a Brand with no enemies are around, it will expire after lasting for its Detached Duration.

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4. Increased AoE does not increase the Attachment Range, right?

According to the wiki, this is true.

Thanks a lot mate!