Mechanical Questions Thread

when is the element chosen for veteran boyer in conjunction with blade vortex? when it hits? per rotation? when cast?

I'd like to ask about corpse explosion skills like Detonate Dead, Volatile Dead and so on. How's the explosion damage scaled, using +% fire and elemental damage? Can it leech through Doryani's Catalyst and similar, cause criticals or ignite? Is it affected by linked Fire Penetration?

Hi all,

I'm playing a Guardian that uses totems and it appears that the totems don't seem to count towards procing the Radiant Crusade node even though totems are considered allies, does anyone know if this is a bug or is it intentional?

thanks.

The "if you've used a ... skill recently" for Hrimnor's Resolve, Valako Chieftain's passive and so on, means only manually used skill, or also triggered skills?

Hello, when I use the Fork support gem with the Barrage Support Gem on Galvanic Arrow, I'm noticing that if I'm not immediately beside a target, the projectiles don't actually fork (I have no sources of Pierce, and the projectiles seem to fork just fine if I'm basically within melee range).

Is there a Fork mechanic I'm not aware of in regards to a projectile's remaining lifespan, or should I submit bug report about projectiles not properly splitting after a certain distance for unrelated reasons?

does Wind Dancer interact with Iron Reflexes in any way?
the calculation chain shown in the Iron Reflexes wiki doesn't include any more or less modifiers.

Hi there,
why does Herald of Storm cant crit without an "increased crit chance support" gem? Isnt there a base crit chance?

greetz

Hi GGG , my Flame totem is not workin correctly , seems like every day its workin for a few minutes till i change the map or die or something else. Than no projectile gems and culling strike is working(thats what i can see) And the damage is crap. So i think the rest is not workin too. Every day the same. Please fix that or tell me how i can fix that. Thank you.

Why does the explosion from Inpulsa not chain when combined with Shaper of Winter + Cold Conduction?
I was hoping that Inpulsa explosions would chill due to Shaper of Winter, which would then also apply shock through Cold Conduction.

I'm playing a Vortex Elementalist this league and combining the new Shaper of Winter + Cold Conduction itself does work nicely. I can apply chill + shock with any skill as long as it's not linked to Elemental Focus (I use Storm Brand), but even just default attack with low phys damage worked when I tested it.

Inpulsa explosions do chain nicely when I add in Storm's Gift, even off-screen when mob density is high enough, so it's not a damage or AoE issue. But I was hoping Storm's Gift wouldn't be required.

Edit: Okay, thanks for chiming in. I know terms are very specific, which is exactly why I was hoping it would work. Inpulsa reads "Lightning Damage which cannot Shock" so I thought that I (through Cold Conduction) or other damage types added to the explosion would still be able to shock, but that didn't work either (tried cold conversion with CotB, lightning as extra chaos from a sceptre, global added phys damage from Circle of Guilt).

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Matrim61 wrote:

Why does the explosion from Inpulsa not chain when combined with Shaper of Winter + Cold Conduction?
I was hoping that Inpulsa explosions would chill due to Shaper of Winter, which would then also apply shock through Cold Conduction.

I'm playing a Vortex Elementalist this league and combining the new Shaper of Winter + Cold Conduction itself does work nicely. I can apply chill + shock with any skill as long as it's not linked to Elemental Focus (I use Storm Brand), but even just default attack with low phys damage worked when I tested it.

Inpulsa explosions do chain nicely when I add in Storm's Gift, even off-screen when mob density is high enough, so it's not a damage or AoE issue. But I was hoping Storm's Gift wouldn't be required.

The technical jargon of PoE is very specific. Inpulsa, Shaper of Winter and Cold Conduction all affect hit behavior, and "cannot" from Inpulsa therefore trumps them. Storm's Gift adds behavior not linked to hits, and therefore avoids the Inpulsa's limitations.