Mechanical Questions Thread

Hi Mark_GGG,

What's the deal with Frost Blades? In every related thread here or on reddit there'll be people arguing whether the projectiles damage are based on initial hit damage (that is, stuff like 'Melee Physical Damage Support', or Abyssus' melee crit multi fully scales both parts of the attack, but the projectile part can get additional scaling from 'projectile' scalars), and both sides would claim that someone has seen a dev post on their side of the argument somewhere.

The Wiki supports the former stance, but there's no cited source and they're probably just random posters. Could we please get a dev confirmation on this issue?

Hello Mark.
If I throw a fireball at a group of enemies holding emberwake and damage explocion area of the fireball "ignites" several enemies at once. the multiple "ignites" of various enemies in the area, spread each other? (With elemental proliferation or beacon of ruin)
that is, if I hit and burned five enemies with a single fireball, each enemy would have five ignites?

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Zephier_ wrote:

Support Gem Balance:
Trap's damage modifier no longer affects damage over time.

Is this speicific to the modifier gained by the trap support gem? Lets say I have bladefall linked to trap and poison, do any modifiers I gain to trap damage on the passive tree still affect the damage my poison will do? For instance if I have 100% increased trap damage through the tree, will the poison do 8% of the physical damage per second or 16% of the physical damage per second?

It will indirectly affect the DoT damage of poison. If you double the up front phys dmg then yes this will result in 8% of twice the initial dmg per second. However it no longer "double dips". Before 2.4 trap damage would also increase the DoT separately. It would have quadrupled the DoT essentially.

Hi Mark,

Why Less Duration support gem have "more damage" and Increased Duration support gem no have increased or more damage. It would be fine for Spark, Firestorm or Caustic Arrow for example

How do Iron Reflexes and Shapers Touch interact?

Iron reflexes says

Converts all Evasion Rating to Armour.
Dexterity provides no bonus to Evasion Rating

nothing about the Evasion rating gained from Int. Would Shaper's Touch give me some excellent scaling by scaling my Evasion before converting to Armour and then letting me scale that armour as armour?

1. Cospri's malice "60% Increased critical strike chance against chilled enemies"
Does it work as internal crit on weapon 5.5*1.6 base crit or just 5.5*(other crits + 0.6)

2. "Monsters cannot be affected by elemental status ailments" on map mod
How does it actually work? I tested with chilled ground effect from arctic breath. Enemies seemed to be slowed by it visually. Does this mean enemies can be chilled inside the map?

3. Vortex also creates area of chilled ground. Does it work as above intentionally?

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Vipermagi wrote:

Frost Blades' projectiles are entirely separate from the Melee strike, just like every other Melee/Projectile Attack in the game.
Gem threads are good stuff.

Thank you! That filter only dev responses thing is really useful, too. Glad to have that cleared up. Also, someone really should update the wiki page, there's a whole chunk of misinformation =/