Additive vs Multiplicative passives.

Hi,

I'm currently rather new to the game, and I've been reading/experimenting a bit with the various passive modifiers. Currently using the skill Burning Arrow.

I have a ring that says "6% increased fire damage" and a quiver that has "10% increased elemental damage with weapons". I have noticed that the "increased elemental damage with weapons" seems to apply additively to the base fire damage added from the Burning Arrow. The damage shown on the tooltip barely goes down if take off the quiver.

However, the "6% increased fire damage" ring seems to provide a much greater boost to damage. If I take it off, my extra fire damage goes down by a lot more, despite it being only 6% instead of 10%.

So, am I right saying that:
- "x% increased elemental damage with weapons" will stack additively with weapon physical passives.
- "x% increased elemental damage" will apply multiplicatively to any elemental damage.

Therefore, going for passive skills that says for example "18% increased fire damage" might be a good idea since it's multiplicative, but "30% increased fire damage with weapons" might not, because it's additive.

Thanks!

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My character is still low level, as you've probably guessed.

Here's the ring and the quiver for reference:

More = Multiplicative. Increased = additive.

The reason you're getting a big boost to damage from the ring is the base +2-6 physical damage.

That base damage is then being increased by all phys modifiers (like your passive skill tree) then a portion is added as fire damage (from burning arrow) then THAT fire damage is then increasing from the %6% from your ring.

Unless my math is shit. My math might be shit.

they're both additive. it's going down so much more cuz of the flat +damage mods, not the ele/fire % mods. burn arrow does very little fire damage in proportion to the physical so neither of the % mods are doing anything for you, and the additional fire damage is based on the physical damage anyways, so the 2-6 phys damage ends up being a much larger boost than the flat unmodified 1-5 lightning

You're right, I forgot about that physical modifier, my bad. That explains it.

Guess the passive fire damage nodes aren't worth it after all. Not for this kind of build anyway.

Not unless you going for some wacky avatar of fire build.

Actually, you should do that. that sounds amazingly fun. slap on some chance to ignite, burning damage, ele prolif and resolute technique.