Does Projectile Damage effect Permafrost bolt damage?

I am pretty confused on how this is supposed to work because I'm not seeing Permafrost bolts listed under many of the passive skill tree descriptions like projectile damage or physical damage increases. IE when I hover over a skill that increases projectile damage or physical damage - permafrost is never listed and seemingly not affected in my stats.

I've been using nodes that increase Projectile and Elemental damage, Ailment Buildups and Herald Damage Increases for my Merc Tactician.

The skill itself says that it converts 80% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage but whenever I increase my physical damage via the skill tree there are no increases to damage for the Permafrost bolts. I can't seem to figure out how to make the skill work better other than maybe freeze buildup.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Bro .... The tooltip is broken! Projectile damage affects all Crossbow skill same as attack damage. Tooltip shows only some of skill changes.

Also when a damage type is converted, you no longer scale with the former damage type. In the case of Permafrost Bolts, only 20% of your total physical damage will scale with physical so it isn't really that optimal. Projectile/Cold/Elemental damage is what's best for Permafrost Bolts. That being said, you will never have crazy number with this skill as his main purpose is to inflict freeze.

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Djirane#4170 wrote:

Also when a damage type is converted, you no longer scale with the former damage type. In the case of Permafrost Bolts, only 20% of your total physical damage will scale with physical so it isn't really that optimal. Projectile/Cold/Elemental damage is what's best for Permafrost Bolts. That being said, you will never have crazy number with this skill as his main purpose is to inflict freeze.

I've been using it with Fragmentation Rounds as I can't seem to get Galvanic Shards / Shockburst Rounds to work much at all. With Permafrost - I've found I can freeze whole groups and along with Artillery Ballista can lock groups down and then blow them up with Fragmentations. Trying to get more freeze and area on them though. I've seen videos where people have Galvanic Shards melting everything but I can't figure it out. I'm at the interludes now.

What do you mean "when damage type is converted"? You mean from Physical to Cold Damage? Why would only 20% of my physical damage scale?

Could I hope to have a high tier build with Perma/Frag build or could I only get that with something like Galvanic Shards? It just seems impossible to actually shock.

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TheAlmightyZugs#5016 wrote:

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Djirane#4170 wrote:

Also when a damage type is converted, you no longer scale with the former damage type. In the case of Permafrost Bolts, only 20% of your total physical damage will scale with physical so it isn't really that optimal. Projectile/Cold/Elemental damage is what's best for Permafrost Bolts. That being said, you will never have crazy number with this skill as his main purpose is to inflict freeze.

I've been using it with Fragmentation Rounds as I can't seem to get Galvanic Shards / Shockburst Rounds to work much at all. With Permafrost - I've found I can freeze whole groups and along with Artillery Ballista can lock groups down and then blow them up with Fragmentations. Trying to get more freeze and area on them though. I've seen videos where people have Galvanic Shards melting everything but I can't figure it out. I'm at the interludes now.

What do you mean "when damage type is converted"? You mean from Physical to Cold Damage? Why would only 20% of my physical damage scale?

Could I hope to have a high tier build with Perma/Frag build or could I only get that with something like Galvanic Shards? It just seems impossible to actually shock.

Galvanic shards work only if you combo them with Herald strike. Otherwise it is a junk damage compared to other weapon skills.

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bobsponge123#5749 wrote:

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TheAlmightyZugs#5016 wrote:

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Djirane#4170 wrote:

Also when a damage type is converted, you no longer scale with the former damage type. In the case of Permafrost Bolts, only 20% of your total physical damage will scale with physical so it isn't really that optimal. Projectile/Cold/Elemental damage is what's best for Permafrost Bolts. That being said, you will never have crazy number with this skill as his main purpose is to inflict freeze.

I've been using it with Fragmentation Rounds as I can't seem to get Galvanic Shards / Shockburst Rounds to work much at all. With Permafrost - I've found I can freeze whole groups and along with Artillery Ballista can lock groups down and then blow them up with Fragmentations. Trying to get more freeze and area on them though. I've seen videos where people have Galvanic Shards melting everything but I can't figure it out. I'm at the interludes now.

What do you mean "when damage type is converted"? You mean from Physical to Cold Damage? Why would only 20% of my physical damage scale?

Could I hope to have a high tier build with Perma/Frag build or could I only get that with something like Galvanic Shards? It just seems impossible to actually shock.

Galvanic shards work only if you combo them with Herald strike. Otherwise it is a junk damage compared to other weapon skills.

You mean Herald of Lightning or Deadly Herald?