Chaos damage, what is it?

Unless it comes in the form of a spell (and you don't have the really rare spell blocking passive/items), then absolutely: my relatively high evasion on the Shadow is what saves me from Viper Strike agony most of the time.

Seems cool to have chaos damage, on the other hand the passive chaos innoculation seems to steal alot of the character surviability

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Charan wrote:

Unless it comes in the form of a spell (and you don't have the really rare spell blocking passive/items), then absolutely: my relatively high evasion on the Shadow is what saves me from Viper Strike agony most of the time.

Ok cool, I always had the idea for a aura-reserved-life / pain attunement Witch (before that build of the week video!) but as I learned about the game it seemed like suicide since 1) Chaos Damage is already pretty strong and abundant (from what I heard), 2) I'll be at low life all the time without the buffer of an Energy Shield (which is a Witches strong point and I'm throwing it out the window).

This gives me hope that maybe I can do some ridiculous evasion stuff to mitigate the builds weakness, even more so after evasion gets buffed!

What increases chaos damage? Spell damage?

rly thanks the OP for this, and also think that this should go to the wiki!
made me completely reimagine my build! i must thanks OP for saving my HC chars ass =p